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Oct 1, 2012 •
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Re Wildcards. I am in the process of writing a book on my gold seeking HAY family- ex Edinburgh, Victoria, and finally Otago NZ. William and Mary Ann had 8 surviving children and as I followed the fa...
Oct 1, 2012 •
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Re Wildcards. I am in the process of writing a book on my gold seeking HAY family- ex Edinburgh, Victoria, and finally Otago NZ. William and Mary Ann had 8 surviving children and as I followed the fa...
Jun 17, 2010 •
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John ATWOOD b.circa 1805 was from Lincolnshire and an agricultural labourer. He married Jane and had 2 daughters. We don't know when the marriage took place, we don't know Jane's maiden name or of h...
Jun 15, 2010 •
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William JAMES was born in 1850 in Neath Abbey,Glamorgan, Wales. He was the grandson of a patternmaker,Rees JAMES and his wife Ann MANUEL . His father was Thomas JAMES,also a patternmaker. The family m...
Jun 14, 2010 •
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John BARNES my 3 x gr grandfather was New Zealand's original whingeing POM!!! He was one of the skilled Deal boatmen from Walmer, Kent and was listed in Nelson as the coxswain.He applied to come with...
Jun 14, 2010 •
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Mary Ann Pearce Christopher THACKER was the daughter of Jane CHRISTOPHER a nurse and Rob a joiner. Jane was from Cornwall and her father was believed to have been the mayor of Saltash. Her older brot...
Jun 12, 2010 •
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William HAY was carpenter, bullder, undertaker, sexton and keen goldseeker! He came from Edinburgh but went to sea we believe as a ship's carpenter and set off for Australia in 1852 - supposed to be o...
Jun 12, 2010 •
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Thomas QUINLIVAN was the son of Anne O'MALLEY and Edmund QUINLIVAN of County CLare.Thomas was born c 1840 and made his way to the Victorian goldfields. He married at 21 yrs a widow with one daughter w...
Jun 11, 2010 •
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James John Thacker and his father were builders and mortar masons in Devon. James John married Mary Ann Pearce CHRISTOPHER and together with their sis children they sailed to Napier NZ on the HELEN DE...