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Thank you John.  That would be wonderful.  I remember very little of my grandfather (Thomas, son of Israel) except that he was a very gentle elderly man, who used to sit in his lazyboy chair with the family's siamese cat curled up on  his head or shoulders.  He was a man of few words, was very much under my grandmother's thumb by all acounts and never spoke of his previous life.  I do know that he had a previous wife who died young and I think there were at least two children of that marriage.  Would love to know more about the family history, anectdotes, etc. 

Thank you so much everybody.  You have given me plenty of material to go on with.

Sounds like we might be tracing the same people.  My ancestors travelled to NZ in 1863, although we do not know the name of the vessel and my branch of the family, the Pavreals have lived in Hamilton ever since. My great-great grandfather was William.   My great grandfather was Israel.  My grandfather was Thomas Pavreal (Pevreal)  born in 1892 and he married Ina Alice Millard in 1915.  After she died in 1926 he remarried my grandmother Gladys Dugmore and they had two children, Murray and Ruth.  Murray was my father.   

Any details you could provide on my great grandfather and earlier history would be greatly appreciated.  The names Pavreal and Pevreal seem intertwined.