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| 1 | LAWRENCE ARCUS ? 1822-1905 Lawrence Arcus, born 1822 at Lerwick, Shetland Isles, Scotland Married Joan Smith at Lerwick, Scotland in 1848 They had children; Laurence, Thomas Smith, James, Peter, Janet, Joan, Elizabeth, Anne Barbara About 1852 he inherited a boat building business in Lerwick from his father-in-law. Shortly he had this extended to become a profitable operation. His forte was fishing craft of all sizes. He specialised more in the heavy craft, than his contemporary (also Laurence Arcus) but when his sons, who worked with him, grew up they turned their attention to pleasure craft and built some excellent boats. This operation continued until the beginning of the nation-wide recession of 1873 and its impact was felt on the export of fish to the Continent, on which the fishing fleet depended for its work. Laurence was also knowledgeable in the Psalms of music for he led the Psalmody in the Free Church of Scotland. His sons took after their father in musical matters as well as in handcrafts, for they were originals of the Pipe and Drum Brass band at the Institute in Lerwick. His tuning fork is still in the possession of Janet Ward. Shortly after their eldest son, Laurence (1852-1929) had paid a visit to Montreal, Canada, after he had completed his apprenticeship as a shipwright he resolved to immigrate to New Zealand. His mother, a woman of great spirit and enterprise insisted that the whole family do the same. Undaunted by the prospect of the voyage they embarked on the sailing ship, the ?Avalanche? with four sons and two daughters and arrived in Wellington, New Zealand in December 1875. The vessel is described as being a well founded 3 masted ship of length 164 feet. It is written that ?In great grandfather?s day, when young men with their wives, families and all their worldly goods slipped into the unknown, they had the courage needed to walk aboard what is to us a mere cockleshell, and to take many months to reach they knew not what?. Indeed many of them did not reach their destination, many were the wrecks on the NZ coast and great was the loss of life. The lucky ones, and (I think they were lucky to reach land at all) were the people who pioneered our country. It is said that while the ?Avalanche? lay off Wellington waiting for a berth, wife Joan pointed to Oriental Bay and said ?I would like to live in that little bay?. Indeed when they did settle it was at the corner of Oriental Parade and what was to be known as Hay Street after Mr W Hay of the Shetland Isles, a large employer of labour in Lerwick. Wellington history records that Mr Arcus appears to have been the first resident of this street (I the typist of this article, a descendant of these Arcuses, have visited this property on the corner still owned and occupied by another descendant, some 90 years later). After arrival in Wellington, little time was wasted before the family had another boatyard established on a waterfront site, not far from the site later occupied by the Bandstand in Oriental Bay and later still by the bathing pavilion currently in use. Laurence died in 1905, Oriental Parade. | ARCUS, Laurence (I04513)
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| 2 | CLARKE, Edward (I2138)
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| 3 | CASEY, Norbert Bernard (I3517)
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| 4 | HOOPER, Emily (I3572)
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| 5 | 1900/8875 online BDM | WYATT, Elizabeth Jessie (I2073)
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| 6 | I can't find any birth records in the BDM for this person, though I can find a marriage record "Agnes Maud Mary" to James Young. Name is deaths is listed as Alice Maud Mary. (Raewyn) | WYATT, Alice Maude Mary (I2047)
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| 7 | "A resident in St Joseph?s Orphanage, ferried across the harbour to attend St. Peters College, Epsom. Cousin Peter moved to Christchurch." (Peter Turnock - Facebook group) | DRAFFIN, Peter (I4940)
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| 8 | "After a severe and lingering illness." DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XVII, ISSUE 1365, 8 JANUARY 1861 | MCNAB, Robert (I3271)
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| 9 | "At one time Mr Read kept the old Victoria Hotel" - according to the obituary for Mary Read in the Marlborough Express. | READ, Richard (I3692)
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| 10 | "Aunt Mary" | TURNOCK, Matilda Mary (I3771)
