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By John, on June 1st, 2011% On our second day in Auckland we decided to revisit Devonport as it looked very nice yesterday though we didn’t get a chance to see much of it. Plus it gave us a chance to go there by ferry which is almost as lovely as taking a ferry in Sydney’s harbour. However, while having some fish and chips for lunch, as you do, Roz spied the local library and couldn’t help but pop in to look at some newspapers.
It was a small library with a small local history section but they did have some local newspaper clippings from between . . . → Read More: Harry in New Zealand (part 3)
By John, on May 31st, 2011% A few choice personal quotes from Harry’s oral history about his time as commander in charge of the Royal New Zealand Naval Dockyard in Auckland between 1954 and 1956. (The text in bold is the words of the interviewer.)
From Page 1:
Perhaps you could give me a brief outline out of your career before you came out to New Zealand and cover the reasons why you in fact served with us for the time that you did.
I’ve always been fascinated by New Zealand. Following my tour in HMS Renown in 1927 when the Duke and Duchess of York . . . → Read More: Harry in New Zealand (part 2)
By John, on May 30th, 2011% Last year we had a holiday in New Zealand visiting the North and South Islands. At the end of our trip we stayed in Auckland and, since Roz’s paternal grandfather Harry had been in charge of the naval dockyard there for a few years in the 50s, we thought we’d have a look about.
Our goal was to visit the house where he once lived with his family (including Roz’s dad) then the Navy Museum which apparently had on record an oral history by Harry regarding his time there, and then maybe if we had time we try to look . . . → Read More: Harry in New Zealand (part 1)
By John, on December 9th, 2009%  A wee while ago Roz was contacted by a lady named Sally regarding a wedding album her mother-in-law, Joan, had in her possession. The album was rather old and contained artefacts relating to the wedding of Ada Kathleen Watters to Thomas Brown Shaw RN in 1907. Coincidentally these names happened to be the same as Roz’s great grandparents.
Joan had bought the album in jumble sale in Shere, Surrey about 25 years ago and she had always intended to find out . . . → Read More: Shaw-Watters Wedding Album
By Roz, on February 11th, 2007% As my esteemed husband has written below, our trees, transferred in from Family Historian 3.1, are now live and browsable on this site.
The trees work best if you know the ID of the person you’re looking at. A few IDs you may want to follow:
Daisy Douglas Crosbie Henderson: ID 70
Alexander Brand Inglis: ID 383
James Inglis: ID 402
Priscilla Coucher: ID 271
William Bird: ID 212
John Crosbie Aitken Henderson: ID 384
Ada Kathleen Watters: ID 69
William Shaw of Fish Quarter: ID 163
Basil Hall: ID 343
. . . → Read More: Yes, it’s true, the trees are alive.
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