I have just put together two pieces of information on the Gaze family history. One is a letter I received from a distant relative a few years ago, who had come across an old document in the home of a mutual connection who had just died.
The second is a letter from a correspondent in Australia who was researching his Gaze ancestors, which showed similar Christian names, a similar geographical place of origin in London, and similar occupations to our family.
The other day I came upon the two letters at the same time and some pennies dropped. So I re-read the details and found the connections: dates and places and names and occupations exactly co-inciding!
My great-grandfather Charles Gaze, saddler, born 1832 and arrived Auckland in March of 1859, had an uncle, also Charles. He was the youngest brother of our Charles' father John, born 1807 (ie, immediately after the family moved to London from Bristol), also a saddler,etc.
In 1830 Uncle Charles married Jane Kingdom, and in 1832 they sailed for Sydney, arriving aboard the Governor Halkett on 10 September. Charles died 1845 and Jane in 1851. He had worked as collar-maker, harness-maker and publican, as well as saddler.
Their children were:
Charles John , 1833; Olive, 1835, married Allen Hancock 1855; Robert, 1837; Jane, 1840, married Andrew Smith 1861; James 1843.
I wonder how this family survived, because when Charles, their father, died, the eldest was only 12, and their mother died when he was 18, so he had siblings of 16, 14, 12, 9, and 6 to support.
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