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Contents February 2020:
Memorials: How are your
Features ancestors remembered?
54 Bobbie Amyes The Turakina Headstones, rolls of honour,
parks, seats?
59 Linnette Horne Changing places
66 Marilyn Thompson The Oroua Guys April 2020:
Nelson/Marlborough
70 Jennifer Clark How DNA and digitised records can
help with your family research June 2020:
73 Elizabeth Wade School log books Cemeteries
74 Amanda Nunn In search of Suffolk Nunns August 2020:
77 Jeanette Grant Death described Family History Month
84 Karen Perri What if they come from Italy? October 2020:
86 FamilySearch unlocking centuries of Italian ancestry ‘Black sheep’
records December 2020:
90 Harriet Taylor A 1918 Flu Epidemic case study Eureka moments
92 Patricia Strang Changing names and times February 2021:
Australia
Regulars
51 Board News 83 News from Canterbury April 2021:
Favourite resources
52 Projects Museum
60 Services and benefits 87 Branches General: Articles of any subject
relevant to this magazine which
for NZSG members 89 Interest Groups meet the submission criteria will
62 Record collections 91 News from Auckland be considered. We especially
64 Letters Libraries seek how-to articles based
68 Library Inside back cover around a source or subject
78 News from Archives Branch and Interest which explains relevance, access
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Board News
I’m sure you will all appreciate that communicating with This feedback goes into the next stages of
you via the magazine has some challenges associated development at our April meeting. Directors
with the two month lead time required for printing and David Jack and Bruce Holm are driving the
delivering the magazine. Much of what I say here you will process.
have already read in eKIT, on the website or Facebook, Technology upgrade
but sometimes it’s an advantage to be reminded of key
information several times! Every aspect steadily continues to progress under the
I write this following our February Board meeting. careful guidance of Director Tony Mort, assisted by
We have another busy year ahead, kicked off with the Bruce Holm; e.g. the new membership database, further
launch of Getting It Right, our online learning resource, in website changes, preparation of the Cemeteries database,
early February. Further development of our revised strategic development of the online Kiwi Collection. Fuller details
plan will take place in time for the AGM on 30 June 2019. will be provided in regular eKIT updates, so look out for
And thirdly is the big workload associated with our multi- those.
pronged technology development, culminating in the Kiwi NZSG Library stocktake
Collection going online later in the year. I would like to finish by sharing with everyone the Board’s
Heather McLean QSM thanks expressed at the end of 2018 to the FRC volunteers
Board members were saddened to learn of Heather and Director Robyn Williams who undertook the Library
McLean’s death on 31 January, and Director Robyn stocktake done every three years for valuation and
Williams represented us at her funeral on 5 February in insurance purposes.
Tauranga. The Board was pleased we had been able to “On behalf of the Board I would like to convey our
consider and approve a nomination for a Life Membership grateful thanks to all volunteers involved in the Library
for Heather the previous week, which she was advised of stocktake undertaken so quickly and efficiently during
before she died. what is always a busy time for most people – the run up
to Christmas. Thanks go to Robyn Williams in particular
Certificates Collection who stepped into the gap between Library Coordinators
Digital distribution of our Certificates Collection was re- and expertly designed and managed an impressive and
considered at the February Board meeting following a new thorough process. But Robyn couldn’t have achieved such a
proposal from a member. As the Copyright Act is under good result without every single person who helped in each
review the Board will re-look at this issue and report back of the various teams, sharing the load in good humoured
to members after our April Board meeting. cooperation.”
Strategic plan Mary Shadbolt,
We will be consulting members on the key elements of NZSG Board Chair
the strategic plan via Survey Monkey during March.
The AGM is on 30 June 2019.
Board of Directors Membership Administrator Auditor
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Projects
Cemetery records • Date of Birth
New Zealand Cemetery Records is a collection of transcripts of • Address
headstones and burial registers commenced by volunteers in the • Last School
1960s. Over 1,400 cemeteries, urupā and other burial grounds • Last Day of Attendance
and public memorials transcripts have been compiled, with a
date range of 1812–2017. • Destination
• Comments
Contribute
• Parent/Guardian field Indexes.
