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Kia Ora    :o)
My name is Tania Merrick and welcome to my homepage.

I have dedicated these pages to my Ancestors of long long ago.

I first started researching my Whakapapa when my youngest son was 3 and he was attending Te Kohanga Reo, that was in 1994. All I had to start with was my grandparents names, Worters/Galbraith/Irving/Gill from there I found the rest of them, Te Kemara/Brown and Hohaia.

I was lucky with some of the research, I already had 2 other family trees which were done by other people. One book was even published and is in the Auckland Library, that family was Jacobs/Gill. The other family that was already researched was the Worters family tree, I was lucky  that someone else had done that research as most of my early ancestors come from England.

I spent alot of time at the Morman Church going through micro-film and church records looking for any clue that may help me in my quest. Auckland Public Library also has a Geneology section, which also holds alot of  early New Zealands  records.

So the only research I really had to do was the Irvings/Te Kemara (Campbell)Brown/Hohaia and the Hakaraia's which are on my fathers mothers side. I have not found all of these families, the Browns/Hohaia's and Hakaraia's I am yet to find. But my search will go on.

The Galbraith family may be a little harder to find, like the Irvings they came from Scotland to Australia and the records are hard to find, although the Galbraiths didn't go to Australia as convicts.

I always intended to put my whole family tree together in some way, it was while I was at the Morman Church that I thought that once I have all the families together I'll give the church all my information, so if in the future any of my family or any other people  want to find out where they come from it will be there for them to read

It was after see Sonny Irvings site on John Hamilton Irving, (his and mine) Great, Gr, Gr, Gr Grandfather that I decided that I would also do a Webpage with all my  families together.

I really hope you enjoy reading all that I have put together and just maybe all that I have, will start you on a long journey into the page of your Family history books

Personal Note:
Please note as I have been updating my pages and have added new families there have been a few changes.. If you see a persons named underlined then that is a link to their family tree. If you see name withheld, it means that person does not want there name published online. If I happen to have made mistakes please email me and let me know I've probably mistyped it or read it wrong..  :o)

I want to thank Lisa Stevans from Australia, she has given me all the information on Emma and her husband Thomas Bowyer, along with the photo's of her relatives. She is still researching.

I also want to thank Judy Williams who is has done alot of research on Ann Marsh. She is related to us all via Ann Marsh. She has aloud me to publish it all on my site, which I am truly greatfrul for.

I would  like to Thank June Hurst from England. Over the past couple of weeks she has done alot of searching and research all of which she has passed onto me, I have then added it to my growing tree. Thank you June very very much, I am truly grateful for all of your hard work!

I would like to thank Kerry Worters from England. She sent me a her family tree and I found that I had missed out a few people. They have now been added into the right families. Thank you very much Kerry.

I would also like to thank Sue Baker Wilson from Katikati. Sue sent me a article about Te Kemara, which I have now add to my ever growing site.

Worters family tree update from June Hurst:

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I have found an error in the tree regarding James's daughter Sarah Worters b 1848 and her descendants. Sarah's children had wrongly been attached to Ann Matilda Worters b. 1857 daughter of John & Matilda Clements. Ann did not marry twice and did not have any illegimate children. Ann Matilda Worters was married only once to William Owers in 1884. I believe the children John Henry (b. 1875) and Emily Worters (b. 1884) are children of Sarah Worters."

I would like to thank June for her diligent research we might not have found the error if not for her. Thank You.
The Clan Irving
John Irving - The first Australian Emancipist
The Irvings Family Tree
Fourth Generetion
Fifth Generation
Sixth Generation
Seventh Generation
The Surname Worters
An Extract From Louisa Worsfold book
The Worters Coat of Arms
The Worters Family Tree
First/Second/Third Generation
1st, 2nd, 3rd Generation
4th, 5th, 6th Generation
8th Generation
9th & 10th Generation
My Family Album
A Fragment of Ngapuhi History
The Clan Irving
John Irving - Convict
Life in Bay of Islands
The Irving Family Tree
The Worters Surname
The Family Crest
The Worters Family Tree
Meet my family
Nga-puhi History
My Info:
Tania Merrick
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tarnz4d@yahoo.co.nz
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Irving
Te Kemara
Worters
Galbraith
Jacobs
Merrick
The Merrick Family Tree
The Jacobs Family Tree
7th Generation
Photo's
The burial place of John Irving (convict)
Johns resting place
The Clan Galbraith
The Clan Galbraith
The First Galbriath
The First Galbraiths
The Galbraith Family Tree
The Galbraith Family Tree
1st, 2nd Generatioin
3rd, 4th Generation
The Jacobs Family Tree
1st, 2nd Generation
3rd Generation 4th Generation
5th Generation 6th & 7th Generation
Sid Irving's fishing days
Sid with some big fish
My Favourite Links
Favourite links
The Merrick Family History
The Merrick family History
The Home of the Merricks
Croydon - Home of the Merricks
The Merrick Family Tree
1st, 2nd & 3rd Generation
[ Yahoo! ] options
William George Jacobs
William Jacobs by Helena Jackson
William's Musical Instruments
The Instruments William played
George William Jacobs
George Jacobs
My Webshot Photo Albums
Meet my family
John - William III & Elizabeth's fourth child
John Worters
Te Kemara
An extract from the book - The Puriri trees are Laughing
A time in Te Kemara's life
The Chief who had three names - Tereha, Kaiteke, Te Kemara
The Merrick Family Album
Meet my husband's family
Albert - Frederic & Annie's fifth child
Colin Worters
Sara - Thomas & Susan's eight Child
Sara Worters
Hannah and Henry - James & Elizabeth's first
and fourth Children
Hannah and Henry Worters
Walter Edward - Walter and Sarah's first child
Walter Edwin Worters
Colin - Frederic & Annie's sixth child
Albert Worters
Ivor - Frederic & Annie's Eighth Child
Ivor Worters
Marsh
Marsh Family - First Generation
Ann Marsh
Marsh Family - Third Generation
First Generation
Second Generation
Ann Marsh
Emma and Thomas Bowyer Family Album
Emmas Family
Emma Louise - Walter and Ngahuia's second child
Emma Louise Irving
John Hamilton - John and Ann's third child
John Hamilton Irving
Edward William - John and Ann's fourth child
Eward William Irving
Updated
Natasha and Jared's Wedding Day
Natasha and Jareds Wedding Day
Reginald Worters
Reginald - Frederic & Annie's Third child
Sarah - James & Elizabeth's nineth child
Sarah Worters
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