Invercargill .. Southland

[Thamesite2017]

Hi Alex G
did you see Spades has set up a lookup list here
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,493933.0.html

if you are still available you good get you details put there as well
BYe
Althea 

[New Zealander]

Althea

Yes still available .. happy to assist when required.

Alex G

[spades]

Thank you Althea for the timely reminder.

I've sent a PM to Alex.

spades

[New Zealander]

 

[New Zealander]

 

[hamlon]

 Sending a huge thank you to New Zealander for all his assistance. Hamlon.

[cybertracker]

Hi, I'm hoping you may be able to advise me on the following...

I was searching for my great grandfather Timothy Crowley who lived in Invercargill and 'magically' came across a single family group on the LDS 'Familysearch.com' website which included my GGrandfather and also showed my grandfather and his siblings. Timothy was shown as born circa 1956 and yet the NZ bmd lists show 1864 (and no parents which is very annoying!). The LDS site has no source information so I have no idea where they got this information.
 The marriage date 1881 of Timothy to Kathleen was correct.

I later found that 1956 was the year of establishment of Invercargill and 1864 the year of formal recording of bmd in NZ, so both dates could be suspect. To top this off, Kathleen was buried as 'Catherine' at Eastern Cemetary but there is no evidence of Timothy. They were Catholic.

There seems to have been a separation and a Timothy appears at Lawrence Cemetary buried next to another wife Hannah (m: 1897 no record on NZbmd).

Questions
Is it possible to find out reliably how many Timothy Crowleys there were in Invercargill and Otago around 1850-1870?
Given that NZbmd had no parents recorded for Timothy , is there another way to find them in Invercargill?

Any info would help.

Thanks

John Crowley
Sydney



 

[New Zealander]

Hi John

Thank you for your inquiry.

I would be pleased to help you if I can .. cannot guarrantee the results !! 

What I know is this that the Invercargill Public Library Archives have  Electoral Rolls covering the period 1850 - 1870 or there abouts.  Will not have time this afternoon but over the next couple of days will visit  the library and search those records on microfiche and anything else they may have as well,  for "Timothy Crowley".

Have found the listing in the Lawrence Cemetery for Timothy Crowley.  There is in fact quite a few Crowley's there .. all relatives??  It would be possible for me to visit there in the next month or so if required particulary if you wanted photographs which are not available online.

There are few Crowley's listed in the Invercargill City and Southland District Cemeteries.  Photographs of Gravesites are available online for the Invercargill Cemetery.

Just give me a couple of days and will see what I can turn up locally.

Best regards

Alex Glennie

[Janette]

Hi John and welcome,

It would pay to start a new thread for Timothy Crowley to make it more obvious and allow everyone to help you

Cheers Janette