Thanks Lucy for your efforts, will have a real good look at it over the weekend, week days I'm real tired after work thanks to another brain injury from a learner driver ploughing into the back of my work van. Some days get real tired not doing alot, thinking processes slow too. Still can retire at end of March.
My interest in Henry's family is due to the family photo of a time of celebration (huge cake sitting on ground in front of them) and I don't know who is who and would love to know. So hope through the family history to find an Ackerman rele who may have the same photo and know who they all are. The fact that they all seem to have disappeared didn't help. However seeing from your list three were girls that would account for some of it, when they married, though as I've said it seems that Alice stayed home to look after the parents as she is buried under name of Alice Ackerman. Henry's gravestone said he was born 1838 in Burton Bradstock as was Jane my rele. Your comment about assisted passage would fit in with the newspaper report in Papers about the "attack" by Henry on Jane as part of his beef was that he'd been brought out on false information. Intriguing too that Henry in Wellington was not part of the family as that means another Ackerman also came out to NZ, this will be new info for Ackermans back in England, they thought they were only in the UK so another surprise. I think it is the name Gravestock that Adele (Carterton Researcher) has been trying to get a response from. Ackerman spelling in family history varies from Ackerman, Akerman and Acreman, maybe others too. Have been trying to chase up my great grandparents on Dad's side, the Bonds are ok apart from 3x great grandfather dying (inquest report) but no one can find where he was buried and have put it down to clergyman forgetting to write it in the Parish Records. William White and his wife Anne I can only find the names of their children and the fact that the parents died very young, she in a unmarked shared grave at Port Chalmers, and he it seems to be in Dunedin though a lighterman under title Captain which may have been a nick name. Children were young my grandmother 1 year old who doesn't show up until 13 in an Industrial School, the older two apart from their marriages don't appear at all. Have got William's bankruptcy papers as was told they often hold other info, but these don't unfortunately. Can't trace their births or marriage in Scotland or arrival in NZ. He would have been 20 and she 17 according to family story. Consequently Ackermans were on the back burner for awhile. Mum's father I can't trace his arrival in NZ as he jumped ship and wandered around under a false name for some time until someone convinced him to contact his family in Devon and say he was ok, they weren't amused having reached the purple stage of mourning. Twould appear that nothing is new, so much that happened then, still happens today though a little different some time. Whoa 20 t0 7 must run and get to work. Look forward to your further info. Lyn
