MANUSCRIPT
Frances E V Stewart - Hessey from Nottinghamshire
- Date
- 1990
- By
- Stewart, Frances E V, active 2005
- Reference
- MS-Papers-4280-057
- Description
The essay details the German origins of the Hessey family, lives of Nottinghamshire forebears of Joseph and Jane Hessey and family who immigrated to Australia in 1858 on the `Melbourne'. Jane died during the voyage and James married Caroline Stuart, a widow, in Melbourne in 1861. James and Caroline came onto Canterbury in 1862 and settled at Waikuku Creek near to James' daughter Mary and her husband John Ranby. The essay details the lives of all of Joseph Hessey's children who settled in Canterbury and Masterton areas.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Finding Aids: Published guide available.
Includes photographs, one of which is wedding photograph of Grace Hessey and Frank Allsop, taken in Christchurch 1912
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts, Illustration: Includes photographs, one of which is wedding photograph of Grace Hessey and Frank Allsop, taken in Christchurch 1912
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