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| 74 | The Proof that James Stewart and Margeret Richardson moved from Kels o t o Bewick llies in the Baptisim records of Robert Stewart, their el dest s on that clearly states that while Robert was born in Kelso (se e Souce f rom familysearch) he was baptised in Berwick-upon-Tweed | STEWART, James (I407)
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| 75 | There ARE two marriage entries for the same day for William Robertso n a nd Christian Wilson in the parish entrys for the parishes of Udn y and F overan. In the Entry for the parish of Foveran it states tha t Willam Ro bertson is of the parish of Udny, and in the parish record s for Udny it m ay state (cant read writing) that the entruys were add ed later, but as i t is exactly the same date it can be assumed with s ome degree o cerntai nty that this is the same event entered twice, un less there is other ev idence that surfaces later to contridct this | ROBERTSON, William (I280)
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| 76 | There is evidence to sugest that Charls and Isabella died sometime sho r tly after the birth of their youngest daugther as the census recor d wou ld suggest that she was living with Aunts? at the age of 7 at t he time o f the census | REID, Charles (I197)
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| 77 | WEDDING BELLS BLYTHE- HUNTER. On Tuesday morning, November 26tb, a large circle of f r iends assisted at a very pretty and interesting function at Burnside . t he residence of Mrs Moore Hunter. The event was the marriage of he r dau ghter Jeanie to Mr David Blythe, of Wanganui. Tbe bridal party w as grou ped for the ceremony in the porch, which was decorated for th e occasion , and formed a novel and effective picture, the ministers a nd guests oc cupying the lawn. The bride looked sweet and dignified i n a rich dress o f white brocaded satin, the only trimming being a dee p fall of Honiton l ace and a spray of orange blossom on the bodice. T he veil was delicatel y embroidered. The bride carried a lovely showe r bouquet, and was atten ded by her three sisters. Miss Millie Hunter , as chief bridesmaid, wore a d ress of white silk with daffodil yello w chiffon sash, also a gold bangl e, the gift of the bridegroom and c arried a bouquet of yellow and whlt e flowers. Misses Belle and Mary w ore cream silk dresses and dainty gol d necklets and lockets, the brid egroom's gifts, and carried baskets of c rimson roses. The bride was g iven away by her brother, Mr A. Hunter and t he bridegroom was attende d by his brother, Mr J. Blythe, as best man. T he ceremony was perform ed by Rev T. McDonald of Waipukurau, assisted by R ev I. E. Bertram. A fter a sumptuous breakfast, Rev T. McDonald, in a sh ort speech, voice d the feeling of the assembled company in wishing Mr a nd Mrs Blythe h appiness and prosperity. Mr Blythe shortly returned than ks on behal f of himself and his wife. The wedding-cake was handsome and i mposing , having three tiers most elaborately decorated. The bride's tra velli ng dress was a coat and skirt of fine blue cloth, lined with white s a tin. She wore a white chiffon boa, and Black hat with two cloth-of-go l d roses under the brim, in which she looked charming. Mr and Mrs Bly the l eft by train for Nelson. The presents were numerous and costly , and cam e from far and near. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7369, 30 November 1901, Pag e 3 | HUNTER, Jeannie (I20)
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| 78 | WEDDING BELLS BLYTHE- HUNTER. On Tuesday morning, November 26tb, a large circle of f r iends assisted at a very pretty and interesting function at Burnside . t he residence of Mrs Moore Hunter. The event was the marriage of he r dau ghter Jeanie to Mr David Blythe, of Wanganui. Tbe bridal party w as grou ped for the ceremony in the porch, which was decorated for th e occasion , and formed a novel and effective picture, the ministers a nd guests oc cupying the lawn. The bride looked sweet and dignified i n a rich dress o f white brocaded satin, the only trimming being a dee p fall of Honiton l ace and a spray of orange blossom on the bodice. T he veil was delicatel y embroidered. The bride carried a lovely showe r bouquet, and was atten ded by her three sisters. Miss Millie Hunter , as chief bridesmaid, wore a d ress of white silk with daffodil yello w chiffon sash, also a gold bangl e, the gift of the bridegroom and c arried a bouquet of yellow and whlt e flowers. Misses Belle and Mary w ore cream silk dresses and dainty gol d necklets and lockets, the brid egroom's gifts, and carried baskets of c rimson roses. The bride was g iven away by her brother, Mr A. Hunter and t he bridegroom was attende d by his brother, Mr J. Blythe, as best man. T he ceremony was perform ed by Rev T. McDonald of Waipukurau, assisted by R ev I. E. Bertram. A fter a sumptuous breakfast, Rev T. McDonald, in a sh ort speech, voice d the feeling of the assembled company in wishing Mr a nd Mrs Blythe h appiness and prosperity. Mr Blythe shortly returned than ks on behal f of himself and his wife. The wedding-cake was handsome and i mposing , having three tiers most elaborately decorated. The bride's tra velli ng dress was a coat and skirt of fine blue cloth, lined with white s a tin. She wore a white chiffon boa, and Black hat with two cloth-of-go l d roses under the brim, in which she looked charming. Mr and Mrs Bly the l eft by train for Nelson. The presents were numerous and costly , and cam e from far and near. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7369, 30 November 1901, Pag e 3 | Family F69
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| 79 | Weekly Feature - 1 November 2003 A remarkable story finally shared with family The death of John Austin-Smith, of Masterton, has brought to life th e p a st of a humble but quite extraordinary man. JOSEPH WALLACE spok e with h i s family and discovered the exceptional story of a wartim e hero. A sto r y filled with humour, intrigue, action and history. DURING World War II, in September 1943, the Allied Navy captured the i s l and of Cos in the Aegean Sea. Not long after this success, pilot J ohn A u stin Henry Smith and the crew of squadron 267 delivered import ant back - up equipment and supplies to the battle-weary navy. The squadron loaded their DC3s and left the Ramat David airport in Isr a e l, heading for the small island just off the southwest coast of Tu rkey . T he four unarmed supply planes slipped undetected through Turk ey’s ne ut ral south coast before Austin and his squadron landed succe ssfully at C o s airstrip. The four planes spread out over the aerodro me and unloaded t h e naval provisions. Austin finished and returned t o his cabin to prepa r e for the departing flight. He settled into th e cockpit and attempted t o s tart the motors. They refused to turn. T he only other option was to m a nually crank the motors from outside t he aircraft. He returned to the t a rmac and began cranking. That’s wh en he heard five Luftwaffe ME109 fig h ters. The German fighters began a strafing run over the airstrip showering t h e i sland with enemy fire. Austin-Smith ran for cover, diving behin d a s ta ck of unidentified drums, soon discovering they were containe rs of fu e l. He escaped the petrol explosion, but the attack left three planes utte r l y annihilated. Two were aflame, the other was riddled with bullets . Se v eral men, who were most likely known to Austin, were killed. Hi s crew a n d the surviving crew of the destroyed planes picked their f riends bodi e s from the tarmac and retreated to the only plane intact . Austin quickly looked over his aircraft, checking for damage. He disco v e red the plane was hit. The left wing was shot through, resulting i n th e d amage of a foot-wide sheet of its structure. The German fight ers cou ld h ave returned at any time and Austin knew it was not saf e to linger. T h e lives of the remaining crews depended on the swif t departure of the s u rviving plane. He acted fast. Leaving the tarmac, Austin climbed on to the wing and r i p ped the shot piece away and discarded it. The aircraft was loade d and e n gines cranked. Austin piloted his wounded DC3 away from th e damaged ai r strip and away from the carcasses of the other three pl anes. Once Aust i n had flown out of immediate danger, he returned t o the cabin to check h i s passengers. They were fine, playing cards a nd using their fallen com r ades as seats to make the journey more com fortable. Austin later repli e d to this thought: “Such is the way o f warfare.” John Austin-Smith was known in Masterton for setting up Austins Pharma c y , which was situated in a building on a corner of Queen and Perr y stre e ts, now occupied by Sounds Music. To locals he was a nice guy who was a keen golfer known as Austin. Aus t i n’s obituary stated - “NZ402474 RNZAF. 90 Squadron, 267 Squadron . Spec i al OPS, ME Order of the Crown of Yugoslavia 1942, DFC 1943. ” An extrao r dinary history to be briefly mapped out in a small colum n of the paper . Inquiries led to a 30-page book. Apparently Austin never mentioned the war. Until, aged 82, he was conv i n ced by his family to tell his experience and put it on paper. Wha t eve n tuated was titled Memories of an Airman. J.A.H. Austin-Smith . In it wa s r ecorded the career of a wartime hero as he told it. A s traightforwar d a nd simple account of Austin-Smith’s recollection o f his time in Worl d W ar II. Austin grew up in Dannevirke. His family were poor and financially str e t ched through the Depression. His parents struggled to buy books an d un i forms for him to go to college. Money was in short supply and j obs sca r ce. Subsequently, when World War II broke out, it was an exc iting pros p ect for many young men, including a young Austin aged 19. He applied for the air force and managed to join by telling a few whit e l i es. Austin said he almost missed out on the air force altogethe r becau s e his urine test failed. He immediately called upon his heal thier brot h er to help out and sent a second sample. His brother pass ed this test a n d Austin was in turn accepted in July 1940. Over the next eight months he trained throughout New Zealand before h e a n d his friends were shipped away to Canada aboard SS Awatea. Aust in des c ribed the Awatea journey as “the life of luxury” where he wou ld enjoy “ f ive or six-course meals”. He liked it so much he said h e thought: “Wow , i f this is war, wiz oh, I’m all for it”. Over the n ext few months Aus ti n trained in Canada before he once again departe d, this time for Engl a nd. In England he was prepared as a pilot of t he RAF. Austin continued training and was assigned to the new Liberator conver s i on unit, which was to be sent on a special operations job in the M iddl e E ast. He spent only five hours training in the Liberators befo re he a nd h is crew were sent on a long flight to a new base in Fayid . At the t ime , Greece and Yugoslavia lacked communications, the Alli es had no met eo rological or navigational information from the groun d in these countr i es, making flights over