The majority of the initial transcriptions were completed in the
1970s and 1980s, so there is always scope for adding more Contribute
recent burials and headstones. Contact the Project Co-ordinator, Contact the Projects Co-ordinator, Carole Devereux, for
Carole Devereux, for guidance and assistance. guidance and assistance. E: nzsg.projects@genealogy.org.nz
E: nzsg.projects@genealogy.org.nz
Access
Access For the most part transcribed and indexed school records are
A full set of the collection is held at the NZSG Library in held by the NZSG School Records Officer or locally by the NZSG
Panmure. For a full listing search the Library Catalogue on the contributing branches. An index to the searchable records is
NZSG website. NZSG branches, cemeteries, libraries, museums published on the Kiwi Collection v2. These entries indicate
or historical societies may also hold copies of individual where to enquire for further details.
transcripts locally. Schools included in NZSG Kiwi Collection v2 are listed in the
Cemetery records were first published on microfiche in 1985, ‘Record source’ details in the the database. The table shows
with 11 supplements added up to 2009. These microfiche may school name, year range of registers indexed, number of records
still be available at NZSG branches and in local libraries and and the years that are missing from within the year range.
museums. Note that for years post 1919 listed, only the entries that have
The major listing of transcribed headstone and burial persons born pre 1915 are included.
records is available on the website under the Research tab. See Assistance can also be obtained from the NZSG School Look
New Zealand Cemetery Records: an index of microfiche holdings Up Service. E: SchoolLookups@genealogy.org.nz
held at 2009.
Cemetery records received after 2007 have not been Funeral director records
published. Funeral director records were added to the NZSG list of
Since 2014 the transcripts published on the microfiche have significant national projects in 2016. This particular type of
been searchable through the Ancestry.com website, accessible record is in accord with the Society’s objective “to encourage the
by private subscription and through many public libraries, plus preservation of records having a genealogical or historical value”.
the FRC in Panmure. Funeral records are not only ‘at risk’ – there is no legislative
NZSG members can also ask for search assistance of the requirement for their retention beyond seven years – but they
database of recent additions from the Research Service. contain details of the deceased’s immediate family and burial.
E: ResearchService@genealogy.org.nz The NZSG currently holds records of about 20 different funeral
See also the ‘Local Authorities Cemetery Information’ directors for Auckland and Hamilton at the NZSG Library in
compiled by Tracy Little on the NZSG website. Many local Panmure.
authorities now have online searchable burial databases, We are keen to increase our holdings across New Zealand
also with headstone transcriptions included. over the coming years.
The index template in each publication includes: surname;
School records given name; age at death; place of death; cemetery; mother’s
Since the early 1980s NZSG members and others have name (maiden); father’s name; name of spouse.
transcribed school records from New Zealand Primary and
Secondary schools, notably the School Admission, Progress, Contribute
Withdrawal Registers (APWs). This collection holds at least 1,800 Contact the Project Co-ordinator, Carole Devereux, for guidance
schools nationwide. Generally there was only one copy of each and assistance. E: nzsg.projects@genealogy.org.nz
school register made and not all registers have survived or yet Access
been located. This is part of an on-going national project of the
NZSG to preserve school registers due to their importance as a A list of what is held in the Collection can be found on the
record of the family and social life in New Zealand. Library Catalogue via the website.
Records with admission dates that are at least 95 years old A hard copy record is held at the NZSG Library in Panmure.
are published on the Kiwi Collection and these are available for Remote enquiries can be made to the Research Service.
searching; the assumption being that a student will have at least E: ResearchService@genealogy.org.nz
attained the age of five years on admission. Records are being
transcribed and submitted all the time, but anything earlier than Land information
95 years is withheld due to the 1993 Privacy Act. Since the early 2000s several groups of volunteers have been
If we hold records within the restricted period, these may be working at LINZ in Hamilton on indexing a range of documents
accessed by members provided it can be proven that the person associated with land transfer. These include notices of death
is deceased or that the record involved belongs to the person and marriage, applications, declarations, transmissions, birth,
making the enquiry. marriage and death certificates, deed polls, bankruptcy
Records contain the following fields: documents and wills.
• School This project does not transcribe or index land transfer records.
• Name Access
• Register Number A CDROM database New Zealand Land Transactions Index:
• Former Number North Auckland, South Auckland and Taranaki Land Districts,
1871–1991 was produced in 2016 with 210,000 individual
• Admission Date records extracted from 150,000 documents. Details usually
• Parent/Guardian include surname, given name, dates, place of death or
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Projects
residence, occupations, event, repository and document number. Contribute
The Land Title reference is recorded on the documents held at Send funeral service sheets to the Projects Co-ordinator, NZSG,
LINZ so obtaining a copy of the records can help identify the title PO Box 14036, Panmure, Auckland 1741.
identification.
