MANUSCRIPT
Alison Masters - A New Zealand family in the Hokianga 1867
- Date
- 1990
- By
- Masters, Alison, active 1990
- Reference
- MS-Papers-4280-007
- Description
The essay focuses primarily on Ralph Fletcher Watkins, a remittance man from Bolton, Lancashire, his marriage to Ani Hardiman and their life in the Hokianga where Ralph was a school teacher. Information has been gathered from the journal Watkins kept 1867-1881. Information is also given about their children, in particular Maggie, the writer's grandmother, who as a young mother died of tuberculosis. Anecdotes about Maggie's children growing up in Ellerslie post World War I are related
Quantity: 1 folder(s) 44 pages.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
- Format
- 1 folder(s) 44 pages, Manuscripts
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