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New Zealand / Re: Understanding NZ Directories street orientations
« on: Yesterday at 09:34 »
Thank you everyone for your ongoing commitment to my query.  I have been quiet for the last couple of nights absorbing the information and trying to pull pieces together.

You have certainly added information to my family tree and highlighted more resources for future use. I have debunked some assumptions (always important) and learnt more from paperspast. 
A very grateful rootschatter :)

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New Zealand / Re: Understanding NZ Directories street orientations
« on: Sunday 29 June 25 10:14 BST (UK)  »
Thank you everyone for your help and input.  I agree Alan, the maps are not looking like 100 houses! And I will go and have a good look at your map tomorrow.

Following a subsequent post by Shanreagh, I gather they must have lived on the right side of the road heading away from Brougham Street given the even numbers of their house.

The retrolens.co.nz looks fascinating with some interesting aerial photos, I'm sure there must be something of interest for this part of my research and subsequent family houses to find.  I have work leave coming up and can't wait to get to the libraries!

Thank you for your research Lucy2.  After last night's search I had found some of this information.  William's daughter continued to live in the house and had spina bifida.  She took in sewing and knitting. There are a number of papers past articles about this family which seems to have come to light since I last looked.  After her death, the family home was sold but I did not have the Administration file for the Estate, so this is very important to me.

Thanks again for everyone's time and expertise.




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New Zealand / Re: Understanding NZ Directories street orientations
« on: Saturday 28 June 25 10:59 BST (UK)  »
Hi, many thanks for all this valuable and interesting information.  Having spent the evening on papers past with this new information I have discovered so much more about my family and the house was still standing in 1973!  So sad there are no photos (not that I can find!). 

Would I be correct in thinking the house would be on the right side of Hawdon street walking away from Brougham st towards Matson/Maldon street?

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New Zealand / Understanding NZ Directories street orientations
« on: Saturday 28 June 25 06:53 BST (UK)  »
I am hoping for some help to read the NZ Directories correctly for a house location.  I am looking at the 1905 directory for ChCh for the house location of William Welsh occ. Blacksmith who lived in Hawdon Street (page 232).  My understanding is he lived near Matson st which no longer appears on google maps however there is a Maldon st.  (I have not found any road name changes in the ChCh City Library street name changes but see there is a Matson Ave in St Albans and a Matson Road in Papanui.)  I realise this area of ChCh is very industrial now but would love to know an approximate location of their home.  When looking at google maps would the house have been located in the area now occupied by Phantom Billstickers and LM Architectural Builders

Directions in summary:

……….Brougham st………..
Left side from Carlyle st
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 …here is Wordsworth st……
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…Coleridge st intersects….
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…here is Matson st………
100 Welsh Wm, blacksmith

Many thanks for your expertise  :)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of death query
« on: Friday 06 January 23 21:50 GMT (UK)  »
Brilliant, many thanks for your quick replies and explanations.  My approximations of letters weren't good enough to pull up the word!!  I am now assuming the babe did not survive either as I have found no further records. 
As another question (and maybe not the right forum) but is it possible the child would be buried with her?
Have a good day


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Cause of death query
« on: Friday 06 January 23 21:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
looking for advice on the cause of death " Haemorrhage in her ?".
Her 7th child was born in 1872, so I am thinking this has to do with the birth of another child for whom I have found no information.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

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Australia / Re: Emily and Jane O'Brien baptismal records
« on: Monday 03 October 22 09:09 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Judith, for your thoughts.

I am very happy to report that with the thoughts from RootsChat and Find a Grave, I have solved the mystery of Jane O'Brien.  She was born in 1862 and died in 1943 and is buried alongside her sisters, cousin (Charles Low) and George Smith at Woronora cemetery.  The confusing bit was she married George Frederick Smith who was initially the husband of her sister Eliza.  Eliza had died within months of her marriage to George. 
George died in 1947.

Many thanks again to you all.

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Australia / Re: Tick by surname of marriage cert
« on: Sunday 02 October 22 08:04 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for everyone's reply about the 'tick'.
Yes, Bridget did come to the mainland and had 2 further boys, both named Joseph.  The first died and the second is my direct line.  The suggested death records for Bridget do not appear to fit the wider information I have.  But as always ...... open to new thoughts.

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Australia / Tick by surname of marriage cert
« on: Saturday 01 October 22 21:10 BST (UK)  »
I am curious about the obvious tick by the name Bridget Hoolagan who is 'mother of the groom'.
Through various documents her surname seems to be vary (woolahan/coolahan/callaghan) which make her very hard to trace. I assume this is due to pronunciation challenges, the spelling skills of the writer, interpreting the handwriting etc.

I have not been able to trace a death cert for Bridget and wondered if the tick indicates 'deceased'. Or perhaps the tick means her name has been checked as accurate at the time?!
I know John O'Brien and the Trumper parents are still alive at this time.
Any thoughts on the 'tick' would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance.

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