I am a descendant of Robert Ward, a farm labourer who was born 25/11/1830 in Croxton Kerrial. A widower with a daughter Catherine he later remarried and sailed to New Zealand with Catherine and second wife Elizabeth, nee Henson, on the Strathallan. They landed in Timaru in January 1859. He died there in 1875 .
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