Gloy Deadman kindly donated this piece of research, as a manuscript, to the Wellington Branch NZSG in 2024. It documents the descendants of Peter MacDonald (born 1856) who emigrated to New Zealand. We have removed references to living people to make it freely available to members and the public via our website. Gloy has given us permission to use her name and details. The Wellington Branch NZSG has not authenticated this research in any way and makes no claims as to its accuracy. List of family names These names are taken from the family tree. There are many other more recent names mentioned in the document. Surname First name Birth year McDonald Hugh   McDonald Neil 1788 McLean Catharine   McDonald Peter 1804 McPhail Julie Ann   McDonald Effy 1804 McDonald Allan 1808 McDonald Mary 1810 McDonald Donald 1812 McDonald Malcom 1815 McDonald Archibald 1816 McDonald Isabella Harriet 1824 McDonald Hugh Ewen 1825 McDonald Susannah 1827 McDonald Alexander (Sandy) 1828 McLean Margaret   McDonald Donald 1829 McDonald Mary Flora 1831 McDonald Archibald 1833 McDonald Duncan 1836 Clews Sarah Jane   McDonald Catharine 1838 McDonald Donald 1840 McDonald Alexander 1841 McDonald Peter 1856 McDonald Johanna 1858 McDonald Alexander 1862 McDonald Charlotte Brodie 1864 McDonald Giles 1867 McDonald Mary 1869 McDonald Neil 1870 McDonald Elizabeth Alice 1869 McDonald Mary Flora 1871 McDonald Duncan 1872 McDonald Marie Anne 1974 McDonald Duncan Robert William 1877 McDonald Peter 1880 McDonald Julia Ann 1881 McDonald Annie May 1883 McDonald Alred Ewen 1885 McDonald Grace Isabella Pauline 1887 McDonald Ernest Edward 1894 McDonald Alexander 1895 McDonald Elsie Evelyn 1897 McDonald Ann Marjorie 1899 McDonald Rosella May 1902 McDonald Kenneth Harold Alexander 1904 McDonald Gladys Ida 1908 McDonald Jean Doris Golding 1912 McDonald Noeline May Clews 1913 McDonald Eric Duncan 1915 McDonald Rita Lillian 1916 McDonald Essie Grace 1915 McDonald Duncan William 1923 McDonald Gloy Amy 1936

By Prue Theobold I started researching my Uncle Jack, Jack Richard HUTCHISON, some time ago. He was born on the 10 December 1910. I knew he was gay and I met him and his partner Paul along time ago. Paul and Jack had visited our family in Rangiora sometime in the 1970s. Uncle Jack was a short man and Paul, his partner, was a little taller. They would have travelled down from Auckland where they lived to visit our family in Rangiora. I knew Uncle Jack was an artist and Paul was a composer of music as Paul ROGERS had some musical scores for the piano which he gave to the family. My Mum had told me Uncle Jack was tailor, but when researching Electoral Rolls, I discovered other occupations, such as Factory Worker in 1975 and in the 1930s Monumental Mason or Stone Mason. On discovering this, I recalled a story of how Uncle Jack had a hand in the sculpture in Christchurch, the WWI memorial next to Christ Church Cathedral. As reported in the Christchurch Star, on the 8 August 2022, when workers were removing the memorial they found a glass bottle with a note placed inside on which they found a list of names of the sculptors that put the memorial together. So now I had proof that Uncle Jack had been involved in the making of this memorial. The monument was designed by William Trethewey, and it is known that he used some the art students to work on the monument. On receiving a copy of Uncle Jack’s Army file, I have found he worked at Luke Adams Ltd, a pottery company in Christchurch. There are several of his pots in the Quartz Museum in Whanganui which the museum has purchased over time. I recently visited the museum and took photos of all his works there. On joining the Army, he requested a position in the Medical Corp and was placed in the Dental Corp. Presumably his skills in working with clay would have made a candidate for this division. Uncle Jack died on 27 August 1987 and is buried in Waikumete Soldiers Lawn Cemetery, Auckland. Prue Theobald

