A rolling stone gathers no moss, Replies or lack of, from New Zealand.

Travelled down to Florida on the weekend, delivering my Mother in Law to Florida, and will stay for a while. couple of weeks at best.  Must get back, and do my train trip across Canada, while the price is low, and my travel insurance is in effect.

The internet connection is very poor, and I have spent a majority of my time cleaning up files and organizing pictures.

We have only one response from New Zealand, on the search for relatives of Agnes Paige. The lady responding, was named Biggs, but was not related, at least not closely.  Her Biggs came on one of the first three ships to arrive in New Zealand.  Ours came in the late 1940’s. I assume that the other Biggs I wrote to, are not related.

From the response, I would assume the person is dead, or, he doesn’t live in the Auckland area.  So in spite of a bad internet connection, I searched the whole telephone book of New Zealand for a GL Biggs, there is one. This time instead of sending a letter, I will phone. Just need to find a good internet connection late at night.

D.N.A. is the latest thing in Genealogy, and I have had a Y Chromosome test, but have not been successful in finding relatives. But I do not give up easily, and have purchased a new test, for my wife and I, which may discover relatives, as far as fifth cousin.

 Just in case you were interested

More on the search for relatives in New Zealand

Search for Agnes Louise Paige (Newton) b 10 Jun 1876, m 1912, d 10 Feb 1916. 

Cousin Sarah has returned to Sidney, after visiting relatives in Auckland New Zealand, and looking for the grave of Agnes.

Here is her E Mail, and the pictures she sent:

Happy New Year to all! Hope 2012 turns out to a Great Year.


Reporting back from New Zealand, after over an hour search, together with two council workers at the cemetery we found Agnes Louise's resting place. As you see by the photos, no head stone or any kind of markings. Thankfully I went to see the manager and he gave me a plan and also gave me the grave sites of her neighbours. It was with this information that we managed to find her. Hats off to the coucil workers as one of them found two neighbouring graves, well marked, for us to agree that in deed that area was grave 85.

It was a very damp and windy day - but I thought I'd come this far I wasn't going to give up.

When I have more time I will update her ancestry page. If you want to include this in your blog Don, go for it.


15: Agnes Louise's resting place

16: Her neighbour, Cartwright

17: Further neighbour, Wilde.

Cheers All
Love
Sarah

And hats of to Sarah for a job well done.

Now if someone would respond to our letters.

Just in case you were interested.