Native of:-
capers49
On all of the death print outs from cemetries, they have eg: Native of New Zealand, Native of Australia, but my grandfather has Native of Methven, it says hes was in NZ for 77 years, and he died at 77 - any one offer there comments to that one, maybe he came as a baby from Scotlland cant find his borith in NZ John King born 1866. Thanks
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ngairedith on 2012-08-21 05:13:29hi there,
wat about METHVEN, Canterbury, 90kms from Christchurch
capers49 on 2012-08-21 19:28:22I thought it could have been that, but wouldnt it have said Native of New Zealand, thats why I thought it could be Scotland, but then they wold have maybe put Native of Scotland, cant find him in any NZ geneology, but he sure had an adventure, met MARY McKENZIE in Aust(she was born NSW) had son in LeFroy Tas, and ended up in S/Island NZ then farmed in Wellington and then lived the rest of there lives in Thames, but why would he go from NZ to mine, or did he come from Scotland and passed through Aus on his way to NZ and met Mary, all good questions, but interesting character to trace. Thanks
ngairedith on 2012-08-21 19:55:08if they know the name of the town a person is born in they will put that
if it just says 'Methven' it is probably NZ
if they do not know the name of the town they just put the country - that info is usually provided by family
MANY men went 'across the creek' to mine. Mayby then, like now, the wages over there were higher !!
capers49 on 2012-08-22 02:49:25Thanks for that response, I will go further down that track now, and leave scotland alone - I know Johns father was called WALTER so maybe I will end up in scotland again as he had to come from somewhere too.