Author: cashmer

Cashmere Bay

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Cashmere Bay has a real history for our family; for the Kemps (well, from Leslie Robert Kemp and down) for the Hills (from Albert Victor and down) for the Abbotts - moved there from Manakau way back in 1910 (ish) and for some of the Colvilles. The Colvilles and the Abbotts must have had connections before Grandad Abbott moved down to Te Kinga with his wife and young children back in 1910. Interestingly enough, his Mum was on the census for 1890-something for the Levin area. Also the Colvi...
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Missing links

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The biggest challenge to tracking the family tree has been the missing link of Joseph Alfred Abbott's beginnings. From when I was first encouraged to get on the trail, that has been the single most challenging barrier. When I was working in Wellington back in the nineties, I discovered a record of his gravestone in the Bolton Street cemetery and then subsequently his death certificate etc and it was like finding a pot of gold. Since then I have discovered the wedding of his birth parents at ...
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Pictures in Time

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I have placed a few pictures on my Facebook page, freely available  for everyone to view, copy and use. I have also put them on my west.coast.recollects page here Please feel free to send me any that you may have, so that we can build up a collection that all of our whanau and other interested people may see them. They are absolutely no good to any one locked away in a suitcase at the bottom of a cupboard. If you dont want to do that, then just "share" them with me, so that I can...
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Why Cashmere Bay

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Cashmere Bay is central to my branch of the family tree as it is there at Tekinga that both my paternal and maternal lines merge.My father, Leslie Robert Kemp, at one stage worked at Tekinga as did my Grandfather, Albert Victor "Bluey" Hill, my Great Grandfather Joseph Abbott, as well as a few uncles and great uncles,many in the employ of the Tekinga Land and Timber Company.Not to understate the workload of the maternal line either; my Mother, Pat Kemp, Grandmother, Gladys Hill and Great Grandm...
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Early Links

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Among all of the seemingly well-ordered and organised bits of information and data that I have accumulated while compiling this collection of "tree" stuff the oddest piece so far has to be the coincidence (or 19th century "networking"?) between two families of passengers on board the 1860s voyage of the Huntress. This coincidence is made even more intriguing as an error on my part is what allowed me to identify it. I (for some reason that I can no longer recall ) was working on the assumpt...
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Hello whanau

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Looking for family tree / family history resources? You have come to the right place... sort of. It turns out that it is easier to have one source of 'truth' for this stuff, so some years ago now, I gave all my files to my eldest brother Ben who kindly uploaded them into the site that he hosts now known as Courageous Colonials. The site is kept current by his daughter Nikki Eagle. The family history pages on the Courageous Colonials site contain information about various branches and families....
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