Hey folks… in an idle moment I decided to look for the birth/place of Benjamin White WAIDE, which then led me to wonder more about his family and so on… and here you all are providing information for another New Zealander.
Daniel & Elizabeth's eldest grandson, born here in NZ, was my dearly beloved gt. uncle by marriage. I also called his siblings the courtesy title of Aunt Lizzie and Uncle Dan, so the names lived on, although only Lizzie had children, all daughters, so that branch of the WAIDE name has died out.
Anyway, this is just a general thank you for the records I'll use, and I'd like to hear directly from Kathy, so get in touch with me please.
Along with a small fortune from my gt. Uncle I also inherited a beautiful oil on wood painting, of a youngish woman that no~one in my family ever recalls seeing before it was found, wrapped in brown paper and string, on a wardrobe shelf. I've had it dated to mid~18th century, and I wonder if you might recognise it, if you have other family memorabilia.