Tim Isaacs
July 26, 2020
It has been suggested that the Newport's of Nelson, New Zealand have family linkages to Henry Newport, the 3rd Earl of Bradford. A very hot summer, hiding indoors, gave me an opportunity to explore this suggestion.
July 26, 2020
Clement Dickson Burgess was baptised in Manchester in 1837. There are 13 unexplained years between his appearance as a 13 year old errand boy in Manchester (1851) and at age 26, the birth of Clement's daughter Clara Morton in August 1863 in Invercargill, New Zealand. I am investigating the appearance during this time, of Clement's newly appended surname, Morton.
July 25, 2020
First hand oral family history had my second great grandfather, Edward Clarke, arriving before 1870, to Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand from Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He became the manager of an underground coal mine at Shag Point, 65 km north of Dunedin.