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Re Thomas Chamberlin Tims
Can you please contact me on cmclement at clear.net.nz

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Christine
Te Puke
New Zealand

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I can send you word docs of what I have on Te Puke's Swarbrick's and Seddon's

Yours
Christine Clement
Te Puke



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The following was reported in a New Zealand newspaper in 1899

Wanganui Herald (Volume XXXIII, Issue 9797, 18 July 1899, Page 2)
“For a marriage notice of inordinate length and savouring of a desire that the family lineage shall not be cast in the dust, so to speak, commend us to the following, extracted from an Auckland exchange:
Chamberlain-Tims-Tovey-Tennent - On June the 19th, 1899, at the residence of the bride's parents, "Fairlight," Tauranga (North Island, NZ) by the Rev John Headrick, Presbyterian minister, Thomas Chamberlain Tims, only surviving son of Thomas Henry Tims, Esq., of "Charlecote" Tauranga, and "Clifford Lodge" Te Puke, great-great-grandson of Thomas Tims, of Cropredy, and great grandson of Thomas Tims, of Banbury, and cousin of the late William Chamberlain, Squire of Aderbury, Oxfordshire, and on maternal side grandson of Henry Meyer, P.S.B.A., engraver, and great-great nephew of John Hoppner, R.A, to Edith Winifred Tovey-Tennent, formerly Edith Winifred Tovey, only daughter of Alexander Charles Hughes Tovey-Tennent, Esq., J.P., of "Fairlight," Tauranga, and Pool, Scotland, formerly Captain Tovey, H.M. 70th Regiment, and who assumed the arms and name of Tennent of Pool, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the 30th of November, 1896. Non cadet."  The trouble in connection with this family union is that there is no mention of William the Conqueror, but probably the line is so distinct that there is no necessity to hark back.

Thomas Henry TIMS (c1832-) and his wife Clara Anne MEYER (married 1856 Pancras) and their son Thomas Chamberlain TIMS came to Tauranga in 1881 and settled in Te Puke.  Thomas Henry and Clara Anne were still in Te Puke in 1893 and it appears Thomas Chamberlain died in Auckland in 1944.

I am researching for a book on the early settlers of Te Puke hence my interest.

Hi.  I am researching the passengers on the Lady Jocelyn (which arrived Tauranga 2 January 1881) who went on to settle in Te Puke.  This is for a book on the families and people of the area.  On board the Lady Jocelyn were
SWARBRICK
Alice 7, Daniel 5, Emily 3, Harriett 11, Isabella 8, John G 2, Jonathan 6, Jonathan,
Oswald 4m, Sarah Mrs 36,
SWARBRICK William, Prudence Mrs 30, Jocelyn (male born 1 Jan 1881)

Jonathan and his family ended up in Gisborne.  His brother William died in 1891 and is buried at Waikumete cemetery, Auckland.  It looks like baby Jocelyn Jenkins SWARBRICK who was born the day before they arrived off the coast of Tauranga died in 1888 aged 7 years and is also buried at Waikumete.  I would love to exchange information on this family.

Also this was printed in the Bay of Plenty Times newspaper:
SEDDON – SWARBRICK - On the 12th August at St Peters Hamilton, by the Rev R O’C Biggs, Robert Seddon of Tauranga to Sarah Louisa, third daughter of Samuel Swarbrick, The Cedars, Tottenham, London. [Waikato Times, Tues 17 Aug 1886 + Bay of Plenty Times, 21 Aug 1886, p2]. 

I don't think that this Swarbrick family (ie the Hamilton solicitors) are related to the Te Puke/Gisborne family.  Robert and Sarah Louisa are buried at the Hamilton East cemetery.

Yours
Christine Clement
Te Puke (Kiwifruit Capital of the World)
New Zealand
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