this airspace extremely da ngerous. Austin and his squadron’s mission was to fly the two Liberators into t h e se fragile conditions dropping wireless operators, saboteurs and s uppl i es to the partisans who lived in the mountains of German-occupi ed Gree c e and Yugoslavia. It was a difficult ask as Liberators wer e 50-ton sup p ly planes only lightly armed and requiring a lot of pet rol for the lon g f lights from Fayid to Yugoslavia and back. They ha d to pack as much e qu ipment and men on each flight as possible. Cons equently the planes we r e stripped of non-essential weight - 95 perce nt of the ammunition was d i scarded, leaving only 100 rounds in the r ear gun turret. Austin said: “ W e were flying all night over enemy te rritory in aircraft that were lit e rally defenceless. It was a cat-an d-mouse operation.” The Liberator crews had to be elusive and get out of enemy territory b y d a ybreak or they were prime targets. But the enemy wasn’t the onl y dange r . One particular night Austin flew into cloud that was ful l of “severe i c ing” over the Aegean Sea. The Liberator’s instrument s immediately froz e a nd he became disorientated in the thick cloud . He was unaware of his a l titude and unsure if he was going straigh t or off course. Although the a u topilot was on, Austin said his inst inct was to take the stick and alt e r its level. But this action coul d be deadly. Instead, Austin refused t h e itch to grab the controls a nd stood up from his seat to feel the sit u ation. Everything felt nor mal, so he waited it out while de-icing heat e rs kicked in. It remain ed this way for some minutes for what must have b e en an eternity. Ev entually the instruments came back after an intensel y -nervous wait f or Austin in his blind, drifting aircraft. Despite numerous dangers including the weather, anti-aircraft ground f i r e and enemy fighters, Austin wrote: “The thing that caused us th e most c o ncern was a bloody star! Venus!”. It was often mistaken fo r an enemy p l ane. Austin said he knew of some gunners shooting of f a few precaution a ry rounds at the planet, just in case. Eventually, after numerous trips, wireless communication enabled the L i b erators to receive weather forecasts and news of the success of th eir d r ops. The flights were known to be some of the most arduous fli ghts und e r extremely difficult conditions. Austin finished these ope rations wit h 4 46 hours of flying. He flew 19 trips to Yugoslavia an d 13 drops into G r eece. In recognition for the flights into Yugoslavia Austin was awarded th e O r der of the Crown of Yugoslavia on October 20, 1942. This was fol lowed w i th one of the highest honours awarded to pilots, the Disting uished Fly i ng Cross. Austin and his crew were taken off transport duty in October 1943. Th e o d ds must have been in his favour as he was still alive after thi s exten s ive period - of the 56 men he trained with during the earl y stage of t h e war in Canada, only 15 returned home. Perhaps a littl e luck was on h i s side. “Fate played strange tricks in those weird d ays,” he said. Austin was assigned to instructing other pilots how to fly large trans p o rt planes. During the course of one morning Austin finished up ins truc t ing another pilot in a Liberator. He finished the lesson and la nded fo r b reakfast. His good friend, Squadron Leader Rolph-Smith, to ok over th e j ob and took the Liberator up for another lesson. Durin g the plane’s f i rst circuit it struck a Hurricane that was coming in to land, it sliced o f f the Liberator’s tail. “All were killed instan tly.” Austin returned t o f ind he was promoted to squadron leader. Despite the war and all the experiences that came with it, Austin’s Me m o ries are filled with amusing moments. One is when his good frien d thro u ghout the war, Jacko Madill, sent Christmas correspondence t o his fath e r expressing that he was in need of money. His father rep lied by sendi n g him a Christmas cake that hid the only reliable curr ency at the time - g o ld sovereigns. Unfortunately, Jacko’s aunts were also keen to help their nephew’s wa r e f fort. In which case several cakes arrived for Jacko courtesy o f his do t ing aunties. The mass of cakes camouflaged the true identit y of the “r i chest cake”. Austin was called on and together they hack ed up several C h ristmas cakes until they struck gold. The war ended in August 1944 and Austin was posted home. He wrote of o n e o f his last experiences - it happened as he was getting ready t o retu rn t o New Zealand. “ I’d finished for the day, was packing u p to go hom e a nd watching the Liberators coming in to land, at night . Thought that b l oke’s low! He was, the next second , CRASH and flam es. So into my litt l e ute, tore up the road about a quarter mile, ra n across a paddock and h e lped pull one guy away from the burning wre ck. He’d hit something, had n o r oof to his mouth and of course no te eth. And boy, was he hot. The am bu lance arrived, popped him in an d I sat on his tummy all the way to ho s pital trying to dig his teet h out of his throat every time he choked. O f ten wonder what happene d to him. Poor devil.” The next day Austin left for home. He returned via Morocco to Britain , o n t o the Queen Mary, which shipped him to New York where he remai ned fo r s ix weeks before training across America to San Francisco, t hen on a b o at to Noumea before reaching New Zealand. John Austin-Smith left his home town at the age of 19. He travelled th e w o rld and experienced the highs and lows of war, and the comradesh ips th a t were made and lost. He said the memories he made lived in h im foreve r : “They are events I will never forget and experiences an d friendships o n ly war can provide”. He returned home a humble, deco rated hero. As a w a rtime pilot he amassed a total of 1715 flying hou rs. John Austin-Smith p a ssed away last month aged 83. -- MERGED NOTE ------------ Weekly Feature - 1 November 2003 A remarkable story finally shared with family The death of John Austin-Smith, of Masterton, has brought to life thep a s t of a humble but quite extraordinary man. JOSEPH WALLACE spoke wi th h i s family and discovered the exceptional story of a wartime hero .A stor y f illed with humour, intrigue, action and history. DURING World War II, in September 1943, the Allied Navy captured the i s l and of Cos in the Aegean Sea. Not long after this success, pilot J ohn A u stin Henry Smith and the crew of squadron 267 delivered import antback- u p equipment and supplies to the battle-weary navy. The squadron loaded their DC3s and left the Ramat David airport in Isr a e l, heading for the small island just off the southwest coast of Tu rkey . T he four unarmed supply planes slipped undetected through Turk ey’s ne ut ral south coast before Austin and his squadron landed succe ssfully at C o s airstrip. The four planes spread out over the aerodro me andunloaded t h e naval provisions. Austin finished and returned t o his cabin to prepa r e for the departing flight. He settled into th e cockpit and attempted t o s tart the motors. They refused to turn. T he only otheroption was to m an ually crank the motors from outside th e aircraft. Hereturned to the t a rmac and began cranking. That’s whe n he heard five Luftwaffe ME109 fig h ters. The German fighters began a strafing run over the airstrip showering t h e i sland with enemy fire. Austin-Smith ran for cover, diving behind a st ac k of unidentified drums, soon discovering they were container s of fue l . He escaped the petrol explosion, but the attack left three planes utte r l y annihilated. Two were aflame, the other was riddled with bullets .Sev e ral men, who were most likely known to Austin, were killed. Hi s crew a n d the surviving crew of the destroyed planes picked their f riends bodi e s from the tarmac and retreated to the only plane intact . Austin quickly looked over his aircraft, checking for damage. He disco v e red the plane was hit. The left wing was shot through, resulting i nthe d a mage of a foot-wide sheet of its structure. The German fighte rscould h a ve returned at any time and Austin knew it was not safe t o linger. The l i ves of the remaining crews depended on the swift dep artureof the survi v ing plane. He acted fast. Leaving the tarmac, Austin climbed on to the wing and r i p ped the shot piece away and discarded it. The aircraft was loade d and e n gines cranked. Austin piloted his wounded DC3 away from th e damaged ai r strip and away from the carcasses of the other three pl anes. Once Aust i n had flown out of immediate danger, he returned t o the cabin to check h i s passengers. They were fine, playing cards a nd using theirfallen comr a des as seats to make the journey more comf ortable. Austinlater replied t o t his thought: “Such is the way of wa rfare.” John Austin-Smith was known in Masterton for setting up Austins Pharma c y , which was situated in a building on a corner of Queen and Perr y stre e ts, now occupied by Sounds Music. To locals he was a nice guy who was a keen golfer known as Austin. Aus t i n’s obituary stated - “NZ402474 RNZAF. 90 Squadron, 267 Squadron . Spec i al OPS, ME Order of the Crown of Yugoslavia 1942, DFC 1943. ” An extrao r dinary history to be briefly mapped out in a small colum n of the paper . Inquiries led to a 30-page book. Apparently Austin never mentioned the war. Until, aged 82, he was conv i n ced by his family to tell his experience and put it on paper. Wha t eve n tuated was titled Memories of an Airman. J.A.H. Austin-Smith . In it wa s r ecorded the career of a wartime hero as he told it. A s traightforwar d a nd simple account of Austin-Smith’s recollection o f his time in Worl d W ar II. Austin grew up in Dannevirke. His family were poor and financially str e t ched through the Depression. His parents struggled to buy books an duni f orms for him to go to college. Money was in short supply and jo bsscarc e . Subsequently, when World War II broke out, it was an excit ingprospec t f or many young men, including a young Austin aged 19. He applied for the air force and managed to join by telling a few whit e l i es. Austin said he almost missed out on the air force altogethe r becau s e his urine test failed. He immediately called upon his heal thier brot h er to help out and sent a second sample. His brother pass ed this test a n d Austin was in turn accepted in July 1940. Over the next eight months he trained throughout New Zealand before h e a n d his friends were shipped away to Canada aboard SS Awatea. Aust in des c ribed the Awatea journey as “the life of luxury” where he wou ldenjoy “ f ive or six-course meals”. He liked it so much he said he t hought: “Wow , i f this is war, wiz oh, I’m all for it”. Over the nex t few months Aus ti n trained in Canada before he once again departed , this time for Engl a nd. In England he was prepared as a pilot of th e RAF. Austin continued training and was assigned to the new Liberator conver s i on unit, which was to be sent on a special operations job in the M iddl e E ast. He spent only five hours training in the Liberators befo re he a nd h is crew were sent on a long flight to a new