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Most places in NZ had the sleeves on the wooden power poles to stop the possums. The pesky animals were a regular cause of power cuts, mainly in rural areas. Was usually the power lines being arced together by a possum touching two wires at the same times, usually resulting in instant electrocution and blown fuses. Not so prevalent these days with concrete poles.

Ian C

Some trees on Ancestry have John Watson Munro married to a Jessamine about 1882 and having children in Australia, with also one born to them in NZ.

Quite a few MUNROs in NZ records with Watson as a second name.

Ian C

A couple of trees on Ancestry have her maiden name as COLLINS. No sources indicated though.

She was 70 when she died so born c1767

Ian C

Trying to locate the deaths of Thomas WILLIS and his wife Ann in and around Middleham. They were both in Kirkgate in Middleham in 1841.

Thomas was born in Middleham in 1781, and does not appear in 1851 census. Various trees have his death as 1846 but nothing showing up on FreeBMD, GRO or Middleham burials.

Ann was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire in about 1781. She appears in 1851 in Middleham as a widow, living with her son-in-law John TAYLOR in Kirkgate, Middleham. Various trees have her death as 1864, but again nothing showing up on FreeBMD, GRO or Middleham burials.

If Ann died in 1864 then she should appear in the 1861 census. Can't find her in that either. Not with the Taylors. No AW in any institution.

Thanks
Ian C

Thanks Lizzie

If William WEDGEWOOD was marrying the Ann HEWSON born in Pickhill, would he be doing that in Pickhill and not Bedale. Ann WEDGEWOOD gives her birthplace in 1851 and 1861 as Bedale. William was an Excise Officer not a Tailor. Johnathan MERRYWEATHER was the Tailor.

Ann's sister Elizabeth married Johnathan MERRYWEATHER in 1804 in Bedale. The Ann born in Pickhill had a sister named Eliza, not Elizabeth. Again if he was marrying the Pickhill one why go to Bedale. In 1851 Elizabeth was Betty MERRYWEATHER and gave her birthplace as Bedale.

I am more inclined now to believe that it is the two Bedale sisters who have married MERRYWEATHER and WEDGEWOOD, and as you say the Pickhill Ann has married Robert KIDD.

Can't find Eliza HEWSON in Pickhill after the baptsim. There is a marriage of an Elizabeth at Pickhill in 1804 to a Richard BELL, with one of the witnesses being an Ann HEWSON.

Ian C