My paternal grandmother Norah Barber, nee Pearson Email me with any queries.

Here are the names I am currently researching: John GRAHAM (1827-1902) Paisley, Scotland m Mary MILLER (1833-1893) Their children Mary b 1851, m William McAUSLIN (Paisley) then Henry STILES (NZ) John b 1853 Hugh b 1857 Agnes McFarlane b 1858 m Robert McCALLUM Margaret b 1860 Thomas b 1862 Letitia b 1863 m Alexander McDOUGALL Jane Lockhead b 1865 m John Edward HARTLE James b 1867 m Elise Ann ROBILLIARD Jessie Gordon b 1868 m William PEARSON (see below) William b 1870 Andrew PEARSON , Portadown, Armagh IRL m Isabella DYNES, Lurgan, Co Armagh, 1867 Their son William PEARSON b 1868 m Jessie Gordon GRAHAM Their children Gordon Graham PEARSON b 1896 (killed WW1) Thomas Lyddington PEARSON b 1894 Nora PEARSON (1899-1970) married Frederick Charles BARBER (1895-1963) (see below) Frances BARBER b 1873 Horningsham, Wiltshire, ENG Her son Frederick Charles BARBER m Nora PEARSON Their children Betty Patricia BARBER b 1925 William Graham BARBER (1922-1960) Edwin COLE m Emma Anne Oldfield (Emily) BURROWS, Melbourne, Australia Their son Clifton Arthur COLE (1891-1925) m Eileen Cletus JONES (1897-1978) Their children Leo James COLE b 1915 Owen Errol COLE b 1922 Stacey Mary Catherine COLE b 1924 Roger JONES b Rossory, Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Ireland 1801 m (1) Sarah MELVILLE Their son John Edward JONES, b Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Ireland 1830 m Mary Jane CHRISTIE Their children Sarah Jane b 1853 m Samuel Thomas OLIVE John Edward b 1855 m Ann Syme William John b 1857 m Annie O'KEEFFE (see below) Isabella b 1861 m (1) Amos McDUFF (2) Thomas Samuel MORRISSEY Jeremiah b 1863 James b 1866 Robert b 1868 Joseph Edward b 1870 m Ellen Amelia SCURRAH Patrick b 1872 Samuel John b 1875 Mary Ann b 1877 m David TURNER Caroline b 1882 m Edward KELLY Harold? Roger JONES b Rossory, Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Ireland 1801 m (2) Eliza McCONAGHY Their children Mary Jane 1855 m William Whitehouse BLAIR Rose Ann b 1857 James b 1859 m Margaret Ann PRATT Robert b 1863 Susan b 1870 William b 1880 Thomas b ? Margaret? Timothy O'KEEFFE, farmer m Mary RYAN, Newport, Tipperary Their children James, b 1862 Margaret b 1865 Timothy b 1866 Dan b 1868 Annie O'KEEFFE, 1861 Newport, Tipperary, Ireland m William John JONES (1860) Their children Jeremiah (Paddy) JONES 1893-1969 m Lilian Gwendoline DEACON Timothy JONES 1891 (disappeared to Australia after WW1) Mary Esther (Brigid) JONES 1887-? m Arthur Frances COURTENAY Annie Theresa JONES 1888-1963 Aileen Cletus (Molly) JONES 1895-1978 m Clifton Arthur COLE (see above) William John (Jack) JONES 1889-1974 m Mary Therese MAHER Ethel Frances (Tup) JONES 1899-1972 m Steve GODDARD John GRAHAM, a dyer, son of Hugh GRAHAN and Elizabeth ALLEN married Mary Millar, a weaver and the daughter of John MILLAR and Agnes nee McFARLANE in Paisley, Scotland in 1850. The GRAHAMs emigrated to Canterbury circa 1880 and lived in Kaiapoi and John worked at the woollen mill. John GRAHAM was a foreman dyer and some of his daughters were weavers. His son James was also a dyer. Isabella DYNES married Andrew PEARSON, a baker in Lurgan, Armagh in 1867. Their son William PEARSON was born in 1868 in Portadown. I don't know what happened to Andrew, but Isabella and William travelled to New Zealand on the Crusader in 1883 under the name DYNES. They settled in Ashburton where WIlliam became a coach painter and his mother ran a store. Later his mother was long-time postmistress at Cunninghams, near Feilding. She lived into her 90s. Wliiam Pearson married John GRAHAM's youngest daughter Jessie Gordon GRAHAM. They had three children, including my grandmother Norah PEARSON whose picture is at the top of this page. They lived in Ashburton for a number of years then shifted to Carterton around 1911. Jessie PEARSON died in the early 1920s and William married widow Elizabeth McBRIDE (nee O'Connor) who originally came from Hokitika. Other names from this side include McCALLUM, of Ashburton (Stanley Powell McCALLUM was a 1920 Rhodes Scholar) and McDOUGALL, of Kaiapoi. Clarice and Iris McDOUGALL's father John was my grandmother Norah PEARSON's cousin, as were the McCALLUMs. Jane Lockhead GRAHAM married John Edward HARTLE and their son Eric married May HART daughter of George HART who arrived in Canterbury on one of the first four ships, the Cressy. He subsequently became a journalist and was a well-known chief of staff on The Press. George's father, Michael Brannan HART was a Mayor of Chirstchurch and for many years ran the White Hart Hotel in Chrsitchurch. Frances BARBER was the daughter of Joseph BARBER and Hannah nee ADLAM. She was born in Horningsham, Wiltshire. Her mother, Hannah was the daughter of Nathaniel ADLAM and ELizabeth BULLOCK. Nathaniel came from Westbury and I have traced Elizabeth's family back to Yatesbury. I have traced the BULLOCK line back to John BULLOCK, b Yatesbury, Wilts, 1702. He married Elizabeth Eatwell who was in turn the daughter of Angel EATWELL, born 1679 and his wife Frances. Frances BARBER emigrated to New Zealand in 1893. Her uncles John and George ADLAM were already living in New Plymouth. Frances, who was unmarried, brought up her son Frederick Charles in Wellington until he was five and he was then raised in two foster homes in the Wairarapa. Frances subsequently married Walter Benjamin REID. (He was a son of Robert Reid and Louisa nee STOCKBRIDGE. The STOCKBRIDGE family ran one of Wellington's earliest horticultural nurseries), They lived in Wellington until her death in 1936. She had a further six children Ruby, Frances Ellen (Nellie), Rose, Walter, Bert and James. I believe James REID was a WW2 POW. Charlie BARBER was a WW1 veteran and was awarded the Military Medal for his part in the Bonavis Ridge battle in France. He married Norah PEARSON in 1921. He was a longtime tramways motorman. William Graham BARBER, my father, was an officer in the RNZAF and served at Whenuapai, Hobsonville and Taieri Air Force bases before his untimely death in 1960 at the age of 37. The earliest COLE I have traced so far is John COLE who married Eloise DAUBENEY in the 1820s, in Bristol, England. Later COLEs settled in Melbourne, in the Footscray area. They were butchers. Clifton Arthur COLE came across to Borthwicks in Waitara, New Plymouth to work.