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That is good. For findmypast you can buy units rather than spend out a lot in one go on a subscription, but of course it DOES work out more expensive in a very long run. If your Uncle can...

Hello Neill, The first electric tram in Cape Town ran down Adderley Street 1896, so I'm thinking your grandfather must have emigrated around that time. Do you have any approximate dates?

and I live in Aquitaine, Eleanor's area - it is very peaceful. Keep writing you are sooooo entertaining, but just maybe you (as you say) should get really into it. All the best :)

Hello Gales, I was interested to read your messages about the Warners as I have been researching this family for a number of years. Esther Warner is my gt grandmother. I recently discovered that...

Thank you. Its a wonderful site.

omg you are my cousin,was your mother called nancy I visited you house many times,remember you father who was my mothers brother not being in the best of health,was your mum called nancy, yes the...

That is interesting asheppard. I think the best course of action for you skid would be, firstly, to buy Clara's death and marriage certificates.

Interesting to Note that the children were also registered as Patten with no fathers name recorded, same registration numbers, possibly amended after the marriage in 1923. 1910/C2578 Evelyn...

Well we are obviosly closely related! William 1882 was my GF too. My father was his son William. Trying to recall the names of my father's siblings: there was a Lily who lived in Standish and...

Thankyou so much for your help.This gives me someway to start.Thankyou again.

Hi, I am interested in William Stewart Langley who as you say had a relationship with Elsie Muriel HADFIELD. They were my grandparents but I never knew them. I know of 7 children resulting from...

I agree with asheppard regarding the deaths for Alfred and Emma, but the deaths still need to be confirmed. Had a look at a few cemetery records but have not found them to date. Will keep...

Gnet, It's been a long time since we corresponded and in the meanwhile I've added a few snippets. Germaine was G Lemasson. died 15 Jan 1996,Passadena, Calif. A few weeks ago, on E-bay there was a...

Well Well, so there was a son also, the girls must have been born in NZ as Margaret was born 1893, and seeing photos of Ivy and Ann they were only a few years younger or older. You do a wonderful...

No I married a Perth guy 40 years ago, and live here in sunshine 10 months of the year haha. Went to Wellington a few years ago on a visit. I do come back about every 3 years for a visit

16 June 1888 - DEATH At Ngapara, on the 16th instant, Thomas, the beloved son of Michael and Mary O'Brien, aged 14 days. The funeral will leave the Oamaru Railway station to-day, on arrival of the...

yes, Karori is one of the oldest suburbs of Wellington It was originally established as a separate settlement, not an extension of Wellington proper. As such, it had a separate political...

wow, thanks for that, I tried the cemetries, in Otago, but with her getting married in Wellington I wondered if they moved to Wellington, that gives me something to work on, thanks so much, have to...

tentative at the moment but I have: Michael O'BRIEN born 1851 in County Clare died 1916 in Wellington aged 65 Mary WALSH born 1852 in Dublin died 1913 in Wellington aged 61 - buried...

Margaret should read birth of 1893 ...