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| 11 | "Bob Hooper's son George, who had a large family, worked for Gladys's brother Frank and Charles at Maoribank. Alice and Myrtle were two of the family." From "Upper Hutt - the History" page 158. | HOOPER, George James (I3668)
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| 12 | "Cartwright was well acquainted with Henry Coape who owned the neighbouring Hall. After many visitations with Coape, Samuel came to love, and after a protracted courtship, marry Coape's housekeeper, Miss Grace." From The Courage of Necessity: Radical Dissent, Quakerism and Reform in the Life of Elizabeth Heyrick", thesis by Samantha Crassweller. (added by Raewyn March 2016) | GRACE (I1225)
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| 13 | "Christiana Evans ... was married in 1837 to Edward Clarke, fifth son of Robert Clarke, Esq., of Brooksby Hall, Leicestershire, whose earnings as a country surgeon were never adequate to maintain the family. In January 1842 his father-in-law bought from him for (pounds) 250 the little house at Attleborough that her uncle John Evarard had bequeathed to Chrissey, his favorite niece, and a few months later lent him (pounds) 800 more, which if not repaid was to be taken out of her share of Mr. Evan's estate. In spite of these measure, by October 1845, shortly after the sixth of his nine children was born, Mr. Clarke was bankrupt. When he died suddenly in December 1852, he left Chrissey with scarcely any resources." | CLARKE, Edward (I1928)
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| 14 | "Curse O'Gowrie, Scotland" from probate. | SMITH, Captain James (I565)
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| 15 | "Discharged in New Zealand" gives his place of enlistment. | TURNOCK, Adam Cotterill (I3640)
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| 16 | "Hi, i have since found out a little more information on Adam Cottrell Turnock. He enlisted in the 65th Regiment of foot(2nd Yorkshire Nth Riding) 11/11/1845 and has the birth place as Congleton.He married in 1869 NZ.thanks. I also found a newspaper article re his marriage and it had his name as Cotterill A.Turnock Macclesfield. So a bit confusing.cheers." http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=648258.9;PHPSESSID=5uq9p89bnhir64v3gheruotvi0 | TURNOCK, Adam Cotterill (I3640)
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| 17 | "In the Grip of an Island" by Olga Sansom "At Murdoch's mill for many years was a bullocky to whom Murdoch gave a pension for long service, a rare happening in those days. This was Barney Kavanagh, an Irishman, a great wit and popular with everyone. He had a family of pretty girls living in Dunedin. All the mill men knew them from the photo on his mantelpiece in his hut. "Won't you bring them over here Barney. Tell them Stewart Island is a good place to live in." | KAVANAGH, Bernard (I3544)
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| 18 | "J. M. McCarthy" is given as mother of "Florence Ruth Miller" in wedding notice. "Former Matthews" | MATHEWS, Margaret Julia (I3569)
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| 19 | "Mr Horace Fildes, the keen antiquary, states the old records show that the emigrant ship Arab, 484 tons, left Gravesend on June 3, 1841, with 208 settlers, most of whom were intended for the Nelson settlement. She arrived at Port Nicholson on October 16, at which time, of course, there was no such place as Nelson. No subsequent mention is made of these settlers, so we must assume that they drifted across the Straits from time to time as occasion offered, after the sight of Nelson was chosen, or else they waited for the rest of the people in the Fifeshire and her three companions. White Wings - Sir Henry Brett" http://www.geni.com/projects/New-Zealand-Settler-Ships-Arab-1840/14543 | HOOPER, Robert (I3571)
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| 20 | "On the 29th ult., at New Parks, near Leicester, in her 54th year, Dorothy relict of the late Rt. Clarke, Gent." The Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury (Stamford, England), Friday, April 11, 1823; pg. 3. British Newspapers, Part IV: 1780-1950. (Raewyn) | SANDERS, Dorothy (I1862)
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| 21 | "Pensioner" on Sarah Anne Shields birth registry entry. This seems to be another name for a Fencible as they were pensioned soldiers. | SHIELS, John (I3775)
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| 22 | "Pittman Warren, Esq. of Warminster, Wilts." Marriage notice for Captain Thomas Hodgson and Sarah Warren in The New Lady's Magazine. | WARREN, Pittman (I4920)
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| 23 | "Sailors and Settlers" claims they did not have any children. | SMITH, Margaret (I566)
