CLAYSEY and CLANZEY

[heiserca]

William CLAYSEY m. Jane Clark, 13 Feb 1820 at Berwick-upon-Tweed.  The surname was sometimes written Clazey, Clazie, Clezie, Clezy, Clazy, Claizey.  Children born James (1821), Isabella (1823), John (1824), William (1825), Jane (1827), Joseph (1830), most of them baptized at Chapel Street Presbyterian Relief Chapel at Berwick.  Youngest child, Joseph, b. 1830, buried 5 May 1837 at Berwick.  No later record of the father, William CLAYSEY.

But then 17 June 1843 in New Zealand, an incident occurrent between the Maori and British settlers, the Wairau Affray.  Several people killed on each side, among them “William CLANZEY”, also written “Clazay” and “Clanzie”.   Can’t find any background on him.  Could he be the William CLAYSEY mentioned above?  Suggestions welcome...
 

[Matilda1]

Have you posted your query on the New Zealand board?  That would seem to be the better way of finding out about the individual mentioned in the accounts of the events at Wairau .

Matilda

[heiserca]

Yes, thanks, I am trying it at both ends, the UK and NZ.

[WolfieSmith]

William is a Millwright on the baptism records. There is also an Isabella Clark Clazey, baptized 1833, same parents.

1841 census, Parade, Berwick,
Wm Clazey, 40, Millwright, b. Scotland,
Jane Clazey, 40, Y,
James Clazey, 20, App, Y,
Jane Clazey, 15, Y,
Isabel Clazey, 7,Y,
HO107/844/3/16/25

1851 census, Parade, Berwick,
William Clazey, 50, Millwright, b. Scotland,
Jane Clazey, 49, wife, b. Berwick,
Jane Clazey, 20, dau, Dressmaker, b. Berwick,
Isabella Clazey, 17, dau, Dressmaker, b. Berwick,
HO107/2421/566/4

Alan.

[heiserca]

Thank you, Alan!  You disproved my theory.  So I didn't win a trip to New Zealand after all.  That settles the issue.