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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Katie GANE and Buckley Calvert ROCKELL
« on: Wednesday 29 April 15 06:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lu,
Thanks for all your help, we have recently discovered that Katie and her three brothers all came to NZ as part of the Flock House trainee farming scheme for Children of British seamen as they lost their father in WWI when the boat he was a pilot on hit a german mine and sunk. I had traced them all to the Bay of Islands thanks to 1935 census and then they disperse from there. I know the others have had family whom I hope to get in contact with and was hoping maybe Katie had a family of her own also. Thanks again for all the information you've been incredibly helpful.
Jo

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Katie GANE and Buckley Calvert ROCKELL
« on: Wednesday 29 April 15 02:16 BST (UK)  »
Ah, wonderful, thank you for that birth announcement, would be wonderful to connect with a living descendent, and so the search continues. I had found burial records for both Katie and Buckley on the Purewa Cemetery website also, just needing to confirm that it is indeed our Katie  :)

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Katie GANE and Buckley Calvert ROCKELL
« on: Wednesday 29 April 15 01:46 BST (UK)  »
I am currently doing some research for my father in law, whose family originated from Essex, England. All four GANE children came to NZ as part of the Flock House farm training scheme. We are currently looking for more information regarding Katie GANE whom we believed married Buckley Calvert ROCKELL. Buckley's sister Mona McKenzie ROCKELL also married Katies brother Stuart GANE.
Any information would be gladly recieved.
Jo

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Occupation Interests / Re: Joseph Burkett occupation Sailor 1841-1871
« on: Tuesday 18 March 14 23:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Geoff,
I have just come across your post and think we have the same Joseph Burkett on our family trees.
My Joseph is son of Thomas Burkett and Elizabeth Blaskett, Lydd. He is one of ten children (two of which died as infants). My 4x great grandfather George Burkett is his brother.

In my notes it says Joseph was a Tailor. He managed his brother George's business at Dover after his fathers death. In his burial entry he is stated to be of Kensington where he probably lived in his old age with one of his prosperous sons.

His wife was only named as Harriet? and their children are Jospeh Frederick, Josiah Bradshaw, Lawrence Jospehus, William, Thomas, Frank, Harriet Amelia & Harriet Amelia (both died as infants).

I can see from my notes that Joseph Frederick was in the Royal Navy and was later the coastguard at Dover.

If this all looks familiar I would love to hear from you, as this branch of our tree is very incomplete.

Kind Regards
Jo

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Toowong Cemetery Brisbane Qld
« on: Wednesday 30 October 13 03:57 GMT (UK)  »
I would be most grateful if anyone was visiting the cemetery if they could look for the grave of Michael and Mary Lacy Portion 7A, Section 38 Grave No. 11.

Please don't make a special trip, as I live in NZ I truely appreciate people that are willing to help out others.

Kind Regards
Jo

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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: G P W Burkett and Richard Dickeson & Co.
« on: Sunday 21 July 13 22:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi Casalguidi,

Thanks for your reply. George Peter Watts Burkett was born in October 1866, son of George Peter Watts Burkett and Catherine Tunbridge. He married Fanny Spanton in 1890 and had three children, Albert Spanton Burkett in 1892, Alfred Burkett in 1893 and Maria Sarah Burkett (my great grandmother) in 1894. It is believed that sometime c.1897 he began working for Richard Dickeson and Co. a wholesale grocer who supplied the army canteens in Dover and a couple of other districts. He then moved to London (or nearby) to work for the same company, who eventually sent him to South Africa. He died there in 1903. There have been conflicting stories in the family to why he was in South Africa when he died. We have found no evidence to suggest he was enrolled in the army. We have a letter he sent to my great grandmother showing his address as C/- R Dickeson and Co. in Bloemfontein sent in a chocolate tin that was presented to army personnel by Queen Victoria. When George left to work near London, my great grandmother and her brother (the eldest died as an infant in a cot fire) were adopted by George's brother William Wood Burkett (mayor of Dover 1905/06). I was hoping there might have been a record of employment records for Richard Dickeson and Co.? Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Jo  :)

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Kent Lookup Requests / G P W Burkett and Richard Dickeson & Co.
« on: Friday 19 July 13 02:22 BST (UK)  »
Hi All,

I am wondering if anyone knows where I can find any additional information regarding the above company that operated out of Dover in the late 1800's. My 3 x great grandfather, began work for them in Dover, later leaving his family to work for the company in London then being transferred with the company to South Africa where he died in Port Elizabeth in 1903. His name was George Peter Watts Burkett and through family tales there are many different stories to how he came to be in South Africa, we are trying to uncover the truth.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jo


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Kent / Re: John HARVEY burial, Eastry, 1794.
« on: Friday 19 July 13 01:47 BST (UK)  »
I know its many years later, but I am thrilled to get this information! My great great grandmother traced her family back to Captain John Harvey and I have many bits of pieces regarding memorials to him etc. As I am in New Zealand I appreciate this information, I dearly wish to see these myself someday.

Kind Regards
Jo

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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: Fanny S Spanton
« on: Friday 17 May 13 09:48 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the prompt response, I appreciate the information regarding ordering death certificates and will look to do this for more answers.

Jo

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