Kia Ora :o)
My name is Tania Merrick and welcome to my homepage.
I have dedicated these pages to my Ancestors of long long ago.
I first started researching my Whakapapa when my youngest son was 3 and he was attending Te Kohanga Reo, that was in 1994. All I had to start with was my grandparents names, Worters/Galbraith/Irving/Gill from there I found the rest of them, Te Kemara/Brown and Hohaia.
I was lucky with some of the research, I already had 2 other family trees which were done by other people. One book was even published and is in the Auckland Library, that family was Jacobs/Gill. The other family that was already researched was the Worters family tree, I was lucky that someone else had done that research as most of my early ancestors come from England.
I spent alot of time at the Morman Church going through micro-film and church records looking for any clue that may help me in my quest. Auckland Public Library also has a Geneology section, which also holds alot of early New Zealands records.
So the only research I really had to do was the Irvings/Te Kemara (Campbell)Brown/Hohaia and the Hakaraia's which are on my fathers mothers side. I have not found all of these families, the Browns/Hohaia's and Hakaraia's I am yet to find. But my search will go on.
The Galbraith family may be a little harder to find, like the Irvings they came from Scotland to Australia and the records are hard to find, although the Galbraiths didn't go to Australia as convicts.
I always intended to put my whole family tree together in some way, it was while I was at the Morman Church that I thought that once I have all the families together I'll give the church all my information, so if in the future any of my family or any other people want to find out where they come from it will be there for them to read
It was after see Sonny Irvings site on John Hamilton Irving, (his and mine) Great, Gr, Gr, Gr Grandfather that I decided that I would also do a Webpage with all my families together.
I really hope you enjoy reading all that I have put together and just maybe all that I have, will start you on a long journey into the page of your Family history books
Personal Note:
Please note as I have been updating my pages and have added new families there have been a few changes.. If you see a persons named underlined then that is a link to their family tree. If you see name withheld, it means that person does not want there name published online. If I happen to have made mistakes please email me and let me know I've probably mistyped it or read it wrong.. :o)
I want to thank Lisa Stevans from Australia, she has given me all the information on Emma and her husband Thomas Bowyer, along with the photo's of her relatives. She is still researching.
I also want to thank Judy Williams who is has done alot of research on Ann Marsh. She is related to us all via Ann Marsh. She has aloud me to publish it all on my site, which I am truly greatfrul for.
I would like to Thank June Hurst from England. Over the past couple of weeks she has done alot of searching and research all of which she has passed onto me, I have then added it to my growing tree. Thank you June very very much, I am truly grateful for all of your hard work!
I would like to thank Kerry Worters from England. She sent me a her family tree and I found that I had missed out a few people. They have now been added into the right families. Thank you very much Kerry.
I would also like to thank Sue Baker Wilson from Katikati. Sue sent me a article about Te Kemara, which I have now add to my ever growing site.
Worters family tree update from June Hurst:
"I have found an error in the tree regarding James's daughter Sarah Worters b 1848 and her descendants. Sarah's children had wrongly been attached to Ann Matilda Worters b. 1857 daughter of John & Matilda Clements. Ann did not marry twice and did not have any illegimate children. Ann Matilda Worters was married only once to William Owers in 1884. I believe the children John Henry (b. 1875) and Emily Worters (b. 1884) are children of Sarah Worters."
I would like to thank June for her diligent research we might not have found the error if not for her. Thank You. |
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