James John Messer’s Early life : James John MESSER was my husband’s 3X great-grandfather. He was born in late 1805 and was baptised on 12 January 1806 in “St George-in-the-East” parish church in London. The church is in Shadwell, about 20 minutes’ walk east of Tower Bridge. His parents were James John Messer (senior) and Darcy Messer (formerly BIRD). James John senior was a cordwainer, so someone who made new shoes. James John was the eldest (I think) of their children. They seemed to have trouble thinking of new names for their children because they were called:   James John b 1805 William George b 1814 Elizabeth Frances b 1822 Ann Mary b 1808 George William b 1816 Catherine Alice b 1825 Mary Ann b 1809 Frances Elizabeth b 1818 Thomas George b 1827 John James b 1812 Richard b 1820 Robert Walter b 1831     The family lived in Philip Street and were reasonably well off. The Charles Booth Poverty Maps were created between 1898 and 1899 and were part of the data collected for the Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903). Researchers visited every street in London and recorded what type of people lived in each street (indicated by the different colours on the maps) . Phillip Street was shaded pink (the middle of the seven colours). The maps are more recent than the time we are looking at but do show what London looked like before the bombing of World War II changed a lot of London. Very few of the streets I mention in this document still exist. There are more Booth maps later in this document.   The next thing I know about James John is when he married Louisa Harriett KEENE on 2 October 1830 in St Marylebone: It is hard to read but is says that they were both “of this parish”, and the witnesses were Eleanor and William Keene – probably Louisa’s father or brother and her sister. What is interesting is that they all signed their own names, which means that all four of them were educated – in 1830 quite an achievement. St Marylebone is the area between Oxford Street and Regent Street, a much nicer part of London than St Georges in the East.   The “old-fashioned” marriage certificate doesn’t give James John’s occupation but his children’s baptisms entries and the next couple of censuses do:     I know he worked at the Marylebone Workhouse for all of that time, as shown in an article you’ll see below. I’ve got no idea why he called himself a gentleman sometimes – this usually implied the person was rich enough not to work. I don’t think that was the case here. The family lived in St Johns Wood for the next 20 years or so, near to Lords Cricket ground and not too far from his workplace.   2. Workhouses and workhouse occupations What is a workhouse? In the 1800s there weren’t any government benefits in Britain and Ireland. The “relief” was provided by the Church parishes. Wealthy people in the parish, called ratepayers, paid a rate to the parish and this was used to help people who couldn’t work. There were two types of relief – indoor and outdoor. Indoor relief was for able-bodied people and was in a workhouse. Most assistance was granted through a form of poor relief known as outdoor relief – money, food, or other necessities given to those living in their own homes.   In 1834 Poor Law authorities took over from parishes but they were still funded by the ratepayers. Workhouses were not nice places. They were designed to be uninviting, so that anyone capable of coping outside them would choose not to be in one. Some Poor Law authorities tried to run workhouses at a profit by making their inmates work for free but others paid inmates. Common jobs were breaking stones, crushing bones to produce fertiliser, or using a large metal nail known as a spike to undo old, tarred, rope. People claiming outdoor relief had to pass strict tests. If they passed the tests, they were given food or money for accommodation – but not much. For most of his career at Marylebone workhouse James John was providing outdoor relief.   At the end of 1846, pressure on the main St Marylebone workhouse was at an all-time high, fuelled to a large part by the famine in Ireland and a change in the rules that meant someone could claim relief if they had lived in Marylebone for 5 years. St Marylebone had a considerable Irish community who could now claim relief without fear of repatriation to their home parish (or Ireland in the case of Irish people).   