Davies and Dodd *COMPLETED*

[Lucy2]

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.

Hi Ali

Yes  ... I have  all that information for you ... will add it shortly.       [ Bear with me ... I keep getting "sidetracked".   ]

Nice photo.  

~  Lu

[alisonjar]

Thank you Lu.
It is the "little" details that make all the difference and how you get to know the family.  I have traced my mother's side of my family back to the 13th century but it is the trivial details of the most recently born ancestors that are the most exciting - what they did for a living?, where they moved to and how?, record of service at war and even better school records and photos of where they lived and what they did on a day to day basis.  I was more excited to find out that my great grandmother was a "match girl" in the slums of Manchester that finding that my mother had royal blood ( v. diluted of course).
Ali x

[Lucy2]

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!!

Hee, hee ... isn't it great when you get actual dates and can work these things out.         Wonder what our rellies would make of this ... knowing all these years later that we were 'airing their dirty laundry'.

I'm with you "that the little details" do make a difference.
[Am trying to deliver this in a format so you can just print it out and pick over it all, later.     It's probably just the "tip of the iceberg"  ... I'm sure there'll be much more to discover.  ]
Glad to hear you've made those wonderful discoveries in your own family tree.

~  Lu
                                   much more to come     >>

[alisonjar]

I know - I found illegitimate children, incest, bigamy and suicide in my stepfathers tree - all in the same village - fabbie!

Thank you - all your info. is so clear - I got so excited that I forgot to hook up the printer and have been scribbling like mad..........

If nothing else this is a great distraction from the football!!

Ali

[Lucy2]

Ah yes   ... now, drapers in the family.  

This next lot of info is for Catherine T. DODD - Annie's sister.

NZ Marriage

Catherine Tankersley DODD - 25 years
William Stevens PASCOE *    -  24 years  

married at Knox Presbyterian Church, Dunedin
1 January 1889  :

[*  Mr. PASCOE above, is of course the guy mentioned earlier in the thread, as having been in business in Wellington with Walter DAVIES ... so he was also his brother-in-law ! ]

NZ Births

1892 - PASCOE - Bethany Eva

Parents:  William Stevens and (Catherine) indexed as "Kate Jan Kersley" (obviously a mis-transcription of "Tankersley" ?)
[Note:   Catherine died in Australia - her husband had died earlier in NZ.    Catherine also had another daughter - who may or may not have been William's  child. ?  Will add details shortly. ]
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[Lucy2]

  ...  just digressing ... and getting back to the subject of "drapers"  ... I think very possibly this occupation went back beyond Herman DAVIES ?

This from an index of early Dunedin Electoral rolls and Trade Directories  >> 

1868

DODD - Mrs. H.

Draper  -   George Street, Dunedin       
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also  ...

1864   (Harnett's Directory)

DODD - H.   -  George Street

Butcher - Dunedin      

and  ...

1893

DODD - Alfred Ernest
Coachbuilder
Residence:  Scotland Street


[PapersPast has an article or two about a fire in Dunedin (can't remember the year) ...  a Mr H. DODD's butcher's shop was destroyed ? ]

[alisonjar]

I saw the 1841 and 1851 UK censuses for the Tankersley family at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Bethany's father Robert Tankersley was a joiner but unfortunately died in 1850.  In 1851 Bethany was living with her mother and one sister - she was a straw bonnet maker.  Her mother died in c.1862.

[Lucy2]

  ... straw bonnet maker  ...

Here's "Mrs. H. DODD" (most likely to be Bethany) in another Directory listing.   

1870-71  (Wise's)

DODD - Mrs H.
Milliner and Draper
George Street, Dunedin
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There were some other listings under "Henry DODD" (suspect this is Herman Henry? ) also  ...

1878 & 1880

DODD - Henry
Leasehold : George Street - shop and dwelling
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1887 & 1890

DODD - Henry
Settler
Residential:   Scotland Street
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and this one back in 1861

DODD - Henry
Electoral claim
"Otago Colonist" (newspaper ?) - 12 April 1861   
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Possibly 1861 Henry (is Herman Henry) ?
Have also just noticed a birth registered in 1862 for a "Catherine DODD".     [Parents names not on index and can't tell, where this birth was registered. ]  So maybe the DODDs did arrive around this time ?

[Lucy2]

DODD FAMILY

Catherine Tankersley PASCOE (nee DODD) - bc 1864

Catherine's husband William Stevens PASCOE died in NZ in 1913 - aged 47 years and is buried at Linwood Cemetery in Christchurch.
Cemetery link  >>

http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/cemeteries
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Catherine Tankersley PASCOE died in Sydney, Australia on 22 December 1954.   Her ashes were returned to NZ and buried in a family plot at Dunedin in 1955.   

Catherine's  funeral notice appeared in the "Sydney Morning Herald" 30 December 1954 - (page 14).
Link to Australian newspaper website can be found in Resources section of R/Chat Australia board.

Her two daughters' were mentioned in the notice - bit hard to read, but looks like "Victtorine / Victorine"... surname is LANAGHAN;  and Eva (Bethany Eva ?) (Mrs B E HUNGERFORD).
[Marriages for daughters can be found on the New South Wales (Australia) online BDM.  "Victtorine" as Edith Victtrine ? married 1st in 1926 using the surname PASCOE.  For a later marriage (to LANAGHAN - 1948) she uses the surname TANKERSLEY .  ]
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  ... will be back soon with the Dunedin cemetery info and explanation of same.