Davies and Dodd *COMPLETED*

[Lucy2]

Hi Ali
when you are back online wonder how much of your original query has been sorted

Please could anyone help.
I am looking for the birth place of
Walter Davies and Annie Elizabeth Dodd who marriage in New Zealand in 1881.  I cannot find a record of their birth in New Zealand or UK (well not accurately anyway, Davies is a very common name).
Can anyone tell me how to find out if they both emigrated to New Zealand and where from.

Bye
Althea

Just adding my 20 cents worth.    

... Birthplaces not yet found.     DAVIES is rather a difficult one to tackle until names of Walter's parents are known. 

Some progress at least made in finding that Annie Elizabeth DODD's parents arrived here also, and lived in Dunedin.   English record search has found Annie's mother's roots.
No marriage yet found for Annie's parents.
It seems possible that there could be a connection to Scotland ??

If there's an objection to me posting what appears to be "a whole family tree", then I'll happily delete the lot !   
[I work on the principle that "snippets" of information, most often build up to provide extra clues and clues (generally) equal, "results". ] 

~  Lu

[Thamesite2017]

Hi Lu
there was no objection
just wondered if we had got sidetracked and needed to look at what info was first requested.
Whole familytrees are great but sometimes if we give links formore info it can help others build up skills too

So short answer if you have the time to keep making the posts with new info keep them going 
Bye
Althea

[alisonjar]

Hi you two.
Just got in and I am absolutely gobsmacked.  I cannot believe not only how much information you have gathered Lu but how detailed.  The newspapers in England usually only cover the death/school exams info for the upper class and important citizens.  What you have found is amazing.
I am so so grateful.
I will start searching for details of Annie E Dodd's family in Uk.  I vaguely remember seeing details for a Annie Elizabeth Dodd in London so will look at that again.
I am sure you have covered everything I was looking for (apart from the details I hope to gain from certs. ordered).  I admit to have found it compulsive and have even been calling into rootschat hoping to see a message all day at work. 
I so wish my sister could be here to see this - she lives 200 miles away from me and doesnt have a computer.  It will be difficult to explain all this over the phone.
 

[Lucy2]

DODD FAMILY

Alfred Ernest DODD (b. NZ - 1868)

[Parents names not given on birth index but thought to be son of Herman DODD and Bethany (nee TANKERSLEY).  Family connection ? :  Alfred's infant son (Oswald) shares a burial plot with two daughters of Herman and Bethany. ]

NZ Marriage

At Knox Presbyterian Church, Dunedin
- 12 September 1889

Alfred Ernest DODD
Catherine Emma CRAWFORD* (*  CRAWFURD)
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NZ Births

1890 - DODD - Alfred James

1892 - DODD - Oswald Crawsford (Crawford ??) - died 1893
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Alfred James DODD (b. 1890) died WW1 (further details at Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.)
At this time, his parents were living in Wellington.

Catherine Emma DODD - died December 1924 and is buried at Karori Cemetery, Wellington.   Cemetery records notes "married".    [Have not found a death in NZ for Alfred Ernest DODD.]

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[Thamesite2017]

There is an NZSG member researching the TANSKERLEY/DODD family
they have submitted first family forms and pedigree forms
If you are not a member, emailing NZSG they may still give you the info for a small research fee  
Bye
Althea

[alisonjar]

Thank you again.
Ali x
Attached is a photo of myself and my younger sister Stephanie so you have some idea of who you have been working so hard for>...

[alisonjar]

Is there anyway of finding out occupations of the Dodds family?  I know Herman G T Davies was a draper (amongst other things!) and so was his father (for a while at least).
I am so excited - thank you so much Lu.

I have been researching my own family for years and have never found out the amount and detail of info. that you have found for my sisters family, so quickly and so accurately.

Ali x

[Lucy2]

Hi Lu
there was no objection
just wondered if we had got sidetracked and needed to look at what info was first requested.
Whole familytrees are great but sometimes if we give links formore info it can help others build up skills too

Hi Althea

I don't see this as "getting sidetracked".  
[Hell's bells  ... there's an awful lot of "unnecessary stuff" that gets dumped in threads here that really does deserve to be deemed "sidetracking" !   ]

I do agree it is often helpful to offer assistance so that people can enhance their research skills - and that especially applies to fellow NZ'ers, researching in NZ !!!

I'm happy to add additional detail for those researching from the other side of the world, and who are likely to be unfamiliar with NZ records.
(And that of course is my prerogative.  )

  ~   Lu

  

[alisonjar]

I am still reading and re-reading the info.
If Annie Dodd married Walter in Feb 1881 and Herman was born in Aug 1881, I am guessing that she was pregnant when walking down the aisle!!