As numbers rose, so did the cost of providing for them, and severe measures were introduced, including cuts to how much inmates were paid who were employed in the Marylebone workhouse. Nurses and laundrywomen received 1 shilling (£4) per week, the inmates who taught handwriting in the girls’ school received 1s. 6d (£6), and the cook and the barber received 2s. (£8). The reductions saved £500 (£40,100). The values in brackets are the current value. A proposal to abolish the inmates’ Christmas pudding was rejected, although portions were limited to 8oz (200g) and raisins substituted for currants. In early 1853 there was an inquiry into the poor conditions at the workhouse. I don’t know if anything improved.   Relevant Workhouse Occupations Board of guardians – a committee of people who ran the workhouse, usually wealthy people who might also have supplied goods to the workhouse. Clerk or Secretary – organised meetings and took minutes. Relieving Officer – evaluated the cases of all persons applying for medical or poor relief; authorised emergency relief or entry to the workhouse. Often had an assistant. Overseer – administered collection of local poor-rates.   From the baptisms above we can see that James John did most of these jobs at different times. From newspaper articles I have worked out that most of the time he was an Assistant Relieving Officer, responsible for giving people benefit to keep them out of the workhouse. He also acted as Secretary to the Board sometimes. He often appeared in court representing the workhouse as a witness.     Marylebone Workhouse was on the Marylebone Road, opposite where Madame Tussauds is now. James John and his family lived in Cockrance Street (now Cochrane Street). 3.   3.      A bad decision Early in 1854 James John made a bad error of judgement – he attended a meeting of the Board of Guardians “in a state of intoxication”. The Board decided to sack him. The article below from the Morning Advertiser newspaper of 11 February 1854 gives more detail. His explanation was that he had been taking a patient to Peckham Lunatic asylum and on the way back he met a friend and they went to taste wine etc in the London Docks (a pub) and it got the better of him. I think his actual mistake was going to the meeting in a drunken state!     A week later another article appeared where some board members and ratepayers stood up for James John and asked for his dismissal to be reviewed. Someone proposed that the Board should “at least grant an inquiry to his conduct rather than at once consign him and his family to utter ruin after 23 years’ service”. They also pointed out that “Mr Messer was a most efficient officer, as shown by the fact that he had on average 300 cases to legislate upon weekly”.   From another newspaper article I found a description that said he worked from 8am to 5pm six days a week so he was deciding whether 50 people a day got a benefit as well as doing other types of work   4.      What James John did after leaving St Marylebone workhouse What happens to the family for the next 15 years or so is hard to work out. James John needed to find work to save his family from “utter ruin”. I’ve found articles in newspapers that fill in some of the gaps.   A brush with the law In March 1856 articles similar to the one to below from Morning Post 21 March 1856 appeared in many newspapers around the country.     James John Messer senior and his wife Darcy (now aged between 72 and 70 respectively) had applied for relief from their local workhouse, St George-in-the-East. The workhouse, trying to find someone else who could look after them, took the brothers, James John Messer, John James Messer and Robert Walter Messer, to court. The workhouse felt they should be providing for their parents. For a long time I didn’t think it was the same James John Messer – but the other names in the cases prove that it is.   So, in 1856 James John was the landlord of the Duke of York pub in Shephard St, just south of Oxford Street.   In 2015 my husband and I and I visited this pub. The name of the street has changed to Dering Street, and it is between Oxford street and New Bond Street. Unfortunately, inside had been changed a lot and no one could help us with its history.   