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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Passenger list for INDIAN QUEEN 1857
« on: Thursday 08 August 13 12:15 BST (UK)  »
Got book, have read relevant chapter, and yes, it is the correct Elizabeth Esby ...
THANK YOU LUCY AND STORM.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Passenger list for INDIAN QUEEN 1857
« on: Sunday 04 August 13 22:06 BST (UK)  »
WOW !! Am asking library to see if I can get a copy to read.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Passenger list for INDIAN QUEEN 1857
« on: Wednesday 31 July 13 22:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lucy.

I didn't know they were from Ireland!! And there are two older sons and a daughter in that list as well .

Mary Jane 21 Sempstress
Samuel 18 Labourer
William Jnr 16 Labourer

William Junior married Jane Spicer, and had quite a few children before he died in 1857 - one in the same years as his death. Jane then married Ben Houdley in 1858.

Samuel, my great great grandfather, was born in 1855.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Passenger list for INDIAN QUEEN 1857
« on: Monday 22 July 13 11:13 BST (UK)  »
I am looking at the posts on William Mason - and wondering if there is someone who can tell me what that story is. My relationship? William Mason came to NZ on the MarthaRidgeway in 1840, with his wife Elizabeth and children, including William who married Jane Spicer (who later married Ben Houdley) after William's death in 1857. William had Samuel in 1855, who married Eugene Dash, and had my greatgrandfather Stephen Archibald Mason.

I am very interested in the comment that William funded other Mason familiies to come to NZ. In particular, is there a relationship with Thomas "Quaker" Mason? People keep mixing up Thomas's son Samuel Smart Mason (born 1854) with Williams son Samuel Mason (born 1855). Were they related?

I have been to Bolton Street Cemetery, and seen the grave that has a wooden fence that is falling apart.

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