See the New Zealand Land Research page on the website Access
for fuller detail about researching land records, including the Contact the Research Service.
Gen-Guide for Land Research and Ronald Hermon’s in depth E: ResearchService@genealogy.org.nz
explanation of land records in Where did my ancestors live?
The website includes details of the Research Service provided Advice
for NZSG members. See also details of the NZSG Land Research
The NZSG employs a Projects Co-ordinator, whose role is to
Service described in The New Zealand Genealogist April 2017,
manage national projects, provide guidance, assistance and
page 57.
information on transcription, indexing standards and the law
Funeral service sheets in relation to privacy and copyright.
The Project Co-ordinator can help you establish a project with
Since 2015 we have been receiving donations of funeral
the appropriate indexing work sheets and supply you with the
service sheets. These are indexed for inclusion in a future
Kiwi Collection and the originals are held at the FRC. Most documentation for seeking permission for access to locations.
include the date of birth and date of death, and many have Contact the Project Co-ordinator, Carole Devereux, for advice
photographs of the deceased and their family. In time this and standards. E: nzsg.projects@genealogy.org.nz
resource has the capacity to grow into a significant and useful Carole A Devereux, NZSG Project Co-ordinator
research resource. nzsg.projects@genealogy.org.nz
Heather Yvonne McLean 1938–2019
Heather was honoured with the
Queen’s Service Award at New Year.
The Governor-General visited Heather
at Waipuna Hospice, Tauranga on 28
January 2019 to present her citation and
medal in the presence of family, friends
and those she had worked with on her
various genealogical and historical
interests over more than 40 years.
The Official Citation for services to
genealogy and historical research:
“Mrs Heather McLean has been
involved with the New Zealand Society
of Genealogists since 1972 and has been
an active member of the Society’s local
groups in the Bay of Plenty, namely
Tauranga, Te Puke and Katikati.
Mrs McLean’s key contribution has
been the transcribing of headstones in
the cemeteries of the Bay of Plenty over
the course of 30 years for the benefit
of family historians and researchers.
She has volunteered two days a week L to R The Governor General’s secretary
with the Tauranga Family History reading the citation; Joy Walker, Heather’s
Library since its inception in 1993 younger sister; Heather; Allan McLean,
Heather’s son; the Aide-de-Camp; Her
and volunteers every Wednesday at
Excellency, The Rt Hon Dame Patsy
Tauranga City’s Cemetery Records Reddy, GNZM, QSO Governor-General
office collating death and cremation of New Zealand.
notices. In 2016 she completed a
database of air-related deaths from 1899 Mrs McLean has been on the
to 2016 for the New Zealand Society of Tauranga World War One Centenary
Genealogists. committee since 2013 and has
As a member of the Tauranga coordinated local commemorative
Historical Society she has given talks activities, including initiating the
on the history of the area. She holds a restoration of the headstones of three
meeting once a month in her home to soldiers in a local cemetery that had
help and instruct beginner genealogists, been destroyed.”
and since 1996 has frequently organised The event was recorded in the Bay of
weekend schools for teaching Plenty Times, 29 January 2019. Heather Heather with the Governor-General.
genealogical research. died on 31 January. Images supplied by Government House.
