NZ emigration records

[IgorStrav]

Yes, it's all unfolding now.  Thank you for the signposting, really helpful.

My connection is via the Clifton side (Reuben's wife was my 1st cousin 4x removed, Eleanor/Ellen Clifton), so I've not investigated a Stanley Baldwin relationship.

Given Reuben seems to have been born in Ightham, Kent (near Seal and Sevenoaks) from a family of Agricultural Labourers, I would think a connection with Stanley Baldwin was unlikely.

But who knows, back in the mists of time.......

My Miller/Clifton family were right at the other end of NZ, so to speak, in Invercargill, but a snippet of newspaper report from them quotes how respectfully they were treated in NZ (as opposed to being Ag Labs in Kent in the late 19th century dealing with the English gentry presumably), so I am very sympathetic with people ensuring they weren't going to be 'looked down on' as they'd previously been, by asserting a connection with an important politician.

[mckha489]

It is interesting that Reuben arrived 1879 aiming for Otago, so he must have been planning to join the Invercargill lot. And yet he is very soon in Patea.   There was time for George & family who travel the following year (1880) to be able to say they are going to him at Patea.  So letters back and forth minimum of 6 weeks each way…

These little mysteries make life interesting.

[kinnigit]

Have you seen the NZ Ancestor helper?
https://ash.howison.co.nz/?name=reuben+baldwin
This search tool is designed to assist with NZ-focused genealogical research, by collating results from NZ DIA's Births, Deaths and Marriages, Archives NZ, dozens of council cemetery websites, military records from Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph and many other online history resources.
If that's the Reuben BALDWIN who was on the Stadt Haarlem in 1879, he was travelling with my SMALL ancestors from Kent.

[spades]

Hi Kinnigit,

That's a resource I've not come across. Thanks for posting the link.

I'd like to add it to NZ Resources & Offers if that's ok with you?

Regards,

Spades

[kinnigit]

Yes please share this great resource.  It lets you narrow down exact dates in the NZBDM with a single click and is a nicer way to search Archway.

That's a resource I've not come across. Thanks for posting the link.

I'd like to add it to NZ Resources & Offers if that's ok with you?

Regards,

Spades

[spades]

Thank Kinnigit 

[spades]

I've just found one of my missing ancestors on it. Brilliant! 

Thanks again.

[IgorStrav]

Many thanks indeed for all the helpful replies and pointers.

Look forward to following it all up later today. I know the Invercargill family kept in touch with my gx2 grandmother back here in Kent, so keen to see what else I can find.

[minniehaha]

Maybe make contact with this researcher?

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baldwin-5391


Minniehaha.