General Chat

Everytime I see the word Rotorua, I get very nostalgic, I had a very very close friend who was a diver for the oil companies and rigs off our coast and further afield, and we were seeing each other 3 years, whenever he was in the UK he would zip up to Norfolk in his MG/GT or I would travel to London, or Epsom, whereever he was living at the time. We somehow lost touch when I bought a house in Norwich and he was buying a property in Little Venice at the same time, and I have never been able to find him since, that was in 1979!!! I have looked on facebook and all sorts of places but can't even remember how to spell his surname, Thomson with or without a p. I would love to know what happened to him, he would be around early- mid sixties now and maybe things would have progressed further and I would have gotten to see N.Z.

Lizx

Ah, Liz, you probably would not be as impressed with him now as you were then. I met my old High School boyfriend at our class reunion earlier this year and I didnt care for the face fuzz. Anyway he had his wife with him! And I had my husband with me.

Huia.

NZ marriage certs have age of bride and groom, place of birth, Names of fathers of both (and profession or occupation), names of mothers of both with their maiden names included. And that was as early as 1898, if not earlier.

Huia.

I remember that Huia, lol
I am sure he wouldn't recognise me lol, I used to be a size 10 and dark haired, now I am a 20/22 and grey disguised as blonde lol

He already had a beard and tash so it wouldn't shock me altho it would be grey by now lol

Lizx

my grand father worked at Rotorua Baths pre 1927. I wonder if he was any electoral rolls. He was AListair McKerrow.

Hi there Little Lost. I will have a look if I have time on Tuesday. Was he living in NZ for long?

Huia.

I know he was there before 1925 and left 1933. He married in 1925. Not sure if that was in Rotorua. He then moved nearer to Gisborne

Hi there LittleLost.

I couldnt find your grandfather in the electoral rolls and neither could I find his marriage in 1925 and I looked in 1924 and 1926 as well. Any more clues?

Huia.

Hi there antipodes. I wonder why I couldnt find that marriage on the microfiche? I did try spelling the surname both as Mac and Mc. I tried last night to look on Archway but couldnt get into the site. Thanks for looking for it. I would say it is correct.

Huia.

antipodes, I have just tried again to get into archways.archives.govt.nz/ but it wont let me. What am I doing wrong? I have been in there in the past. Come to think of it, I think I saw something somewhere about some website being unavailable while changes were made, was it that one or am I just imagining things? Most frustrating.

Huia.

yes they are all correct.

Sorry Little Lost was going to get back to you with the actual date of Alistair and Alma's marriage and not just the year. I will do so, but I still cannot find Alma's birth registration.

If you have her parents names I could try looking through that but have looked up all the Alma Halls and Mabel Halls just in case as sometimes people fiddle with their names.

I had tried to find her in the deaths as McKerrow and now as France and the only one I got was an Alma Gladys who died in 1954 aged 58.

Huia I found Alistair in the marriages as Alastair. The same as Antipodes did. It is not always the surnames we have to watch it is the spelling of the christian names as well. Many a time I have searched and searched and then click brainwave and try something else... and this often works.

Cheers

Norma

Just saying Hi, you have been in my thoughts Huia and others, take care
Lizxx

Norma, I was looking at the microfiche, and all the McKerrow/MacKerrows, none of them with the first name Alistair, Alastair, Alister or any other variation. I guess the person who transcribed them just missed it. I will look again some time, also see if I can find his bride now that I know her name. I hate to be frustrated like this.

Hi my good friend Liz in England. My son will be arriving from Rotorua in 2 or 3 hours. We will visit Phil tomorrow I expect. I am much happier with Phil now he is in the private hospital. He is walking on his own again, and he seemed to remember me, even if he couldnt remember my name - he said I was the noisy one! He has super sensitive hearing and with my slight hearing loss I tend to speak too loudly. But I think I have toned it down lately.

Huia. (The noisy old crow).

I know I am not Liz - though I do like purple,

Am pleased that you are happier with the way things are going for Phil. Enjoy the time with your son.

love

Norma ( I looked on the BDM site for Alistair and that's where I found Alma)

Hi Huia

I am so glad you are finding Phil better now he is settled in his new home - it must make the situation a lot more bearable for you now. I hope you enjoy the time spent with your son - have you got a list ready for him lol
It will be good for him to see his Dad looking and acting better too.

take care
Lizxxxxx

Liz, I am not the one with the list for son to do. When he phoned to ask if it was ok to come up this weekend he said he would cut back the long grass with his whipper snapper and mow the lawns and cut down some trees and cut them up for firewood and then go to visit his dad. He plans to do it all today and I think he is going to go to the forest block that he and his mates have 'up the Klondyke' tonight, so he is going to be a very busy boy. I will be exhausted too as will try to help him.

Huia.

My dad always called us kids - whipper snappers-

LOL

Norma

Hope everything got done ok Huia and your lad got to spend time with his mates as well, nice that you see him and he can visit his Dad and take you too so saving you driving for a change.

take care and don't overdo things, hope your eyes are better now

love and hugs
Lizxxx

Peter cut down 3 trees and cut them up and they are now neatly stacked in the firewood shed, but it is not half full yet.

We visited Phil this afternoon but he just slept. Apparently he is up walking around half the night, so sleeps most of the day, although his eyes did flicker a couple of times. We stayed about an hour, Peter wasnt worried that he didnt wake up. At least he is not aggressive and trying to break out as he was in the public hospital. He has got past that stage. I would love to bring him home again but I know I cant as he would be keeping me awake and it is a full time job looking after him now.

I noticed on the last visit and again today that his feet and ankles are very swollen. Any ideas what causes that?

Huia.