Rugby’s been a bit of a feature in my father’s side of the family, but I didn’t realise how far back until I came across this photo including my great grandfather Peter. It’s from the Weekend Star’s “Pictures from the past – 100 years of rugby in Canterbury” in 1979. I’m wondering if the game…
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Not long after my great grandparents, Peter and Margaret Gaffaney, moved to Rangiora in North Canterbury, Margaret died “unexpectedly” at the age of 46 (though her death certificate gives her age as 42) on 16th November 1931. The cause of death was “Perinephritic Abscess, Toxaemia and secondary Haemoerrhage”.1 My grandfather was just 21 when his…
Back in January I posted a picture of my great great grandmother’s funeral card – it’s one of many in my father’s possession, and I have scans of all of them, but only one side. So, during my recent trip back to New Zealand, I went and re-scanned them all, front and back. (Actually, I’m…
I always knew I had Irish ancestors, but was never quite sure who they were and exactly where they were from. In the 1990s I spent several years living in Ireland. Oh, when I think of all the research I could have done! But, I was busy studying and working and having fun. Back then,…
I have this newspaper clipping (or rather, a scan of it) that tells a bit about my great grandfather Peter and his working life. He was a livestock buyer for Messrs Borthwick & Sons in Waimate, South Canterbury. He had obviously been given a promotion up to Rangiora, North Canterbury, and the article is about…
Peter and Margaret Gaffaney had two children. My grandfather, Michael Dominic, was born on 5 September 1910 in Fairlie, Canterbury, New Zealand. A sibling was stillborn in 1918. I’m not 100% sure who the woman is in this photograph – it is definitely not his paternal grandmother, according to the Gaffaney family historian. It is…
I just adore this photograph! Isn’t it marvellous? The gloves! Those hats! My great grandfather Peter looks quite the dapper lad, and my great grandmother Margaret so much the lady. Margaret is the daughter of Bartholomew O’Rourke, yer man from Ballymacdonnell, and Bridget Power. She was born Margaret Mary/Monica O’Rourke on 7 September, 1885 in Napier,…
Jesus Mercy Mary Help Pray for the Repose of the Soul of Margaret Gaffaney Who Died 16th. August 1927 Aged 83 Years Fortified by all the Rites of the Holy Church On whose soul, sweet Jesus, have mercy PRAYER O Gentlest Heart of Jesus, ever present in the Blessed Sacrament, ever consumed with burning love…
My great great grandparents Michael and Margaret (Brosnahan) Gaffaney are buried in Temuka Cemetery, South Canterbury, New Zealand – Section A, plot 125. Buried in neighbouring plots are several of their children: Lucy Josephine and Susan (plot 122), Thomas John and Joseph Arowhenua (plot 123), Ellen and Beatrice (plot 124).1 In Loving Memory of Michael…