1861 Census The next mention I can find of the family is in the 1861 Census. They had moved to 37 Wenlock Street in Hoxton. Louisa Harriett (James John’s wife) said she was the head of the household and she was living there with Louisa Elizabeth, William Henry, Thomas Henry (my husband’s 2X great-grandfather), Robert Rouse, and John Gilchrist. Some of the older children had married and moved away. James Bowden was a plumber and still living in Marylebone, Mary Ann was living with her family in Ecclesall Bierlow in Yorkshire (just south of Sheffield), and George Thomas was living with his family in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Interestingly, James John wasn’t at home – he was in Norwich, Norfolk, staying in a pub. I wonder if he was on his way to or back from visiting George Thomas? We’ll never know.   Wenlock Street was very close to St Lukes Workhouse, Hoxton and I’ve found newspaper articles that mention “Mr Messer of St Lukes Workhouse” giving evidence in a trial in 1868. This could be James John but it could also be his son, William Henry. I can’t work out which.       Moving to Deptford In the 1871 census James John and family had moved to 10 Dock Street, Deptford. His occupation was as a licensed victualler – he was running a pub. Deptford is south of the River Thames.   I had trouble working out where this pub was because it had two names at different times. But when James John was there it was called “The Royal Marine”.   He died on 4 November 1873 at the Royal Marine. The cause of death was given as Chronic Bronchitis and heart disease.     I think the John James Messer who registered the death was his son. This is the son (b 1850) whose name changed from John Gilchrist to John James. At this point he is a law clerk and he later became a solicitor.   5.      The pub in Dock Street, Deptford The pub that James John ran was in a rough area of London. The pub is where the pink square is and means “some comfortable, some poor”. The blue area next to it means that that street was classed as “very poor, some chronic want”.     Finding the pub in records has been hard because it keeps changing its name, and the address and name of the street keep changing. Eileen and Charlie Gallagher, who were the publicans when we visited in 2015 helped sort it out for me.   The original name for the Royal Marine was the Dog & Bell, Dock Street, and from possibly as early as 1749, although the earliest recorded instance is in 1814 at the Old Bailey. It is referred to in a sea shanty - 'Homeward Bound' which was printed in 1849 and sold until 1862. The words of the sea shanty are: HOMEWARD BOUND (From Oxford Book of Sea Songs, Palmer)     Trade directory entries list the pub as the Dog & Bell until at least 1856. The renaming of the pub to the Royal Marine was by the then publican intent on capturing the "more respectable Marines" who were lodged in Deptford Dockyard as opposed to the more local ne'er do wells!!   This was before James John and Louisa Harriett took over. After he died, she ran the pub until she died in 1883. Then Thomas Henry (my husband’s 2x great-grandfather) ran the pub for a while. He was trained as a printer and left the pub in July 1891 to go back to being a printer.   The pub name was eventually changed back to Dog & Bell. Below is a photo, taken in the 1970s, of the pub – the name is Dog & Bell, but the sign is of a Royal Marine!   And below is a photo Charlie Gallagher took of me and my husband behind the bar.

This is some of the Barnett / Lipman family history from the mid-1700s to the present day in 2024. It is the story of a resourceful and adventurous family in London and later in New Zealand and Australia, with a strong Jewish heritage. Sources are oral family history and research by my Aunt Pam Mayo and myself, public domain family data, The Jewish Chronicle, Ancestry family database information, and sharing of family stories with current family in London and New Zealand. Investigations are still ongoing. In 1979, just before my Grandad Emanuel Barnett died, I had a fascinating talk with him about his Jewish childhood in London’s East End before he came to Wellington NZ in 1910 aged 14. He talked about visiting The Poplars, a substantial house and gardens in Seven Sisters Road, London. This was the home of a wealthy great-uncle named Emanuel Barnett, often called The Kosher King of the East End, who owned a well-known kosher butcher business in Petticoat Lane. Many of the Barnett family worked in this butchery business, including my great-grandad Moses Barnett. My