I am a European New Zealander and I have two daughters who are part-Niuean. Their father is originally from Niue Island which is located in the South Pacific Ocean.

 

My eldest daughter Adrienne completed her Masters in Counselling with 'First Class Honours' from the University of Waikato in 2012, Hamilton, New Zealand. In her last position, she worked as a counsellor for Relationship Services in Thames and also as a counsellor at Wesley College, a Methodist Boarding School in South Auckland. Adrienne also has a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Waikato. Adrienne gave birth to a son on the 23 April 2013 (Shakespeare's birthday) at the Middlemore Hospital in Otahuhu, South Auckland, New Zealand. His name is Matheus Henry Iese Afakasi.

 

My youngest daughter Desiree taught in South Auckland at Kedgley Intermediate for eight years. At this school, she specialized in dance and physical education. She has a Bachelor of Education from the University of Waikato. Desiree gave birth to a daughter (my first grandchild) on the 21 December 2012 at the Middlemore Hospital in Otahuhu. Her name is Kortelia Margaret Pole. Her second daughter Fitimoka Valerie Pole was born on the 15 March 2016. Siua (Desiree's husband) has a Bachelor of Business Management from the University of Waikato and a Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Secondary) from the University of Auckland. Siua has been teaching at Kelston Boys High School for five years. Lia (Kortelia) will be attending the Karaka Primary School at the beginning of 2018. Siua taught at Wesley College (a Methodist Boarding School in Paerata, South Auckland) last year. Both he and Desiree will be teaching at Wesley College in 2018.

 

Soon after I moved to Pukekohe in 2002, I went on holiday in the U.S.A. and Canada for two months. On my return, I went onto complete the following courses.

In 2003 - I completed a Photography Course at the Edu-Col Tertiary College of Arts and Media in Royal Oak in Auckland City.

In 2004 - I completed a Small Business Management Studies Course at the Te Wananga Aotearoa in Mangere in Auckland City.

In 2005 - I completed another Photography Course at the School of Visual Arts at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Manukau, Auckland City, New Zealand.

In 2009 - I completed a photography course at the Manurewa High School and gained a Certificate for Advanced Digital Photography.

 

In 1998 - I completed a course and gained a certificate for the Application Techniques for Nu Colour Cosmetics.

 

From 1997 to 2000 I worked as a 'photographer of babies' for Peter Pan Studios at the Waikato Women's Hospital in Hamilton in New Zealand.

 

From 2007 to the present day I have worked as a Market Research Interviewer for Colmar Brunton.

 

I can be contacted as follows:

Margaret Vickers Photography

Email: apasifika@gmail.com

Home: (09) 2384957

Mobile: 02041415359

 

Recently I have completed some research into my Genealogy. A couple of years before my father died in 1983 he mentioned the fact that he knew absolutely nothing about his mother's family! What a shame he did not know anything about his long-lost relatives from Quarry Bank, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England! On the 18 November 2017 (my youngest daughter's birthday - Desiree) I discovered that my father had a half-sister who lived in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, UK. Her name was Kathleen Mary Munn and she was born in 1907. On the 1911 census, Kathleen was living with Abigail (her father's sister) and Arthur Creswell. On the 1939 UK Register Kathleen was still living with Abigail and Arthur Creswell and she was working as a Wages Clerk. She got married in Stoke, Staffordshire, UK to Donald Dodson at the age of 35 years old. She died in 1982 and my father died in 1983 - not knowing that he had a half-sister who lived in the UK.

 

ON THE 1891 CENSUS

George Harry Share (my paternal great-grandfather) - 33 yrs

Annie Share ( my paternal great grandmother) - 32 yrs

Thomas - 11 yrs

Walter - 8 yrs

Mary Elizabeth - 6 yrs (my grandmother)

Beatrice - 3 yrs

Occupation - Iron Dresser

 

On the 1901 CENSUS

George Harry Share and Annie Share were Licensed Victuallers and Grocery Shop Keepers on this census.

 

ON THE 1911 CENSUS

George Harry Share - 53 yrs - occupation Bailiff

Ellen Share - 17 yrs - housekeeper at her father's house.

William Bissell Share (grandson) - 7 yrs

Address - 57 Merridale Rd, Wolverhampton.

 

Thomas Share - 32 yrs - occupation Carpenter

Emma Share - 34 yrs

Phyllis Share - 9 yrs

Alice Emily Share - 3 yrs.

Address - 35 Austin Street, Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton.

Thomas Share died in 1959 age 81 yrs.

Emma Share died in 1960 - age 83 yrs.

Phyllis Share became a registered nurse in 1925 at the Birkenhead Union Infirmary by the General Nursing Council of the UK.

 

Walter William Share (my grandmother's brother) at age 28 yrs - occupation - Japanner.

Address - Wolverhampton Work House, New Cross, Wolverhampton. (I have more info about this relative - but won't disclose here - as the information is too sensitive!)

Walter Share died in 1918 - age 36 yrs.

 

Alice Beatrice Share - 22 yrs - occupation Barmaid.

