Family Names

As information comes to hand and I have the time, I will add to the list below. Please feel free to email me if there is anyone of interest here, or you have any further information. The names I am researching are: Bosher, Young, Franklin, Penter, Watson, Parry, Jennings, Berry, and possibly more as I dig a little deeper. I wish to thank Carol Harper(nee Malmo) and Eric Barker for allowing me to use their research material. I would also like to thank the Salvation Army, Archives Department in Wellington New Zealand for their help. There are several people in the UK who spent time doing research as well. Without their help I would not have found some important links.Thanks also to the Lower Hutt Library and the Petone Museum.

There will be no information about any living person for reasons of privacy, but if there is anyone you would like to contact, Please email me and I will forward on any messages.

Young

Peter   Born in Sunderland c.1800.  According to the marriage notice published in 1856, for his son John he was a mariner. No other information is available about this man at this time.

Jane    Maiden name unknown. Born c.1808 in Monkwearmouth Shore, Sunderland Co Durham. Died some time after 1881 as she was included in a Census for that year. She lived with her son John in Barrington Street.

John Born in Monkwearmouth Shore, Sunderland Co Durham c.1837. (Son of Jane and Peter Young)  On 23rd July 1856 he married Margery Watson at St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth. At the time of the 1861 Census he lived in Hamilton Street and he wqrked as a Blacksmith. By the time of the 1881 Census he had moved to 8 Barrington Street and his occupation was recorded as an Anchor Smith (Manuf). According to information  I have obtained he died in 1883.

Margery (nee Watson)   born c.1839 at Monkwearmouth Shore Co Durham. She married John Young in 1856. They had at least seven children.She died April 1876 and was buried on April 26th 1876 at Mere Knolls Cemetery Monkwearmouth, Sunderland Co Durham . All her children were born in Monkwearmouth.

Jane   (first child) Born c.1858. She married George Bosher and had two children. It is highly likely that the family migrated to New Zealand. According to documents from the Salvation Army, Jane was still alive in 1917. As yet I have not been able to trace her or her children.

Ann   (Second Child) Born c.July 1860 and died c.1880. Probably buried at Mere Knolls Cemetery.

Phoebe   (Third Child) Born c.1865 and died c.1891.

Richard   (Forth Child) Born c.1868 and died c.1915. Unknown where he lived or died at this time.

Isabella    (Fifth Child) Born 4th April 1870. She migrated to New Zealand towards the end of the 1800's and was married to  Henry Franklin in 1908 at kaiapoi. She had one child and she died some time after 1923. A  document  I have  has her death recorded as  1st. July 1937. This has yet to be verified. Possibly buried at Taita Cemetery, Wellington New Zealand,as Henry is believed to have a family plot there.

Nathan    (sixth Child) Born  c.1973 and died c.1877.

John   George    (Seventh Child) Born c.1874. He  was buried at Mere Knolls Cemetery on the 29th May 1877.

Watson

William   There is no information available about this man or his wife, other than he was the father of Margery, who married John Young in 1856.

Bosher

George Born c.1855 in Sunderland, Co Durham. He married Jane Young, the eldest of John and Margery's children. He migrated to New Zealand, and worked as a painter. The family is believed to have  lived at Sydenham, Christchurch and attended St Saviours Church. They later moved to the Wellington/Lower Hutt area.              (Updated from information on this family received From Margaret Major January 2003)

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Anne    (First Child?) Born c.1879 in Sunderland, Co Durham.(From family Tree for Peter Young) There was no record of this child in documents dated 1881, but there was a record of a marriage between Annie, aged 20 and George Samuel Wormold at St. Saviours Church on July 23 1901. ( This would have put her birth  as c.1881.)                        (Updated from information  received From Margaret Major January 2003)

Lily    (Second Child?) Born c.January 1881 in Sunderland, Co Durham. On December 12, 1907, at the age of 26 she married Ernest Oswald Hooper at St. Saviours Church. He was an upholsterer. Alice Bosher, tailoress, was a witness at the wedding. Her address was Huxley Road, Sydenham.                       (Updated from information  received From Margaret Major January 2003)

Alice  (another child?) Born c.1882 in New Zealand? She married Cecil Claude Bush-King on May 26 1908 at St Saviours. He was a caterer.                  (Updated from information  received From Margaret Major January 2003)

Son Nothing more known at this time, apart from the possiblity he worked as a painter.     (Updated from information on this family received From Margaret Major January 2003)

Ivy Edna (Ivie) The only information available at the moment is that she married Francis Ford Davidson on April 21 1924 at St Saviours Church. ( possibly the daughter of one of the  others)      (Updated from information on this family received From Margaret Major January 2003)

Albert John There is little information about this man. He lived in Leeston, Canterbury, New Zealand c.1875 and is recorded as living in Milton Road, Napier  c.1895. His occupation was listed as painter.

Franklin

Harriet Ann  Wife of Albert John. She was either divorced or widowed? as she had a son prior to her marriage to Albert, to whom she had another son. No other information available.

Henry Edward Born c.1875 at Leeston. He married three times, the first in Napier 29.01.1895 to Annie Elizabeth Jennings. She died in 1905 and he married Isabella Young in 1908. This wife also died and he married Jamesina Ross in 1938. He had at least six children and died 21.06.1950 in Christchurch. He was buried at Ruru Cemetery, Bromley.

Annie Elizabeth   Nee Jennings. She was born c.1877 at Hastings and married Henry Edward Franklin on 29.01.1895 in Napier. She had at least four children and died 03.06.1905. Nothing else known at this time.

Bert Son of Henry and Annie. Nothing else known His name was not on the school records with the other children.

Lovell   Son of Henry and Annie . Born 03.07.1895. (from N.Z. school records) Killed at the Battle of the Somme

Bessie Daughter of Henry and Annie. Nothing else known. Her name may have been Annie Elizabeth.

Leo   Son of Henry and Annie. Nothing else known. Born 19.06.1896. (From N.Z. school records)

Isabella  nee Young. Born 04.04.1870 at Monkwearmouth Shores, Sunderland Co. Durham. She migrated to New Zealand towards the end of the 1800's and was married to  Henry Franklin in 1908 at kaiapoi. She had one child and she died some time after 1923. A  document  I have  has her death recorded as  1st. July 1937. This has yet to be verified. Possibly buried at Taita Cemetery, Wellington New Zealand,as Henry is believed to have a family plot there.

Joan Isabella Born 23.09.1923 at Wellington, New Zealand. Daughter of Henry and Isabella. She died at Christchurch on 07.06.1988. I have more information but will not be adding it at this time.

Jamesina Nicol  nee Ross. Born in Belfast Ireland c.1896. She married Henry Franklin in Lower Hutt on 23.04.1938. No other information at this time.

Lorna     Daughter of Henry and Jamesina. Lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.  No other information will be provided at this time.

Most of the information on this page was found in the Salvation Army Archives, New Zealand school records and Census records in the U.K and New Zealand. Those records provided the clues which enabled me to trace my maternal grandmother's family back to Peter Young. I would also like to thank Margaret Major (NZ) for her valuable information. She has filled in some of the gaps and added a few more names to the list.

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