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New Zealand / Re: SS Triumph
« on: Wednesday 01 May 24 04:53 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: glendan561 on Wednesday 01 May 24 02:11 BST (UK)
The Gordon Street document was obtained via Archives NZ. The quality of print is poor and I don't have the authority to reproduce it.

Glenda

Hello again.

If the item in question is held in the NZ Archives the "R plus 8 digit numbers" that was involved in looking it up, or ordering a copy, will lead other researchers to it's listing, and possibly other documents associated with it. Eg who assigned it to the archive, and what other documents of that era were assigned also. There are also restore specialists, who can use their computers to great effect, when it comes to legibility.

Alan.


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New Zealand / Re: SS Triumph
« on: Tuesday 30 April 24 06:12 BST (UK)  »
Hello

Can you please give a little more refinement to your request. Plus what you know to date.

A quick delve into our past suggests to me that there were possibly at least two vessels serving the NZ ports with the name SS TRIUMPH.   One in the 1860's and then the one in the 1880's that shipped cargo between UK and NZ ports.

In November 1883 it went aground in the Hauraki Gulf, not far Tiri Tiri Island, when leaving the port of Auckland, and was eventually abandoned as a wreck. Only some of the railway rails destined for other NZ ports, were salvaged. Some 200 immigrants disembarked at Auckland.

Alan.

PS It's quite a while since I was last looking up LLoyds Register for info re ships leaving UK ports, but that direction would possibly be best for finding any records of Master and crew on vessels leaving the UK ports.

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New Zealand / Re: Huntly burial 1879
« on: Tuesday 23 April 24 20:45 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the update.

The link below will put the era that you are researching into context. It was all new territory in a Colonial sense. The earliest surveys for land settlement, were only about 10 years old, following the Waikato confiscation.

Alan.

https://www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz/docs/default-source/your-council/plans-policies-and-bylaws/plans/district-plan-review/section-32-reports/historic-heritage/appendix-10-4-1-6-historic-overview---6-ngaruawahia.pdf?sfvrsn=8c2480c9_2 

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New Zealand / Re: Huntly burial 1879
« on: Saturday 20 April 24 12:06 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the update.  Nothing ventured nothing gained. At least she replied to you.

In today's Saturday paper, she has contributed an article [as part of our ANZAC acknowledgement] on a McHaffie family with Christchurch, and Hamilton {Waikato}  connections, and Gilbert (junior) who did not return from the WWI, Battle of the Somme.

Alan.

[PS - The dead tell tales - Glibert Hamilton McHaffie. Waikato Times 20-4-2024, page B9]

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New Zealand / Re: Intention to Marry Lookup PLEASE
« on: Thursday 18 April 24 22:15 BST (UK)  »
Contact made, and a copy of the photos have been sent to Deelin.

Thanks SPADES for sorting out the issue.

Alan

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New Zealand / Re: Intention to Marry Lookup PLEASE
« on: Saturday 13 April 24 01:27 BST (UK)  »
Contact made, 40 photos forwarded to Garth.

Alan.

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New Zealand / Re: Huntly burial 1879
« on: Thursday 11 April 24 21:10 BST (UK)  »
OK.

If interested I can send you some photos of barren, early TAUPIRI in the era that the main trunk railway line was pushed through into the lower WAIKATO.

Will PM you with the heritage research email for a person who was a regular history contributor to the Saturday WAIKATO TIMES.  Using the by line of HERITAGE - The dead tell tales. Usualy containing the photo of a early grave, then a researched bio of their pioneering life.

Alan.

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New Zealand / Re: Huntly burial 1879
« on: Thursday 11 April 24 11:35 BST (UK)  »
And again, another quick look.   The Auckland Star 10/4/1899 reporting on the Kirikiriroa Road Board meeting, stated that section 242 had only been temorarily rerserved, and that until the permanent reservation of Taupiri Cemetery, Trustees could not be elected.  So that rules out my suggestion of Taupiri being a contender.

Alan.

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New Zealand / Re: Huntly burial 1879
« on: Thursday 11 April 24 06:01 BST (UK)  »
HI AGAIN.

Sorry I have no time available to be doing a bit of research. There are a few newspaper notices where it is noted that the service would terminate at the railway station, with the body heading to a church cemetery in South Auckland or Auckland central.

The earliest colonial public cemeteries were at Cambridge, KIRIKIRIOA/HAMILTON, Ngaruawahia, followed by Taupiri. And note that the railway did not reach there until the late 1870's.

Alan.



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