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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: "Parkhurst Boys" transported to NZ 1842/43
« on: Monday 21 March 22 00:24 GMT (UK)  »
I have matched the list of Parkhurst Boys against the list of Colonists registered by their families for  the 1940 Centenary. Any descendants of the following please get in touch with me to confirm, or not, that your ancestor belongs on both lists:

St George 1842

George Baker
G. Brown
George Isaac Burnard
James Coley
George Edge
John Floyd
T. Harvey
W. Hollis
John Lee
John Malcolm
John Nicholson
James Rampling
John Saunders
William Smith

Mandarin 1843

Isaac Eggerton
James Griffith
John Lynch
William Paton

Any other Parkhurst Boy descendants or researchers do make contact too.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: "ARCHWAY" gone -- Archives New Zealand Re-name their Website :
« on: Monday 21 March 22 00:15 GMT (UK)  »
I have used it a few times and been frustrated and disappointed. It really needs a lot of remedial work to be useful.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: "Parkhurst Boys" transported to NZ 1842/43
« on: Friday 18 March 22 00:24 GMT (UK)  »
John Ryan, a Parkhurst Boy off the St George in 1842. He was convicted at the old bailey in 1841, of simple larceny. My last confirmed sighting of him is 1843 when he is a servant in Epsom. I'm testing to see if he could be one of the mutinous crew of the schooner Helen in 1850.

Anyone with a connection to either John Ryan?

Can someone show the missing link?

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: "Parkhurst Boys" transported to NZ 1842/43
« on: Sunday 13 March 22 19:35 GMT (UK)  »
George Baker

Convicted 1838 at the Old Bailey

804. GEORGE BAKER was indicted for stealing, on the 28th of February, 1 silver watch, value 30s.; the goods of Catherine Harris; to which he pleaded
      GUILTY .— Transported for Seven Years.


George was aged 16 when he came to New Zealand on the St George in 1842. He was trained as a shoemaker. David Rough placed him with the Survey Department as a tent keeper.

I have found several possibilities but have found cause to eliminate most, and none are looking really solid.

However, while researching George I found the Roll of Colonists created in 1940, the centenary of settlement. This included settlers to Auckland from before 1852. George Baker is on the list, with his date of arrival as 1842, but with no mention of the ship he arrived on. This may have been a device for concealing his origin as a Parkhurst Boy, but likely in 1940 his descendants were seeking recognition for him as a settler.

Can you help link me to the correct George Baker?








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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: John and William AXFORD, born 1824/1826 respectively
« on: Friday 11 March 22 17:52 GMT (UK)  »
John Axford,

I suggest we have  John Axford in 1881 as the proprietor of the Tokano (Tokaanu) Hotel .

Along with John Cane, John Axford built a 15-20 ton schooner, the ‘Dauntless’ to trade on Lake Taupo.

It appears that John Axford became a successful businessman in the Taupo area.


William Axford

There was successful litigation by W. Axford for £9 -10s against A. Beregerson in 1895 in the Hawkes Bay, not too far from his ‘brother’ in Taupo.

It's possible they stayed in NZ.

I haven't found anything in Births Deaths and Marriages  but did note the hawker mentioned by Minniehaha. Maori registration was patchy.
 


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New Zealand Completed Requests / Parkhurst Boys
« on: Thursday 10 March 22 19:47 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching the Parkhurst Boys, two boatloads of young 'convicts' who were sent from Parkhurst Prison to Auckland New Zealand. Today my particular interest is Frederick Horne who came on the St. George In 1842. I am stuck with several Frederick Hornes and trying to identify the right one.

I see that "Tokoroa Wilsons" was on this very topic in 2020. I'd like to get in touch with "Tokoroa Wilsons" especially if he/she is a descendant of Frederick Horne or one of the other Parkhurst Boys and can help me find the right one.

John Gill, Wellington

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