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The Turakina
Bobbie Amyes My God wasn’t of some strange land from the potato blight, the decrease
called Israel; he was up there in those in price of the small black cattle and
hills, the very hills that I was looking lack of public funding to keep the
The Land at, Papatuanuku, Alec’s Hills. It is that community employed. Profit from the
If as a Pakeha, my sense of identity mixture of faith and land that brought mines also fluctuated. By 1848 half of
and independence was associated with my mother’s ancestors to the Turakina. the population of the Ardnamurchan
having a particular home base, then my district were in receipt of relief. In order
turangawaewae would be Pokowharo – to calculate the debt, a “Schedule as to
Corrie Lynn, my river Turakina and Scotland – the Lowries
The Disruption of 1843 was a split within Arrears Owing” was instituted. Flora is
my maunga, Alec’s Hills, but close listed as:
by is Lourie Peak, named after my the established Church of Scotland, in
which 450 evangelical ministers of the “No 51 Widow J Lowrie Owes £5 3s
ancestors, so perhaps it should be my 9½d and £6 5s. Duncan Lowrie her son
mountain. Why the association with Church broke away, over the issue of the
Church’s relationship with the State, to works in Mines in Blackcraig Age about
this piece of land? My father was in the 25 He is not married He used always to
Royal New Zealand Air Force, so we form the Free Church of Scotland. The
ministers from the breakaway group no assist her in paying rent but she has not
shifted on a regular basis when I was heard from him for a year
a child. It was my mother’s childhood longer had a church, a home or income,
but their evangelical spirit inspired Doubtful – Is to write to her son
home that was central to my sense of pressing for remittance Should be
place – a farm on the wrong side – the their congregations to work hard to
remedy this situation. In Strontian, the moved to No 59 to live along with Alex
west side – of the Turakina River. Sir Lowrie above. House and Croft to be
Donald McLean negotiated the purchase Riddells, owners of the Ardnamurchan
estate, Lowland Scots and Episcopalians, vacant”
of the Rangitikei Block in 1848, but This comment referred to her stepson
the Whanganui side of the Turakina refused them land to build a church, so
the local community commissioned a Alexander Lowrie:
where Pokowharo – Corrie Lynn is “No 50 Alexander Lowrie owes £3
situated was clearly defined as Māori large boat to be built where they could
hold their church services. The boat 2s 6d Married – has no family – was
land. My grandfather, John McLEAY, an injured in mines last August and is
Applecross crofter’s lad and later seaman which could hold over 500 parishioners
was moored in the loch until a great unable to work at present Remove him
sailing the globe, leased and bought the to No 59. House & croft to be vacant
storm tore it loose and it ran aground.
land through the Māori Land Courts While the second major set of
It continued to be used for church
around the turn of the century.1 clearances on the estate started in 1852
services. Eventually the Riddells relented
and land was released for the building of it is not obvious whether the above plan
The Faith a new church. This area of Strontian was was carried out.”
It was my grandmother who changed where the first of my Turakina families Flora and family were to shift house
the name from Pokowharo to Corrie came from. and croft from No 51 to No 59. As well,
Lynn, supposedly because someone James Lowrie was born in 1819 to her stepson and his wife were to move
had confused the Māori meaning of John Lowrie and his second wife Flora in with them. However, in the 1861
Pokowharo, suggesting it meant fat belly Cameron. Death certificates show census the families were not together.
and as she was, more often than not, a John Lowrie earned his living as a lead There is only mention made of one son,
woman in various stages of pregnancy, miner and a crofter. The 1841 and later Duncan, being able to help Flora with
the Māori name went. My grandmother, censuses record the family lived at her debts, though both her daughters
Flora Lourie, was a strong believer Anaheilt just north of Strontian village. were employed. There is no mention of
in her God. Gran’s faith was part of The lead mines were slightly further up James who would have already sailed for
our upbringing. The bible was read the valley. It is not known exactly when New Zealand and no mention is made
at the end of the main meal as it had John Lowrie died, somewhere between of her other stepson or stepsons. To be
been since when she first came to live the birth of his son Duncan 1825 and the in such a precarious position, dependent
at Corrie Lynn. Her diary entries often 1841 census. However, James’s mother, on the whim of a landowner, was the
referred to “God willing” when she was Flora Cameron, lived into her nineties, driving force on why many Scots left
writing of future events. Her religious dying in 1877. It is through her records their home land.
passion passed on to her offspring and we know the role land played in shaping Henrietta McMillan, born in
their offspring who became Ministers the family. As a widow, the croft was Kilmonivaig in 1819 to John McMillan
and elders in the Presbyterian and essential for livelihood and habitation. and Flora Cameron, was to become
Brethren faith. The 121st Psalm hung on Land owner, Sir James Milles Riddell, the wife of James Lowrie. Like her
the wall above the dining table next to accrued massive debts, which forced his namesake in Strontian, Flora Cameron,
the window that looked out onto Alec’s estate into the hands of the “Edinburgh Henrietta’s mother, had lost her husband
Hills. Accountants”. The villages and hamlets John McMillan prior to the 1841 census.
