LoneyBones Scavenger Hunt - Part 2...Everyone Welcome To Join In

[regross]

JM

Check under Ennis and Innis, I think I found them earlier under one of those surnames

Robyn

[majm]

Ta Robyn 

I've also spotted the Auckland Jury List for 1850/1

There's John INNIS , Carpenter of Victoria St,  , but no sign of Thomas Powley/ or variations ....

Cheers,  JM

[majm]

Ummm....

Perhaps this would be Harriet's husband in 1865 in Auckland ....

Electoral Roll for the year 1865 - 66  City of Auckland East    Powley Thomas Queen St    

Cheers,  .... trawling, trawling, trawling .... JM

[majm]

And,

While I have not yet found Thomas or Harriet Powley (or variations) on passenger lists to NZ I have noticed that NZ BDM is back online after their maintenance, so I've noticed death in 1902 for a Harriet Powley, aged 84 .... (born abt 1818  ) and death in 1901 of a Thomas Edwin Powley aged 88 (born abt 1813)....  Wondering if either of those certificates would indicate "length in the colonies" ... 

Cheers,  JM

[LoneyBones]

Good grief.....thought I'd just have a little Nanna Nap......slept like the dead for three hours.
Didn't find any dead people tho'. 

OK, didn't someone post an obit for Thomas POWELY a few pages back? .....he was an old soldier.....
in NZ ?? years....equated to entry 1848....
That's why I asked about passenger lists. Or did I dream that one?
I'll just go have a look.

[majm]

Hi LB,

As Thomas Powley was old soldier, then "Fencibles" and Auckland and c 1849 as arrival dates go hand in hand to MOI ....  Onehunga etc ....  these links may be of help .... wondering if your John Ennis, carpenter, could have been a Fencible too (max age was 48, later lowered to 41, but I'm not aware of a minimum age to become a Fencible !)

http://www.nzfenciblesociety.org.nz/ 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shipstonz/royal_nz_fencibles.html 

Cheers,  JM

[LoneyBones]

  I can't find that post with the obit for Thomas POWELY. I really must have dreamt it.
Anyway, that second link, JM, clicking on the YES for passenger lists comes up with message to say the site no longer exists.
I'm having a bad day here.   I'ts the heat........this bl**dy heat is driving me up the wall....
 

[majm]

Ummm, sorry LB, I did not realise that ..... at least there's the names of some of the ships .... I'll see if I can find any other site with passenger lists for those ships ....

Any cooler today .... sticky here, too much water laying around

Cheers,  JM

[LoneyBones]

We had thunder storms last night, guaranteed to lowere the temp.    much cooler today.
OK, the other lists I found for Fencibles just had them (a few wives and captains etc) but no crew.
Now I've got a feeling my NZ cousin believed John INNIS/ENNIS was a ship's carpenter and jumped ship in NZ. I've never found anything to back up that belief, but you never know.
I think there was also some story about a ship wreck, but I think that's really getting carried away.
Most of these stories have nothing to back them up, just old family tales, perpetuated by fantasy.

Oh dear, just when I'm getting settled with a really good lead, up pops another. But I really think it's down to just two or three very good choices. Hopefully there will be something concrete about Elizabeth's origins in the divorce papers or the three new certs I have coming.
Fingers crossed.