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[Mary in Oz]

Ron. Be wary about family myths..My grandmother wrote a history of the family and she said her aunt went to NZ with her niece and family..I spent years searching for her..Only to find when the 1911 census came out that she had married and was then a widow living with her sister in London..she had never been out of the country..it was her nieces mother that went to NZ with her daughter..another story was that my grandmothers grandfather went to war and took his wife with him,,He was wounded and was returned to England where he had his leg amputated and then he died..Have now found that he was in the army but had never been out of England and he was in the Household Cavelry and his horse kicked him and he died of a infected knee..result of the kick..so our ancestors like to colour their history a bit..

Will have a look for you a bit later today as I have to take John to the docs..
JA and Dizzy seem to be doing ok..
JA Where did you find the records you emailed to me..it dosent say where or when they are from..I take it they are electoral rolls..???

[JALimestone Plains]

Ron Mare got the email which I cc'd to her - I used the Wattler list one for you - my email on that list is the right one. I have sent it again hotmail. If you have another address and want the record then can you send an email with that address to me please. Thanks

LM the record attached to the email I sent to Ron, cc'd to you was the NZ reserve 1917. A Thomas Murray Monro lived at Palmeston North - horse driver.

LM please keep at it with us if you have the time - the more heads the better. All the best for the Dr - pm me when you have time to let me know how things are going.

Ron I went to the National Library and will do a series of posts of what I found. Not sure what hangs together with what yet.

[JALimestone Plains]

Ron, the NZ myth may have some basis.
NZ Electoral Rolls
1905-06 David Alexander Stevenson Munro. Christchurch nth. Residence "The Gardens" Occupation gardener.
[tab=30]Lousia Munro Residence "The Gardens'" Married.

1911 David Alexander Stevenson Munro. Christchurch East. Residence 16 Walton Street, Sydenham. Occupation gardener
[tab=30]Lousia Munro. Residence 16 Walton Street, Sydenham. Married

1914 - as above for both David and Louisa

1919 -as above for David. No Lousia.

1935 - as above for David. No Louisa.

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1963 David Alexander Munro - Rukuhic - farm hand. No Stevenson in the name.

[JALimestone Plains]

NZ Electoral Rolls

Thomas Murray Munro
1905-06 Residence Palmeston, Taonui Street. Occupation labourer
[tab=30]Mary Ann Munro Residence Taonui Street. Married

1911 Thomas Murray Munro. Residence 194 Church Street East Palmeston. Occupation ploughman
[tab=30]Mary Ann Munro. Residence Taonui Street. Married.

1914 Thomas Murray Munro. Residence Palmeston 198 main Street East. Occupation ploughman
[tab=30]Mary Ann Munro. Residence 15 Taonui Street. Married.

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Not sure what to make of this lot.

New Zealand Electoral Rolls

1919 Thomas Murray Munro. Residence Rongoton Manawatu. Occupation farmer
[tab=30]Evelyn Ethel Munro. Residence Rongoton Manawatu. Married

1928 Thomas Murray Munro. Residence Bay of Plenty, Rotorua, Wararoa. Occupation sharemilker
[tab=30]Evelyn Ethel Residence as above. Marrried

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Not sure of these as we have two Thomas Murray Munro's

1935 Thomas Murray Munro. Residence Bay of Plenty, Rotorua, Waharoa. Occupation sharemilker.

[tab=30]Number 2 Thomas Murray Munro. Residence c/o Madden bro, Kurakonui. Occupation tractor driver.

1938 Thomas Murray Munro. Residence c/o Maddern bro, Korakonui. Occupation tractor driver

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Now it gets a bit messy.

Military Roll 1939-31 March 1940
Thomas Murray Munro, army no 3053, 18 Auckland Timaru. enlisted Wahora. Occupatio butcher. next of kin Mr Cr Munro, Waharoa brother.

New Zealand Electoral Rolls

MURRAY THOMAS MUNRO

1954 Murray Thomas Munro Residence 9 Baker Street, Mornington, Otago Occupation clerk
[tab=30]Janet Wallace Brown Munro Residence 9 Baker Street Mornington Otago. Widow.

I have a few more for Murray Thomas Munro, living at the same address with a Maureen Margaret Munro. Married

Last entry is 1981. 33 Melton St, Timaru, Canterbury. Occupation legal executive

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Just to complicate things!
D A Munro occupation printer, born Scotland 7 June 1886 Ship Manitoban Dest Quebec. He was heading for Winnipeg.

Thomas Munro, David Munro. Country of birth for both - Scotland. Ship Hesperian. Arrived Halifax Nova Scotia 10 April 1911. Dept Glasgow. ret'd Canadians, last time in Canada 1910, Calgary.

[Mary in Oz]

WOW JA You done good... keep at it..LOL

John has to have a cat scan in the morning so will be out of touch for a bit..