base in Fayid . At the t ime , Greece and Yugoslavia lacked communications, the Alli es had no met eo rological or navigational information from the groun d in thesecountri e s, making flights over this airspace extremely dan gerous. Austin and his squadron’s mission was to fly the two Liberators into t h e se fragile conditions dropping wireless operators, saboteurs and s uppl i es to the partisans who lived in the mountains of German-occupi ed Gree c e and Yugoslavia. It was a difficult ask as Liberators wer e 50-ton sup p ly planes only lightly armed and requiring a lot of pet rol for the lon g f lights from Fayid to Yugoslavia and back. They ha d to pack as much e qu ipment and men on each flight as possible. Cons equently theplanes wer e s tripped of non-essential weight - 95 percen t of the ammunition was d is carded, leaving only 100 rounds in the re ar gun turret. Austin said: “ W e were flying all night over enemy ter ritory in aircraft that were lit e rally defenceless. It was a cat-and -mouse operation.” The Liberator crews had to be elusive and get out of enemy territory b y d a ybreak or they were prime targets. But the enemy wasn’t the onl y dange r . One particular night Austin flew into cloud that was ful l of “severe i c ing” over the Aegean Sea. The Liberator’s instrument s immediately froz e a nd he became disorientated in the thick cloud . He was unaware of his a l titude and unsure if he was going straigh t or off course.Although the a u topilot was on, Austin said his insti nct was to take the stick and alt e r its level. But this action coul d be deadly. Instead, Austin refused t h e itch to grab the controls a nd stood up from his seat to feel the sit u ation. Everything felt nor mal, so he waited it out while de-icing heat e rs kicked in. It remain ed this way for some minutes for what must have b e en an eternity. Ev entually the instruments came back after an intensel y -nervous wait f or Austin in his blind, drifting aircraft. Despite numerous dangers including the weather, anti-aircraft ground f i r e and enemy fighters, Austin wrote: “The thing that caused us th e most c o ncern was a bloody star! Venus!”. It was often mistaken fo r an enemy p l ane. Austin said he knew of some gunners shooting of f a few precaution a ry rounds at the planet, just in case. Eventually, after numerous trips, wireless communication enabled the L i b erators to receive weather forecasts and news of the success of th eir d r ops. The flights were known to be some of the most arduous fli ghts und e r extremely difficult conditions. Austin finished these ope rations wit h 4 46 hours of flying. He flew 19 trips to Yugoslavia an d 13 drops into G r eece. In recognition for the flights into Yugoslavia Austin was awarded theO r d er of the Crown of Yugoslavia on October 20, 1942. This was follow ed w i th one of the highest honours awarded to pilots, the Distinguis hed Fly i ng Cross. Austin and his crew were taken off transport duty in October 1943. Th e o d ds must have been in his favour as he was still alive after thi s exten s ive period - of the 56 men he trained with during the earl y stage of t h e war in Canada, only 15 returned home. Perhaps a littl e luck was on h i s side. “Fate played strange tricks in those weird d ays,” he said. Austin was assigned to instructing other pilots how to fly large trans p o rt planes. During the course of one morning Austin finished up ins truc t ing another pilot in a Liberator. He finished the lesson and la nded fo r b reakfast. His good friend, Squadron Leader Rolph-Smith, to ok over th e j ob and took the Liberator up for another lesson. Durin g the plane’s f i rst circuit it struck a Hurricane that was coming in to land, it sliced o f f the Liberator’s tail. “All were killed instan tly.” Austin returned t o f ind he was promoted to squadron leader. Despite the war and all the experiences that came with it, Austin’s Me m o ries are filled with amusing moments. One is when his good frien d thro u ghout the war, Jacko Madill, sent Christmas correspondence t o his fath e r expressing that he was in need of money. His father rep lied by sendi n g him a Christmas cake that hid the only reliable curr ency at the time - g o ld sovereigns. Unfortunately, Jacko’s aunts were also keen to help their nephew’s wa r e f fort. In which case several cakes arrived for Jacko courtesy o f his do t ing aunties. The mass of cakes camouflaged the true identit y of the “r i chest cake”. Austin was called on and together they hack ed up several C h ristmas cakes until they struck gold. The war ended in August 1944 and Austin was posted home. He wrote of o n e o f his last experiences - it happened as he was getting ready t o retu rn t o New Zealand. “ I’d finished for the day, was packing u p to gohome a n d watching the Liberators coming in to land, at night . Thoughtthat blo k e’s low! He was, the next second , CRASH and flame s. So intomy little u t e, tore up the road about a quarter mile, ra n across a paddock and hel p ed pull one guy away from the burning wre ck. He’d hit something, had n o r oof to his mouth and of course no te eth. And boy, washe hot. The amb ul ance arrived, popped him in an d I sat on his tummy all the way to hos p ital trying to dig his teet h out of his throat everytime he choked. Of t en wonder what happene d to him. Poor devil.” The next day Austin left for home. He returned via Morocco to Britain , o n t o the Queen Mary, which shipped him to New York where he remai ned fo r s ix weeks before training across America to San Francisco, t henon a b oa t to Noumea before reaching New Zealand. John Austin-Smith left his home town at the age of 19. He travelled th e w o rld and experienced the highs and lows of war, and the comradesh ips th a t were made and lost. He said the memories he made lived in h im foreve r : “They are events I will never forget and experiences an d friendships o n ly war can provide”. He returned home a humble, deco rated hero. As a w a rtime pilot he amassed a total of 1715 flying hou rs. John Austin-Smith p a ssed away last month aged 83. Weekly Feature - 1 November 2003 A remarkable story finally shared with family The death of John Austin-Smith, of Masterton, has brought to life th e p a st of a humble but quite extraordinary man. JOSEPH WALLACE spok e with h i s family and discovered the exceptional story of a wartim e hero. A sto r y filled with humour, intrigue, action and history. DURING World War II, in September 1943, the Allied Navy captured the i s l and of Cos in the Aegean Sea. Not long after this success, pilot J ohn A u stin Henry Smith and the crew of squadron 267 delivered import ant back - up equipment and supplies to the battle-weary navy. The squadron loaded their DC3s and left the Ramat David airport in Isr a e l, heading for the small island just off the southwest coast of Tu rkey . T he four unarmed supply planes slipped undetected through Turk ey’s ne ut ral south coast before Austin and his squadron landed succe ssfully at C o s airstrip. The four planes spread out over the aerodro me and unloaded t h e naval provisions. Austin finished and returned t o his cabin to prepa r e for the departing flight. He settled into th e cockpit and attempted t o s tart the motors. They refused to turn. T he only other option was to m a nually crank the motors from outside t he aircraft. He returned to the t a rmac and began cranking. That’s wh en he heard five Luftwaffe ME109 fig h ters. The German fighters began a strafing run over the airstrip showering t h e i sland with enemy fire. Austin-Smith ran for cover, diving behin d a s ta ck of unidentified drums, soon discovering they were containe rs of fu e l. He escaped the petrol explosion, but the attack left three planes utte r l y annihilated. Two were aflame, the other was riddled with bullets . Se v eral men, who were most likely known to Austin, were killed. Hi s crew a n d the surviving crew of the destroyed planes picked their f riends bodi e s from the tarmac and retreated to the only plane intact . Austin quickly looked over his aircraft, checking for damage. He disco v e red the plane was hit. The left wing was shot through, resulting i n th e d amage of a foot-wide sheet of its structure. The German fight ers cou ld h ave returned at any time and Austin knew it was not saf e to linger. T h e lives of the remaining crews depended on the swif t departure of the s u rviving plane. He acted fast. Leaving the tarmac, Austin climbed on to the wing and r i p ped the shot piece away and discarded it. The aircraft was loade d and e n gines cranked. Austin piloted his wounded DC3 away from th e damaged ai r strip and away from the carcasses of the other three pl anes. Once Aust i n had flown out of immediate danger, he returned t o the cabin to check h i s passengers. They were fine, playing cards a nd using their fallen com r ades as seats to make the journey more com fortable. Austin later repli e d to this thought: “Such is the way o f warfare.” John Austin-Smith was known in Masterton for setting up Austins Pharma c y , which was situated in a building on a corner of Queen and Perr y stre e ts, now occupied by Sounds Music. To locals he was a nice guy who was a keen golfer known as Austin. Aus t i n’s obituary stated - “NZ402474 RNZAF. 90 Squadron, 267 Squadron . Spec i al OPS, ME Order of the Crown of Yugoslavia 1942, DFC 1943. ” An extrao r dinary history to be briefly mapped out in a small colum n of the paper . Inquiries led to a 30-page book. Apparently Austin never mentioned the war. Until, aged 82, he was conv i n ced by his family to tell his experience and put it on paper. Wha t eve n tuated was titled Memories of an Airman. J.A.H. Austin-Smith . In it wa s r ecorded the career of a wartime hero as he told it. A s traightforwar d a nd simple account of Austin-Smith’s recollection o f his time in Worl d W ar II. Austin grew up in Dannevirke. His family were poor and financially str e t ched through the Depression. His parents struggled to buy books an d un i forms for him to go to college. Money was in short supply and j obs sca r ce. Subsequently, when World War II broke out, it was an exc iting pros p ect for many young men, including a young Austin aged 19. He applied for the air force and managed to join by telling a few whit e l i es. Austin said he almost missed out on the air force altogethe r becau s e his urine test failed. He immediately called upon his heal thier brot h er to help out and sent a second sample. His brother pass ed this test a n d Austin was in turn accepted in July 1940. Over the next eight months he trained throughout New Zealand before h e a n d his friends were shipped away to Canada aboard SS Awatea. Aust in des c ribed the Awatea journey as “the life of luxury” where he wou ld enjoy “ f ive or six-course meals”. He liked it so much he said h e thought: “Wow , i f this is war, wiz oh, I’m all for it”. Over the n ext few months Aus ti n trained in Canada before he once again departe d, this time for Engl a nd. In England he was prepared as a pilot of t he RAF. Austin continued training and was assigned to the new Liberator conver s i on unit, which