Grandad Emanuel was named after his greatuncle. My Grandad Emanuel was not a practising Jew after he married our lovely Irish/ Scottish grandmother. He did not talk about his earlier family very much, and had little contact after his parents Moses and Kate Barnett died. These are some of the questions the family of today wanted to explore: Who was the wealthy relative and what can we find out about his business, family connections, and life? Why did Moses and Kate Barnett and some of the family come out from London to Wellington in 1910 and why did 16-year-old Samuel Barnett stay behind? Who are the earlier ancestors and where did they (Ashkenazi Jews) come from in Poland or Germany? What was life like in London for this family in the 1800s and early 1900s? Can we find any of the family descended from Grandad Emanuel and his other brothers and sisters in London or NZ? Are there any other stories and photos of this family, such as photos of great-grandparents Moses and Kate née Lipman? In the last 5 years I was able to go to London several times and follow up on family history and meet my two of my 2nd cousins and the great-grandson of the Kosher King Emanuel Barnett. Here is some information and stories starting as far back as I can find at the moment. A family tree is included below. I have highlighted the paternal line through my mother. Also highlighted are the Kosher King Emanuel Barnett and his great-grandson as more distant family members who are important in this story. EMANUEL BARNETT , tailor, dates of birth and death unknown. My 4x great-grandfather. Known only from a reference to him as the late father of Isaac Barnett ‘of Westford Street, Whitechapel, Tailor, deceased’, on a document dated 10th April 1843. See City of London Guild certificate from Guildhall London archives, below. I have not yet been able to find any further information about Isaac’s father, Emanuel Barnett, tailor, as noted on the Guild certificate. I have written to a Jewish archivist from the United Synagogue London but he says earlier records were probably destroyed when East End synagogues were blitzed in WW2. ISAAC BARNETT (1801—1857), my 3x great-grandfather Isaac was a well-known coffee house / cook shop owner at 49 Middlesex Street (Petticoat Lane); source: 1851 census record. The Guild certificate of 1843 above says he is a cook shop keeper. At this time this area in the East End of London was a bustling community of Jewish families, sometimes called the Jewish Ghetto. Many of the people had come in waves of immigration from Germany, Poland, Russia, and other eastern European countries to escape persecution and to find a better life. Families lived and worked closely together. Isaac married his first wife Sarah Joseph, born 1805, in 1825 in the Great Synagogue, London. They had one son, Samuel Barnett (my 2x great-grandfather), born in 1825/6. Isaac later married his second wife Phoebe, and they had a son Emanuel Barnett in 1844 (reference: Jewish-Gen website: Synagogue Record of marriage) The 1851 census has Isaac and Phoebe Barnett living above the coffee shop at 49 Middlesex Street with his sons Samuel, 25, and Emanuel, 7. The original building at 49 Middlesex Street has gone now but some buildings of this era still remain. There is a record of a policy with Sun Insurance in 1841 for the cook shop business for Isaac Barnett at 49 Middlesex Street on the Jewish-Gen website. The Guild certificate of 1843 grants Isaac the Freedom of the City of London which seems to mean the right to conduct business. Note that Isaac signed this document with his mark, an X, which shows that he was not literate. When Isaac died in 1857, aged 56, he was buried in the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery, East End London. I was able to visit his grave in June 2018 and place a memorial stone on the grave, which has a substantial monument in good condition. Brady Street Cemetery, 1701 to 1858, is a closed locked Jewish cemetery and you need to get permission from the United Synagogues for someone to open it for you to visit. It is a peaceful place with a beautiful old stone wall and trees. The inscription on the tombstone reads: Sacred to the memory of Isaac Barnett of Middlesex Street Aldgate, who departed this life August 26 1857. Died 