Maria's Family Archives: August 2015

15 August 2015

From the Newspapers: - Wedding Bells

My love for the New Zealand website ‘Papers Past’ just continues to grow. This is mainly due to the absolute wealth of family information that I am gaining from the fantastic old historic newspapers that are available to browse or search through.

James & Hanora (nee COSGRIFF) EGAN,
married on the 6th of August 1913
(please click on image to enlarge)

On one of my recent research trips through ‘Papers Past’ I came across this wonderful article all about the wedding of my maternal great grandparents, James and Hanora (nee COSGRIFF) EGAN. They were married on the 6th of August 1913 in the small town of Nightcaps in Western Southland.

Otautau Standard & Wallace County
Chronicle, 26 Aug 1913, pg 5
(please click on image to enlarge)

Being able to read about exactly what happened on their wedding day, and even who gave what speech, almost brings them to life for me and it allows me to imagine what it was like to actually be there. Going by what the article says, it seems that James and Hanora were a very well-liked and popular couple. It is such a shame that they got to spend less than six years together before the tragic string of events began that tore their family apart.

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For more details about their short marriage and life together please follow this link.

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Hello, I'm Maria and I live in the beautiful province of Southland in the deep south of New Zealand. I'm a happily married farmers wife and the mother of two gorgeous, strong-willed, young adults. After forty years spent wondering where exactly I fit into this world and what exactly my life's role actually is, I have finally decided that it is MY responsibility and MY job on this earth (besides trying to be the best wife and mother that I can be) to be the link between the past and the future.

For over three decades I have researched my family history and have loved finding out all that I can about the lives of my ancestors and those who walked this earth before me. I now find myself wanting to reach out to all my wider extended family and share with them some of what I have learnt over the years.

Our ancestors led such interesting and sometimes challenging lives, and often faced so many hardships along the way. I think we owe it to them to keep their stories alive for future generations. Without any single one of them, or without some of the sacrifices or decisions they made along the way, we wouldn't even be here. They were real people, and they lived and breathed and journeyed through their lives just as we do today.

So please stay a while and have a browse through my blog. This is my story, and these are my ancestors stories, with a bit of everything else chucked in. Enjoy the journey :-)

My main research is focused on (but is not limited to) the following surnames: EGAN, COSGRIFF, DWYER, SCHULTZ, RYDZEWSKI (or REGEFSKY), BROSNAN, WALLIS, THORLEY, ENGLISH, McCALLIE, LITTLE, CASSIDY, McCULLOCH, RENSHAW, LINDSAY, CLOSE, SPEIRS, BEVERIDGE, HURRELL, BRUNT, PRESTIDGE, EDWARD, JONES, EDE, NEAL and WHITESIDE, and the following locations: NEW ZEALAND (Southland and Canterbury), SCOTLAND (Wigtownshire and Lanarkshire), IRELAND (Armagh, Down, Kerry and Tipperary), ENGLAND (Staffordshire, Essex, Surrey, Nottinghamshire and Kent), USA (Massachusetts) and POLAND.