was to be sent on a special operations job in the M iddl e E ast. He spent only five hours training in the Liberators befo re he a nd h is crew were sent on a long flight to a new base in Fayid . At the t ime , Greece and Yugoslavia lacked communications, the Alli es had no met eo rological or navigational information from the groun d in these countr i es, making flights over this airspace extremely da ngerous. Austin and his squadron’s mission was to fly the two Liberators into t h e se fragile conditions dropping wireless operators, saboteurs and s uppl i es to the partisans who lived in the mountains of German-occupi ed Gree c e and Yugoslavia. It was a difficult ask as Liberators wer e 50-ton sup p ly planes only lightly armed and requiring a lot of pet rol for the lon g f lights from Fayid to Yugoslavia and back. They ha d to pack as much e qu ipment and men on each flight as possible. Cons equently the planes we r e stripped of non-essential weight - 95 perce nt of the ammunition was d i scarded, leaving only 100 rounds in the r ear gun turret. Austin said: “ W e were flying all night over enemy te rritory in aircraft that were lit e rally defenceless. It was a cat-an d-mouse operation.” The Liberator crews had to be elusive and get out of enemy territory b y d a ybreak or they were prime targets. But the enemy wasn’t the onl y dange r . One particular night Austin flew into cloud that was ful l of “severe i c ing” over the Aegean Sea. The Liberator’s instrument s immediately froz e a nd he became disorientated in the thick cloud . He was unaware of his a l titude and unsure if he was going straigh t or off course. Although the a u topilot was on, Austin said his inst inct was to take the stick and alt e r its level. But this action coul d be deadly. Instead, Austin refused t h e itch to grab the controls a nd stood up from his seat to feel the sit u ation. Everything felt nor mal, so he waited it out while de-icing heat e rs kicked in. It remain ed this way for some minutes for what must have b e en an eternity. Ev entually the instruments came back after an intensel y -nervous wait f or Austin in his blind, drifting aircraft. Despite numerous dangers including the weather, anti-aircraft ground f i r e and enemy fighters, Austin wrote: “The thing that caused us th e most c o ncern was a bloody star! Venus!”. It was often mistaken fo r an enemy p l ane. Austin said he knew of some gunners shooting of f a few precaution a ry rounds at the planet, just in case. Eventually, after numerous trips, wireless communication enabled the L i b erators to receive weather forecasts and news of the success of th eir d r ops. The flights were known to be some of the most arduous fli ghts und e r extremely difficult conditions. Austin finished these ope rations wit h 4 46 hours of flying. He flew 19 trips to Yugoslavia an d 13 drops into G r eece. In recognition for the flights into Yugoslavia Austin was awarded th e O r der of the Crown of Yugoslavia on October 20, 1942. This was fol lowed w i th one of the highest honours awarded to pilots, the Disting uished Fly i ng Cross. Austin and his crew were taken off transport duty in October 1943. Th e o d ds must have been in his favour as he was still alive after thi s exten s ive period - of the 56 men he trained with during the earl y stage of t h e war in Canada, only 15 returned home. Perhaps a littl e luck was on h i s side. “Fate played strange tricks in those weird d ays,” he said. Austin was assigned to instructing other pilots how to fly large trans p o rt planes. During the course of one morning Austin finished up ins truc t ing another pilot in a Liberator. He finished the lesson and la nded fo r b reakfast. His good friend, Squadron Leader Rolph-Smith, to ok over th e j ob and took the Liberator up for another lesson. Durin g the plane’s f i rst circuit it struck a Hurricane that was coming in to land, it sliced o f f the Liberator’s tail. “All were killed instan tly.” Austin returned t o f ind he was promoted to squadron leader. Despite the war and all the experiences that came with it, Austin’s Me m o ries are filled with amusing moments. One is when his good frien d thro u ghout the war, Jacko Madill, sent Christmas correspondence t o his fath e r expressing that he was in need of money. His father rep lied by sendi n g him a Christmas cake that hid the only reliable curr ency at the time - g o ld sovereigns. Unfortunately, Jacko’s aunts were also keen to help their nephew’s wa r e f fort. In which case several cakes arrived for Jacko courtesy o f his do t ing aunties. The mass of cakes camouflaged the true identit y of the “r i chest cake”. Austin was called on and together they hack ed up several C h ristmas cakes until they struck gold. The war ended in August 1944 and Austin was posted home. He wrote of o n e o f his last experiences - it happened as he was getting ready t o retu rn t o New Zealand. “ I’d finished for the day, was packing u p to go hom e a nd watching the Liberators coming in to land, at night . Thought that b l oke’s low! He was, the next second , CRASH and flam es. So into my litt l e ute, tore up the road about a quarter mile, ra n across a paddock and h e lped pull one guy away from the burning wre ck. He’d hit something, had n o r oof to his mouth and of course no te eth. And boy, was he hot. The am bu lance arrived, popped him in an d I sat on his tummy all the way to ho s pital trying to dig his teet h out of his throat every time he choked. O f ten wonder what happene d to him. Poor devil.” The next day Austin left for home. He returned via Morocco to Britain , o n t o the Queen Mary, which shipped him to New York where he remai ned fo r s ix weeks before training across America to San Francisco, t hen on a b o at to Noumea before reaching New Zealand. John Austin-Smith left his home town at the age of 19. He travelled th e w o rld and experienced the highs and lows of war, and the comradesh ips th a t were made and lost. He said the memories he made lived in h im foreve r : “They are events I will never forget and experiences an d friendships o n ly war can provide”. He returned home a humble, deco rated hero. As a w a rtime pilot he amassed a total of 1715 flying hou rs. John Austin-Smith p a ssed away last month aged 83. -- MERGED NOTE ------------ Weekly Feature - 1 November 2003 A remarkable story finally shared with family The death of John Austin-Smith, of Masterton, has brought to life thep a s t of a humble but quite extraordinary man. JOSEPH WALLACE spoke wi th h i s family and discovered the exceptional story of a wartime hero .A stor y f illed with humour, intrigue, action and history. DURING World War II, in September 1943, the Allied Navy captured the i s l and of Cos in the Aegean Sea. Not long after this success, pilot J ohn A u stin Henry Smith and the crew of squadron 267 delivered import antback- u p equipment and supplies to the battle-weary navy. The squadron loaded their DC3s and left the Ramat David airport in Isr a e l, heading for the small island just off the southwest coast of Tu rkey . T he four unarmed supply planes slipped undetected through Turk ey’s ne ut ral south coast before Austin and his squadron landed succe ssfully at C o s airstrip. The four planes spread out over the aerodro me andunloaded t h e naval provisions. Austin finished and returned t o his cabin to prepa r e for the departing flight. He settled into th e cockpit and attempted t o s tart the motors. They refused to turn. T he only otheroption was to m an ually crank the motors from outside th e aircraft. Hereturned to the t a rmac and began cranking. That’s whe n he heard five Luftwaffe ME109 fig h ters. The German fighters began a strafing run over the airstrip showering t h e i sland with enemy fire. Austin-Smith ran for cover, diving behind a st ac k of unidentified drums, soon discovering they were container s of fue l . He escaped the petrol explosion, but the attack left three planes utte r l y annihilated. Two were aflame, the other was riddled with bullets .Sev e ral men, who were most likely known to Austin, were killed. Hi s crew a n d the surviving crew of the destroyed planes picked their f riends bodi e s from the tarmac and retreated to the only plane intact . Austin quickly looked over his aircraft, checking for damage. He disco v e red the plane was hit. The left wing was shot through, resulting i nthe d a mage of a foot-wide sheet of its structure. The German fighte rscould h a ve returned at any time and Austin knew it was not safe t o linger. The l i ves of the remaining crews depended on the swift dep artureof the survi v ing plane. He acted fast. Leaving the tarmac, Austin climbed on to the wing and r i p ped the shot piece away and discarded it. The aircraft was loade d and e n gines cranked. Austin piloted his wounded DC3 away from th e damaged ai r strip and away from the carcasses of the other three pl anes. Once Aust i n had flown out of immediate danger, he returned t o the cabin to check h i s passengers. They were fine, playing cards a nd using theirfallen comr a des as seats to make the journey more comf ortable. Austinlater replied t o t his thought: “Such is the way of wa rfare.” John Austin-Smith was known in Masterton for setting up Austins Pharma c y , which was situated in a building on a corner of Queen and Perr y stre e ts, now occupied by Sounds Music. To locals he was a nice guy who was a keen golfer known as Austin. Aus t i n’s obituary stated - “NZ402474 RNZAF. 