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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Carey/Cook Marriage about 1856
« on: Sunday 13 November 11 22:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Althea,

Yes, it was a stroke of luck to find it. It is a bit crackly, but you can hear their words very clearly. It was recorded by the Radio NZ Mobile Unit. They spoke mostly about what ships they came on and what Patea was like in those days.

Cheers,

Chris


Quote from: althea on Sunday 13 November 11 07:49 GMT (UK)
Hi
welcome to the board
how amazing that you have that old recording from the archives..I bet they had some stories to tell  :o

bye
althea

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Carey/Cook Marriage about 1856
« on: Sunday 13 November 11 21:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Lu,

Thanks for that. It makes sense. I thought it odd that there was a personal inbox, but no way of sending a personal message!

Cheers,

Chris

:)

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Carey/Cook Marriage about 1856
« on: Sunday 13 November 11 21:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Julie,

No, my dad is still around and we're both keen to share info with you. I'm just trying to work out how to get my email address to you without posting it on the board. (I assume that doesn't go against any rules). Dad has lost your contact details, which is why the communication stopped. He is still at the same address.

I understand from my dad that Jane O'Neill (wife of Matt jr) had Emma Hursthouse as her mother on her birth certificate. We wonder what, if any, connection there might be to the prominent Taranaki family of that name.

Thanks for making contact.

Chris Leigh

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Carey/Cook Marriage about 1856
« on: Sunday 13 November 11 01:22 GMT (UK)  »
I am Jack Leigh's son. His mother was Ethel Carey, daughter of Mat jr. Her sister, Laurel (known as Loll) wrote a story in The New Zealand School Journal about 30 years ago about Mathew Carey sr and family escaping from their frontier home during a Maori uprising and moving to Patea, where Mat jr and family remained, although Mat sr returned to Melbourne. I have a recording, obtained from the Radio New Zealand Archives, in which Mathew Carey jr and a friend, Harry Locker, were interviewed in 1945 as very old men, about the early days of Patea.

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