RobertJackson58585858, 14 days ago

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So, in that case I have two classic cases ... both being folk going to New Zealand in the 1840s. One on mom's side and one on dad's. Both were groups organised for free passage by their churches.

One was on the Martha Ridgeway the other on a ship whose name escapes me.

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RobertJackson58585858, 14 days ago

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In both cases it was the move by the UK government to try to populate New Zealand with "respectable" folk.

That is, not as a penal colony :(

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RobertJackson58585858, 14 days ago

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I had a third!

My great granny's sister took part in a migration from Winson Green, Brum, to Utah ... she fell in with a group of Mormons recruiting in Brum and went with her husband. Her husband died shortly after arriving in New York but later married a man(on the wagon trail to Utah) widowered when his wife died half way across the US.

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genchat, 14 days ago

@RobertJackson58585858 @genchat See, you went from not knowing to all these instances! #genchat

RobertJackson58585858, 14 days ago

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Erm

Erm

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genchat, 14 days ago

@RobertJackson58585858 @genchat Great example! It wasn't always a single person bringing others over, but sometimes organizations.

My great-grandfather was part of the Kosciusko Club in Holyoke MA & one thing they did was help others immigrate back to a newly-independent Poland.
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RobertJackson58585858, 14 days ago

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Yes ... I now recall ... The other ship was the Birman.

Unfortunately on a later voyage the Martha Ridgeway sank :((

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