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Here are some additional facts
Born abt 1823 Cavan
1835 ish educated at Coote Hill
1842 Emigrated to Australia to do survey work with Sir Thomas Mitchell
1848 Arrived NZ
1849-1852 California
1853 married Harriet Louise Pilkington
Raised 10 children including my Great Grandfather Theodore Arthur Montgomery born 1875 and their grandson Percy ( William Bartley Jnrs son)
1907 Died

I  have lots of information on William once he arrived in NZ. That includes information from Papers Past - obituary, immigration documents, photos, will, years and years of documents for a Syndicate that owned a Samoan Plantation. His death certificate. He and his wife owned pubs in Auckland and rather Coromandel and also large pieces of the Te Atatu peninsular.

He was a surveyor so if anyone knows where I could find ieducational information in Ireland that would be great.

Along with any other Irish leads. I’ll take a look at the info provided on George and Jane Montgomery.

George was born in Tiranny, County Monaghan, Ireland

Hi thanks - still struggling to find anything about him whilst he was in Ireland.

Hi Jennifer21 - a bit more information. William Thompson Nicholls or Tommy as his sisters called him was Tai’s first cousin. Their mothers Nga Koura and Nga Waara were sisters along with Rangitapu and Te Aumihi. The four sisters had a fight with their relations and built Makahae Marae. Their waka was Te Arawa, Iwi Tapuika, Hapu Ngati Tuheke.

There are lots of photos of your O’Callaghan whanau hanging on the walls of Makahae and of course gravestones in the family urupa.

Uncle Tommy according to family history died of flu but according to his army records he was sent home to die from TB. His younger brother Frederick Obadiah died of gun shot wounds 9 Oct 1918. My brother and I visited his grave at British Grevillers Cemetry just outside Arras.