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MISSION STATEMENT: The Dunedin Family History Group’s purpose is to promote interest in the field of family history through educational programs, to

collect and disseminate genealogical knowledge and information, and to

provide support and guidance to those trying to research all aspects of their

family history.

Issue 41 May 2011

PROGRAMME FOR 2011 Unless otherwise stated meetings start at 7.30 pm St Peter’s

Church Hall, Hillside Road, Dunedin.

Wednesday 11 May 2011 Rodney Hamel will be guest speaker.

The topic of the evening is

Dunedin’s Primary School War Memorials

This talk will be followed by a demonstration of the Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph database and the Commonwealth War

Grave Commission database.

At our May meeting please wear a piece of cardboard pinned

to your clothing with the surnames and areas you researching.

This is part of the theme of our April meeting of promoting

your own research in a hope of finding others with similar

research interests.

Wednesday 8 June 2011 WEDDINGS, WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS, WEDDING

TRADITIONS OVER THE GENERATIONS Bring along photographs of weddings in your family to display

around the hall.

Wednesday 13 July 2011 PROBLEM SOLVING NIGHT

Wednesday 10 August 2011 HOW TO INTERVIEW A RELATIVE ABOUT THEIR FAMILY

HISTORY - A LIVE DEMONSTRATION

ONE DAY FAMILY HISTORY

SEMINAR Celebrating our Gold

and Celtic Heritage Saturday, 21 May 2011 at the

Otago University Spaces are filling fast.

Entry forms were attached to your April newsletter or you can email

dfhg@xtra.co.nz to request a form.

We will be launching our gold book at the seminar.

THE SHAKY BRIDGE, ALEXANDRA The Shaky Bridge in Alexandra was built in 1879 to provide a link between the town of Alexandra and the hinterland to the east of the Manuherikia and Clutha Rivers. Negotiating river crossings was an important concern for both travellers and townspeople. Locals lobbied for a bridge over the Manuherikia and in June 1877 Vincent County Engineer Leslie Duncan McGeorge surveyed the proposed site and drew up plans for a 'horse bridge'. Locals called for a traffic bridge and in early 1878 tenders were opened. Local contractors Grant and McKellar's tender of £974 10s was accepted. The bridge is recorded as being completed without approaches towards the

end of April 1879. In May 1880 the Tuapeka Times reported that the 'bridge over the Manuherikia river is all but completed, and is a handsome structure' and looked forward to a grand opening. For twenty years the suspension bridge was the sole town crossing of the Manuherikia River. The construction of a road rail bridge in 1906 made the existing structure redundant. In 1906 the bridge was sold to local settlers at a nominal sum. The structure fell into disrepair, earning the name 'Shaky Bridge'. When it seemed likely that Shaky Bridge would either fall down or be demolished, the local community formed the Pioneer Bridge Committee to preserve the bridge as a monument to the early pioneers. In 1952 a plaque describing the bridge as a memorial to the pioneers of the region was fixed to one of the towers. The Shaky Bridge today provides pedestrian access from the residential area of Alexandra to the sparsely inhabited areas on the east of the river.

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The Dunedin Family History Group cannot vouch for the accuracy of goods and services that are advertised in this newsletter or be responsible for the outcome of any contract which may be entered into by a reader with an advertiser.

Opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the group.

Pick and Shovel, Cradle and Pan

150 Years Of Gold Discovery

In Otago, Southland

And On The West Coast

Stories of our

gold mining ancestors

DUNEDIN FAMILY HISTORY GROUP PUBLICATION

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NOTES FROM OUR APRIL GROUP MEETING…………

Tracing Living Relatives As well as tracing relatives from 150-200 years ago it is also important that you track down living relatives - second, third, fourth cousins, once, twice or even three times removed. You may need to go back several generations to find a common relative such as 3 times great grandparents but it is still worth making contact. These relatives may have family items, such as photographs, medals, letters, postcards, certificates, which may help you with your research. They also may provide clues to medical conditions which could run in your family and have been genetically passed from one generation to another. However it can become very expensive to have to purchase dozens and dozens of certificates in order to try and track down distant relatives. There are however some simple ways of tracing people. The following methods are looking at globally finding people with surnames of interest to you in specific areas. It works with less common names but can be a lot harder, although not impossible for Smiths, Jones, Browns etc. TELEPHONE BOOK Most public libraries have copies of local, national and international telephone books. These are usually produced annually so not always up to date but still worth consulting. If you have the Internet you can visit

http://yellow.co.nz/whitepages

You can put in your surname of interest and an area and it will list all people in that area. There are some restrictions on how many searchers you can do at one given time so pace yourself and do a one surname and place each day until you build up a collection of names. You can search on the Internet for telephone companies world-wide but FFFF

• Some International Internet searches will cost you as they don’t provide the service for free.

• Other countries have private telephone providers as well as a national provider so a search in one particular area will not show up all people with the same surname who own a telephone.

• Not everyone chooses to have their name made public. ELECTORAL ROLL Lists adults over the age of 18 years. The Dunedin Public Library has hard copy electoral rolls for the whole country going back over 30 years. Earlier are available on microfiche DEATH NOTICES FROM THE NEWSPAPER Death notices and memoriam notices from the newspaper are very good for locating names of extended members of the family. ADVERTISE IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER Local newspapers have “Genealogy Columns”. If not, write to the “Letters to the Editor” Column. You can find addresses for newspapers in the local telephone directory or search the Internet for newspapers in the area you are researching. Any inquiry you put in the newspaper – KEEP IT SIMPLE. FAMILY HISTORY GROUPS Join a family history group and advertise in their magazine or on their Internet pages. The Dunedin Family History Group has this facility of their website. GOOGLE SEARCH You could try just doing a simple Internet search for your own surname and area.

