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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Rapley
« on: Monday 08 November 04 01:27 GMT (UK) »
William Rapley and his wife Mary Hersey lived in Ockley, Surrey.They had twelve children born in Ockley.
In 1853 they migrated to New Zealand on the "Minerva"
I have got a near full tree of them except for a son Michael,born 1830.
It seems he did not come to NZ. There is no mention of him in official records, and he is not mentioned in family memoirs.
Some of the descendants claim he left the ship in Australia , but shipping records show the Minerva came here direct with no stops on the way.
I have not been able to find a death record for him before they left England.
Does anybody have an interest in this family? Can anyone help me?
Jack.
In 1853 they migrated to New Zealand on the "Minerva"
I have got a near full tree of them except for a son Michael,born 1830.
It seems he did not come to NZ. There is no mention of him in official records, and he is not mentioned in family memoirs.
Some of the descendants claim he left the ship in Australia , but shipping records show the Minerva came here direct with no stops on the way.
I have not been able to find a death record for him before they left England.
Does anybody have an interest in this family? Can anyone help me?
Jack.