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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Sophia Mabey
« on: Sunday 03 January 16 08:21 GMT (UK)  »
Good evening,

Thank you all for your replies re Sophia. I have looked at the references provided and was particularly interested in the ship's passenger list as the copy I had seen was quite differently transcribed. The census entry would seem very likely to be the Sophia Mabey I have been looking for.
I have decided to abandon my search for Sophia for the moment and concentrate on other unfinished searches.

Grateful thanks,
Catherine.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Sophia Mabey
« on: Sunday 20 December 15 22:43 GMT (UK)  »
Good afternoon,

I am trying to find Sophia Mabey b.13 Feb 1831 in Devon her mother was Harriet Croom and her father Charles Mabey. On 9th December 1840 she sailed with her family on the Olympus to Port Nicolson - Wellington - New Zealand arriving on 20th April 1841. There is a comment on the passenger list " Sophia 10years left behind in WA ". I imagine she was left behind to become a domestic servant. I have looked at every record possible that I can find with no luck, has anyone any ideas, maybe she was adopted by another family. The Mabey family history is well documented but Sophia has vanished.

Thank you,
Catherine.

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Lanarkshire / Re: River Road Carmyle Glasgow
« on: Friday 20 June 14 21:25 BST (UK)  »
The Adam Leyden you refer to is my Great Grandfather and his son Robert George Leyden is my Grandfather and this is why I was visiting River Road to look at number 45. I am interested that you have Leydens on a branch of your tree . I will be back in New Zealand in early July and am happy to share what I know of the family. Thank you for your reply.

Catherine.

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Lanarkshire / River Road Carmyle Glasgow
« on: Saturday 07 June 14 10:49 BST (UK)  »
Good morning,

I have just spent a very frustrating afternoon visiting River Road in Carmyle. My grandfather lived for many years at number 43 and I am visiting Scotland from New Zealand and thought it would be nice to look at the house. It appears that all the original houses have been demolished and new houses built. The numbers begin at 61 and those houses look the right age, e.g. have chimneys and well established trees.. sadly there was no one about to ask. If anywhere knows about River road I would be pleased to hear about it.

Regards,
Catherine.

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Scotland / Re: Eric Stanley Leyden
« on: Wednesday 23 April 14 01:56 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for more helpful advice, will make searching less of a chore and should produce better results.

Catherine. :)

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Scotland / Re: Eric Stanley Leyden
« on: Tuesday 22 April 14 09:29 BST (UK)  »
Yes that is him. Thank you very much. I looked at my settings for SP and have altered my search criteria so it searches for alternate spellings not just exact names, useful lesson learned.

Grateful thanks,
Catherine.

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Scotland / Eric Stanley Leyden
« on: Tuesday 22 April 14 06:29 BST (UK)  »
Good evening,

I would appreciate any information about Eric Stanley Leyden, he was born 3 April 1910 in Dumfries, his mother Adeline Mary Leyden born 23 August 1893 is my Great Aunt and has also proved very hard to trace. Eric appears in the 1911 census with his grandparents but Adeline is not there. Adeline appears in the 1901 census living with her Aunt, Mary J Cann. I have a marriage certificate for her. married 1941 to Alexander M Porteous and then her death in 1956 both in Chatham , Kent. I have spent hours and a small fortune looking at Scotlands people also Find my past and Ancestry and Eric still eludes me, any suggestions gratefully received.

Catherine.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Ship "Normaball" to Auckland 1850 is the name correct? COMPLETED
« on: Sunday 02 March 14 07:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your replies re Robert Macdonald and Bessie Elliott have learnt a valuable lesson about Macs and Mcs, check them both. I am working on completing a tree for Isabella Denton Macdonald and Robert Stevens, complicated by the recurrence of Robert as a family name and Robert Steven's mother being called Isabella also. Papers Past is a great source of information for both families.

Grateful thanks,
Catherine.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Ship "Normaball" to Auckland 1850 is the name correct? COMPLETED
« on: Saturday 01 March 14 23:09 GMT (UK)  »
This has been a very interesting thread about the name of the ship and the gentleman concerned Robert Macdonald. I am working on the history of my husbands family and Robert Macdonald and his wife Bessie Adelaide nee Elliot are relations of his. The question that has me beaten is, Robert Macdonald arrived in New Zealand in Dec 1859 on the Nourmahal and his first child Isabella Denton Macdonald was born in Auckland in 1862 but I can not find a marriage for him either here or in Scotland. Napierite do you have any information about this as he is your 3XG grandfather?

Hopefully,
Catherine.

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