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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: SIMPSONs of Kaiapoi *Completed* - thanks
« on: Friday 09 September 11 01:46 BST (UK) »
Hi Jazzie,
Emma Rhodes was my Great-great-grandmother through her son Randolph. In 1990 I became quite heavily bitten with family history & spent hours with microfilm and making trips to everywhere I could think of that could provide details about the extended family. It was at that point that I found the clipping from the Star that had been referenced with the names of the ladies... Emma Rhodes (of course) being the name I was searching for. In 1928 Emma Rhodes (nee Chaney) was one of remaining Canterbury Pilgrims so for the newspaper to have a photograph of four generations of women would have had a human interest element.
I've been living overseas for the best part of a decade & my original research is in a box somewhere in New Zealand but I remember the clipping quite well as I spent a lot of time wondering about what had become of the family. From memory, it was Miss Betty Simpson in the photograph as well.
In 1990 it was much more difficult to track down family information as everything was on film, fiche or index cards. There are only two places that I could have got the Newpaper cutting from - one is the portrait / photographic collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library. The other (remote) possibility was the archives of the Canterbury Museum.
Regards
Laurie
Emma Rhodes was my Great-great-grandmother through her son Randolph. In 1990 I became quite heavily bitten with family history & spent hours with microfilm and making trips to everywhere I could think of that could provide details about the extended family. It was at that point that I found the clipping from the Star that had been referenced with the names of the ladies... Emma Rhodes (of course) being the name I was searching for. In 1928 Emma Rhodes (nee Chaney) was one of remaining Canterbury Pilgrims so for the newspaper to have a photograph of four generations of women would have had a human interest element.
I've been living overseas for the best part of a decade & my original research is in a box somewhere in New Zealand but I remember the clipping quite well as I spent a lot of time wondering about what had become of the family. From memory, it was Miss Betty Simpson in the photograph as well.
In 1990 it was much more difficult to track down family information as everything was on film, fiche or index cards. There are only two places that I could have got the Newpaper cutting from - one is the portrait / photographic collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library. The other (remote) possibility was the archives of the Canterbury Museum.
Regards
Laurie