INTERNET MAILING LISTS http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

(then click on “mailing lists”). RootsWeb's mailing lists can help you find information about your ancestors and connect you with people who have research interests similar to yours. Use the top search box at the left to search for information that has already been posted to the mailing lists. Enter names or keywords and click "Search" and it will search its archives for information that matches. If you are looking for a specific mailing list to join, enter a surname, location, or keyword(s) into the lower box and click "Search." Click the "Browse mailing lists" link to browse for a mailing list by surname, location, or topic. USEFUL INTERNET SITES

Old Friends http://www.oldfriends.co.nz/

Oldfriends is a free new zealand site where you can look up your old classmates and workmates. However you can use it for locating distant relatives. Try searching surname and area where your family lived. If that person has joined Old Friends then you have a good opportunity to make contact. You may even be lucky and find a school photograph of your relative.

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/

Facebook is a social networking service and website. Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat feature. While it is not meant as a genealogy service it can be used to make contact with extended members of your family by searching for people with surnames of interest living in specific areas.

GENI

http://www.geni.com Is a large family tree site where you can invite relatives to share details. You can search for family members. It includes living people.

GENES REUNITED

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/home/default.aspx Genes Reunited is a large family tree tracing site which can link up people researching the same family tree.

LOST COUSINS

http://www.lostcousins.com/ Lost Cousins finds living relatives who share your ancestors, and can help you discover more about your family tree. Remember many of these sites charge to be a member. Read the conditions of membership before giving your credit card details. BEWARE – many sites offer services to trace long lost relative. They charge big money but provide a service which you could actually do yourself for a fraction of the cost. They are using most of the resources that you actually have available to you. HOW TO MAKE CONTACT WITH LONG LOST RELATIVES A simple letter introducing yourself, followed up by a telephone call is often a good way to make contact. But pick your time to phone – not around meal times or too early or too late in the day. Keep your initial contact simple in the beginning. But do not give too much information away. DON’T GIVE TOO MUCH AWAY. Get to know the person first. The last thing you want is to hand over all your research and then have the recipient put it up on a website or publish it in a book without your knowledge.

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CAN YOU HELP?

We have had a request from a lady concerning a family Bible. It was in the Browns Presbyterian Church, Southland. No-one knows who left it there or how it came to be there. The Church minutes are not available to help solve the mystery. The church and buildings are for sale so the bible was rescued as no-one wanted to see it end up being sold on Trade Me. The only writing inside is as follows:-

Family Bible presented to

Robert and Jessie Campbell

Upon their Marriage of May 26 1897

From Mother & Father

David & Margaret Shaw. We think the bride may be the daughter of James or John Campbell of Dunedin and the marriage took place at Knox Church, Dunedin. David Shaw was born 30 Nov 1836 at Kilsyth, Stirling, Scotland and died 2 June 1933 at Timaru. Margaret Shaw nee Stevenson was born 8 February 1843 at Dumbarton, Scotland and died 30 October 1919 at Timaru. Robert Shaw was born 26 May 1871 at Timaru. We cannot find any children born to Robert Jessie. It is hoped that the bible can be returned to a member of the Shaw family. Joan McConachie, 38 Anne Street, Winton email: joan.mcconachie@xtra.co.nz

BOOK FOR SALE

QUENDON MATERNITY HOSPITAL In the April newsletter we did an article on Dunedin Hospitals. We recorded that Quendon Maternity Hospital was opened in 1948 and located in Market Street, St. Kilda, Dunedin. According to “A History of The Otago Hospital Board and its predecessors” by John Angus (pages 253-255) it records that the Otago Hospital Board purchased a private hospital in Market Street in early 1948 and called it the Quendon Maternity Hospital. This 14 bed hospital was not run by the Otago Hospital Board but instead they leased it out to a Miss McFarlane to run. It was closed in the late 1950s when Rawhiti Maternity Hospital opened in Melbourne Street, South Dunedin. But we have a small mystery surrounding this maternity hospital. One of our readers, June Keating who was born in the 1930s, was told by her mother that she was born at Quendon Maternity Hospital in Market Street. Her birth certificate gives her birthplace as 9 Market Street, St Kilda. June also remembers visiting her mother at a maternity hospital in Market Street in 1945 when her brother was born and believes it was definitely called Quendon Maternity Hospital at that time. Therefore she believes that the private hospital in Market Street was called Quendon Maternity Hospital prior to the Otago Hospital Board purchasing it in 1948. Another reader, Denise Montgomery, wrote to say a member of her family was born at Nurse Leedons Maternity Home in Market Street, St Kilda in 1940. So we definitely know it was Nurse Leedon’s in 1940 but when did it change its name to Quendon Maternity Hospital? The 1946 Wises New Zealand Post Office directory shows that Mrs Hannah Leeden had a nursing home at 9 Market Street, St Kilda which is on the corner of Market and Grove Streets. This appears to have also been the site of the Quendon Maternity Hospital. There is no Quendon Maternity Hospital mentioned in any 1946 directories. So it appears there wasn’t two maternity hospitals in Market Street and both Nurse Leedon’s Maternity Hospital and Quendon Materniry Hospital was located at 9 Market Street. In the 1926 Wises Directory a Miss Hannah Leeden had a nursing home at 534 King Street, Dunedin. Whether this is the same Hannah Leeden is un-known. The DCC burial records show burials of infants dying at Nurse Leeden (also spelt Nurse Leedan) Maternity Hospital from the late 1930s through to 1947. Examples are a stillborn baby with the surname of McKelvey who was buried on 10 March 1942 and Paul Alexander, aged 31 hours, who was buried on 30 May 1942. The first burial record of a child who died at Quendon Maternity Hospital took place on 8 June 1948. This burial was for a stillborn child by the surname of Martin. Evidence appears that the maternity hospital in Market Street, St Kilda was called Nurse Leeden’s Maternity Home up to at least the beginning of 1948 when the Otago Hospital Board purchased it and renamed it Quendon Maternity Hospital. If any reader was born at either Nurse Leedan’s Maternity Hospital or Quendon Maternity Hospital could they please let us know so we can match the year to the name of the hospital at that time. Any replies will be passed to June Keating to help her solve this mystery in her family research.