90 Squadron, 267 Squadron . Spec i al OPS, ME Order of the Crown of Yugoslavia 1942, DFC 1943. ” An extrao r dinary history to be briefly mapped out in a small colum n of the paper . Inquiries led to a 30-page book. Apparently Austin never mentioned the war. Until, aged 82, he was conv i n ced by his family to tell his experience and put it on paper. Wha t eve n tuated was titled Memories of an Airman. J.A.H. Austin-Smith . In it wa s r ecorded the career of a wartime hero as he told it. A s traightforwar d a nd simple account of Austin-Smith’s recollection o f his time in Worl d W ar II. Austin grew up in Dannevirke. His family were poor and financially str e t ched through the Depression. His parents struggled to buy books an duni f orms for him to go to college. Money was in short supply and jo bsscarc e . Subsequently, when World War II broke out, it was an excit ingprospec t f or many young men, including a young Austin aged 19. He applied for the air force and managed to join by telling a few whit e l i es. Austin said he almost missed out on the air force altogethe r becau s e his urine test failed. He immediately called upon his heal thier brot h er to help out and sent a second sample. His brother pass ed this test a n d Austin was in turn accepted in July 1940. Over the next eight months he trained throughout New Zealand before h e a n d his friends were shipped away to Canada aboard SS Awatea. Aust in des c ribed the Awatea journey as “the life of luxury” where he wou ldenjoy “ f ive or six-course meals”. He liked it so much he said he t hought: “Wow , i f this is war, wiz oh, I’m all for it”. Over the nex t few months Aus ti n trained in Canada before he once again departed , this time for Engl a nd. In England he was prepared as a pilot of th e RAF. Austin continued training and was assigned to the new Liberator conver s i on unit, which was to be sent on a special operations job in the M iddl e E ast. He spent only five hours training in the Liberators befo re he a nd h is crew were sent on a long flight to a new base in Fayid . At the t ime , Greece and Yugoslavia lacked communications, the Alli es had no met eo rological or navigational information from the groun d in thesecountri e s, making flights over this airspace extremely dan gerous. Austin and his squadron’s mission was to fly the two Liberators into t h e se fragile conditions dropping wireless operators, saboteurs and s uppl i es to the partisans who lived in the mountains of German-occupi ed Gree c e and Yugoslavia. It was a difficult ask as Liberators wer e 50-ton sup p ly planes only lightly armed and requiring a lot of pet rol for the lon g f lights from Fayid to Yugoslavia and back. They ha d to pack as much e qu ipment and men on each flight as possible. Cons equently theplanes wer e s tripped of non-essential weight - 95 percen t of the ammunition was d is carded, leaving only 100 rounds in the re ar gun turret. Austin said: “ W e were flying all night over enemy ter ritory in aircraft that were lit e rally defenceless. It was a cat-and -mouse operation.” The Liberator crews had to be elusive and get out of enemy territory b y d a ybreak or they were prime targets. But the enemy wasn’t the onl y dange r . One particular night Austin flew into cloud that was ful l of “severe i c ing” over the Aegean Sea. The Liberator’s instrument s immediately froz e a nd he became disorientated in the thick cloud . He was unaware of his a l titude and unsure if he was going straigh t or off course.Although the a u topilot was on, Austin said his insti nct was to take the stick and alt e r its level. But this action coul d be deadly. Instead, Austin refused t h e itch to grab the controls a nd stood up from his seat to feel the sit u ation. Everything felt nor mal, so he waited it out while de-icing heat e rs kicked in. It remain ed this way for some minutes for what must have b e en an eternity. Ev entually the instruments came back after an intensel y -nervous wait f or Austin in his blind, drifting aircraft. Despite numerous dangers including the weather, anti-aircraft ground f i r e and enemy fighters, Austin wrote: “The thing that caused us th e most c o ncern was a bloody star! Venus!”. It was often mistaken fo r an enemy p l ane. Austin said he knew of some gunners shooting of f a few precaution a ry rounds at the planet, just in case. Eventually, after numerous trips, wireless communication enabled the L i b erators to receive weather forecasts and news of the success of th eir d r ops. The flights were known to be some of the most arduous fli ghts und e r extremely difficult conditions. Austin finished these ope rations wit h 4 46 hours of flying. He flew 19 trips to Yugoslavia an d 13 drops into G r eece. In recognition for the flights into Yugoslavia Austin was awarded theO r d er of the Crown of Yugoslavia on October 20, 1942. This was follow ed w i th one of the highest honours awarded to pilots, the Distinguis hed Fly i ng Cross. Austin and his crew were taken off transport duty in October 1943. Th e o d ds must have been in his favour as he was still alive after thi s exten s ive period - of the 56 men he trained with during the earl y stage of t h e war in Canada, only 15 returned home. Perhaps a littl e luck was on h i s side. “Fate played strange tricks in those weird d ays,” he said. Austin was assigned to instructing other pilots how to fly large trans p o rt planes. During the course of one morning Austin finished up ins truc t ing another pilot in a Liberator. He finished the lesson and la nded fo r b reakfast. His good friend, Squadron Leader Rolph-Smith, to ok over th e j ob and took the Liberator up for another lesson. Durin g the plane’s f i rst circuit it struck a Hurricane that was coming in to land, it sliced o f f the Liberator’s tail. “All were killed instan tly.” Austin returned t o f ind he was promoted to squadron leader. Despite the war and all the experiences that came with it, Austin’s Me m o ries are filled with amusing moments. One is when his good frien d thro u ghout the war, Jacko Madill, sent Christmas correspondence t o his fath e r expressing that he was in need of money. His father rep lied by sendi n g him a Christmas cake that hid the only reliable curr ency at the time - g o ld sovereigns. Unfortunately, Jacko’s aunts were also keen to help their nephew’s wa r e f fort. In which case several cakes arrived for Jacko courtesy o f his do t ing aunties. The mass of cakes camouflaged the true identit y of the “r i chest cake”. Austin was called on and together they hack ed up several C h ristmas cakes until they struck gold. The war ended in August 1944 and Austin was posted home. He wrote of o n e o f his last experiences - it happened as he was getting ready t o retu rn t o New Zealand. “ I’d finished for the day, was packing u p to gohome a n d watching the Liberators coming in to land, at night . Thoughtthat blo k e’s low! He was, the next second , CRASH and flame s. So intomy little u t e, tore up the road about a quarter mile, ra n across a paddock and hel p ed pull one guy away from the burning wre ck. He’d hit something, had n o r oof to his mouth and of course no te eth. And boy, washe hot. The amb ul ance arrived, popped him in an d I sat on his tummy all the way to hos p ital trying to dig his teet h out of his throat everytime he choked. Of t en wonder what happene d to him. Poor devil.” The next day Austin left for home. He returned via Morocco to Britain , o n t o the Queen Mary, which shipped him to New York where he remai ned fo r s ix weeks before training across America to San Francisco, t henon a b oa t to Noumea before reaching New Zealand. John Austin-Smith left his home town at the age of 19. He travelled th e w o rld and experienced the highs and lows of war, and the comradesh ips th a t were made and lost. He said the memories he made lived in h im foreve r : “They are events I will never forget and experiences an d friendships o n ly war can provide”. He returned home a humble, deco rated hero. As a w a rtime pilot he amassed a total of 1715 flying hou rs. John Austin-Smith p a ssed away last month aged 83. TEXT: _WEBTAG NAME WebTag URL http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93427436 | AUSTIN-SMITH, John Austin Henry (I4)
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| 80 | William (1766) and his family lived near Dixton, a village near Monmo u th on the Welsh border . John Bradshaw a merchant travelling on bus ine ss took a fancy to young William Wanklyn and offered him work an d took h im to Manchester. The Wanklyns come from the Hereford Worces ter area. W illiam married John Bradshaw's daughter Sarah in 1796 o r 1797 at St. Jo hns Church , Deansgate, Manchester and lived on Quay Street. They ran a business b y t he name of Bradshaw, Hibbert & Wanklyn (JohnBradshaw, James Hibber t and W illiam Wanklyn). They established business interests in Bueno s Aires, A rgentina and most of the family spent time down there. Joh nny Wanklyn a m ember of the family still farms in Argentina. James H ibbert Wanklyn, W illiam James Wanklyn's dad was named after James Hib bert and of course t his is where Hibbert come s from in the family. Mark Wanklyn | WANKLYN, William (I135)
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| 81 | William Leonard Williams, known as Leonard Williams to Pakeha and as M i t a Renata to Maori, was born at Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand , on 2 2 J uly 1829. He was the third child and eldest son of Jane Nel son and h er h usband, William Williams, of the Church Missionary Soci ety. In his e ar ly years Leonard was educated mainly by his father a t the English boy s ' school at Paihia, later at Te Waimate (Waimate N orth), and at the Tu r anga mission station, Poverty Bay, to which hi s parents moved at the e n d of 1839. In 1844 he attended the boys' gr ammar school, part of the S t J ohn's College complex, which Bishop G . A. Selwyn had established at T e W aimate and then shifted to Purewa , Auckland. In November 1847 Willia ms l eft St John's, where he had b een Whytehead scholar, to go to the ev ang elical Magdalen Hall, Oxfor d, England. It would seem to have been Le on ard's own inclination - a s well as being expected by Selwyn and hoped f o r by William William s - that he follow in his father's footsteps. He h a d quite literall y done so in his early teens, accompanying William Wil l iams on sever al of his East Coast journeys. Leonard Williams graduated BA with third-class honours from the Univer s i ty of Oxford in 1852. He then offered himself for service with th e Chu r ch Missionary Society, and after taking a training course at t he CMS c o llege at Islington was admitted to deacon's orders on 22 Ma y 1853. On 1 6 J une 1853 he married Sarah Wanklyn at Witherslack Chap el, Westmorland . O n 6 August of that year he and Sarah sailed in th e Hamilla Mitchell f o r New Zealand, arriving at Auckland on 30 Novem ber. After visiting oth e r members of the Williams clan in the Bay o f Islands he took up missio n d uties with his father at Whakato, th e Turanga station, in February 1 85 4. Selwyn admitted him to priest' s orders at Lyttelton on 21 December 1 8 56. Williams had been especially commissioned by the London CMS to undert a k e the systematic training of Maori students with a view to recruit ing t h e men as ordinands to the ministry and the women as their wive s. He he l d firmly to the missionary belief that in order to be train ed, Maori h a d to be removed from their own villages where 'their ow n careless way' w o uld constantly interrupt that training. New habits , he hoped, would 'r a ise them a little in the social scale' and enab le them better to instr u ct their own people. At Whakato there was in sufficient land to support t h is live-in, self-supporting training ce ntre and when Te Whanau-a-Taupa r a hapu of Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki offere d a block of 593 acres at Waerenga - a-hika, about eight miles furthe r inland, the offer was accepted. The g o vernment, however, would no t recognise the validity of any title not c o nferred by the Crown, an d as Williams was to write later, 'Nothing was f u rther from the thou ghts of the natives than that the Crown should be a l lowed to get an y footing in the district'. Somewhat grudgingly a deed o f c ession t o the Crown was eventually signed in April 1857. The move to W a ereng a-a-hika was made in May, when William and Jane Williams as wel l a s L eonard and Sarah took up residence there. To begin with, its s chools h a d about 50 students. By 1860 numbers had doubled and Maor i of the newl y f ormed Waiapu diocese were increasingly making provis ion for an endow me nt fund to support their future Maori pastors. But the circumstances under which Waerenga-a-hika was founded