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Jun 4, 2010 •
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Hi Kathib,
Thanks for your message. I found two people who esch had a proper claim to the Bible. One was a descendant of the donor of the bible, the other a descendant of the couple who received it a...
Dec 29, 2009 •
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I have become the holder of a wondrous family bible containing BDM info from the 1850s with the surnames of OGILVIE, CANNING, GARDNER. Initially they were from Scotland but then from Nelson, NZ.
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Dec 27, 2009 •
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A remarkable family bible has fallen into my hand, given by someone who thought the OGILVIES listed might be connected to myself. They are not. I hope to be able to forward the bible on to a fami...
Dec 1, 2009 •
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James STOOP and Hannah FINELETTER came to the Otago goldfields from the Victorian goldfields in the early 1860s. I suspect they came together and may even have come as Mr and Mrs Stoop. Hannah wo...
Oct 25, 2009 •
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I am researching my great grandfather, Philip BOYD, who was born in Wollongong on 11 November 1842 and was baptized in St Xavier’s Catholic Church on 23 November 1842.
He came over to New Zeala...
Oct 22, 2009 •
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The only documentation I have on my great great grandfather, William Boyd, is that he married Ellen English in St Xavier's Roman Catholic church in Wollongong in January 1842 and was the father...
Oct 18, 2009 •
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I have information on Hannah Eliza Fineletter, nee Howard having five children born to her and John James Fineletter in Ballarat, Victoria in the 1850s. Three of the five died young. Hannah Eliz...
Oct 18, 2009 •
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I have my great grandfather Philip Boyd born in Wollongong, NSW in 1842
and then as a miner in Hokitika, NZ, from the early 1870s.
I would appreciate any help in finding any information on his ...
Oct 9, 2009 •
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My great grandmother, Maria Frances Ogilvie, nee Freeman, married an Albert John Brown in Hokitika, New Zealand in 1894, three years after she was widowed. He died in Hokitika in 1922. I would...
Oct 9, 2009 •
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My great grandfather Stuart Fane Ogilvie was born in Killybegs, County Donegal, Ireland in the mid 1830s.
He was in Beechworth, Victoria in the early 1850s, and in Hokitika, New Zealand in ...
Oct 3, 2009 •
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An accommodation house on Lake Mahinapua, Westland, New Zealand owned by my great grandmother, was burnt down in February 1903.
The Paperspast report says it was insured for 150 pounds with each of t...
Oct 1, 2009 •
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I have information on my great grandmother, nine year old Maria Frances Freeman arriving in Nelson, New Zealand ,as an assisted passenger,along with her mother and siblings on the Golconda on 27 ...
Sep 25, 2009 •
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Mary McCloughen has many variations on the spelling of her surname!
She was born in King's County, Ireland round 1832. She migrated to Australia, met a Joseph Fishwick, came to New Zealand as Mr and ...
Sep 25, 2009 •
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Ellen English was born in Tipperary about 1800, married William Boyd,in Wollongong, NSW, Australia in January 1842.
Sep 25, 2009 •
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My Maunders came from the Devon villages of Washfield, Cruwys Morchard and Cheriton Fitzpaine
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Sep 25, 2009 •
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I am looking for any details on the arrival of a Thomas Freeman who emigrated from London some time between June 1857 and arrived in Wellington by October 1858
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