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Greetings all

I am helping a friend with her family history and I am looking for information on a Noble McMillin b. circa 1830 at Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh.  The only information I have regarding his birth is from his obituary of 1917 in New Zealand.   Noble left Ireland in 1851 for the gold fields of Melbourne, Australia and in 1861 headed for the goldfields of Otago NZ.  He married in NZ 1873, however his marriage certificate wouldn't give any information on place of birth or parents names because that wasn't required until the marriage act of 1881.  Am waiting for my friend to order a printout of the death certificate.   If anyone could help, or point me in the right direction to search, I would be very grateful.

Kind regards
Annie (New Zealand)

George Isherwood, who married Annie Elizabeth Flintoff, sorry to say, is not your man.  If you search the electoral rolls you will find that he is George Ernest Isherwood.  From his digitised WW1 army record on Archway you will find that he was born 1880 Auckland and died 1950.  He and Annie Elizabeth divorced and they both remarried.

Think you should concentrate on Roderick George Mackay.  I have extracted his records from the electoral rolls and happy to send them to you if you PM me your email addy, I will send it to you.  Have also found a number of newspaper reports about your family have put them into a word document.

Cheers for now
Annie

I believe that this family changed their name to Isherwood, and that the George mentioned as a flax presser is in fact George Green.  This is borne out, I believe, by the fact the the father George Green died with the surname Isherwood.

I found an interesting story on Paperspast which tells of Ellen Clara Isherwood being sent to Jail for three months for vagrancy in 1892.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OG18920102.2.10&srpos=1&e=-------10-OG-1----2Ellen+Clara--

Read the article....it tells you more!

Does anyone know what happened to Alice Mackay?

Cheers
Annie

Hi Belinda....I haven't found your missing Green children but happy to have a look to see if I can find them.  Can you tell me a little more about them.  For instance, were they born in NZ  and if so where?  Where in NZ did they live?.  What happened to the parents...when did they die?  What was the father's occupation?  Where did the parents marry....here or overseas.  If overseas, when did they arrive in NZ?  Were there any other siblings and if so, where did they live.  Any information you could give would be really great because having common names like Elizabeth, Robert and George Green makes searching very difficult.

Wait to hear from you.

Kind regards....Annie

Thanks so much for your help.  Back to the drawing board for me....to see if I can find where his seaman's ticket was issued.  In 1885 he was the Chief Officer on the SS Wallace in NZ waters, when he nodded off to sleep and the ship founded on rocks.   As a consequence, his ticket was cancelled for 4 months.

Thanks again for your help

Regards Annie