A great resource from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre – a searchable full-text edition of all six volumes of The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. The Cyclopedia of New Zealand was published in six volumes between 1897 and 1908 by the Cyclopedia Company Ltd. Each volume deals with a region of New Zealand and includes…
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My grandfather Dominic Gaffaney was a boarder at St Bede’s College, Christchurch, NZ for two years – from 1927 to 1928. The college is the oldest Roman Catholic Boys’ College in the South Island, founded by Marist priests in 1911, and the only Catholic day and boarding college for boys in the South Island.1 Also…
This is the original home of Michael Gaffaney and Margaret Brosnahan, and I’ve posted this photo in an earlier post. I’m not sure when it was taken, but at the recent family gathering in Temuka, the photo was displayed with the following note: Michael and Margaret Gaffaney with, probably, their five eldest daughters, Susan, Annie,…
Temuka. I finally got to visit this very special place last month. My grandfather’s cousin was celebrating 50 years of life as a nun, having a jubilee Mass and lunch afterwards, with many family members invited. I was pretty keen to attend, despite having to travel halfway round the world, and when I found out…
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Hmmm… I don’t seem to be doing so well on my blogging resolutions so far this year. But! I have an excellent excuse. I have just spent 13 days in New Zealand – primarily a genealogical excursion – and have been too busy, and too far from a wifi connection, to post. I have met…
Some weeks back I posted a photo I took of St Mary’s church in Polstead, Suffolk. It’s a beautiful old village church, and when we visited back in August, we could just walk in and take a look around. Inside, I picked up a copy of Polstead Church and Parish1 for a small donation, and…
Wordless Wednesday is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.
Wordless Wednesday is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.
I posted a photo last week of Rothwell’s market cross – a replica of the medieval one, which originally was close to the current site. I have several census returns where the address is simply “Near Crop” or “New Cross”, or maybe they are the same? In the following instances, they look quite distinct: In…