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| 24 | "She may be the Sarah SILVESTER baptised on 14 May 1732 in Halton Holegate, and mother of a bastard daughter Rebecca baptised 30 Mar 1760. Sarah?s burial entry has not been found." From http://www.genealogy.ianskipworth.com/pdf/skipsjohnhalton.pdf | SILVESTER, Sarah (I4061)
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| 25 | "To the Ends of the Earth" says she married Henry Gill. | CAMPBELL, Margaret (I108)
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| 26 | "Von Tempksy and the Forest Ranges" by Richard Stowers - biographical information for Ezra Smith. Roll of men who have made applications for the New Zealand War Medal appears in the AJHRs: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1873 Session I, H-16a http://www.atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1873-I.2.3.3.19&srpos=1&e=--1871---1873--10--1------0smith-- | SMITH, Ezra (I1288)
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| 27 | "youngest son of Mr James Howard aged 2 years and 1 month" Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 128, 1 August 1868, Page 2 | HOWARD, Richard (I3700)
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| 28 | # 1744 in index. | Family: TORKINGTON, Ernest Joseph / STONEHAM, Lilian Pearl (F14)
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| 29 | # 25/512 | MATHESON, Angus (I204)
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| 30 | # 3965 | Family: TORKINGTON, Stanley Joseph / DIMENT, Pamela Mary (F25)
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| 31 | #1433 | BLENNERHASSETT, Elsie Ellen (I2091)
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| 32 | #31132 of O.I.R (Otago Infantry Regiment). | MATHESON, Cyrus Haskell (I205)
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| 33 | '... tuition paid for by courtesy of their parental uncle, Henry Clarke'. | CLARKE, Catherine (I2143)
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| 34 | '22 years of age, R McKinney officiating' - Joyce Wyatt. | Family: CLARKE, Charles Septimus / WYATT, Mary Anne (F6)
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| 35 | '22.22.1970' | REED, Fanny (I3172)
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| 36 | '3 sons and a daughter' | PILGRIM, Edith (I3219)
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| 37 | '3 years old' | BAGOT, Frederick (I3014)
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| 38 | '3rd Bn., Otago Regiment, NZEF' | MATHESON, Cyrus Haskell (I205)
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| 39 | '4 sons, 2 daughters' | CLARKE, Agnes Annie (I1269)
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| 40 | 'a debilitating stroke' | DAVEY, Alice Florence (I28)
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| 41 | 'A Jordanian'. My early note. | SHISHTAWI, Ahmed (I1061)
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| 42 | 'Aged 1 yr 4 mths'; so birth, death, and age don't mesh. Maybe the year of birth should be 1847. | CLARKE, Leonard (I3165)
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| 43 | 'Aged 64' | CLARKE, Robert (I1861)
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| 44 | 'Alice Ann Gertrude and Henry Christopher who died aged 8 months were by his 2nd wife Emma Smith. He had a futher 2(illigitimate by his housekeeper Miss Thompson. I think they lived in Torkquay where John might have died. I am going tolook into this.' - Chisteen Weir | CLARKE, John Sanders (I1212)
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| 45 | 'At least six children.' | CLARKE, John (I1869)
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| 46 | 'Aunt Jennie willed $$ to Maud Moren of Killarney St, Takapuna in 1941.' | MANNING, Eliza Jane (I1168)
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| 47 | 'Bagot was one of 8 boys, and one of them went to New Zealand.' | BAGOT, John (I1155)
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| 48 | 'Beaufighter IF 8266 - took off at 2325 [19 Jan 1943] but when at 4000 - 5000 feet 30 miles from base suffered a starboardengine failure. Apparently the windmilling propellor could not be feathered, which led to a loss of height. At 0015 [20Jan 1943] the beaufighter crashed into the sea 5 miles south of Shoreham. The pilot is commemorated on Runnymede Memorial...' | GUTHRIE, Lionel (I3167)
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| 49 | 'Bought family papers from the widow of his brother JSC. Lent for publication of * Catherine Hutton and Her Friends *' | CLARKE, Thomas Worthington (I1216)
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| 50 | 'Built Ardross Castle and Duncraig' | MATHESON, Sir Alexander (I3029)
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