Looking for Edith Marion Lucking and her brother Percy Lucking, at the Halcombe school from 1891.
Edith Marion Lucking from 1891 to her death in 1894
Percy Lucking is unknown, I assume he was at the school also but need confirmation. The two children came to New Zealand after both their parents died in the UK and the children I believe both lived with their aunt and uncle Catherine and Charles Crabb who had the Halcombe store during this period.

I do not have confirmation the children were together, they may have been separated and Percy may have lived with an unknown relative, finding the Halcombe school records would help me narrow this down.

Thanks

wenpen - 2019-09-06 10:46:00

nothing for them, not all schools are on the Index

crab2 - 2019-09-06 12:28:00

Thanks. I just talked to a society member that is doing Manawatu schools and apparently Halcombe has been done recently dated back to 1880 but is most likely not on the index quite yet. I will contact a Halcombe member who may have helped with the indexing. Thanks for looking Crab2

wenpen - 2019-09-06 13:02:00

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/FS18931007.2.9?
query=Edith%20Lucking&sort_by=byDA&items_per_page=10
0&snippet=true

carbs51 - 2019-09-06 14:06:00

Do you have their arrival in NZ?
They arrived in NZ together. the record states 'multiple ships' but if you scroll back on the original it states Kaikoura.
Name: Percy Lucking
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: Dec 1891
Event Place: Wellington, New Zealand
Event Place: Wellington (inwards), New Zealand
Gender: Male
Age: 12
Marital Status: Single
Birth Year (Estimated): 1879
Departure Place: Wellington
Ship Name: multiple ships

Name: Edith Lucking
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: Dec 1891
Event Place: Wellington, New Zealand
Event Place: Wellington (inwards), New Zealand
Gender: Female
Age: 7
Marital Status: Single
Birth Year (Estimated): 1884
Departure Place: Wellington
Ship Name: multiple ships

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6F8S-C81?i=
237&cc=1609792

h28skipper - 2019-09-06 14:36:00

wenpen wrote:

Thanks. I just talked to a society member that is doing Manawatu schools and apparently Halcombe has been done recently dated back to 1880 but is most likely not on the index quite yet. I will contact a Halcombe member who may have helped with the indexing. Thanks for looking Crab2

will probably be on the next version of Kiwi Index and it will only be available via the NZSG website

crab2 - 2019-09-06 15:08:00

h28skipper wrote:

Do you have their arrival in NZ?
They arrived in NZ together. the record states 'multiple ships' but if you scroll back on the original it states Kaikoura.
Name: Percy Lucking
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: Dec 1891
Event Place: Wellington, New Zealand
Event Place: Wellington (inwards), New Zealand
Gender: Male
Age: 12
Marital Status: Single
Birth Year (Estimated): 1879
Departure Place: Wellington
Ship Name: multiple ships

Name: Edith Lucking
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: Dec 1891
Event Place: Wellington, New Zealand
Event Place: Wellington (inwards), New Zealand
Gender: Female
Age: 7
Marital Status: Single
Birth Year (Estimated): 1884
Departure Place: Wellington
Ship Name: multiple ships

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6F8S-C81?i=
237&cc=1609792

Thanks, skipper, yes they travled to New Zealand with a Mrs. Jones and her three children on the mail steamship Kaikoura. I think they then boarded a clipper that sailed around to the West coast, maybe Wanganui!!

wenpen - 2019-09-06 15:20:00

Have you done a search on the manawatu heritage site. I have on line a couple of early school reunion books that I found there but I'm not on the right computer to be able to look at them. I have family that lived in Halcombe around that time.

cgvl - 2019-09-07 06:26:00

A scroll through this may find something.

http://www.halcombe.school.nz/index_files/Halcombe%20Centena
ry%201877%20-%201977.pdf

nbrob - 2019-09-07 20:42:00

Wow, some great info about Halcombe there nbrob. I even found a snippet of info about my great great great grandmother being the midwife for Halcombe & knitting a pair of booties for every baby she delivered. :-)

silverie - 2019-10-03 19:36:00

try Coach House Museum Feilding... for Halcombe... very helpful folk there.

neich - 2019-10-18 18:52:00

Charles Crabb was my great uncle.He and his wife Catherine Maria Hynes had no children of their own. They brought Marion Kate to New Zealand with them, I had her surname once but I've forgotten it. After Catherine died, Charles remarried to Mabel Gooding and they adopted a boy who was older, George Desmond St John Crabb.

They may have taken in other children but I've no record of it.

jhan - 2019-10-22 23:53:00

had a word with a friend who helps at Coach HOuse Museum in Feilding about this query, he suggested you get in touch with the museum or Genealogy Society.

neich - 2019-10-24 08:49:00