Address - The Greyhound, Princess Street, Wolverhampton.

On the 1939 UK register, Beatrice was living in London - working as a housekeeper.

Died in 1966 - age 80 yrs.

 

Mary Elizabeth Share got married on 5 March 1907 to William Munn. On the 1911 census, I located William Munn at this parents house, but could not find Mary Elizabeth Munn? Kathleen Mary Munn (their daughter) was living with Abigail (her father's sister) and Arthur Creswell on the 1911 census. William Munn died - March 1915. Mary Elizabeth Bertha Munn and William Edward Vickers were married on the 9 August 1915 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand.

 

Annie Share - died in 1907 at age 46 yrs.

George Harry Share - died in 1920 at age 63 yrs.

 

I have also got some information about George Harry Share's parents. They were Henry Share and Ann Maria Share (maiden name was Bach). Henry Share died in 1892 age 65 years. Ann Maria Share died in 1892 age 64 yrs.

Henry's occupation was Labour Contractor at Ironworks.

 

Now I will just add my maternal grandfather's family here. This family lived at Crosthwaite Cumbria in the famous Lake District of England. Cumbria was known as Westmoreland before 1974.

 

ON THE 1861 CENSUS

Samuel Barber - age 46 yrs

Elizabeth Barber - age 35 yrs

Robert Barber - 11 yrs

Frances Barber - 9 yrs (my great-grandmother)

Elizabeth Barber - 7 yrs

Jane Barber- 5 yrs

Margaret Barber - 3 yrs

Samuel Barber - 1 yr

 

ON THE 1871 CENSUS

James Strickland - 68 yrs (my 2x great grandfather)

Thomas Strickland - 34 yrs (my great-grandfather)

Frances Strickland - 19 yrs (my great-grandmother)

Frances Whitehead Strickland - 12 months old.

Thomas Strickland occupation - Farm Labourer.

 

ON THE 1891 CENSUS

Frances Strickland - 39 yrs

John Strickland - 18 yrs

Mary E. Strickland - 16 yrs

Maria Strickland - 11 yrs

Albert Strickland - 9 yrs

Ernest Strickland - 6 yrs (my grandfather)

Isabella Strickland - 3 yrs.

There were two older children - they had left home when this census was taken.

Frances Strickland - 21 yrs

Samuel Strickland - 20 yrs

Frances worked in the Grocery business.

 

Thomas Strickland died in 1890 at age 52 yrs. Frances Strickland was left to bring up six children on her own at age 38 years old!

 

ON THE 1901 CENSUS

Ernest Strickland at 16 yrs of age was boarding with

Anthony Benson - 29 yrs

Mary E. Benson (his sister) - 25yrs

Frances E. Benson - 12 months old.

Ernest occupation - apprentice Bobbin Maker in the Textile Mills.

 

ON THE 1911 CENSUS

Albert Strickland (brother to Ernest) - 29 yrs - occupation

Police Constable.

Amelia Strickland - 32 yrs

Frances Amelia Strickland - 2 yrs.

Address - 47 Paradise Street, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, England.

 

I have just recently completed research into my Scottish ancestry. I will just write some brief notes here about Margaret Kerse who was born in 1845 and was from Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland. She was my 2x great-grandmother. She married Henry Thomas Bowers in 1870 at the Knox Church in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

 

I have also completed some research into the Vickers family who were from Yorkshire, England.

 

ON THE 1851 CENSUS

William Vickers - 35 yrs

Elizabeth Vickers - 34 yrs

Ann Vickers - 14 yrs

Sarah Vickers - 12 yrs

Margaret Vickers - 9 yrs

William Edwin Vickers - 1 yr.

Address - Emley, Yorkshire, England.

 

ON THE 1881 CENSUS

William Vickers - 31 yrs

Elizabeth Vickers - 64 yrs

Margaret Vickers - 38 yrs

Address - Howarth Grange, Rotherham, Yorkshire.

 

Margaret Mary Vickers died at age 39 yrs in 1882.

 

ON THE 1901 CENSUS

William Edward Vickers - 50 yrs

Mary Louisa Vickers (maiden name Appleyard)

William Edward Vickers - 16 yrs

Victoria Mary Vickers - 13 yrs

Herbert Hedley Vickers - 10 yrs

Margaret Emily Vickers - 8 yrs

Thomas Hopwood Vickers - 6 yrs

Eleanor Gertrude Vickers - 3 yrs.

Address - Wombwell, Yorkshire, England.

 

William Edward Vickers emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand in 1906. Occupation - Farm Labourer.

He was living in the Kaipara, Northland, New Zealand in 1911.

 

ON THE 1911 CENSUS

The Vickers family (apart from William Edward Vickers) were living in Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada.

William Vickers (my great grandfather) occupation on one of the Canadian census - Rancher.

 

My last branch of the family - which I will only mention briefly - descended from Francis and Sarah Eaton who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and were known as English Puritans - known today as the Pilgrims who sailed to the New World - the USA.

 

My family tree is recorded on geni.com