“I will lift up mine eyes unto the along the Ardnamurchan Peninsula She too lived to a good age dying in
hills from whence cometh my help. were cleared to turn the estate to profit her late seventies. She had remained
My help cometh from the Lord which so that it might be sold. The decade on the croft at Kilmonivaig with her
made heaven and earth…Behold, he or so prior to this had seen the estate’s unmarried children Flora and Samuel.
that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber tenants struggle to pay their rents as Luckily she appears never to have
nor sleep.” the community was struck by famine faced eviction. Henrietta had already
54 The New Zealand Genealogist April 2019 www.genealogy.org.nz
left home by the 1841 census, earning born at the time the Aberdeenshire James and Henrietta purchased James
her keep as a female servant in the Howies and the Argyllshire-Lochaber Findlater‘s Crown Grant, Section 61.
household of a Fort William doctor. Lowrie/McMillan trio were emigrating. James Stewart Lowrie became owner
She and James Lowrie married in 1847 Civil registration had begun the year of Section 75. The 1865–66 Rangitikei
and their only child Donald Lourie was John was born. His parents Alexander Electoral Roll indicates that James
born at Strontian in 1848. Though the McLeay and Ann Kennedy were Stewart’s freehold property was 100
Cyclopedia of New Zealand states they married at Kirkton, Applecross in 1851 acres up the Turakina Valley bordering
came to New Zealand on the William and John was born at Lonbain on 24 120 acres owned by his brother
and Jane in 1848, from the death March 1855. James and two other neighbours, Mr
certificates of James, Henrietta and Like the Strontian Lowries, the Cameron and Mr Stafford. Their other
Donald we know they probably came crofters of Applecross, suffered at the neighbour, next to James Lowrie, was
on that ship in 1855 or maybe 1856. whims of their lairds and landowners. a Mr McGregor. The McGregors and
James Stewart Lowrie was another The McKenzies of Applecross had Camerons lived and farmed their
family member to join this trio in supported the ‘Old Pretender’ and Turakina blocks, but Mr Stafford was, in
venturing to New Zealand. Where James had to forfeit their lands. Though a fact, the Superintendent of the Nelson
Stewart Lowrie was during the 1841, 1851 McKenzie family were able to reacquire Settlement, and never became part of
and 1861 censuses is unclear, but James’s Applecross, when Bonny Prince Charlie the Turakina community.
half-brother, James Stewart Lowrie, came on the scene they refrained from James Lowrie told of the hardships
followed them to New Zealand arriving rallying to his cause. Around 1811, they faced in those first years as quoted
about 1861. the McKenzies started moving the from the Cyclopedia: “In 1862 he took
occupants from the better lands such as possession of a run in Turakina Valley,
the hamlets of Langwell and Achichork
Scotland – the Howies and of which he was a pioneer settler. He
to the more barren coastal areas. The stocked the place with 400 sheep and
the Robertson Lasses birth records of John McLeay’s uncles
While the Highland Gaelic speaking sixteen head of cattle, but wild dogs
and aunts reflect their movement from destroyed almost the whole of the sheep
Lowries were following other Lochaber/ Langwell after 1814 to Culduie and
Argyllshire families to New Zealand, on and his first wool clip did not exceed
Camusterrach. By the 1851 census, John’s
the Aberdeenshire side, a larger family one bale. He also had great difficulties to
father and his uncles were tenants on
group were contemplating moving to contend with during the Māori troubles,
the coastal lands north of Applecross –
New Zealand. Catherine Aiken’s family and twice had to leave his farm to take
Lonbain, Salachar and Sand. Life on
had already shifted to the Matarawa care of itself for a time”.3 The two James
the coast was harsh, with three of John’s
district in Whanganui by 1852 and and the young Donald broke in the land,
five siblings dying in their teens. The
sent home good reports. Her husband, clearing off forest and scrub, building
McLeay ancestors were buried at the
Thomas McWilliam, and his sons Clachan church, site of St Maelrubha’s
large mounds on which they planted
from his first marriage had broken early monastery. Money which could gorse, a bane for future New Zealand
in the land and established a thriving be made from fishing saw lads joining farmers.