OTHER MATERNITY HOSPITALS IN DUNEDIN Denise Montgomery has also advised us about another maternity hospital in Dunedin. It was at 49 Corstorphine Road (just down from the corner of Milburn Street) and run by Roman Catholic nuns as a maternity hospital for unmarried mothers. If anyone knows anything about this maternity hospital please let us know as Denise would like to learn more about it’s history. Also Graeme Borley contacted us about La Rochelle Maternity Hospital on the corner of Arthur Street and Elm Row. The hospital has now been converted into rental flats. We know of births there in the 1920s-1940s but does anyone know exactly when this maternity hospital was operating.

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My grandmother’s family come from Moeraki in �orth

Otago. I recently got the birth certificate for my

grandmother’s aunt, born in 1883, which gives her birth

place as Hillgrove, �orth Otago. Would this be the name of

a farm at Moeraki?

Linda Murray, Adelaide, South Australia

The area known as Hillgrove is just to the west of State Highway 1, opposite the village of Moeraki. It was formerly known as Moeraki Junction and was the station on the section of the main trunk railway that opened from Oamaru to Moeraki in 1876. A branch line was built to Moeraki in 1877 but closed two years later due to a landslip. There was a post office at Moeraki which closed in 1858 and reopened at Hillgrove in 1875 and renamed from the Moeraki Post Office to the Hillgrove Post Office in 1884. The Taieri and Peninsula Dairy Company opened a creamery at Hillgrove in the early 1900s. The population at Hillgrove declined and the general store, which was in the old hotel burned down during the 1920s. The Post Office finally closed in 1970. Today the only house occupied in the area is a private home which was converted from a railway house. The surrounding area is farm land.

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Can anyone in your group tell me where �orth Hope is

located. My mother always told me that when her mother

died she was sent to live, for about a year, with an aunt at

�orth Hope while her father was a shepherd working

around Southland. Her father then married and the family

lived in Morton Mains.

Tom Adams, Whangarei

We think the place you mean is Northope located on the west bank of the Oreti River about thirteen kilometres south-west of Winton. It was an important area as it was the site of the key river crossing over the Oreti River. Several bridges were built here. The first was a private bridge built to serve “Northope” the name of the property also known as the Lawrence Estate. No date can be found for this bridge but the second bridge was build in 1913 and called Lochiel Bridge. It was replaced in 1980. Northope was known as a sawmilling and dairying district. There was a school here in 1919 which closed in 1929 and the children sent to Lochiel school.

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What relationship am I to the following person?

My father had three wives. I was born to his first marriage.

His second wife had a son, Paul, to a previous marriage.

Paul married my mother’s cousin’s daughter. It was at their

wedding that my father met his second wife.

Sue Morris, Hamilton

Paul and yourself are step-siblings. Paul is also married to your maternal second cousin (the daughter of your mother’s cousin) so you could refer to him as your “second cousin-in-law” or “your second cousin by marriage”. Either way there is no blood connection between yourself and Paul.

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I have been looking on Archway (the website of Archives

�ew Zealand). Am I right in assuming that all “Intention to

Marry” records for the whole of �ew Zealand and held at

Archives �ew Zealand in Wellington? And if this is correct

then is it worth requesting copies of “Intention to Marry”

records?

Jan Harrison, Oamaru

You are correct that Archives New Zealand in Wellington holds Notices of Intention to Marry. These cover the period from 1856 until 1956. There is also a national index available from 1856 to 1880. The files tell how long the bride and groom had been living at their present address but not how long they had lived in New Zealand. If one of the couple was a minor, the parent or guardian who gave permission for the marriage to go ahead is usually mentioned. There can also be information about when a parent or guardian was unavailable through being dead or overseas. The information on an Intention to Marry file is not always accurate and you must also get a copy of the marriage certificate to confirm details.

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1911 Scottish Census Released The 1911 Scottish census was released on Tuesday 5 April, 2011.

The 1911 Scottish Census is particularly important as it is the last one taken before the commencement of the First World War. It includes the names and details of more than 4.7 people, including address, age, occupation, birth place and marital status.