56 years. This monument was erected by his family and friends as the lasting tribute of respect for his departed remains. Beloved, esteemed and lamented. The top part of the inscription is in Hebrew and is a general prayer for the departed. SAMUEL BARNETT (1823—1893), my 2x great-grandfather Samuel, Isaac’s son, took over the coffee house / cook shop at 49 Middlesex Street. There is a record of an insurance policy saying Samuel took over the coffee house policy from his father Isaac Barnett (reference: Jewish- Gen database). Samuel married Phoebe Judah (born 1825, died 1883, aged 58). Phoebe's father was Moses Judah of Houndsditch London and her mother was Frances Solomon, born 1802. Samuel and Phoebe Barnett had 7 children (census records 1851, 1861, and 1871): Isaac, born 1848; Sarah, 1854; Rachel, 1856; Samuel, 1858; Henry, 1860; Moses, 1862, my greatgrandfather, kosher butcher; and Fanny, 1865. EMANUEL BARNETT (1844—1914) THE KOSHER KING. Also known as UNCLE MANNY. Second son of Isaac Barnett (my 3x great-grandfather), and half-brother of my 2x great-grandfather Samuel. Great-uncle of my grandfather Emanuel Barnett, who is his namesake. Coffee house / cook shop owner. Emanuel Barnett was known as the Jewish Kosher King of the East End and was a well-known identity in the East End community. He provided many jobs for his wider family (including my great-grandfather Moses Barnett) in his business, and eventually in other properties and businesses, e.g. a fish shop and a grocery shop. My grandfather Emanuel used to talk about his great-uncle Emanuel as a gruff man of 20 stone, with a large house down a long drive that they visited each Sunday for a substantial family meal. Emanuel Barnett, Kosher King, started his own kosher butchery business around age 16, in 1860, in a small shop at 2 Stony Lane dealing originally with offal, then moving to other meats. When his shop and land were bought out by the local authority, Emanuel shifted his growing business to Middlesex Street, also known as Petticoat Lane, in the East End of London. This was a bustling, heavily populated area of Jewish families sometimes known as the Jewish Ghetto. His next butcher's shop was at 42 Middlesex Street (reference: 1881 census). At this time Emanuel was married to his first wife Amelia née Levy. They were married in 1866 (there is a marriage record for the Great Synagogue or Dukes Place Synagogue). Amelia (Milly) died in 1898, aged 57 years. They had no children. Above is a recent photo of 42 Middlesex Street. The shop would have been downstairs, living accommodation upstairs. Today it is a bistro bar called Bire. The kosher butcher business grew and moved to 79 to 83 Middlesex Street. By the 1901 census Emanuel, or Uncle Manny as he was widely known, had moved to a large home with grounds and stables, called The Poplars at 287 Seven Sisters Road, in the Finsbury Park area of London. The Poplars featured in the Jewish Chronicle as the place of many charitable occasions for the London community, both Jewish and non-Jewish. The house was destroyed in the WW2 Blitz. Uncle Manny was a founding member of the Finsbury Park Synagogue which was later blitzed in WW2 and was also a seat holder of the United Synagogue. He was well known as a benefactor to local orphanages and community causes. When he was 44, Uncle Manny married his second wife, Sarah, who was from Yorkshire and Norfolk. Sarah was originally called Frances but changed her name to Sarah, possibly as a Jewish convert. The family called her Polly. Uncle Manny and Sarah/Polly had a daughter, Rachel, known as Raie Barnett. The kosher butchery business of E Barnett and Co flourished with other London branches added, and canned kosher meat was shipped overseas (including to Australia) to provide kosher food for the growing number of Jewish immigrants to new world countries in the 1900s. The business made kosher meat popular in London. On the morning of his daughter Raie’s wedding to Philip Lyons in June 1914, a grand occasion with a reception at The Poplars, Uncle Manny had a heart attack. He died a few days later in hospital. The wedding went ahead. Below is an article from the Jewish Chronicle about Raie Barnett's wedding. On his death there were many obituaries including in The Times, a Perth