William Hamilton Franks & Sarah Letitia Franks (nee Jones)

[mckha489]

    Poor boy. 

[Lucy2]

 

Would have been helpful I guess to have had the birth/birthplace of the FRANKS first child mentioned in the intro ...  .   

First appearance of William Hamilton FRANKS in NZ electoral rolls is >

1890 - Wellington - 18 Cambridge Road - occ:  Labourer

Or maybe he'd moved on ... daughter Maud C. L. FRANKS apparently born 7 June 1889 at Palmerston North.

[mckha489]

Ah, I hadn’t got around to looking at the electoral rolls.
I was waiting for the OP to see what she thought of what we had found so far. But she doesn’t seem to have been on since posting.

[Lucy2]

Are those other passengers on the Rimutaka on the newspaper link I posted to be found on the Petone database?

These passengers are:    Miss MORRISON / Mrs and Mrs FRANKS / Mr WARD / Mr SMITHE (found as SMYTHE) / Mr BUTCHER / Mr ROWE  :     [  Petone Settlers database :  As previously, the source was the "Evening Post" of  18/07/1885 ]