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From: Peter Williams <>
Subject: Re: [NZ] Home Steamer "Marere"
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:05:20 +1200
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Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the reply with your confirmation regarding 'home', and as I
suspected was referring to home as England. Stuart PARK also responded with
a piece from the 1966 Encyclopaedia showing the "Marere" was definitely a
ship serving the trade to the UK - which I either missed or wasn't in my
Google response - and I've since found a photo on a Queensland site. I did
another search on the Maritime Museum vessel index last night but it seems
to be still off-line.

However, I think I need to see whether my George changed ships in Auckland,
as he apparently entered the US in San Francisco, and his 1910 Census entry
says he had been in the US for 7 years - making a probable entry in 1903 -
if he told the truth!

Once again my thanks to Stephen and Stuart,

Peter Williams
Lower Hutt


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Donald [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, 25 March 2007 3:42 p.m.
To: Peter Williams; NZ List
Subject: Re: [NZ] Home Steamer "Marere"

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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