The following was reported in a New Zealand newspaper in 1899
Wanganui Herald (Volume XXXIII, Issue 9797, 18 July 1899, Page 2)
“For a marriage notice of inordinate length and savouring of a desire that the family lineage shall not be cast in the dust, so to speak, commend us to the following, extracted from an Auckland exchange:
Chamberlain-Tims-Tovey-Tennent - On June the 19th, 1899, at the residence of the bride's parents, "Fairlight," Tauranga (North Island, NZ) by the Rev John Headrick, Presbyterian minister, Thomas Chamberlain Tims, only surviving son of Thomas Henry Tims, Esq., of "Charlecote" Tauranga, and "Clifford Lodge" Te Puke, great-great-grandson of Thomas Tims, of Cropredy, and great grandson of Thomas Tims, of Banbury, and cousin of the late William Chamberlain, Squire of Aderbury, Oxfordshire, and on maternal side grandson of Henry Meyer, P.S.B.A., engraver, and great-great nephew of John Hoppner, R.A, to Edith Winifred Tovey-Tennent, formerly Edith Winifred Tovey, only daughter of Alexander Charles Hughes Tovey-Tennent, Esq., J.P., of "Fairlight," Tauranga, and Pool, Scotland, formerly Captain Tovey, H.M. 70th Regiment, and who assumed the arms and name of Tennent of Pool, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the 30th of November, 1896. Non cadet." The trouble in connection with this family union is that there is no mention of William the Conqueror, but probably the line is so distinct that there is no necessity to hark back.
Thomas Henry TIMS (c1832-) and his wife Clara Anne MEYER (married 1856 Pancras) and their son Thomas Chamberlain TIMS came to Tauranga in 1881 and settled in Te Puke. Thomas Henry and Clara Anne were still in Te Puke in 1893 and it appears Thomas Chamberlain died in Auckland in 1944.
I am researching for a book on the early settlers of Te Puke hence my interest.