The release of the 1911 Scottish census also marks the first time that Scottish census data will be presented in full color, rather than black and white.

But there are some problems with the 1911 Scottish census. For example in Dalziel in Motherwell, census day 3 April, 1911 was a holiday. This resulted in over 2000 people being absent in Dalziel on Census night. Whether these people were picked up in the census in other parts of Scotland is currently unknown.

Police were used to help the enumerators take this Census and every effort was made to track down vagrants as well as the enumeration of people who passed the night in barns, sheds, tents, etc. or in the open air. People on boats or barges were enumerated if the vessel was within the limits of the jurisdiction of His Majesty's Customs.

The 1911 Scottish Census is available via pay-per-view access on ScotlandsPeople.

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

It costs 1 credit to view an index entry for the 1911 census. An image costs 5 credits. Unlike previous censuses, the image spans two pages (one image credit) due to the additional questions that were asked about the fertility of marriage and the profession or occupation. Each page measures 34 cm long by 43 cm high so the images are best viewed on your computer screen or if printed, on size A3 paper.

Punch cartoon: The census form - '... so you call

yourself the head of the family do you?'

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CRICKET - LIKELY TO BE AN EPIDEMIC The “Otago News” newspaper 29 December 1849 edition contains the following article -

CRICKET PLAYING IN SCOTLAND - This game seems almost to have become epidemic in Scotland since the grand match in Edinburgh, between the eleven of all England and twenty two of all Scotland, in which the latter sustained a great, although honorable defeat. Matches are now being played all over the country, even as far north as Aberdeen.

And that was not a typing mistake. Scotland had twenty two players. And all of this in the same issue of the “Otago News” where W. Underhill, Secretary of the Dunedin Cricket Club, advises that a number of persons have formed themselves into a cricket club and will meet for practice every Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. Obviously the epidemic had spread to the colonies.

For those of you who enjoy cricket you may also enjoy issue 44 of the “Otago News” newspaper (5 January 1850) where the results of the New Years Day Cricket match held between members of the Dunedin Cricket Club is recorded along with an “advice to cricketers” column. One piece of advice is a bowler must use his head as well as his hands and watch well the peculiarities of the batter and vary his pitch as the play varies and, as in the world, he must look to the person he had to deal with before bowling, speaking or acting. I am thinking of sending this column to the Black Caps. In the meantime a copy of this issue of the “Otago News” newspaper is in the Hocken Library.

EXCITING NEWS FOR IRISH RESEARCHERS Censuses of population are taken by governments to establish numbers and characteristics of a country's inhabitants. The first full government census of Ireland was taken in 1821 with further censuses at ten-yearly intervals from 1831 through to the present day. One hundred year restrictions mean that we can only access the census up to 1911. No Irish census was taken in 1921, because of the Irish Civil War but there was a census taken in 1926. In both England and Scotland censuses can be viewed from 1841 up to 1911. However the original Irish census returns for 1861 and 1871 were destroyed shortly after the censuses were taken. Those for 1881 and 1891 were pulped during the First World War, probably because of the paper shortage. The returns for 1821, 1831, 1841 and 1851 were, apart from a few survivals, notably for a few counties for 1821 and 1831, destroyed in 1922 in the fire at the Public Record Office at the beginning of the Irish Civil War. The absence of any Irish census records prior to 1901 leaves a huge gap in the ability to place families in Ireland in the 1800s. However the Irish Times, Friday 1 April 2011 ran the following article (and no it was not an April Fool’s joke).

THE GOVERNMENT intends to press ahead with

the publication of the 1926 census although it would

be in breach of the 100-year rule which governs all

such information, Minister for Heritage Jimmy

Deenihan has said.

He said publishing the census would need a change

of legislation but he had received “widespread

approval” for this.

The 1926 census could contain information about

people who are still alive which might be

embarrassing to them, which could include

information about children “born out of wedlock”,

the extent of their literacy or mental capacity or any

diseases they might have had.

The Minister acknowledged this but said sensitive

information about those still alive could be redacted.

“It should be possible to protect or to ensure that

some information that is sensitive may be withheld,”

he said.

The 100-year rule was included in the Statistics Act

1993. The publication of the 1901 and 1911 censuses

online has been a huge success with millions of hits

on both websites. The Government is keen to include

the 1926 census as part of a programme it hopes will

draw tourists to Ireland looking for their roots.

Mr Deenihan said he was keen to publish the

information this year in advance of “the gathering”, a

planned event which is seeking to attract thousands

of people with Irish connections to come “home”

next year.

Speaking at the 75th anniversary of the Irish

Genealogical Research Society, Mr Deenihan said

Ireland’s archives were “almost our most important

resource” as it showed where the country had come

from and who we are.

The research society archives were set up in 1936 in

response to the “loss of national memory” which

occurred during the shelling of the Four Courts in the

Civil War which wiped out all the censuses from the

first half of the 19th century.

Based in London, it has the largest collection of Irish

genealogical books and manuscripts in private hands.

The society is hopeful it can digitise its archives and

make them available to the public.