were no t a u spicious for its future. Ngati Kaipoho and Ngati Maru of Rongowh akaata h a d been opposed to the move from Whakato, and Te Aitanga-a-M ahaki found t h at although it was they who had ceded the land, the sc hools were more p a rticularly for Maori from other parts of the dioce se. There were also o t her disquieting factors. Increased Maori--trad er contact had made drun k enness commonplace, and Christianity was lo sing its appeal. Williams a t tributed this to the fact that the nativ e teachers had not sufficient c o mmand of English to read English boo ks and consequently were inclined t o ' vegetate and grow stale'. In s ome districts a sub-Christian cult, Ko wh iowhio - communicating wit h the dead - replaced mission practice. Wil l iams did not think tha t the 1860--61 Taranaki war greatly affected the W a iapu diocese. The re was sympathy for Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake, and Ng a ti Porou wer e divided for and against the Maori king, but there was no h o stilit y shown to the few Pakeha settlers. Williams was convinced tha t t h e prevalent hostility to the government was because it had adopt ed a p o licy of non-interference in disputes which broke out in 'nati ve distri c ts': 'The Natives have thus been deprived of one of the mo st important p r ivileges involved in their becoming British subjects , and the advantag e o f living under a regular Government has not bee n appreciated by them b e cause they have not enjoyed it'. In 1862 Leonard Williams became archdeacon of Waiapu. His father, no w b i shop of Waiapu, had long considered him the only suitable perso n to su p erintend the Maori clergy, but because of their relationshi p had held b a ck the appointment until he had Selwyn's full concurren ce. The incursion of a group of Hauhau into Poverty Bay in March 1865 caus e d a c omplete disruption of missionary work. The groundswell of dise ncha ntme nt with Christianity and disaffection with the government ha d not p rep ared either William or Leonard Williams for the sudden an d almost co mp lete swing of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki t o an initial emb r ace of the Pai Marire faith. Pockets of mission sup porters remained al o ng the East Coast and to a lesser degree withi n Poverty Bay. To encour a ge these communities to remain steadfast, L eonard Williams remained wh e n William Williams and the rest of the f amily left Poverty Bay for Nap i er at the beginning of April. Leonar d Williams hoped to remain quietly a t W aerenga-a-hika to continue wi th the schools and convince local Maori t o r eturn to Christianity. B ut, he wrote in his journal, he and his fath er ' seemed to be conside redÉscapegoats on whom might be laid all the bl ame o f the present un satisfactory state of the district'. Thirty-five mission students left Poverty Bay on 22 August 1865 fo r a t e mporary school, which William Williams had begun at Horotutu , near Pai h ia. During the same month Leonard Williams moved into a c ottage, Waika h ua, which he had had built on Kaiti Hill near the mout h of the Turanga n ui River. Support for Christianity now meant suppor t for the Crown and W i lliams considered the arrival of militia and m ilitary settlers favoura b ly, although some of the Maori supporters o f the mission and the gover n ment suggested to him that Christianit y and Pai Marire should be allow e d to coexist. He also had the welfa re of the Poverty Bay settlers to c o nsider. Hauhau raids on their fa rms had forced them to seek shelter in t h e relative safety of Turang anui where there was a redoubt and a pa. Wi l liams found himself th e 'father of a huge family. All these women & ch i ldrenÉin a state o f utter confusion to say nothing of the Maori part o f t he communit y and all looking up to me as the pakeke [elder].' After Te Kooti's raid at Matawhero on 10 November 1868, Williams strov e t o k eep up the morale of settlers and Maori. His own life was neve r thre at ened as he continued to make coastal journeys. He urged J. C . Richmon d , who was acting as native minister, to allow a large forc e of Ngati P o rou to garrison Turanganui and occupy some of the adjoi ning land. Prev i ously he had been critical of land confiscation a s a penalty on Povert y B ay Maori who had supported the Hauhau, but a fter the fighting agains t T e Kooti he could see no alternative whic h would satisfy those Maori w h o had supported the government and det er aggressors. The Waiapu diocese had been created as a particularly Maori one and Pa k e ha participation was limited to missionary clergy. But with the in crea s e of European settlement following land confiscation and with t he town s hip of Gisborne planned, Williams thought that Pakeha woul d soon take t h e lead in synod administration. He therefore set abou t establishing na t ive church boards which would be entirely concerne d with Maori church m a tters. The first of these met at Turanganui o n 31 October 1870. When i l l health caused William Williams to resig n as bishop of Waiapu in May 1 8 76, Leonard Williams was nominated a s his successor. He declined at th i s time, determined to devote hims elf to building up the Maori church w i thin the diocese, and Gisborn e (incorporating Turanganui) was a better c e ntre from which to achie ve this than the episcopal seat at Napier. Throughout the 1870s Williams pursued his quest for improved Maori edu c a tion. He set up village schools which he hoped would be free of go vern m ent assistance and interference, but because of inadequate fund ing and i r regular attendance they were not successful. In 1870 Willi ams bought s o me suburban sections in Gisborne where he built Te Ra u Kahikatea, whic h b ecame his family home from 1877 until 1894. It w as also to be the nu cl eus of Te Rau College, built with money from p roperty transferred to t h e New Zealand Mission Trust Board by the Lo ndon-based Church Missionar y S ociety. This Maori theological colleg e was officially opened in 1885 . I n 1890 the school for Maori boys r ecommenced in the refurbished Will ia ms homestead at Waerenga-a-hika. Williams was consecrated bishop of Waiapu in Napier cathedral on 20 Ja n u ary 1895. In 1897, while attending an Anglican conference at Lambe th, h e r eceived the honorary degree of doctor of divinity from Oxfor d univer si ty. As bishop he still travelled indefatigably on horsebac k over the r o ugh tracks of his unwieldy diocese, which consisted o f Bay of Plenty w i th hinterland stretching to Taupo, East Coast--Pov erty Bay and Hawke's B a y, all isolated from each other by mountainou s country. He resigned in 1 9 09 when he felt he was no longer able t o make these arduous journeys. W i lliams died suddenly at Taumata, hi s Napier residence, on 24 August 19 1 6. Sarah Williams had died at Na pier on 18 December 1894. There were 1 0 c hildren from their marriage . Within his lifetime Leonard Williams had seen the flowering of the CM S m i ssion on the East Coast when Christianity had been the fashion , and th e n its dissolution into small communities not unlike the set tler parish e s. He found it impossible to make any impression on th e generation tha t h ad abandoned Christianity, and he acknowledged th at the Ringatu fait h o f Te Kooti and his followers had 'sprung fro m a desireÉto find for t he mselves a religion which shall be differen t from that which is profes s ed by those with whom they have been a t war'. He also conceded that 'p o litical feeling' had antagonised ma ny Maori, giving them the notion th a t missionaries had come 'simpl y as agents of the English Government, t o p repare the way for coloni zation'. Williams carried on his father's intensive study of the Maori language . T h e third and fourth editions of A dictionary of the New Zealand l anguag e ( 1871 and 1892) are his work. His First lessons in the Maor i language f i rst appeared in 1862. East Coast (NZ) historical record s was published i n 1 932, after his death. At various times he worke d with his father and R o bert Maunsell revising the Maori Old and Ne w testaments and prayer boo k . On his journeys he regularly collecte d plant specimens and forwarded t h em, initially, to J. D. Hooker o f the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, an d l ater to T. F. Cheeseman o f the Auckland Institute and Museum. He als o a ssisted Cheeseman by c ompiling lists of Maori plant names for inclus io n in his Manual of t he New Zealand flora. Williams contributed over a w i de range of subj ects to the Journal of the Polynesian Society and to t h e Transaction s and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. At the ti m e of his d eath he was regarded as probably the most eminent Maori scho l ar of h is generation. Leonard Williams was a kindly man, quietly spoken but firm in his conv i c tions, who made light of physical hardship. Occasionally traveller s in t h e remote mountainous hinterland of Poverty Bay would come acr oss one o r t wo Maori riders accompanying a Pakeha of singular appear ance - tall a n d spare with a dramatic waist-length beard - leadin g a packhorse. They w e re surprised to learn that they had met the ar chdeacon or, for a few y e ars, the bishop of Waiapu on visitation. -- MERGED NOTE ------------ William Leonard Williams, known as Leonard Williams to Pakeha and as M i t a Renata to Maori, was born at Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand ,on 2 2 J uly 1829. He was the third child and eldest son of Jane Nels onand he r h usband, William Williams, of the Church Missionary Societ y. In his e ar ly years Leonard was educated mainly by his father at t he English boy s ' school at Paihia, later at Te Waimate (Waimate Nort h), andat the Tur a nga mission station, Poverty Bay, to which his par ents moved at the en d o f 1839. In 1844 he attended the boys' gramma r school, part of the St J o hn's College complex, which Bishop G. A . Selwyn had established at Te W a imate and then shifted to Purewa, A uckland. In November 1847 Williams l e ft St John's, where he had bee n Whytehead scholar,to go to the evangel i cal Magdalen Hall, Oxford , England. It would seem to have been Leonard ' s own inclination - a s well as being expected by Selwyn and hoped for b y W illiam William s - that he follow in his father's footsteps. He had q ui te literall y done so in his early teens, accompanying William William s o n sever al of his East Coast journeys. Leonard Williams graduated BA with third-class honours from the Univer s i ty of Oxford in 1852. He then offered himself for service with th e Chu r ch Missionary Society, and after taking a training course at t he CMS c o llege at Islington was admitted to deacon's orders on 22 Ma y 1853. On 1 6 J une 1853 he married Sarah Wanklyn at Witherslack Chap el, Westmorland . O n 6 August of that year he and Sarah sailed in th e Hamilla Mitchell f o r New Zealand, arriving at Auckland on 30 Novem ber. After visiting oth e r members of the Williams clan in the Bay o f Islands he took up missio n d uties with his father at Whakato, th e Turanga station, in February 1 85 4. Selwyn admitted him to priest' s orders