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New Zealand Completed Requests / School Record Information
« on: Friday 06 January 12 04:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

Other than the original registration of a pupil at school - I am searching from 1923 onwards in the Palm North area - was there generally any other information kept as a matter of rule on students?  Has anyone had any luck on accessing anything further or was it a matter of each school holding on to their own particular records as they saw fit or were able to archive.  Am I making sense?

Suzs

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: lost love child
« on: Sunday 12 September 10 06:06 BST (UK)  »
I can certainly sympathise with you on this one.   I have spent 15 years trying to find my dads birth details and got nowhere!  It was suggested to me that I put his photos on a genealogy "photo board" - if there is one - as photos of course can reveal a lot more than research sometimes. 
Does anyone know of one?

Suz

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: An elusive Birth registration
« on: Thursday 25 February 10 19:35 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Lu

All confusing I know.  When I found there was no birth registration for him in 1918 I was advised to look a couple of years later for late reg.  When I found these three I applied for them and was told they all belonged to the same child and were failed adoptions, hence my trying through the courts to look at them.  It could be conincidence that when, where and the Quarter they are registered match with dad at the time.   So I have been advised recently that often the new fiche number can also be in the registrations for the same child but in his original birth name?

I know the theory is that they are supposed to be cross-referenced to the original year but why would the reg in 1922 fiche have 32 after it yet nothing in the 1932 fiche.   Yes sorry the highligted one - 1923 - should not have 23 after it, it is just 2453.

 I think I am chasing rainbows!.

Sue

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: An elusive Birth registration
« on: Thursday 25 February 10 04:30 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again
Could someone tell me, in regards to birth registrations/adoptions, I have three registrations one in 1922, 1923 and 1932, all regarding the same child.  i.e.  in 1922 fiche  - 2453/1923 & 2268/32; in 1923 fiche -2453/23.  Could 2453, 2268 and 2453 again, be also found in the fiche with another name as this was three failed adoptions but were still registered?   I am unable to obtain any of them as I don't know the original name of the child but thought it may correspondend with another name.  Am I making sense?

Suz

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: An elusive Birth registration
« on: Friday 29 January 10 03:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Simon,

I was not aware that there was one in Wanganui.  I have just goggled it but no reference to any names etc, do you know the name of it or any info regarding it.  I suppose I could email the library there.

Thanks

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: An elusive Birth registration
« on: Thursday 28 January 10 23:35 GMT (UK)  »
Yes your right, it was only opened in 1920 and only urgent cases of children/babies were taken in and out of 50 applications only 12 were accepted, dad would have been one of them but there were no other orphanges in Palm Nth at the time, only Wellington and there appears to be no trace of him in them that I can find.  But he could have been under another name in one of them and had it changed when he went to Willard for whatever reason.  The ironic thing was that the first matron was a Ms Gray, same as dad's name but I have been unable to trace who she was and what happened to her - maybe she had an illigitimate child?
I have even applied for some birth registrations in the same name as dad's in later years, same boy up for adoption x 3 times, but neither the Court/Judge or BDM could agree on what section of the Act I should apply under so I had to give that away - it was a joke.  I think some skeletons are just not meant to be found.

Sue

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: An elusive Birth registration
« on: Thursday 28 January 10 21:45 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Lucy,  yes I did some time ago but it seems it does not come under their search criteria, which I guess answered my question, but I am sure there must be someway around it. I guess there could be hundreds of baby boys born on this day but I was happy to pay any amount for someone there to do an extensive search, but no joy.   No he has no idea of place of birth.  he knew nothing other than growing up in the orphanage, parentless and then befriended later by a family. 

regards Suz

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: An elusive Birth registration
« on: Thursday 28 January 10 21:09 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Aniph,  yes I have tried all the departments and there is no records of him with them.  I assume what happened was he was registered with his original name - whatever that was - and for some reason he was put into the orphanage and given a different name.  Seems this was quite common in those days for reasons that were not disscussed, which always led him to believe he was illegitimate.  But I am assured he would have been originally registered at BDM but of course with no obvious name there is no way to search.  This is why I wondered if all births on his DOB  (10 June 1918) could be searched and something may 'gel'.  No doubt with all the new regulations regarding privacy this will be even more impossible.

Sue

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: An elusive Birth registration
« on: Thursday 28 January 10 20:52 GMT (UK)  »
Been there done that, probably know more about the orphanage than they did! but no records anywhere.  Seems they had a fire at some stage and possibly records went with it.  WCTU kept minimal files on their inmates.  It has always amazed me how a little guy from birth to 5 could be non-existent in any records whatsoever considering he had no parents - not around him anyway.  So you see it's a bit of a needle in a haystack.

Sue

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