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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: fraser1 on Tuesday 07 January 20 22:24 GMT (UK)
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Please can anyone help me find out more information on the above.
James Alexander Grant born 16/11/1910 in Cove, Dunbartonshire.
Father James Grant Mother Mary Campbell married 3/01/1910
I do know that he went to New Zealand and have a possible passage on the Rimutaka 5/07/1929.
He married and had a family and died but I haven't been able to find any information on him in New Zealand.
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1911 census:
502/2 1/ 8 Kilcreggan and Cove Dunbarton
James 22
Mary 24
Alexander 0
How do you know he went to NZ.
Married and died where?
Jamjar
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Wow, what a quick response.Told by family, his siblings, that that is where he went. He was married and died there. I was also told that he had children.
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I do know that he went to New Zealand
If you are absolutely certain of that - would suggest your post is moved to the NZ board. Click on the Report to Moderator button and ask for it to be moved
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He married and had a family and died but I haven't been able to find any information on him in New Zealand.
I’m a tad confused. You say he married etc. Where and when did these events take place?
Can you tell us what you do know about him and his wife, children etc?
Jamjar
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I don’t see siblings born in Cove. Where were they born?
Did Alexander travel alone, if to NZ?
Jamjar
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Told by family, his siblings
If he had siblings - when did they tell you he had gone to NZ as they are all presumably deceased by now?
There are a lot of outward passenger list entries for the name James Grant with a birthyear 1909/1910 - why did you select the 1929 entry?
He would only have been 18 at that time so presumably any marriage would have been in NZ?
Surely his siblings would have known the names of his wife and children? What about his siblings children - he was their uncle so do they not have any details about his family?
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His birth registration shows him as Alexander James, not James Alexander.
As he is also Alexander on the 1911, I’d assume it was probably the name he was known by.
What evidence do you have that he had swapped his names around?
Jamjar
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Looking at the 1929 passenger entry - did you notice that the majority of entries are young men aged 16-18 all shown as farm hands? The last address for all of them appears to be Salvation Army training farm Hadleigh
Destination was Auckland
Do you know for sure he went as an unmarried teenager?
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The only marriage on NZ marriages which includes his names is that for a James Aitken Alexander Grant who married a Mary Johanna Elizabeth Honey in 1932 but can't be him as a death shows for him in 1976, giving a birthdate of 27/12/1905.
Other deaths including his names are nowhere near a birth of 1910.
Annette
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There is a marriage in New Zealand for a Alexander Grant to Doris Muriel Dobson in 1932.
This was the first one on the List. There are 3 other Alexander Grant's getting married between 1930 and 1939.
Website Here https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search
I suggest you move this topic to the New Zealand Board as we have a great bunch of Roots-chatter's here willing to help with your inquiry.
Carol80 (in New Zealand)
Edit You may like to try our Archives site https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/
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Thank you all for your responses. I will be back on this evening to check.
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CaroleW Have asked for this to be done.
Jamjar As far as I know in NZ. I do not know anything of his family.
Siblings born in Cove - William Harry, Ewan and Marion Campbell. James Donald born Auchenbowie as far as I know he went alone.
CaroleW No date given. His sister is still alive but has Alzheimer's. The age fitted with only grant on the one list that came up for me. I believe he married in NZ. I never heard much talk about him or his family and unfortunately have lost contact with any remaining cousins. I had noticed farm hand and if this is the right Alexander it shows him as single.
Annette7 Agreed that that is not him.
Carol80 Checked website but there is not enough information to confirm that that is the right record and the other three will be the same.
Thank you all for your time.
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Looking at the 1929 passenger entry - did you notice that the majority of entries are young men aged 16-18 all shown as farm hands? The last address for all of them appears to be Salvation Army training farm Hadleigh
Destination was Auckland
Do you know for sure he went as an unmarried teenager?
Hello.
Based upon the above I would suggest you get in touch with the NZ Salvation Army.
https://archives.salvationarmy.org.nz/article/putaruru-training-farm
Alan.
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Hi Fraser1,
As Carol80 mentioned above, you might find the Archives site of some help as there are a number of records for 'Alexander James Grant'. You should also search for name variations.
https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/
Spades
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Hello again.
Have contacted the local Salvation Army. They advise that as the HODDERVILLE farm establishment was sold some time ago, it would be best to contact the Salvation Army's National Archives.
https://archives.salvationarmy.org.nz/about-us
All the best.
Alan.
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Thank you Spades for the link. Unfortunately not enough information given to know if he is among those listed. Alan I will contact the Salvation Army. It looks like I may have hit a brick wall.
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Keep working the problem. Sometimes when you have enough questions they start answering each other, believe it or not!
Spades