NEW ZEALAND CONNECTION

My son Richard and his wife Jo are off to New Zealand to spend Christmas with Jo's family. He hopes also to track down relatives of Thomas Maddock who emigrated to New Zealand in 1842. He sailed on the Sir Charles Forbes from Gravesend on 1 May 1842 arriving on 22 August 1842. Here are some photos. Thomas married Anne Smith in 1840 and she died in Aimea, West Nelson and is buried in Nelson Cemetery. Thomas also married Charlotte Catherine Courtennay in 1858 in Residence of James Poppleton Horn. Charlotte was born in Hampshire, England and is buried in Taylor Cemetery, Blenheim.