property. Catherine’s sister and husband their elders at sea and several, like John Unfortunately, we don’t know
were soon to follow, Anna Margaret McLeay, then progressed to ocean going when the older members of the family
Aiken and Alexander [Sandy] Howie, sailing ships and travelled the globe. moved from the Maputahi side to their
as was their brother William Aiken. new single storey house, their own
For the Howie grandparents Alexander house, their own land! A newspaper
Howie, senior, and Jane Barron, Settling the Turakina advertisement indicates Donald
the thought of following their eldest The Louries and Isabella did not shift over from
son was complicated by the fact their Maputahi till 1881 when they moved
James and Henrietta Lowrie, according
daughter Jane Howie, now Mrs John into a two storied house up on the hill
to the Cyclopedia of New Zealand, took
Gordon, was emigrating to Canada. possession of a run up the Turakina which overlooked the senior Lowries
The complication was the wider Howie and the flourishing flat paddocks. The
Valley in 1862. The Cyclopedia reference
family, but probably the grandparents, farm expanded when Donald Lourie
also stated that on their arrival they
were raising two of Jane’s daughters, took over block CCXXVII and CCXXV
spent a month in Wellington, before
Beatrice and Isabella Robertson. Their but stayed under the name Glen Nevis,
moving to Whanganui, where they
father James Robertson, Jane Howie’s a tribute to Henrietta’s home.4
settled up the river. There are no records
first husband, had died unexpectedly As the Lowries expanded their land,
of the Whanganui sojourn, but James
around 1851- 52. Jane had remarried in improving it as farm land, there was an
is listed as qualified for jury service
November 1852 and had already started increase in their numbers. Henrietta and
in February 1858, 1859, 1860 and 1861
a second family. Beatrice and Isabella James had only one child, Donald, and
as a labourer in Turakina. Family lore
came to New Zealand around 1855–6 James Stewart Lourie never married.
has them originally farming on the
and lived at Matarawa on ‘Learney’2 – It was Donald and his wife Isabella
Maputahi Block, where they built a
the Howie farm. In a double wedding on Robertson who added nine more
two storeyed house. Lowrie Peak is on
1 May 1867 Beatrice Robertson married Lowries to the world or Louries as the
this block and was Māori land later
John Old and Isabella Robertson
bought by the Lethbridges. James name seems to have changed with the
married Donald Lowrie.
Stewart Lowrie’s arrival around 1861-2 older children registered under Lowrie
would fit in with his brother’s removal and the younger under Lourie.
Scotland – the McLeays from the jury list as a labourer and the
My grandfather John McLeay was late brothers taking possession of a run in
to the New Zealand scene. He was the Turakina Valley. On 30 April 1861 (Continues on page 56) →
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Family farms beside the Turakina. → (Continued from page 55) The Howies between the Turakina and Marton5 and sides of the Taurimu Stream. William Isabella Robertson, Donald Lourie’s it was often seen as a stopping point for and Lizzie never owned the block but wife, was a Howie grandchild, and she people heading into Whanganui from leased it and their children attended was not the only Howie to settle up the the upper valley or Marton region. Their school with their cousin, Isabella Turakina Valley. While Isabella was son, William Howie junior and wife Robertson Lourie’s children up on the growing up at Matarawa, her uncle, Lizzie Findlay ended up farming close Glen Nevis property. The Glen Nevis William Howie, and wife Isabella to Donald and Isabella. Section CCXXX School closed in 1908, by which time Henderson had established a farm was a parcel of land that lay on both the Howies had moved back to the main 56 The New Zealand Genealogist April 2019 www.genealogy.org.nz
Map OS10290. Archives New Zealand.
family farm on the edge of the Lower 525 acres, became known as ‘Puriri’.6 death, a practical way was needed for
Turakina Valley. John MacLeay, the uncle, was born distinguishing them. The Uncle was, of
The McLeays around 1810–11, not a young man to be course, John MacLeay senior. For the
breaking in a property, so he sent for mail, Puriri John became John MacLeay
My grandfather, John McLeay, was or John Leed MacLeay and Grandad,
his nephew, my grandfather John, born
not the original McLeay to come and Corrie Lynn John became John McLeay,
farm in the Valley. His uncle, also a John 1855. After years as a sailor, John became
a passenger, arriving on the Westland in but for everyday use Grandad became
MacLeay, elder brother of Alexander, ‘Old John’, born 1855 to ‘Young John’,
appears on the scene around 1866. He 1883. The sailor became a farm worker
then in 1886 a farmer.7 born 1872.
was at Applecross for the 1861 census.
The Makohau CWI Farm Histories state With Grandad moving towards
that he bought the land in London and acquiring his own property, John, the So what became of the
worked for a short time for Sir Donald uncle, sent for another nephew, also families?