newspaper; The Jewish World; and The Jewish Chronicle. The business continued with his new son-in-law, Philip Lyons, daughter Raie, and the Kosher King’s widow, Sarah. The original photos below of Emanuel Barnett, the Kosher King, are from his great-grandson, plus a photo found in The Jewish World publication of July 1914. Here is an extract from Emanuel Barnett (Uncle Manny)’s obituary and tributes from The Jewish Chronicle, July 3 1914. The photo below of 1910 is of E Barnett & Co Butchers at 75 to 83 Middlesex Street on Petticoat Lane Market day. Maybe it is Uncle Manny himself standing in the doorway with his imposing figure and beard welcoming in his customers? There are stories from the Barnett family and others on a Facebook site about memories of the East End talking about a large live beast being in the window as an advertisement. The next photo is of the shop in the 1950s and below of the restaurant on the same site in 1966 just before Barnetts was closed due to the council demolishing the buildings. By this stage Barnetts was managed by the grandson of the Kosher King, Emanuel Barnett Lyons. Barnetts was famous for having the only kosher Wimpy Bar in the UK. MOSES BARNETT (1862—1927), my great-grandfather was born on Middlesex Street in East End, London. He married Kate/Katherine Lipman in 1885 in the Black Lion Tavern, 63 Hanbury Street, East End, which was managed by Kate’s father, John Lipman. At the time of his marriage Moses was listed as a clothier cutter. By the time my grandad was born in 1896, his father Moses Barnett was working as a butcher at the Barnett family Kosher butchery. Moses and Kate Barnett had seven children: Phoebe 1886, Rose 1889, Amelia 1891, Mark 1892, Samuel 1894, Emanuel 1896 (my grandfather), Leah 1898. There are stories about the girls being very musical and singing well. My grandad could play the piano by ear. The family remained practicing Jews. There were many wonderful occasions held by the Kosher King at The Poplars. On connecting with my distant 3rd cousin once removed in 2023 in London I was able to share his family photos and find photos of my great-aunts and great-uncles, my grandfather, and my great-grandfather Moses Barnett taken by a professional photographer at a Jewish Purim festival held at The Poplars in 1905. It was the first time the NZ family and my UK second cousins had seen a photo of Moses Barnett, our mutual great-grandfather. These photos were of excellent quality and had appeared in an article about the Fancy Dress Purim Ball at The Poplars Finsbury Park, in the 1905 Tatler publication. Clockwise from top left: Great-Aunt Rose; Great-Aunt Leah; Great-Aunt Amelia (Millie); Great-grandfather Moses; Great-Uncle Sam; and Great-Uncle Mark. Above: Raie Barnett, daughter of the Kosher King, with an extract from the Tatler article, 1905; Below: my grandfather Emanuel, aged 8, as Boy Blue In 1910 Moses and Kate Barnett left London for a new life in Wellington, New Zealand. Moses was 48 and Kate was 47. Some of their children (Mark, Emanuel, Millie and Leah) left with them. Their oldest daughter Phoebe had already settled in Wellington in 1908 after her marriage to Jack Moses in London. Son Samuel and daughter Rose remained in London. Sam, aged about 16, seems to have lived at The Poplars with the Kosher King and family once his family left for NZ. Millie and Leah married in Wellington and moved to Australia with their Jewish husbands. I have yet to find their descendants. The family story recently heard from my second cousin was that her grandmother Rose Barnett was married in the morning in 1910 and in the afternoon the family left for Wellington. It is not known why they left a comfortable life in London but maybe they wanted new opportunities for the family and a healthier climate. They also may have wanted to join their daughter Phoebe. The London and New Zealand families only connected in the years after 2019 with my family research and when I went to London. Both sides of the family were excited to reunite and share stories about the Barnett family and our shared great-grandparents who are buried in the Karori Jewish cemetery. Below are maps of the London East End showing the Middlesex Street (Petticoat Lane) area where the Barnett family lived and worked until 1966.

