| From: ghostbusters (Original Message) | Sent: 6/02/2006 12:17 p.m. |
| Hi Whanau, Adam heads to the green isles on the 26th Feb. he is at home having a holiday. he flys back to Australia on the 23rd sorts out his stuff and then on to Hong kong , Zurich and then Ireland. we would like some information if anybody has some on how he can hook up with any of our Fenton whanau in Irelend. Hope things go better for you Keegan because I know how long these legs breaks take to heal,  ma te wa akuanei Dennis Patuwairua back Margret, Adam Dennis, Irene |
4 comments:
From: Margret Sent: 7/02/2006 3:45 p.m.
Dear Adam, also Dennis and Irene
Good on you for your trip to Eire/Ireland. Search for our family in Ventry. Checking the marriage register of Ventry/Kildrun for 1860 will be a very good start for Johanna Fenton, nee Connor and husband Thomas Fenton. Thomas's home town was Tralee, a city by now, and Johanna probably from Ventry. Both their father's first name was John. The key to success is to find otu if there's any history of Thomas and Johanna leaving with their five kids for New Zealand during 1874. This means that they would have travelled from Ireland at least during that year to get over to Gravesend to catch their ship called Waitangi.If you get to their church cemetery, they were Church of England, then you could gravestone look for names. Apparently Joanna had, perhaps five children that did not live to travel to New Zealand.
Good luck on the hunt for our bones. I am still hinting to come and stay, after you Mum and Dad see you first.
Arohanui from Margret.
From: Adam3558 Sent: 10/04/2006 10:23 p.m.
Tena Koutou Katoa
Teina te mihi atu kia koutou katoa, aha koa he mihi makariri engari he mihi.
Hey guys hope everything is cool back home (it diffenently is cool if not cold here!). I arrived here at the start of march and have been waiting for my store to open up over here. At the moment i'm staying in Balbriggan, which is about 20 mins north of dublin. I was staying in Clarehall, about 10 mins north of dublin but the person I was staying with moved to Balbriggan. I'm going be working in Blanchardstown, just in a retail park for Harvey's again.
Now Ireland, quite an unsual place, very much like NZ but alot flater as in no hills and alot colder! I got over here and I caught the end of winter, since I have been here it actually has warmed a bit. Thankfully. It's funny that all the preconseptions about Ireland were all wrong.
The little cottages with straw roofs were replaced with never ending town house's, the people going around saying "top of the morning to ya" or "sure to be sure" was replaced with normal people - I will admit though the Irish are humourous people by nature. All ways wanting to crack a joke with ya. They are warming people, both kiwi's and Irish have similar qualities.
Dublin - Another usual preconseption - Me going into the city expecting this big grand city found nothing more than a city with building no higher than four stories, lost of historic buildings and monuments.
At the moment Ireland is in economic boom, with companies wanting to move here a setup shop, with never ending building happening and the influx of people and vehicles the country at the this point in time can't really handle it, It's got speed woobles so to speak!.
All in all the countries a great place and I look forward to spending sometime here, also using is as a base for european holidays.
He mihi atu ano kia koutou katoa, e noho ana i rora i te korowai aroha o aotearoa.
Kia Ora Kotou
From: Margret Sent: 11/04/2006 5:23 p.m.
Dear Adam
Well done in sending us a first-hand message from the land of our forefathers of the Fentons and O'Connors.
Arohanui
Margret
From: dannyandnola1 Sent: 12/04/2006 10:20 p.m.
Dear Adam,
Wonderful stuff you are sending back.
Will be watching for your next letter with anticpation.
Danny Fenton.
Margret,
Can't Thank you enough!
Cuz Danny
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