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Title: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: Ranolki on Saturday 25 January 25 14:10 GMT (UK)
This may be a bit outside any info I can pick up here but usually there is someone with insight to help me out!
I'm looking for a family of mother and three children who left the UK between the end of March 1905 and then had enough time to register the youngest child at school in Christchurch, New Zealand on 3rd July 1905. I'm not quite sure how they did it but I know they travelled under false names (escaping the husband...)  My aim is to go through the passenger lists for each relevant ship looking for a mother with children of more or less the right ages, as I have no idea what name they used. It seems not to be the false name they used once they arrived.
Can anyone point me to somewhere I could discover which ships would have sailed in that period?  If ages are recorded on the passenger lists they would have been 37, 17, 15 and 10 at the time but I'm not sure until I start looking how much detail will be recorded.
Thanks for any pointers!
Title: Re: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 25 January 25 16:15 GMT (UK)
Have you looked in the newspapers for arrivals?

Eg

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19050619.2.83.4?end_date=03-07-1905&items_per_page=10&page=3&query=Shipping&snippet=true&start_date=15-06-1905

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19050515.2.18?end_date=03-07-1905&items_per_page=10&page=3&query=Shipping&snippet=true&sort_by=byDA&start_date=15-05-1905
Title: Re: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: Ranolki on Saturday 25 January 25 16:46 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that, I didn't even know those existed! I'll have a look - I really appreciate those. That second link looks ideal, lists the longer distance ships and where they started out too, ie Liverpool etc.

 
Title: Re: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: minniehaha on Saturday 25 January 25 18:59 GMT (UK)
Family Search?

https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=https://www.familysearch.org/service/cds/recapi/collections/1609792/waypoints

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1609792

Minniehaha.
Title: Re: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Saturday 25 January 25 19:14 GMT (UK)
Family Search?


https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1609792

Minniehaha.

Thanks for that Minnie, I forgot about that siite, and found myself on there again, a bit weird to see info about your wee self ;D The birth year is wrong, though they did say if was approximate though ::)

Cheers
KHP

Ranolki

Just be aware not every passenger list recorded ages/names  Some have just surnames and initials.

 
Title: Re: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: Ranolki on Saturday 25 January 25 22:18 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that.

I'm assuming the ship docked in Christchurch as that's where they lived, but I don't see records for 1905.  If they didn't land there I suppose I need to work out which ports were large enough to have received the bigger ships coming from the UK too...  Bit of digging needed!
Title: Re: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: minniehaha on Saturday 25 January 25 22:26 GMT (UK)
An example: Akaroa 1905.....


https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=https://www.familysearch.org/service/cds/recapi/collections/1609792/waypoints

Added: Also look under Lyttelton for 1905, where there are many ships listed for that year. 😊

Minniehaha.

Title: Re: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: Lucy2 on Saturday 25 January 25 23:01 GMT (UK)
Hi Ranolki

You may of course wish to keep name details of this family. private (and your right to do so, is respected).  :)

Some of us here though have access to numerous other resources and may be able to assist in your quest, without the need for you to trawl through myriad passenger lists.

     ~  Lu
Title: Re: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: Ranolki on Saturday 25 January 25 23:02 GMT (UK)
Oh, I understand how it works now. Thanks for that. I'll see what I can find.
Title: Re: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: Ranolki on Saturday 25 January 25 23:10 GMT (UK)
Thanks Lucy2.

The problem here is that the lady concerned (who has been looked at here previously) was using a false name as far as we can tell. Her real name was Christiana I'Anson (nee Whitfield) but as her husband was on her trail to issue divorce proceedings against her new beau (who was finding his way to NZ separately via South Africa) she obviously tried to cover her tracks.  She finally settled on the name Maydwell but that isn't the name she travelled under. It may have been a family name of Wilson but I suppose there are endless possibilities.

I'm thinking she may not have changed her children's first names as this would have been suspicious, but although they vanished from the family home six weeks after she left her husband, I have no real proof they all travelled with her, although they had apparently all arrived in NZ a couple of years later. Her youngest son Basil (who was registered in a Christchurch school in July 1905) obviously was with her I would say.

I've narrowed down a tiny window of travel, she will have left the UK sometime after the end of March 1905, and arrived in Christchurch by 3rd July.

She also had two older children who were not the children of her husband and they both eventually turned up with her too.  Intriguingly, the daughter, Irene (who was legally Irene Whitfield) started using the new lover's surname of Oldbury. The older son travelled using the surname of I'Anson.  Some of the others eventually took the name Maydwell.
Title: Re: Travelling to NZ under false names, 1905
Post by: Lucy2 on Sunday 26 January 25 00:34 GMT (UK)
Thanks for additional info.   Yes, I remember MAYDWELL search (to some extent).

Here's link to previous >  (much background recorded in "Divorce Suit" 1909 - see PapersPast link in initial post)
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=708766.0

    ~  Lu