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This site has been the longtime passion of my brother Peter Harman, who sadly passed away in Auckland on 30 June 2016.
To ensure that this wonderful resource is not lost, his daughter Fiona and I have taken on the responsibility for maintaining it henceforth. We would really appreciate being informed of any additions or alterations that occur within your branch of the family.
Robert Harman P O Box 54 143, The Marina, Auckland 2144. harman.tribalpages@gmail.com
This site began life as a tool for an ungrateful daughter who wanted to make sure that the information I had in shoe boxes was not destroyed after my passing by our equally ungrateful son who intended throwing my precious possessions into the rubbish tin. Since that beginning it has sort of grown and in no small part thanks to the efforts of cousins, family and fellow travellers on the internet who have built it. One just hopes our grandchildren and great grandchildren will get to use it and expand it.
Since it started we have managed to build a pretty convincing case built on compelling circumstantial evidence that those of us with Meredith blood racing around our veins are indeed the rightful heirs to the Kingdom of Corsica and further more will, if asked, take up our rightful place at the King's side when our great great great and lots more greats cousin William Wales takes up the throne of England. Of that whole saga the most poignant and tragic story is the life and times of Honora De Burgo(Burke) who was the mother of Mary Sarsfield, wife of our good friend the King of Corsica.
This is also the life and times of a number of pioneer families in New Zealand of John Guilford who arrived just after the first four ships into Christchurch and his sons' whose legacy are the settlements of South Canterbury, Inland Taranaki and the Wanganui region. You won't find too many multi millionaires here but you will find the folk who populated the heartland of New Zealand, built the infrastructure, raised their families and gave their sons for the Queen's and King's wars. You will meet the descendants of a number of people who came to New Zealand as soldiers to fight in the New Zealand wars. Theodore John Meredith to the Waikato, Alexander Golding to Taranaki, and William Higginson who came with Meredith and wound up marrying his sister. George Lovett, Meredith's father-in-law came to Auckland as a fencible, these families were the backbone of the Auckland settlement. This is the story of the main trunk railway line and Alexander Whisker who drove the first train over the central high country viaducts and the Merediths who built the bridges and tunnels. You will meet Thomas Blick who is regarded as the father of New Zealand's wool weaving industry who came in almost as a refugee from unbelievably difficult times in the Gloucestershire wool weaving mills. He brought a significant sized family, his sister and her husband Thomas Harman who has outperformed all these supermen producing the largest (and brightest) descendants listed here. He arrived in Nelson just after the settlement was established and his children married into just about every pioneer that arrived there. If you took his descendants out of the Nelson and Motueka cemeteries there would be no reason to keep them open. You will meet the Schwass family that married into both the Harman and the Guilford families and the Cross family who did exactly the same thing. The Bouzaid family from Lebanon went to the Wairarapa as the poorest of poor immigrants. prospered and married their offspring into the local families including the Guilford's. Then there is Kate Lynch who came to New Zealand as an indentured servant girl, wound up married to James Guilford a few weeks later and died in childbirth with her twelfth child in her early 30's. She had been in the old Wanganui cemetery, in an unmarked grave until she was discovered by her grandchildren who gave her the headstone featured on this site. Everything you want is here, drama, pathos, human tragedy, comedy, and perhaps a sprinkling of good old fashioned bull's excrement.
That makes us genuine sons of the pioneers and if you, yes you, have an untold story to tell or a photograph to contribute, don't hesitate do it now.
Keep Well
Peter Harman
formerly of Massey, Auckland
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Getting Around There are several ways to browse the family tree. The Tree View graphically shows the relationship of selected person to their kin. The Family View shows the person you have selected in the center, with his/her photo on the left and notes on the right. Above are the father and mother and below are the children. The Ancestor Chart shows the person you have selected in the left, with the photograph above and children below. On the right are the parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. The Descendant Chart shows the person you have selected in the left, with the photograph and parents below. On the right are the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Do you know who your second cousins are? Try the Kinship Relationships Tool. Your site can generate various Reports for each name in your family tree. You can select a name from the list on the top-right menu bar.
In addition to the charts and reports you have Photo Albums, the Events list and the Relationships tool. Family photographs are organized in the Photo Index. Each Album's photographs are accompanied by a caption. To enlarge a photograph just click on it. Keep up with the family birthdays and anniversaries in the Events list. Birthdays and Anniversaries of living persons are listed by month. Want to know how you are related to anybody ? Check out the Relationships tool. |
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