In the Sept 2022 newsletter I wrote about William Kennington, a first cousin 4x removed of my husband’s. William kept a journal of his departure and voyage to NZ in 1858. He settled near Blenheim. They are both descendants of William Harrison (1781—1825) and Mary Perrin Harrison (1784—1871) of Lincolnshire. When I wrote that article, I didn’t realize there was another Harrison descendant who came to NZ and is particularly relevant to this month’s newsletter. William and Mary Harrison had 12 children, and this one is descended from their second child: Henry Harrison (1806, Dunholme—after 1881) married his first cousin Mary Faith Harrison in Aug 1831. He was a butcher and grocer in Bardney. They had 7 children, but only one concerns us here: Thomas Henry Harrison (1835, Bardney—1896, Lincoln) married Isabella Clarke (1837—1916) in Oct 1861 in Lincoln. He was an inland revenue officer, bachelor, and she was spinster, daughter of a coal merchant. They had 3 sons: Percy Tom Harrison (1870—1959), the youngest, was a schoolmaster at Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He never married. William Henry Harrison (1866, Waddington—1936, Laverstock, Salisbury) was the eldest and his life is described in the next article in this newsletter (pp 7-8). Cecil Clark Harrison (1868, Lincoln—1956, Christchurch, NZ), the middle son, provides this contribution to cemetery month. Cecil Clark Harrison became an ironmonger and joined the Windsor Castle Masonic Lodge in 1898. In 1901 he was living at 8 Peascot St, New Windsor, single, an ironmonger & shopkeeper, just opposite Windsor Castle. He remained there until 1924. In Oct 1901 Cecil married Agnes Monk (1872, Berkshire—1949, Christchurch). Agnes Monk had gone to NZ with her parents and two younger brothers around 1889, aged 17. Agnes and her parents were living in New Plymouth in 1893, and her father was a farmer. The rest of her family remained in NZ all their lives, but sometime before 1901 Agnes returned to England. In the 1901 census, Agnes, aged 28, was living in Beckenham, Kent, described as ‘nurse’ to the Head of household, with occupation: ‘Hospital sick nurse’. The Head was Frederick Weekes, 43, ironmonger. His wife, Martha, 38, of Berkshire, was Agnes’ half-sister. It was from near here, Bromley, that Agnes married Cecil Harrison, ironmonger, who lived in Windsor, 30 miles away. It isn’t clear how they might have met – perhaps via the ironmonger connection? By 1911 Cecil and Agnes Harrison had 3 children: Helen May (1905—82), Miriam Margaret (1908—after 1946), and Norman Henry William (1910—42). They were all still at 8 Peascot St, Windsor, in 1921, and Cecil was now ‘Purveyor of ironmongery to His Majesty’. In 1924, the whole Harrison family immigrated to NZ – 35 years after Agnes’ first arrival here. Agnes’ parents, William and Georgina Monk, were both dead, but her brothers John and Harry were in Hokitika. All five members of the Harrison family remained in NZ for the rest of their lives. There are descendants but I have been unable to trace them. Cecil and Agnes Harrison’s only son, Norman H W Harrison, was 13 when he arrived in NZ, and almost certainly went to Christchurch with his parents, where his father was again an ironmonger. By 1935 Norman was in Wellington, first at 34 Hapua Rd, Hataitai; later at 115 Pirie St, Mt Victoria; and then at 116 Novay Rd, Miramar. He was a photo engraver. In 1939 Norman married Doris Lilian Baunton, and by 1942 they had two children, David and Margaret. In April 1942 he was on a NZ WW2 ballot list, and on 28 August 1942 Private Norman H W Harrison died at Wellington Hospital after a short illness. He was only 32. ‘Find-A-Grave’ said he was buried in Karori Cemetery and had a photo of his memorial stone. We have lived just outside Karori cemetery since 1989 and often walk in it. We have a favourite bench. Last year we found Norman Harrison’s memorial in Karori Cemetery: it is immediately opposite our favourite bench, and we had been sitting not 13 metres away from it for years without realising it was there or that such a cousin even existed. Norman H W Harrison is my husband Robert’s 3rd cousin once removed.

The top card is a small folding embossed card with elegant silver script to celebrate the wedding of Emma Grace Sheat and Fredrick George Early on 27 November 1913. Fred farmed in the Greendale area of Canterbury. Fred was the brother of my maternal grandmother Ivy. Emma was my maternal grandfather George’s sister. The Early and Sheat families had a brother and sister marry a brother and sister from the other family. Hence the shared relationships. ‘With Mr & Mrs F. G. Early’s Compliments’ The card below was sent to my Grandmother Ivy Early from her Aunt Lucy Millicent Waby. The date, April 17, 1906, records Lucy’s marriage to Archibald Peak, a gifted musician and solicitor, active in the Methodist Church. Note the cupid’s arrow used to ‘strike out’ Lucy’s maiden name on both cards.