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A Brief History of

Mother's Day

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The earliest celebration honouring mothers dates back to the annual spring festival of ancient Greece dedicated to Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. The Greeks would pay tribute with honey-cakes and fine drinks and flowers at dawn. Much like our current Mother's Day tradition of breakfast in bed! Early Christians celebrated this festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent in honour of the Virgin Mary. Later, in England, an ecclesiastical order expanded the holiday to include all mothers, and decreed it as Mothering Sunday. Servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. When the first English colonists settled in America the tradition of Mothering Sunday was discontinued until 1872 when Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), the author of the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, organised a day for mothers dedicated to peace. In 1907, Anna M. Jarvis (1864-1948), a Philadelphia schoolteacher, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day in honour of her mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis. She wrote hundreds of letters to legislators and prominent businessmen on both state and national levels asking them to create a special day to honour mothers. On 10 May, 1908, the third anniversary of the death of Anna's mother, the minister of the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virgina (the church her mother had attended) gave a special Mother's day sermon honoring Mrs. Jarvis' memory. Anna handed out her mother's favorite flower, the white carnation. In 1914, Anna's hard work finally paid off when President Woodrow Wilson made the official announcement proclaiming the second Sunday in May as a national holiday in honour of mothers. Nine years after the first official Mother's Day, commercialisation of the American holiday became so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become and spent all her inheritance and the rest of her life fighting what she saw as an abuse of the celebration. Later commercial and other exploitations of the use of Mother's Day infuriated Anna and she made her criticisms explicitly known throughout her time. She criticised the practice of purchasing greeting cards, which she saw as a sign of being too lazy to write a personal letter. She was arrested in 1948 for disturbing the peace while protesting against the commercialisation of Mother's Day, and she finally said that she "wished she would have never started the day because it became so out of control ...". The modern Mother's Day is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March, April, or May as a day to honour mothers and motherhood. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it follows the old traditions of Mothering Sunday, celebrated in March/April. In New Zealand it is celebrated on the second Sunday in May.

CAN YOU HELP? Dee Barron’s ancestor, Andrew Millar was one of four men killed in a fire in the Iron and Woodware Company’s premises in Princes Street, Dunedin in January 1887. A relative tells her that a plaque was erected commemorating the event and listed the victims' names. Dee would like to arrange a photograph of the plaque but can’t find its location. She is not even sure that the plaque still exists. If anyone can help Dee Barron please contact her at

deeva75@ihug.co.nz Or if you do not have Internet access write to DFHG, 28 Milburn Street, Corstorphine, Dunedin 9012. The following is part of an article which appeared in the Otago Daily Times, 26 January 1887, page 5.

DISASTROUS FIRE.

DESTRUCTIO� OF THE IRO� A�D WOODWARE

COMPA�Y'S PREMISES

FOUR LIVES LOST.

One of the most extensive and most disastrous fires that have

occurred in Dunedin broke out on Sunday afternoon, when

the whole of the Dunedin Iron and Woodware Company's

premises in Princes street south, with the exception of the

furniture department, situated at the southern extremity of the

block, was completely destroyed. The magnitude of the

conflagration will readily be estimated when it is stated that

this building, of brick and cement which was in most places

four storeys high, had a frontage to Princes and Bond streets

of nearly 200ft, and a depth of about 100 ft. It comprised,

beginning at the northern end the spacious factory and saw

mill, entered by handsome archways from the streets back

and front. Next came the offices fronting Princes Street, and

at the back of them the woodware department with a frontage

to Bond street. The hardware department, extending the

whole depth of the building, adjoined this, and last of all

came the furniture department, the only slip of this

magnificent structure which remains comparatively intact. In

August 1874 the old premises situated on the same site, then

known as Guthrie and Larnach's factory, were destroyed by

fire, and they were rebuilt on an imposing scale and were

subsequently brought under the proprietorship of a joint stock

company. Some four years ago the company was wound up,

and the extensive business then passed into the hands of the

Bank of New Zealand, with whom the property now rests. At

the former fire there was no loss of life to record, but the

catastrophe of Sunday was intensified and rendered more

painful and appalling to the onlookers by the knowledge that

a number of men lay dead and dying beneath the ruins.

POSTCODE AREAS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Even in these days of email there will still be an occasion when you will need to post a letter to Great Britain. By using the correct postal code you are greatly increasing the likelihood that the letter will be delivered to the correct destination even if you have made an error in the rest of the address [including the spelling]. In fact the right address but wrong postal code may mean your letter won’t be delivered at all. It can also be very handy in identifying the source of incoming correspondence. The following site on the Internet lists all the current Postal codes for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. You need to register to use the site but it does not cost to do searches.

http://www.royalmail.com/

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Omarama is a small township at the junction of State Highways 8 (Lindis Pass route) and 83 (along the south bank of the Waitaki River), near the southern end of the Mackenzie Basin, in the South Island of New Zealand. It is 87 kilometres south-west from Lake Tekapo, 117 kilometres from Cromwell and 119 kilometres from Oamaru. The Maori name means “place of moonlight”. The original Omarama run was taken up in 1858 by Harrie C. Robison and by the 1870s had expanded to cover 180,000 acres. Today Omarama is known for its fishing, ski-ing and gliding. The nearby airfield is the base for the Omarama Aviation club, and wind currents in the district make it ideal for gliding. Omarama hosted the World Gliding Championships in 1995. OMARAMA SCHOOL Omarama got its first school in 1943. Prior to 1943 there was a school at nearby Buscot Station and records for 1920-1922 for this school are in the Hocken Collections in Dunedin. Today pupils from Omarama, Lindis Pass and Lake Ohau attend the school. Following the Christchurch earthquake Omarama School saw a leap in numbers as parents left Christchurch to stay in baches in the area. This resulted in the school roll increasing from 24 to 32 pupils.