at Lyttelton on 21 December 1 8 56. Williams had been especially commissioned by the London CMS to underta k e t he systematic training of Maori students with a view to recruiti ng t he m en as ordinands to the ministry and the women as their wives . He he ld f irmly to the missionary belief that in order to be traine d, Maori h ad t o be removed from their own villages where 'their ow n careless way' w o uld constantly interrupt that training. New habits , he hoped, would 'r a ise them a little in the social scale' and enab le them better to instr u ct their own people. At Whakato there was in sufficient land to support t h is live-in, self-supporting training ce ntre and when Te Whanau-a-Taupa r a hapu of Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki offere d a block of 593acres at Waerenga- a -hika, about eight miles furthe r inland, the offerwas accepted. The go v ernment, however, would no t recognise the validity of any title not co n ferred by the Crown, an d as Williams was to write later, 'Nothing was f u rther from the thou ghts of the natives than that the Crown should be a l lowed to get an y footing in the district'. Somewhat grudgingly a deed o f c ession t o the Crown was eventually signed in April 1857. The move to W a ereng a-a-hika was made in May, when William and Jane Williams as wel l a s L eonard and Sarah took up residencethere. To begin with, its sc hools h a d about 50 students. By 1860 numbers had doubled and Maori o f the newl y f ormed Waiapu diocese were increasingly making provisio n for an endow me nt fund to support their future Maori pastors. But the circumstances under which Waerenga-a-hika was founded were no t a u spicious for its future. Ngati Kaipoho and Ngati Maru of Rongowh akaata h a d been opposed to the move from Whakato, and Te Aitanga-a-M ahaki found t h at although it was they who had ceded the land, the sc hoolswere more p a rticularly for Maori from other parts of the dioces e. There were also o t her disquieting factors. Increased Maori--trade r contact had made drun k enness commonplace, and Christianity was los ing its appeal. Williams a t tributed this to the fact that the nativ e teachers had not sufficient c o mmand of English to read English boo ks and consequently were inclined t o ' vegetate and grow stale'. In s ome districts a sub-Christian cult, Ko wh iowhio - communicating wit h the dead - replaced mission practice. Wil l iams did not think tha t the 1860--61 Taranakiwar greatly affected the W a iapu diocese. Ther e was sympathy for Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake, and Ng a ti Porou were d ivided for and against the Maori king, but there was no h o stility sh own to the few Pakeha settlers. Williams was convinced that t h e prev alent hostility to the government was because it had adopted a p o lic y of non-interference in disputes which broke out in 'native distr i c ts': 'The Natives have thus beendeprived of one of the most import ant p r ivileges involved in their becoming British subjects, and th e advantag e o f living under a regular Government has not been apprec iated by them b e cause they have not enjoyed it'. In 1862 Leonard Williams became archdeacon of Waiapu. His father, nowb i s hop of Waiapu, had long considered him the only suitable person to supe r intend the Maori clergy, but because of their relationship ha d held ba c k the appointment until he had Selwyn's full concurrence. The incursion of a group of Hauhau into Poverty Bay in March 1865 caus e d a c omplete disruption of missionary work. The groundswell of dise ncha ntme nt with Christianity and disaffection with the government ha d not p rep ared either William or Leonard Williams for the sudden an d almost co mp lete swing of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki t o an initial emb r ace of the Pai Marire faith. Pockets of mission sup porters remained al o ng the East Coast and to a lesser degree withi n Poverty Bay. To encour a ge these communities to remain steadfast, L eonard Williams remained wh e n William Williams and the rest of the f amily left Poverty Bay for Nap i er at the beginning of April. Leonar d Williams hoped to remain quietly a t W aerenga-a-hika to continue wi th the schools and convince local Maori t o r eturn to Christianity. B ut, he wrote in his journal, he and his fath er ' seemed to be conside redÉscapegoats on whom mightbe laid all the bla me o f the present uns atisfactory state of the district'. Thirty-five mission students left Poverty Bay on 22 August 1865 for at e m porary school, which William Williams had begun at Horotutu, nea r Paih i a. During the same month Leonard Williams moved into a cottag e, Waikah u a, which he had had built on Kaiti Hill near the mouth o f the Turangan u i River. Support for Christianity now meant support f or the Crown and W i lliams considered the arrival of militia and mili tary settlers favoura b ly, although some of the Maori supporters of t he mission and the gover n ment suggested to him that Christianity an d Pai Marire should be allow e d to coexist. He also had the welfare o f the Poverty Baysettlers to co n sider. Hauhau raids on their farms h ad forced them to seek shelter in t h e relative safety of Turanganu i where there was a redoubt and a pa. Wi l liams found himself the 'fa ther of a huge family. All these women & ch i ldrenÉin a state of utte r confusion to say nothingof the Maori part of t h e community and al l looking up to me as the pakeke [elder].' After Te Kooti's raid at Matawhero on 10 November 1868, Williams strov e t o k eep up the morale of settlers and Maori. His own life was neve rthrea te ned as he continued to make coastal journeys. He urged J. C . Richmond , w ho was acting as native minister, to allow a large forc e of Ngati Po ro u to garrison Turanganui and occupy some of the adjoi ning land. Previ o usly he had been critical of land confiscation a s a penalty on Poverty B a y Maori who had supported the Hauhau, but a fter the fighting against T e K ooti he could see no alternative whic h would satisfy those Maori who h a d supported the government and det er aggressors. The Waiapu diocese had been created as a particularly Maori one and Pa k e ha participation was limited to missionary clergy. But with the in crea s e of European settlement following land confiscation and with t he town s hip of Gisborne planned, Williams thought that Pakeha woul d soon take t h e lead in synod administration. He therefore set abou t establishing na t ive church boards which would be entirely concerne d with Maorichurch m a tters. The first of these met at Turanganui o n 31 October 1870. When i l l health caused William Williams to resig n as bishop of Waiapu in May 1 8 76, Leonard Williams was nominated a s his successor. He declined at th i s time, determined to devote hims elf to building up the Maori church w i thin the diocese, and Gisborn e (incorporating Turanganui) was a better c e ntre from which to achie ve this than the episcopal seat at Napier. Throughout the 1870s Williams pursued his quest for improved Maori edu c a tion. He set up village schools which he hoped would be free of go vern m ent assistance and interference, but because of inadequate fund ingand i r regular attendance they were not successful. In 1870 Willia ms bought s o me suburban sections in Gisborne where he built Te Rau K ahikatea, whic h b ecame his family home from 1877 until 1894. It wa s also to be the nu cl eus of Te Rau College, built with money from pr operty transferred to t h e New Zealand Mission Trust Board by the Lon don-based Church Missionar y S ociety. This Maori theological colleg e was officially opened in 1885 . I n 1890 the school for Maori boys r ecommenced in the refurbished Will ia ms homestead at Waerenga-a-hika. Williams was consecrated bishop of Waiapu in Napier cathedral on 20 Ja n u ary 1895. In 1897, while attending an Anglican conference at Lambe th, h e r eceived the honorary degree of doctor of divinity from Oxfor d univer si ty. As bishop he still travelled indefatigably on horsebac k over the r o ugh tracks of his unwieldy diocese, which consisted o f Bay ofPlenty wi t h hinterland stretching to Taupo, East Coast--Pove rty Bay and Hawke's B a y, all isolated from each other by mountainou s country. He resigned in 1 9 09 when he felt he was no longer able t o make these arduous journeys. W i lliams died suddenly at Taumata, hi s Napier residence, on 24 August 19 1 6. Sarah Williams had died at Na pier on 18 December 1894. There were 1 0 c hildren from their marriage . Within his lifetime Leonard Williams had seen the flowering of the CM S m i ssion on the East Coast when Christianity had been the fashion , and th e n its dissolution into small communities not unlike the set tler parish e s. He found it impossible to make any impression on th e generation tha t h ad abandoned Christianity, and he acknowledged th at the Ringatu fait h o f Te Kooti and his followers had 'sprung fro m a desireÉto find for t he mselves a religion which shall be differen t from that whichis profess e d by those with whom they have been at w ar'. He also conceded that 'po l itical feeling' had antagonised man y Maori, giving them the notion tha t m issionaries had come 'simply a s agents of the English Government, to p r epare the way for colonizat ion'. Williams carried on his father's intensive study of the Maori language . T h e third and fourth editions of A dictionary of the New Zealand l anguag e ( 1871 and 1892) are his work. His First lessons in the Maor i language f i rst appeared in 1862. East Coast (NZ) historical record s was published i n 1 932, after his death. At various times he worke d with his father and R o bert Maunsell revising the Maori Old and Ne w testaments and prayer boo k . On his journeys he regularly collecte d plant specimens and forwarded t h em, initially, to J. D. Hooker o f the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, an d l ater to T. F. Cheeseman o f the Auckland Institute and Museum. He als o a ssisted Cheeseman by c ompiling lists of Maoriplant names for inclusi on i n his Manual of th e New Zealand flora. Williams contributed over a w id e range of subje cts to the Journal of the Polynesian Society and to t h e Transaction s and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. At the ti m e of his d eath he was regarded as probably the most eminent Maori scho l ar of h is generation. Leonard Williams was a kindly man, quietly spoken but firm in his conv i c tions, who made light of physical hardship. Occasionally traveller sin t h e remote mountainous hinterland of Poverty Bay would come acro ssone or t w o Maori riders accompanying a Pakeha of singular appearan ce- tall and s p are with a dramatic waist-length beard - leading a pa ckhorse. They wer e s urprised to learn that they had met the archdeac on or, for a few yea rs , the bishop of Waiapu on visitation. From http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WilThro-t1-body-d16. h tml#n131 William Leonard Williams completed his studies at Magdalen Hall, now H e rtford College, Oxford, while his father and mother were in England , an d sat for his