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Hi All,

Found this in Archives. There may be something of interest here; some names of women and confinement dates.


https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=21904691&digital=yes

Female Refuge / Essex Home (Hospital) Register of Weekly Returns 5 Oct 1903 - 5 Oct 1908

A snippet in 1921…

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19210926.2.12?end_date=31-12-1950&items_per_page=10&page=7&phrase=2&query=essex+home&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1879&title=AMBPA%2cAG%2cASHH%2cEG%2cGLOBE%2cLT%2cNCGAZ%2cOO%2cCHP%2cSCANT%2cTS%2cSUNCH%2cTEML%2cTHD%2cWDA

1918…..

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EG19180810.2.11.2?end_date=31-12-1921&items_per_page=10&page=2&phrase=2&query=essex+home&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1879&title=AMBPA%2cAG%2cASHH%2cEG%2cGLOBE%2cLT%2cNCGAZ%2cOO%2cCHP%2cSCANT%2cTS%2cSUNCH%2cTEML%2cTHD%2cWDA

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AMBPA19180809.2.18?end_date=31-12-1921&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=essex+hospital&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1879&title=AMBPA%2cAG%2cASHH%2cEG%2cGLOBE%2cLT%2cNCGAZ%2cOO%2cCHP%2cSCANT%2cTS%2cSUNCH%2cTEML%2cTHD%2cWDA


Minniehaha.

Hi everyone,

I think Laurence Jamieson who died in 1956 was possibly related to my great-grandfather, also born in Walls, Shetland, so am trying to make the connection.

I would like information about his sister-in-law, Laura Jamieson, mentioned in his will.


Probated will of Laurence Jamieson:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C915-J71B-8?i=88&cc=1865481&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQKYR-YQJS

The sister-in-law mentioned in the will?


1965/32352   Jamieson   Laura        88 years

Cemetery details:


Surname   JAMIESON
Forename  LAURENCE
Age   92 Years
Gender   Male
Date of Death   23 Oct 1956
Last Address   
Next of Kin   
Funeral Director   Hugh Gourley Ltd, Grant Street, DUNEDIN
Cemetery   PORT CHALMERS CEMETERY

Location   Block LO. Plot 84
Date of Burial   23 Oct 1956
Type   Burial
Occupation   
Place of Birth   
Date of Birth   Not recorded
Notes   Original reference:- F19561007
Native of:- WALLS SHETLAND
   
The following burials are also in this Plot
  JAMIESON LILIAS 95 Years, Burial, Died 28 Sep 1951
  LAING TAMAR 88 Years, Burial, Died 19 Jun 1939

[Lilias was his wife & Tamar his wife's unmarried sister.]


Headstone photograph:


https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/cemeteries-search?recordid=65021&type=Burial


Can anyone find where Laura died? I had assumed that this would have been in the Dunedin area but not found. And or any other details about her please?


Minniehaha.

Maybe it is time I was put out to pasture but I'm sure I copied the details of a birth registration correctly.

In 1919 & 1922 [two entries for the same birth] the district on the microfiche I have recorded as 'Birmingham' in Wellington.

On trying to find it through Mrs. Google all I get is the obvious; Birmingham, UK. Nothing easily found in Papers Past either.

Did/does it exist or have I made an error?

Minniehaha.

Some people may be unaware of the place-name of Waikouaiti, a small township north of Dunedin and south of Palmerston.

Found in Papers Past........

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18980331.2.188?end_date=31-12-1900&items_per_page=10&page=5&phrase=2&query=elizabeth+thomas&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1857

I'm guessing that the original register may now be held in the Waikouaiti Museum.

Minniehaha.