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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Our own Princess bride- An interesting quick read.
« on: Friday 17 April 20 06:29 BST (UK)  »
Fascinating story.  Has anyone figured out how Albert fits into the Ghica extended family tree?  They being Hellenized Albanians ruling Turkish Romanian principalities on a musical chairs basis.  Balkan history is fun.
Regards

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Is it possible to find out names of all people born on specific date? (Māori)
« on: Thursday 20 February 20 03:21 GMT (UK)  »
Have you tried using the familysearch.org website?  You can narrow a search down to a particular year, country and type (ie births), and the first names of the parents, without needing the exact spellings or even a surname at all.  Familysearch will give you the electronic registration number, which you can then use to narrow down a particular date on nzbdm.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: John Frederick PARSONSON
« on: Sunday 10 November 19 22:37 GMT (UK)  »
All good suggestions.
I believe the last mention of him in NZ is on or about 14 January 1919, in connection with the mysterious gunshot wound.  We have assumed that there was some followup over the next few weeks: it just doesn't seem to have been reported.
The immigration details for P STANLAKE are, as far as we know, the first appearance in any historical records of P STANLAKE.
Regards

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: John Frederick PARSONSON
« on: Saturday 09 November 19 21:52 GMT (UK)  »
So apparently:
"...Minnie Florence was daughter of Alfred Victor LOVELL and Emily Marguerite RUSH - the rest is correct. Minnie moved to Adelaide from London in 1925. She met and married Phillip STANLAKE in Adelaide in just a few months. Phillip stated that he is was a Major in the BEF on the wedding certificate. The previous year his electoral roll entry (Carlton, in Victoria) states his occupation as "Solicitor" but I've found zero evidence that he worked as a solicitor..."

I am inclined to doubt anything Mr Stanlake has to say.  John Frederick PARSONSON was however a law clerk in Christchurch, so he probably knew his way around legal documents.
Regards

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: John Frederick PARSONSON
« on: Saturday 09 November 19 04:10 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks again
Florence Minnie WENTWORTH would have explained a few things.  Unfortunately it looks like she was married in the UK and having children with Reuben GILHAM at the same time as Florence Minnie STANLAKE nee LOVELL was havingh kids in Australia.
Dang. 

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: John Frederick PARSONSON
« on: Friday 08 November 19 04:00 GMT (UK)  »
Heh.  Yeah that's the guy in Australia I have been corresponding with.  It all gets a bit circular sometimes.
But that is all really helpful.  We are know that he lied on his WWII service record (mainly because he gave two inconsistent birthdates), so that's OK.
Still missing the link that would show that they were actually the same person. 
Thanks for all your help.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: John Frederick PARSONSON
« on: Friday 08 November 19 03:25 GMT (UK)  »
And yeah, one of his nephews (born 1905) also had Fillingham as a middle name so I am guessing it is a family thing.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: John Frederick PARSONSON
« on: Friday 08 November 19 03:21 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks. 
You've found his three kids by his first [legal] wife in NZ.  He had four more with his second [maybe not quite so legal] wife.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: John Frederick PARSONSON
« on: Friday 08 November 19 03:09 GMT (UK)  »
No clue about the names.  Also no clue why all his kids with his second wife have "Wentworth" as a middle name.
We have a working theory that he borrowed certain biographical details from his brother-in-law William James HARDHAM (who actually did serve in South African and WWI and died conveniently young with no offspring).  He has a wikipedia page.

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