OMARAMA WAR MEMORIAL In October 2010 a huge rock with two bronze plaques commemorating Omarama district residents who died in the two world wars was placed in the centre of the township of Omarama. A flag pole was erected beside the rock. The rock was brought from Birdwood Station, in the Ahuriri Valley. A lengthy search took place to find a rock that was big enough and had a flat surface on which plaques could be mounted. The plaques list three names from World War One and six from World War Two. The Omarama Memorial Hall has plaques which pay tribute to the nine Omarama residents who died in World War 1 and World War 2.

HARPER, Lindly Tasman, Rifleman 49895 New Zealand Rifle Brigade Reinformcements J. Coy Killed in action 11 December 1917 at Ypres, Belgium WALDRON, Arnold Spain, Private 32599 New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 19th Reinforcements, Specialist Machine-Gun Section Killed in action 24 December 1917, Ypres, Belgium P. O’Neill has been harder to identify. There are only two P. O’Neill’s who died in World War One. Neither are easily identified with the Omarama District. Patrick Thomas O’Neill, 30449, from Wellington died of disease on 21 May 1918 in England. Phillip O’Neill, 29681, the son of Felix O’Neill of Glenham, Southland was killed in action 18 October 1917 at Ypres, Belgium. Please advice the group if you can identify which of the above is the correct P. O’Neill. APPLEBY, Bruce, Flight Sergeant NZ40955. Son of Raymond and Cicely Appleby of Waimate. Died 6 March 1942 in Singapore. DOWIE, Edward William Peter, Sergeant, 26th Infantry Battalion. Died 22 July 1942 in the Western Desert. KITTO, Stewart John, Private, 26th Infantry Battalion. Died 22 April 1943 in Tunisia.

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REID, Noel Henderson, Private, 20th Infantry Battalion. Died 17 August 1942 at sea. SIMPSON, Herbert John, Petty Officer 5960, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve. Died 5 July 1943 at Cape Brett, Northland and buried at Kurow Cemetery. Son of William Farey and Elizabeth Ann Simpson and husband of Sylvia Erina Simpson of Kurow. STRUTHERS, Henry Elijah, Private 13119, 2NZEF. Killed in action 2 November 1942 in the Western Desert. Son of John Hunter and Eliza Helen Struthers of Timaru.

His name also appears on the Albury War Memorial on State Highway 8 in the Mackenzie District in South Canterbury. Photograph of the Albury War Memorial is shown on the right.

OMARAMA CEMETERY There are two cemeteries in Omarama both administered by the Waitaki District Council. Omarama Old Cemetery is located at the end of the walkway off Black Peak Road in the Omarama township. There are two known burials but only one headstone. The transcripts for the cemetery cover 1877-1883. Omarama New Cemetery is located on State Highway 8 and is part of Buscot Station. Cemetery headstone transcripts are available for 1977-1981.

150th Anniversary of the start of the

American Civil War While Gabriel Read was discovering gold in Otago a major event was happening on the other side of the World. While in 2011 New Zealand is marking the 150th anniversary of the discovery of gold, Americans will be marking the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War.

The first shots of the war were fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on 12 April, 1861, commencing four years of bloodshed and division that ended only after General Robert E. Lee surrendered on 9 April, 1865.

The Civil War began when eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. Led by Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy fought for its independence from the United States. The U.S. federal government was supported by twenty, mostly-Northern, free states in which slavery already had been abolished, and by five slave states that became known as the border states. These twenty-five states, referred to as the Union, had a much larger base of population and industry than the South.

After four years the Confederacy surrendered. Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government.

The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars. Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively. The practice of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties.

Ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40 years.

Many of those killed in the American Civil War were either born or were direct descendants of immigrants from the United Kingdom. They may have been members of families who also had relatives who immigrated to New Zealand.

Some useful websites for locating the names of those killed in the Civil Ware can be found at:

http://www.cyndislist.com/cw.htm

http://www.familyrelatives.com/search/us_search/search_uscivil_war.php

http://thomaslegioncherokee.tripod.com/listofgeneralskilled.html

FUNERAL ORDER OF SERVICES Thank you to everyone who has been providing us with Order of

Services. We have in excess of 3000 entries. Please remember to continue providing us with these notices.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA BURIAL RECORDS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET

Adelaide Cemetery Authority has made some cemeteries available. http://tinyurl.com/3vahy2z

LONDON BURIAL GROUNDS

http://www.londonburials.co.uk/ Comes with handy map link and covers the Middlesex, London and Surrey parts of London. Gives position, date opening, size, a history attached to each cemetery and more but no name searches available.

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"The Making of a School"

Wyndham District High School 1875-1975.

Compiled by Mrs Margaret McEwan

and Mrs Agnes Thwaites

The following is a list of names of people who appear in the above book. Copies are this book is available in the McNab New Zealand Room, Dunedin Public Library. The book is well worth consulting if you have relatives in the Wyndham or Mataura Districts. The names below relate to both pupils and teachers.

