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My grandfather, James Edgar Baxter is related to James Baxter and Euphemia Gibb by direct decent. His parents were Thomas Baxter, 1850 - 1926 and Emma Hobson 1851 -1909. His daughter Hilda May (nee Baxter)  was my mother. He died in 1954. My grandfather married Mary Alsop in 1912, and lived at 23 Park Road, Thackley, Yorkshire, UK. My grandfather also served in India and Pakistan with the British Army. Several of his children were born there. Edward, Stanley,Clifford,Kenneth were the boys and he had two daughters Hilda (my mother) and Winifred. His last address was at Cleverly Gardens, Acton, London. He also worked as a coal merchant's clerk. I am interested to talk to a NZ branch of the family. I have looked up Newtown, Lanarkshire and it was a mining village. It is still there but of course no mining carried out now. It was probably lack of work and poverty that cause the three brothers to relocate to New Zealand. i have visited  Auckland and Rotaroua  in the past, I have a new Zealand friend who comes from Auckland. Where abouts in New Zealand did your branch of the Baxter family start from?