McLean in Hawke’s Bay. A local story a John MacLeay and also a son of a So what became of the families – the
suggested he first started clearing land brother called Alexander McLeay. land and the faith? The descendants of
on Kowhai Point (Mangara – McGregor The younger of the two brothers these initial settler families have spread
Land) and building a house before being called Alexander had married Lexie throughout New Zealand and the globe,
told his land was a few bends further up Leed, so with three John McLeays in
the river, Section CCXLVIII. The farm, the Valley and two after the Uncle’s → (Continues on page 58)
https://www.facebook.com/NZSGFRC/ The New Zealand Genealogist April 2019 57→ (Continued from page 57) John of John and Gloria. When this The main Pokowharo block in 1877 was
couple finally decided to retire and under the name of Eruera Te Whakaahu
many becoming new immigrants or sell last year, it was bought by Hayden & Co. Eruera was also known as Edward
temporary visitors in other countries. Sutherland and it was under this name I
and Chloe McLeod.8 Four different
There are still family members who are understand he sold the southern part of
generations yet linked to the founding the Pokowharo block to my grandfather.
leaders in their church, both spiritually settlers. Eruera was the son of Daniel Sutherland
and practically and there are still family Hayden brings it to a full circle. and Raimapaha Morie Paora.
members who make their living from He is a 6x great-grandson of 2 Now Mavis Bank, owned by the Lairds
the land. But who is on the land that my Alexander Howie and Jane Barron, the 3 Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Vol 1
ancestors were linked to? grandparents of William Howie jnr. and Wellington (1897), p1340.
There are no family members on Isabella Robertson. He is the 5x great- 4 There used to be a small but sharp turn
Glen Nevis. After Donald and Isabella’s in the road going over the hill between
grandson of James Lowrie and Henrietta section 75 and 61 and near the paper road
son Duncan Lourie and his family McMillan and the 2x great-grandson
farmed Glen Nevis, it was sold. Kapakapa that leads across to Mupatahi.
of John McLeay and Flora Lourie of As a kid I remember the bend and hill
Section 75, the land owned by James Pokowharo-Corrie Lynn. being referred to as Strontian. Was the
Stewart Lowrie, went to James and land James Stewart Lourie owned called
Henrietta’s grandsons, the eldest three Strontian or was it just one small annoying
Lourie boys, Jack, Jim and Sam and in Sources hill – annoying because of the sharp steep
turn it was sold to the Bishop brothers. National Archives, Wgtn – maps, corner vehicles had to change down to first
Section 3 of the Paraekaretu block, Crown Grants, deeds, Māori Land gear?
Grandad’s first leasehold land remained Courts records 5 Lammermoor, being the farm closest to
NZ Births Deaths and Marriages Turakina.
in family hands till 2000. Other
Scotland’s People – OPRs – Applecross, 6 Another story goes that when bringing
Paraekaretu land was leasehold then stock up from Turakina, there were no
bought by Donald and Isabella Lourie Strontian, Kilmonivaig- Census- roads, so his sheep had to ford the river
and their sons. The Mt Curl Farm which BDMs nine times. Getting stock on to the land
features prominently in Flora Lourie- Isabella Robertson and Beatrice would have been a battle for all the early
McLeay’s diaries is farmed by a Lourie Robertson in A Scottish Mother, Turakina Valley farmers, but for John, the
descendant, Richard Lourie. Flora Alexander Howie in A Scottish Uncle, there was no road north of Mangara
regularly rode up there on her horse Father, both published Dunedin and even when one was pushed through
Family History Group 2012, edited eventually, it was not a legal road for many
‘Fly’ to housekeep for her brothers.
years.
Descendants of the old uncle, John Heather Bray
7 This is the story my Uncle Maurice told.
MacLeay, still farm Puriri. Charted accountants and the Highland When the educational sections assigned to
As mentioned before my cousin John Clearances during the mid–nineteenth Wellington College Board of Governors on
and wife Anne farm Pokowharo-Corrie century by Stephen P. Walker (2001) the Paraekaretu Block became available,
Lynn. ‘The Riddells of Ardnamurchan’ old Mr Galpin suggested to Grandad to
Perhaps the most interesting strand by Jon Haylett. From http:// lease a section. Grandad said he could not
of family connectedness and the land heritageardnamurchan.co.uk/the- afford to fence the back of the section, but
Mr Galpin said, “The sheep won’t cross
lives on with block CCXXX on the landlords/
the little creek and my stock won’t be on
Taurimu. This land was only leased by Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wgtn 1897] there for some time”. So Grandad went to
William and Lizzie Howie, but they p1340–1 Hunterville and signed up for a section.