Surname First Name Place ADAM L. Margaret Menzies Ferry ADAMSON Frank Wyndham AITKEN Isabella G. Wyndham AITKEN Russell G. Wyndham ALEXANDER Elizabeth Wyndham ALLAN Alison Lyall Wyndham ALLISON William A. N. Wyndham ALLISON William N. A. Wyndham AMBROSE Margaret Wyndham ARNOTT Mary Wyndham BAXTER Michael J. Wyndham BAYLISS David M. Wyndham BEADLE Francis J. Wyndham BLACK Mary R. Wyndham BOGUE Eileen Wyndham BOTTING Ethel E. Wyndham BRETT Jimmy Wyndham BROWN John R. Wyndham BURGESS Samual W. J. Wyndham BURNS Jim Wyndham BUTSON M. Wyndham CAIRD Albert Wyndham CAMMOCK Frank Menzies Ferry CAMOBELL C. Joyce Wyndham CARSON Eva Wyndham CARTER Olive J. Carter Wyndham CHILTON L. Wyndham CLARK W. H. Wyndham CLOUGHLEY G. D. Menzies Ferry CLOUGHLEY W. M. Wyndham CLOUGHLEY Winifred M. Menzies Ferry COOK A. A. Wyndham COOK Robin James Wyndham COOPER Douglas G. Menzies Ferry COSGREFF Margaret Wyndham COSGROVE Miss Wyndham COWAN E. Shirley Wyndham CREIGHTON Joyce I. Wyndham CROSBIE Ellen M. Wyndham CROSBIE Lucy J. Wyndham CROW Katherine Wyndham CURLE E. E. Wyndham CURRAN Moira B. Wyndham CUSHEN John A. Wyndham DAAMEN Elaine L. Menzies Ferry DALE Geoffrey Menzies Ferry DAVIES John W. Menzies Ferry DEY Ivan Menzies Ferry DEY Ivan G. Wyndham DICKIE Agnes Wyndham DICKIE Miss Wyndham DILLON Violet Annie Darragh Wyndham DODDS Jim Wyndham DODGSHUN G. M. Wyndham DUGGAN V. M. Wyndham DUMBLETON Margaret Joy Wyndham DUNBAR John Wyndham DUNFORD Inez Irene Wyndham EARLY S. C. Wyndham ELDER Eunice Wyndham ELLERY T. Noel Wyndham ESPIE Noel A. Wyndham FARRANT Alfred E. Wyndham FARRINGTON Daniel Wyndham

FARRINGTON Martin Wyndham FERGUSON Robert A. Menzies Ferry FLEMING Eveline Wyndham FORD Alan H. Wyndham FORD Arthur Wyndham FORD Ellen Wyndham FORD Ern Wyndham FORD Irene Wyndham FORD Jack Wyndham FORSYTH Jessie Wyndham FRANCIS L. A. Wyndham FRASER Myra C. Wyndham FREW Mary Wyndham GOLDING Jabez Wyndham GOLDING Mr Wyndham GORDON Charles S. Wyndham GORDON Elizabeth Wyndham GRIEVE Mabel Wyndham GRIEVE Molly Wyndham HALLIDAY Beverley M. Wyndham HAMILTON Margaret Wyndham HARRIS Margaret R. Wyndham HAY Ruby D. Wyndham HAYES Chas. Wyndham HAYES Doris Wyndham HAYES Florrie Wyndham HAYES Harry Wyndham HAYES John Wyndham HEAPS Isa Wyndham HEAPS Lizzie Wyndham HEAPS Violet Wyndham HEADS Edric Wyndham HEADS Gordon Wyndham HEALEY Ernest Wyndham HEATH Karen Wyndham HENDERSON William Wyndham HENRY Katie Wyndham HOLLAND Trevor R. Menzies Ferry HOPKINS Philip Llewellyn Wyndham HOWE Jane F. Wyndham HUMPHREYS Annie Laurie Wyndham HUNTER Allan Wyndham HUNTER Elizabeth Wyndham HUNTER Maisie Ivie Wyndham HUNTER Miss Wyndham HUNTER Nancy Wyndham HUNTER Nancy H. Wyndham IRWIN Cecil H. Wyndham IRWIN Jessie Wyndham IRWIN Tui Wyndham IVE Marie Wyndham JAKINS Aileen M. Wyndham JOHNSTON A. Jean Wyndham JOHNSTONE Richard Wyndham JONES Stafford Wyndham JONES William Hastings Wyndham KENNEDY R. R. Wyndham KIDDEY Harold James Wyndham KING Lawrence Wyndham KING Rose Wyndham KINGSLAND Edie Wyndham KINGSLAND May Wyndham KIRBY Beryl M. Wyndham KIRKER Kate Wyndham LARNER Martin Brian Wyndham LATHAM Margaret Jean Wyndham LATTER Elizabeth Wyndham LAWLESS Norma D. Wyndham LEITCH Bill Wyndham LEITH Helen Wyndham LEITH Maitland J. Wyndham LINDSAY Anne Wyndham LINES N. Ross Wyndham LOAN David Wyndham LOAN Lois B. Wyndham LOVELL Andrew S. Wyndham LYTHE David N. Wyndham MacDONALD A. Nicol Wyndham

