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Title: aaron driscoll
Post by: amk on Sunday 09 November 14 19:01 GMT (UK)

hoping someone out there may be able to help,i,m looking for information on arron driscoll who emigrated to new zealand in 1912 i,ve no idea whereabouts he settled and he was a butcher by trade
thanking you in advance

Title: Re: aaron driscoll
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 09 November 14 19:28 GMT (UK)

No birthyear/birthplace given in your post

Is he the 1901 entry married to Amy nee Beesley and born 1874 Ashton on Mersey Cheshire?  One son William aged 3?

Title: Re: aaron driscoll
Post by: amk on Sunday 09 November 14 21:04 GMT (UK)

Hi carol and thanks for the quick response, that is the same Aaron that was married to Amy but he seems to have sailed to new Zealand on his own and Amy and William didn't seem to follow, I've got Amy,s death about 1928 in Manchester England

Title: Re: aaron driscoll
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 09 November 14 23:32 GMT (UK)

I noticed that the passenger list showed him on his own and I couldn't find any trace of Amy & William following - very strange ???

No trace of Aaron returning or dying in England.  Do you know whether Amy is shown as a widow on the death cert?

Title: Re: aaron driscoll
Post by: whiteout7 on Monday 10 November 14 07:33 GMT (UK)

So he was born 140 years ago. There is no death record for him on the NZbdm, could he not have died in NZ?

Title: Re: aaron driscoll
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 10 November 14 10:04 GMT (UK)

There is always the possibility he left NZ for another country.  Australia, South Africa, USA etc etc

Title: Re: aaron driscoll
Post by: jorose on Monday 10 November 14 14:14 GMT (UK)

I noticed that he wasn't on earlier censuses/birth index, etc, as "Driscoll".  I think this may be him in 1881 as "Aron Hayman":
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X3BR-JT6
There is a birth in 1873 for an Aaron Hayman, and William Driscoll m. Ann Hayman in 1875.

Here's a possible sighting in 1937 on a shipping list
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDK-ZG5H
Mr A Driscoll, butcher, aged 63, English, was heading to Melbourne.

Probably worth checking Australian death records.

Title: Re: aaron driscoll
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 10 November 14 15:53 GMT (UK)

Excellent detective work Jorose ;D

Could be him in 1911

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWBG-SD8

Title: Re: aaron driscoll
Post by: amk on Thursday 13 November 14 11:49 GMT (UK)

Thanks so much everyone you've certainly helped me in my quest to find him, I'm hoping to find relatives of his son William, so again thank you
amk