Otago Archives - Geneageek https://geneageek.com/category/places/new-zealand/otago/ Genealogy, genealogy, genealogy. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:34:16 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://geneageek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-geneageekicon-150x150.png Otago Archives - Geneageek https://geneageek.com/category/places/new-zealand/otago/ 32 32 Giving Up Housekeeping https://geneageek.com/giving-up-housekeeping/ https://geneageek.com/giving-up-housekeeping/#respond Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:34:16 +0000 https://geneageek.com/?p=4671 Whilst looking for information on her daughter’s marriage in 1917, I stumbled across this intriguing advertisement in the newspaper placed by Alice Ann Glaister (nee White) the same year: “TUESDAY,…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/giving-up-housekeeping/feed/ 0 A Grave Mistake https://geneageek.com/a-grave-mistake/ https://geneageek.com/a-grave-mistake/#respond Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:18:43 +0000 https://geneageek.com/?p=3378 One of my favourite things about genealogy is feeling like a detective, and today gave me another opportunity to don my deerstalker and grab my pipe. I noticed that Find…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/a-grave-mistake/feed/ 0 Grave Matters https://geneageek.com/grave-matters/ https://geneageek.com/grave-matters/#respond Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:54:59 +0000 https://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=1881 In Port Chalmers Cemetery, there is a headstone for married couple, Alexander Ritchie Buchan & Agnes Buchan (nee Findlay) – but only one of them was actually buried in that…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/grave-matters/feed/ 0 Wills and Williams https://geneageek.com/wills-and-williams/ https://geneageek.com/wills-and-williams/#respond Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:12:07 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=1396 I was overjoyed to find the will of William GLAISTER (1816 – 1883) on the FamilySearch site in the Archives New Zealand probate records collection.  He was a {white & black}smith…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/wills-and-williams/feed/ 0 Girls, girls, girls https://geneageek.com/girls-girls-girls/ https://geneageek.com/girls-girls-girls/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:58:54 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=1005   Recently, I rediscovered a photo of my grandmother and her classmates in 1938, hidden in one of my family history books. On the reverse, in my grandmother’s scrawl, are…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/girls-girls-girls/feed/ 2 The Buchan Trio https://geneageek.com/the-buchan-trio/ https://geneageek.com/the-buchan-trio/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:38:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/the-buchan-trio/ The photograph above is of my grandmother, Gwenyth Jean BUCHAN (centre) and her siblings – younger brother Alexander Lewis BUCHAN and older sister Ngaire Margaret BUCHAN (their youngest sister Margaret was to appear 6…

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]]> https://geneageek.com/the-buchan-trio/feed/ 1 Dunedin Cemetery Records Online https://geneageek.com/dunedin-cemetery-records-online/ https://geneageek.com/dunedin-cemetery-records-online/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:04:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/dunedin-cemetery-records-online/ image via flickr I have just spent a fascinating day researching. The same distant relative I mentioned in my last post, had sent me digital copy of a cemetery record…

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