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Hi Lyn,

If you haven't already done so I suggest that you contact the Port Chalmers Museum and ask them for any information they have on Edward WIGNALL. They also have an excellent database known as 'Port Cahlmers Early People'.

I would also suggest Toitu Dunedin Early Settlers Museum and Dunedin Public Library, both of which hold a wealth of information about early Dunedin and it's population.

I wonder if finding the vessel he arrived on is a challenge because he arrived as crew, not a passenger.

Spades

Hi Lyn, and welcome to RootsChat

Papers Past show that he was a master stevedore of Port Chalmers and lived in Magnetic Street in 1878. I can't find an arrival so far.

He was a Crimean War veteran (not a soldier as suggested by this very comprehensive website, which answers many genealogical questions except the one specifically posed by Lyn, more likely served in the Royal Navy)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/porkynz/10151451493

Spades

Hi Alan,

Just reviewed my emails. No.

I've just checked their website for the Wellington office and its closed all week, but I suspect that this is due to visits being by appointment only.

I'll think I'll make a phone call tomorrow to see what the score is before attempting a visit.

Thanks,

Spades

Me too! I’ll let you all know on Monday.

Spades

Hi Alan,

Absolutely!

I was just drawing a (tentative) assumption from what you'd posted.

Spades