Category Archives: New Zealand
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 11: Lucky – Crusader to New Zealand
In December 1874, Captain Renaut sailed his ship The Crusader into Lyttleton Harbour, New Zealand with 374 passengers on board. The Crusader departed from Plymouth on the 25th of September and made the passage in 97 days with very little illness reported. The surgeon-superintendent was Dr. John Guthrie who settled in Christchurch. On the voyage Dr …
Mystery photo of unknown gentleman possibly solved?
Recently, after a discussion with a cousin, I had cause to revisit an old mystery photo from New Zealand. This discussion jogged my memory of an email I had received in June 2015 after a query to the Alexander Turnbull Library about the photo. Fancy forgetting about it for that long. My only excuse is …
Herbert John OXLEY (1919 – 1943)
Herbert John OXLEY and his twin brother William Reid OXLEY were born in New Zealand on the 5th of April 1919 to Australian-born father Hubert OXLEY and New Zealand-born mother Amelia Beatrice nee BENJAMIN. In the New Zealand Ballot list for 1940, Herbert’s occupation was listed as process engraving and he lived in Richardson Road, …
Charles Nightingale Adams
Charles Nightingale Adams was born in 1890 in Balmain NSW Australia and died on the 26 Feb 1944 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was the fourth son of Edward Adams and Selina Rose nee Clifton who moved from Sydney Australia to New Zealand about 1905. Charles married Alice Maud Southwood Pinhey on the 5th of February 1917. Just over a month before his marriage …
William Forsyth – New Zealand Army WW1
William James Forsyth was born on the 16th of August 1888 at Coutts Island, Canterbury, New Zealand. He was my Great Grand Uncle, the second youngest son of my great great grandparents, Robert and Jessie Forsyth (nee Farquhar). We are yet to find out when and where he died. William enlisted in the Auckland Military Rifles …
Kerryn's Kin 