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i just got back from tassie and did a little research while i was there
i got to have a few bundys in the bar where my great great grandfather drank, which is across the road from the port in wynyard where he docked his ships many many moons ago ๐
on โ10-05-2011 01:17 AM
I have tried but without luck as my grandfather came here from Sweden when he was 14 and a stow away on a boat....no record
He married my Grandmother and she had my dad a brother and a sister,but i also found out that he had an illegitamate child in Tasmania which he never mentioned.
He served in WW1 and then at 53 enroled for WW2 and recieved many medals for galantry.
But apart from that i cant find anything else
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on โ10-05-2011 12:34 PM
I have tried but without luck as my grandfather came here from Sweden when he was 14 and a stow away on a boat....no record
He married my Grandmother and she had my dad a brother and a sister,but i also found out that he had an illegitamate child in Tasmania which he never mentioned.
He served in WW1 and then at 53 enroled for WW2 and recieved many medals for galantry.
But apart from that i cant find anything else
on โ10-05-2011 12:59 PM
I got stuck trying to find my great great grandfather - I think I'l have to spend some time on it next time I'm in NZ. He and his brother came to NZ in 1859, I've tracked down what ship they came on but can't find out where they were born so I'm stuck....can't go back any further. Both brothers died young - my GG Grandfather only a year after his son (my G Grandfather) was born and his brother a few months earlier. His wife remarried so there is very little family history of him at all. She was from a fairly large family - they had a part in the development of gold mining in the Thames/Tararu area.
Any suggestions??