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From: "Stephanie Cocks" <>
Subject: Re: [NZ-OBITS] GRAHAM
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:59:14 +0930
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Hi Wendy,
THANK YOU, that will keep me quiet for a good while now.
Best Regards.
Steph.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendy Howard" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [NZ-OBITS] GRAHAM


> Hi Stephanie,
>
> "I sorted separated the two things, the ship I put onto the regular NZ
> lsit and only the death onto the Obit lsit. It was the TARAWERA,
> apparently the maiden voyage in Feb 1884."
>
> Ah, that explains it. I probably read your post there, but didn't think
> I could help you with it at the time, and now have no memory of it to
> link it with your query on this list. :-)
>
> A Google search on "tarawera ship 1884" (without the quotes) brings up
> all sorts of hits, including a couple of posts to other Rootsweb lists
> about this same voyage...
>
> At
> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TheShipsList/2002-03/1016691990
> Dean is asking if anyone has any information about this voyage - you
> might like to post to that list (you'll need to subscribe to it first)
> and/or email him directly to see if he ever found out anything.
>
> At
> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NZ-HAWKES-BAY-N-POVERTY-BAY/2003-07/1058322280
> Judy has transcribed shipping information from the Hawkes Bay Herald
> issue of 25 February 1884, and it includes the arrival of the Tarawera
> at Napier on 23 February. It lists the passengers who disembarked at
> that port. Have you checked other newspapers at PapersPast
> (http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/)?
>
> You may like to repeat this search for yourself and check out the other
> results - I have not gone any further with this.
>
> Also, have you checked the three volumes of "Log of Logs" by Ian
> Nicholson? You need to check all three volumes to get all the
> information he collected on any one ship.
>
> Knowing now (from my Google search) that the ship came from Melbourne,
> have you tried the shipping records at the PROV?
> http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/
>
> Hope this helps. :-)
>
> Kind Regards,
> Wendy Howard
>
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