Hi KHP :-)
Thanks for that. Maiden surname of ARDEM so a non-runner.
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Off to another loose end then.....
Do we know the name of Ellen ALLENS's husband.
Maybe it's John. Maybe this is his death...
PapersPast - Grey River Argus - 13 Dec 1898
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0hfj/...in which case this is his death record at BDM NZ...
1898/5444 ALLAN, John - 52Y...which gives him a birth year of approximately 1846.
This means he might be the John ALLAN aged 30 who, according to LDS, arrived into Lyttleton from Northumberland with his wife Eleanor and two daughters on the Waitangi in 1876...
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11613-71380-27?cc=1609792Eleanor ALLAN arriving on the Waitangi might be Ellen ALLEN of Taylorville.
But I can't find a record of any births or marriages on FreeBDM so who knows.
Regards
Beg