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From: "Stephen Donald" <>
Subject: Re: [NZ] Home Steamer "Marere"
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:42:06 +1200
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Peter
'Home' certainly means England - my father aged 93 still uses the term! and
I have even seen references to Maori in 19th century 'going home to
England' - and giving 'settler' on electoral rolls, company share registers
and PO directories well into 20th C

Stephen
>
> In the divorce file for my serial bigamist, George Francis MURCH, there is
> a
> mention in the police reports of George MURCH last being seen on Queens
> Wharf heading for "one of the Home Steamers, Marere" - this sighting was
> on
> 22 October 1903. He'd left his wife in early July 1903, supposedly in
> answer
> to a telegram from Lyttleton, summoning him to repair a ship's engine. He
> had, however, married a lady in Nelson in January of that year.
>
> I've tried a Google which Google returns a mention of this vessel in the
> Maritime Museum Index, but unfortunately it seems to be off-line this
> weekend (isn't it always that way when you REALLY would like to find
> something in a hurry) so what I'd like to know is the home steamer
> reference
> to a _coastal_ NZ ship, or does the home refer to mother England? Does
> anyone know anything of this vessel?

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