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MacDONALD Alexander N. Wyndham MacFARLANE Eric S. Wyndham MacPHERSON Miro Wyndham MacPHERSON Ruru Wyndham MAGUIRE Lillian Shepher d Wyndham MALCOLM Raymond J. Wyndham MARSHALL Colleen Wyndham MARSHALL Edith R. Wyndham MARSHALL Kerry Wyndham MARSHALL Mary Isabella Wyndham MASON Margaret L. Wyndham McBRIDE K. Wyndham McDERMOTT Rex Menzies Ferry McDERMOTT Rex Trevor Wyndham McDONALD Janet McK. Wyndham McDONALD Linda Wyndham McDONALD Margaret Wyndham McINTOSH Alistair Menzies Ferry McKAY Annie Wyndham McKAY Barbara Wyndham McKAY Dorothy Wyndham McKAY Jim Wyndham McKAY Thomas Alexander Wyndham McKELLAR Valma Wyndham McKERROW F. Myrtle Wyndham McKINNON Sarah Wyndham McLAUCHLAN Margaret Wyndham McLEOD Helen M. Wyndham McLEOD Janet Wyndham McMIKEN Donald G. Wyndham McPHAIL James Wyndham McRAE K. Wyndham MENCH Susan L. Wyndham MILNE Alex. Winnard Wyndham MILNE Bob Wyndham MILNE Rita Wyndham MORRIS Muriel N. Wyndham MORRISON Robin M. Menzies Ferry MUIR Bill Wyndham MUIR D. C. Wyndham MUIR D. C. W. Menzies Ferry MUIR Jim Wyndham MUIR Mary Wyndham MURROW Edith M.A. Wyndham NEWTON Ailsa R. Wyndham NICHOLSON Colin C. Wyndham NICOLSON George K. Wyndham NUTSFORD Nipper Wyndham O'BRIEN Nancy Wyndham O'SULLIVAN Leo Sylvester Wyndham PARISH D. G. Wyndham PARISH David Menzies Ferry PATTERSON Francis J. Wyndham PAYNE Mary E. Wyndham PERKS Robert E. Wyndham PORTER Eddie Wyndham PORTER Eric Wyndham PORTER Tom Wyndham POW James Wyndham PULLAR Annie Laurie Wyndham PURVIS Lorna M. Wyndham RAYNER Valerie M. Wyndham REID John M. Wyndham REJESKI Frances Wyndham RHIND David L. Wyndham RICHARDSON Bella Wyndham RICHARDSON Ben Wyndham RICHARDSON Lily Wyndham ROBERTS Carolette Elizabeth Wyndham ROBERTSON Eliz. F. C. Wyndham ROBINSON Mary Wyndham ROUT Frances S. Wyndham ROWE Alfred Cochrane Wyndham RYAN Teresa Wyndham SALTON Iona Wyndham SAMPSON Barbara J. Menzies Ferry SAMPSON Kingsley Menzies Ferry SANGSTER Doug Wyndham

SANGSTER Margaret Wyndham SAUNDERS Jeannie Wyndham SCOTT Brian R. Menzies Ferry SHAW David Wyndham SHAW Eric Wyndham SHAW Ethel F. Wyndham SHAW Janice Wyndham SHEPHERD Francis H. Wyndham SHERBORNE Ernest Harold Wyndham SHRIMPTON K. G. Wyndham SIEVEWRIGHT J. D. Wyndham SIMMS Margaret J. Wyndham SKINNER David M. Wyndham SLIGO Alexander James Wyndham SMEATON Murray A. Menzies Ferry SMEETON Lily Wyndham SMITH Doug Wyndham SMITH Mabel Wyndham SMITH Maggie Wyndham SMITH Marjory Wyndham SOUNCESS Leslie R. Wyndham SPITTLE L. M. Wyndham STEVENS Alf Wyndham STEVENS Harold Edmund Wyndham STEVENSON Gertrude L. Wyndham STEWART Bob Wyndham STEWART Elizabest [sic] Wyndham STEWART Kathy Wyndham STEWART W. L. Wyndham STEWART William L. Wyndham STOCKWELL Thos. G. Wyndham STRANG I. Andrew Wyndham STUCK Annie Elizabeth Wyndham SUTHERLAND Brian J. Wyndham SUTHERLAND Netta Wyndham SVENDSEN Lena Christina Wyndham SYKES Joe Wyndham SYKES Leslie Wyndham TAIT Barbara Menzies Ferry TAYLOR Ronald Neil Wyndham TERRY Eric J. Menzies Ferry THOMPSON Gregory J. Menzies Ferry THOMPSON Jocelyn A. Wyndham THWAITES W. M. Wyndham TITHER Eileen Wyndham TRAYNOR Kevin Eustace Wyndham TRAYNOR Zita W. Wyndham URQUHART Barbara M. Wyndham WADDELL Joseph Wyndham WALKER Kate Wyndham WALKER Roy D. Wyndham WALL Beatrice F. Wyndham WALTON Phyllis M. Wyndham WARDS Shirley Wyndham WEBB Catherine A. Wyndham WEBB Hannah Wyndham WEBB Jessie Wyndham WERRY Chase C. Wyndham WEY Marie Wyndham WHELN T. B. Wyndham WHITE Violet Agnes Wyndham WHITEHEAD Paul Menzies Ferry WHITWORTH J. C. Menzies Ferry WILLIAMSON John Wyndham WILSON Cecil Wyndham WILSON Gordon Wyndham WILSON John M. Wyndham WILSON Milford Wyndham WILSON Muriel Kathleen Wyndham WILSON Patricia Menzies Ferry WILSON Vida Wyndham WRIGHT Jessie Isabel Wyndham WRIGHT Regina Menzies Ferry WRIGHT S. A. Wyndham YEOMAN Trevor D. Wyndham

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