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From: Lucy Telfar Barnard <lftbarnard@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:03 PM
Subject: George Harbroe

Hi Tony,

I came across your page at http://www.gregory-fisher.com/Fisher/Harbroe/1816_1881.htm. I thought I'd draw your attention to a small error there:

You state "George Henry born 1853 died in youth". This is not my understanding. Rather, he moved to Wellington, New Zealand some time before 1879, and became an accountant. He married Arabella McIntosh, a daughter of a well-to-do Wellington family, at St Johns in the City, on 25 september 1879 - the record (http://www.stjohnsinthecity.org.nz/about/documents/MarriagesStJohns.doc) notes he is 25, which matches the 1853 date of birth, though with her death record saying she was 79 in March 1942, I suspect that Arabella was in fact 16 rather than 18 at the time of the wedding. They had three daughters (Gertrude, 1880-1875; Gwitha 1885-?; and Dorothea, 1892-1975), a son who died in infancy (George Henry 1882-1883), and also adopted a daughter Lorna (1905-1959). Lorna is (was) my husband's grandmother.

George died in 1926, and is buried at Karori Cemetary here in Wellington.

Best regards,

Lucy Telfar Barnard