Hi!! 

Welcome to my site. 

If anything is incorrect please accept my sincere apologies and drop me a 
line with the correct information. Do not accept this to be a true and 
accurate site there will be errors but I am doing my best to record accurate 
details.
I have many conections to the family names above and I have 
only just started to put this family tree together(on line 14 Oct 2006). If 
you have any connections, photos and more information about the names I have 
in place - dates of birth/marriages/death - and just general info like what 
they do/did for a living please drop me a line.
You will also see that some children are put down more than once - as they 
were whangai(foster)they still have connections to all families that are 
affected.

Extract about the

"Parkinson from Kaituna Valley"

Thomas Hodgson Parkinson arrived in Lyttleton, New Zealand in 1855 on board 
the 'Gil Blas' which sailed from Melbourne, Australia and soon after his 
arrival was engaged by the Rhodes Brothers to oversee their 25,000 acre 
(10117ha)Kaituna run. So started the association of the Parkinson family with 
Kaituna Valley which still exists today. T.H. Parkinson proceeded to purchase 
land from the Rhodes and by 'spotting or 'grid-ironing' as well as holding 
land under pasturage licence. T.H. Parkinson married Mary Ann Mac Kinnon in 
1858. In about 1868 he started a butchery business on Norwich Quay, Lyttleton 
which he continued to operate until 1875. Thomas Parkinson died in 1883. Their 
son Walter Fox Parkinson bought the Homestead block in 1901 from the trustees 
of the estate.

"Bristowe - Pereto "

HELP - I have made some errors with the Bristowe - Pereto branch Raniera (Dan) 
Bristowe I have recorded wrong dates and I believe there was more than one and I have 
got the children mixed up - Send me an email if you can clarify PLEASE.
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