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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: A Cornishman went a travelling......
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Jack Stephens also in Cornwall known as John. For some strange reason John and Jack are interchanged in Cornwall. Jack was called John by my Father who was both his son in law as well as his cousin.
Jack/John emigrated to New Zealand after the first world war. He was sponsored by a former resident of St Columb Major who invited him over to New Zealand to train as a gents barber. He was a gents hairdresser for the rest of his life.
He died in St Michaels Hospital Hayle Cornwall on 1st April 1984 and is buried in Truro.
He married my grandmother Adeline Emily McIntosh in 1923 in Auckland New Zealand.
They had two children :
Dorothy Iris Rounsevell (nee Stephens) 13.02.1924 (My Mother).
Douglas John Stephens
In 1948 my mother came to the uk on a trip to meet her grand mother and cousins. Over the course of the visit she met my father and did not return to NZ.
In 1950 Jack /John and Adeline visited this country for a trip and stayed both at St Columb and at Goviley Vean Tregony where John's mother lived. She lived there from 1912 until her death in the early 1950's. Her Sister Elizabeth my grandmother died in 1912 aged 42 leaving my father and other siblings without a mother.
In 1953 John and Adeline returned to the UK where they settled for the remainder of their lives.
As a footnote Elizabeth also had at least two children out of wedlock (Fred Stephens and Annie who was born in the Channel Islands according to the 1901 census.
Jack/John emigrated to New Zealand after the first world war. He was sponsored by a former resident of St Columb Major who invited him over to New Zealand to train as a gents barber. He was a gents hairdresser for the rest of his life.
He died in St Michaels Hospital Hayle Cornwall on 1st April 1984 and is buried in Truro.
He married my grandmother Adeline Emily McIntosh in 1923 in Auckland New Zealand.
They had two children :
Dorothy Iris Rounsevell (nee Stephens) 13.02.1924 (My Mother).
Douglas John Stephens
In 1948 my mother came to the uk on a trip to meet her grand mother and cousins. Over the course of the visit she met my father and did not return to NZ.
In 1950 Jack /John and Adeline visited this country for a trip and stayed both at St Columb and at Goviley Vean Tregony where John's mother lived. She lived there from 1912 until her death in the early 1950's. Her Sister Elizabeth my grandmother died in 1912 aged 42 leaving my father and other siblings without a mother.
In 1953 John and Adeline returned to the UK where they settled for the remainder of their lives.
As a footnote Elizabeth also had at least two children out of wedlock (Fred Stephens and Annie who was born in the Channel Islands according to the 1901 census.