learning all the time..

During the lockdown here in New Zealand, I have spent a lot of time doing family history, and learning more all the time.

Listening to a webinar yesterday, I totally agreed with the speaker about the good information found in Newspapers especially in Death notices and Obituaries. The subject was to do with differentiating between people with the same names. I had the Johnsons in my mind while the webinar was playing.
Because I struggle with 'HOW' will I differentiate all the Johnsons in London to find the correct family!

Straight off to Paperspast website where I searched specifically for Canterbury district papers,
and in the year of Frederick Johnson's death 1938...
and there was a death notice And an obit....
And they mentioned, when, and the Ship, where they came from, birthdates
the number of children, that two had died, the daughter's married names

Oh what a find,
Sooo... either these newspapers weren't digitised until recently, or of course, maybe I
didn't know how to find them, when I started this lark of family history.

It certainly fleshes out the story, and adds lots of detail...

• The uncle that lived in Dunedin, that cousin Kevin had mentioned, was G H -
• Frederick was in the "Lodge"
• Elizabeth must have been pregnant with Florence when they came on the ship
• the ship was the 'Hereford' and it was 1874
•  - confirmed that two of their children had died before Frederick's death.

Looking at two different newspapers, there was different details in each notice.

And  Elizabeth's Death notices were there too, in 1920.

the joy of revisiting your own research.