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Hi Riley,

Knew you would be back on the case.  Sorry about the delayed response, but a few health probs lately.

James MAXWELL did marry Edith Frances GOODWIN on19 Feb 1901 at St Mathews Church,  St Albans, Christchurch - so say's his marriage certificate.

Are you suggesting that:
1. the ITM had the correct intention to marry at St Albans but was registered outside the district, or that
2. they registered the ITM to marry elsewhere and subsequently married in St Albans

Presume you have had some of these variations before

regards, Terry

Thanks Newbe and apologies Leandra - you have nothing to be embarrased about - the embarassment is all mine .

I missed the exact date point and I did have the death printout in my hand.

Family lore has her arriving in NZ much later so I am hoping that as she may have been the informant on the ITM I might get a more accurate figure.

Regards

Terry

Could I get an ITM look up for the following marriage

James MAXWELL to Edith Frances GOODWIN married Feb 1901 at St Mathew Church,  St Albans, Christchurch


This is my wifes' grandmother - hoping time in district equals time in NZ so I can begin a sibling and gg search in NZ or not!

Thanks
Terry

Thanks very much Trish.

This man has always been a bit of a mystery.  I haven't been able to find his birth in the index either!!

Appears that his travels started after his father died and perhaps prompted by that (extra income?), but for what purpose I don't know.  From the Wellington newspapers of the day, on two occaisions, we catch his departure from Wellington to the UK, where he is described as travelling from Palmerston North, then a small rural centre but no luck in their papers.  His interest may have been farming, but why so much time and money on travel to a single place.  There has to be more.

His neice Lucy Elborne travelled out in 1926 (and again in 1939) to visit a cousin (our tree) but this cousin did not arrive in NZ until 1908.

I would love to place this guy.  Perhaps a death at sea - if on a british ship, were these reported in the UK BMD. 

There is no record in the NZ BMD.  Perhaps I should look for travel to other countries.

All suggestions for further research welcome,

Regards, Terry

Hi Sunflower

You are probably correct.  She is buried in Church (Rock) Cemetery, Nottingham, but I thought that might just have been the son's preference to have her buried close to him.

I note in the current regulations for notification of deaths that if you are registering a person's death at the Notts RO, and that person died outside Nottingham, then you have to fill in a separate declaration and the Notts office forwards the papers to the RO for the place of death.  Provided that the regs were the same in 1877, then she almost certainly died in Nottingham.

Terry