As I grew older, my interest in my heritage grew, and I found myself imagining the circumstances of my four times great grandparents meeting. There was a rumour, which I believe my mother told me, that Joseph had a wife in the city and his mistress (Miriam) in the suburbs. He was a busy chap, what with being a Fencible and a politician as well! Hence I began my own research, using the tools available to me in the 1980s. To cut a long story short, Mum died without ever discovering the resting place of her three times great grandmother, and it wasn't until 2012 that I stumbled upon it. Not literally. I didn't visit cemeteries in New Zealand, as I moved to Australia in 1980, but instead, the discovery was made via the internet.
NZ Fencibles
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