examinations in June, 1852. After taking his B.A. D egree w ith honours he offered himself to the Church Missionary Societ y for ser vice in the New Zealand Mission, and was duly accepted. Afte r taking a c ourse of Theological training at the Church Missionary Co llege at Islin gton he was admitted to Deacon's Orders by the Bishop o f London on Marc h 22nd, 1853. When visiting his aunt, Mrs. Heathcote, at Southwell, Leonard had me t t he daughters of Mr. J. B. Wanklyn of Halecat, Westmoreland. They h ad pr eviously been pupils at Mrs. Heathcote's School, and two of the m at tim es afterwards used to visit Mrs. Heathcote and assist in he r work. This a cquaintance led later to Leonard's marriage with Miss S arah Wanklyn, wh ich with the approval of both families was celebrate d at Witherslack Ch urch on June 6th, 1853. After the wedding a shor t honeymoon was spent i n the English Lake District. Rev. W. L. and Mrs. Williams embarked at Gravesend on August 15th, 185 3 , on the Hamilla Mitchell, a ship of 540 tons. They spent the next d ay a rranging their cabin for the voyage. Captain Bradley came on boar d duri ng the afternoon, and on the morning of August 17th the tug boa t towed t hem down the river to an anchorage off Deal, whence they se t sail the f ollowing morning. They had a complement of 48 passenger s of whom 18 adu lts and 11 children were in the cuddy. On August 22n d they were off Ply mouth. Later they sighted the Madeira Islands, fro m which they were abl e to send their first letters back to the Old Co untry. After variable winds and weather, on September 23rd they reached the L i ne, where they received the customary visit from Neptune and his par ty. R ev. Leonard Williams and Rev. A. Stock, a fellow-passenger, shar ed the d uties of Ship's Chaplain, and Mrs. Williams held a Sunday cla ss for the c hildren. The voyage generally was without remarkable inci dent. A mild e xcitement was caused at times by the capture of fish, a lso of an albatr oss with a PAGE 132 wing spread of 10 feet 7 inches , and other birds. T hey dropped | WILLIAMS, William Leonard (I32)
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| 87 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1841 Scotland Census Records (Name: Online public ation - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original da ta - 1841 S cotland Census. Edinburgh, Scotland: General Register Offi ce for Scotla nd. Reels 1-151. General Register Office for Scotland, E dinburgh, Scotl and.Original data: 18;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1841 Scotland Census Records (Name: Online public ation - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original da ta - 1841 S cotland Census. Edinburgh, Scotland: General Register Offi ce for Scotla nd. Reels 1-151. General Register Office for Scotland, E dinburgh, Scotl and.Original data: 18;). _TMPLT: | Source (S37)
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| 88 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1851 England Census Records (Name: Online publica tion - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original dat a - Census R eturns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England : The National A rchives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) , 1851. Data imaged f rom the National A;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1851 England Census Records (Name: Online publica tion - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original dat a - Census R eturns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England : The National A rchives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) , 1851. Data imaged f rom the National A;). _TMPLT: | Source (S48)
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| 89 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1851 Scotland Census (Name: Ancestry.com Operatio ns Inc; L ocation: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1851 Scotland Census (Name: Ancestry.com Operatio ns Inc; L ocation: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). _TMPLT: | Source (S59)
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| 90 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1851 Scotland Census Records (Name: Online public ation - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original da ta - Scotla nd. 1851 Scotland Census. Reels 1-217. General Register Of fice for Scot land, Edinburgh, Scotland.Original data: Scotland. 185 1 Scotland Census . Reels 1-217. Genera;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1851 Scotland Census Records (Name: Online public ation - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original da ta - Scotla nd. 1851 Scotland Census. Reels 1-217. General Register Of fice for Scot land, Edinburgh, Scotland.Original data: Scotland. 185 1 Scotland Census . Reels 1-217. Genera;). _TMPLT: | Source (S70)
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| 91 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1861 England Census Records (Name: Online publica tion - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original dat a - Census R eturns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England : The National A rchives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) , 1861. Data imaged f rom The National A;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1861 England Census Records (Name: Online publica tion - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original dat a - Census R eturns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England : The National A rchives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) , 1861. Data imaged f rom The National A;). _TMPLT: | Source (S81)
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| 92 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1861 Scotland Census (Name: Ancestry.com Operatio ns Inc; L ocation: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1861 Scotland Census (Name: Ancestry.com Operatio ns Inc; L ocation: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). _TMPLT: | Source (S92)
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| 93 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1861 Scotland Census Records (Name: Ancestry.co m Operatio ns Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1861 Scotland Census Records (Name: Ancestry.co m Operatio ns Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). _TMPLT: | Source (S103)
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| 94 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1871 England Census Records (Name: Online publica tion - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original dat a - Census R eturns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England : The National A rchives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) , 1871. Data imaged f rom the National A;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1871 England Census Records (Name: Online publica tion - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original dat a - Census R eturns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England : The National A rchives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO) , 1871. Data imaged f rom the National A;). _TMPLT: | Source (S3)
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| 95 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1871 Scotland Census Records (Name: Ancestry.co m Operatio ns Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1871 Scotland Census Records (Name: Ancestry.co m Operatio ns Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;). _TMPLT: | Source (S14)
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| 96 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1891 Scotland Census Records (Name: Online public ation - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original da ta - Scotla nd. 1891 Scotland Census. Reels 1-409. General Register Of fice for Scot land, Edinburgh, Scotland.Original data: Scotland. 189 1 Scotland Census . Reels 1-409. Genera;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1891 Scotland Census Records (Name: Online public ation - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original da ta - Scotla nd. 1891 Scotland Census. Reels 1-409. General Register Of fice for Scot land, Edinburgh, Scotland.Original data: Scotland. 189 1 Scotland Census . Reels 1-409. Genera;). _TMPLT: | Source (S18)
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| 97 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, 1901 Scotland Census Records (Name: Online public ation - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original da ta - Scotla nd. 1901 Scotland Census. Reels 1-446. General Register Of fice for Scot land, Edinburgh, Scotland.Original data: Scotland. 190 1 Scotland Census . Reels 1-446. Genera;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, 1901 Scotland Census Records (Name: Online public ation - P rovo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original da ta - Scotla nd. 1901 Scotland Census. Reels 1-446. General Register Of fice for Scot land, Edinburgh, Scotland.Original data: Scotland. 190 1 Scotland Census . Reels 1-446. Genera;). _TMPLT: | Source (S19)
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| 98 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 (Name: Online pu blicatio n - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Origi nal data - C ompiled from publicly available sources.Original data: Co mpiled from pu blicly available sources.;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 (Name: Online pu blicatio n - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Origi nal data - C ompiled from publicly available sources.Original data: Co mpiled from pu blicly available sources.;). _TMPLT: | Source (S24)
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| 99 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957 (N ame: Onl ine publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc , 2008-201 1.Original data - View all sources.Original data: View al l sources;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957 (N ame: Onl ine publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc , 2008-201 1.Original data - View all sources.Original data: View al l sources;). _TMPLT: | Source (S29)
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| 100 | _SUBQ: Ancestry.com, England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 (N ame: Onl ine publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc , 2008.Ori ginal data - Genealogical Society of Utah. British Isles Vi tal Records I ndex, 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Re serve, copyrigh t 2002. Used by permission.Original dat;) _BIBL: Ancestry.com, England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 (N ame: Onl ine publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc , 2008.Ori ginal data - Genealogical Society of Utah. British Isles Vi tal Records I ndex, 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Re serve, copyrigh t 2002. Used by permission.Original dat;). _TMPLT: | Source (S38)
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