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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: COMPLETED - BIDLAKE, HOSE and WAKEFIELD Manawatu/Wanganui families
« on: Saturday 12 August 17 09:19 BST (UK)  »
Well done!  I was just trawling through immigration records, having not found a birth for Sidney in NZ.

That means Sidney and our Walter James are brothers.  Walter was born to James and Mary Ann in Newmarket. 

When James died, Mary Ann (nee Griffin, in one source) married William Charles Strong in 1885. 

I have a birth for Sydney Herbert Bidlake, 1879, Epsom, Surrey England

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: COMPLETED - BIDLAKE, HOSE and WAKEFIELD Manawatu/Wanganui families
« on: Saturday 12 August 17 07:59 BST (UK)  »
I've picked up your line, although I can't see a link yet - it's maybe possible that there's a link further back - I would suspect that your Sidney Herbert and our Walter James are probably brothers.  Sidney born approx 1879, Walter b. 1880, and I think they were both in Wanganui.

Sidney Herbert Bidlake (carpenter, Wanganui)
m. Ettie O'Neale in 1911

Children:
- Arthur Clive 1912
- Leslie Herbert 1914
- Hazel Bernice 1915
- Roy Neale 1917
(Possibly others later on)

Also found a piece on Sidney in a 1918 newspaper:  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19180206.2.21?query=military%20service%20board

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: COMPLETED - BIDLAKE, HOSE and WAKEFIELD Manawatu/Wanganui families
« on: Saturday 12 August 17 07:24 BST (UK)  »
Hi Sonya  :-)   I don't have a lot specifically about the Bidlakes, although, of course, if you are descended from the same Bidlake in this tree, then you'll share the Wakefield ancestor too. 

I have:

Clara Mary Wakefield, born 1885
married Walter James Bidlake in 1909

Their son Cyril Walter Leonard Bidlake, born 1910

They possibly had other children - I know I have more raw data on them someplace, but this is what's made it to my tree

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Wakefield family of Nelson
« on: Friday 02 June 17 05:36 BST (UK)  »
KGray!  I'm not sure why Rootschat only notified me about Maria's recent post, but not yours from two years ago!

I did manage to untangle the Wakefield/Gray family connections.  It turned out that there are actually two cousins who had the same names at one stage.  Clara's child George William Wakefield became George William Gray when she married, and her older brother William had a son by the same name.  There's still a big online family tree circulating which has the original error in it, and I can't seem to get the owner to change the mistake. 

So many cousins around!

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Wakefield family of Nelson
« on: Friday 02 June 17 05:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi Maria!  Yes, we've found a lot about that in the years since that post was made - my daughter's line is from the 1852 baby  :-) 

That would mean that you and my daughter are cousins on the Lechner side!  It would be interesting to do a DNA comparison.  The child went through a name change when his mother married.  I corresponded with Doug Lechner, who wrote a book about the family history, but he died about 4 years ago.  There's a LOT of information about JWT available online now that wasn't searchable when I began looking.  He was certainly a character!

JWT's grave is in Rotorua, and I think I've located Carl Lechner/William Wakefield's grave in Te Kuiti.

 

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Antrim / Re: O'HARA FAMILY OF CREBILLY
« on: Wednesday 08 March 17 06:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Robin - hopefully your email address is still current since this thread several years ago!  I'm also in New Zealand, and apparently descended from these O'Hara ancestors, according to notes in an old family bible, although I'm hunting down one missing link. 

I'd love to hear from you!


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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Birth location for George Robertson, 15 Feb 1884
« on: Friday 21 August 15 05:25 BST (UK)  »
Wonderful!  Thank you so much Lucy  :-)

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Birth location for George Robertson, 15 Feb 1884
« on: Thursday 20 August 15 09:47 BST (UK)  »
Hi  :-)

Would some lovely person with access to birth fiche index be able to tell me the registration location for the birth of George Robertson, to Ellen and father not recorded, 15 Feb 1884?

Thanks!

Min

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Mayo / Re: Captain John SMITH, North Mayo militia
« on: Tuesday 12 February 13 09:25 GMT (UK)  »
How wonderful!  I'd love to see a photo. 

I've got a TON more information since this post was made a couple of years ago, both about his family, and Anne's - her surname turned out to be Canavan, not Cameron.

Min


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