Can any body help my cousin find out about her great x2 grandparents and their family please?
Charles (aged 28) and Caroline Simmonds (aged 24), together with their children Wallace aged 4 and Nellie aged 2, arrived in Napier, Hawkes Bay on the Renfrewshire the first week of January 1878. Their youngest daughter Elizabeth had died on route. The family started their journey from Plymouth England and the children were born in Cardington nr. Bedford England where Caroline nee Woodcraft was born.
Wallace Simmonds, my cousin's great grandfather, married a Napier girl, Elizabeth Ann Coker, on thee 14th November 1899 which suggests that the family were still living in the Napier area.
He was, like his father before him, an ironmonger. He worked at Hawkes Bay Iron Foundry. Was this company in Napier?
Can somebody tell my cousin if any suitable records exist in the Hawkes Bay region which would enable her to find out whether her great x2 grandparents had any more children. Did her great x2 granparents die in the Napier area? Also what happened to Nellie?
Any information or knowledge would be good.
Thanks Benzol