lived there for several years raising Farm Histories compiled by the John, his uncle, was quite sarcastic about
their children. It was later owned and Makohau Country Women’s Institute Grandad doing this, but next morning
managed by others, but in 1924 my Rev. William Maurice McLeay – called him and said to him it was time
two uncles, Alec and Donald McLeay, autobiographical notes. the landowner went off to look after his
property. So Grandad knew his uncle
bought the block and split it between
accepted his action.
them. They farmed the land for many Notes 8 Both Gloria and John McLeay died in 2018,
years. Alec’s half was passed on to his 1 The sellers of Maputahi 1A were Hori so a tough year for their family. Hayden
son John McLeay. Yes another one of Huatau and nine others just listed as McLeod is a grandson of John’s cousin,
them! Taurimu John, Brethren John, Huatau and this sale went through in 1897. Neil McLeod.
New Plymouth Branch 50th celebration
2019 is the 50th anniversary of the New Plymouth Branch of the New Zealand Society of
Genealogists! The first meeting of our Branch was held in the Orange Lodge Hall in New
Plymouth on 20 November 1969. Ten persons were present with Mr White elected Chairman
and Rosalie Hay elected Secretary/Treasurer.
Our sub-committee is making plans to celebrate the occasion on 23 November. We hope that
past members and any other interested people will be able to attend the celebrations. If you
have been involved with our Branch over the last 50 years, please put that date in your diary.
Information and a downloadable registration form available soon on our Branch website
www.genealogynp.com.
Bruce Bellini, Convenor
58 The New Zealand Genealogist April 2019 www.genealogy.org.nzChanging places
Linnette Horne locked up the school. The fire broke out
in the infants’ room. The cleaners had
removed the ashes from the fire and
T his article updates my piece about
Clarence and Alexandrina Sawyer
replaced the guards.
The enquiry was never able to
in The New Zealand Genealogist, conclusively prove what caused the fire,
February 2016. The Sawyers moved although it was believed that a spark
north to Te Horo in the Horowhenua, from a smouldering log left in the fire
south of Levin, from Otaki about 1912. may have fallen on the carpet and the
This was just after the Gear Estate fire caught from there. The school
had been broken up and land became was later rebuilt and is situated on the
available for small farmlets. The Sawyers original.
obtained land in Gear Road, Te Horo
and built a farmhouse. Linnette Horne
The Te Horo farm ran a herd of about
20 cows that provided meat and milk.
There were also chickens for eggs and
an orchard of plum and apple trees that RIGHT:
provided jam and preserves. These were Ida Sawyer (my mother), c 1930s.
consumed by the family or sold through
the local shop to provide some extra
funds.
The milk was sold to the local dairy
co-operative. It was stored in large steel
churns left each morning at the entrance
of the farm to be picked up very early
in the morning and replaced by empty
containers for the next day.
It was not easy dealing with the Co-
op as Clarence found out in 1921 when
the Co-op accused him and another
farmer of under-reporting their milk
quota. The Co-op’s case was detailed in
the Levin Chronicle on 14 March 1921.
They claimed that between 27 November
1920 and 14 January 1921 Clarence and
his co-accused had under reported
their quota in violation of the Co-op’s Clarence and Alexandrina Sawyer standing in front of the Sawyer farmhouse, c1940,
Articles of Association. Both defendants with their daughters Stella and Kathleen, and Kathleen’s children Tony and Lyla.
denied the charge and firmly defended
themselves in the Court. There was
much discussion about legal documents
relating to the running of the Co-op and
its affairs. It was left up to the Judge to
render judgement, the result I am still
trying to find out.
Clarence and Alexandrina’s 12-year-
old daughter, Ida, was implicated in a
local disaster. Ida and all the Sawyer
children attended Te Horo School. On
the night of 27 June 1923 fire broke out
at the school and despite the best efforts
of the locals the school was destroyed.
An enquiry was held later in July. The
head teacher reported that on that day
she left the school just after four o’clock.
The children who acted as cleaners, and
Ida was one of them, finished about half
past three. She had then returned and The Sawyer farm orchard.
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