FAMILY HISTORIES
Sir-Will you kindly convey my thanks to " Argosy" (Te Awamutu) for his information with regard to my "clan." I already have all those details, in various books of information, besides a copy of the " Family Tree," but did not bother to check up on the "1,000 years" in any of these, as the extract from which I took the information was published in the Evening Post some years ago, and written by one signing himself "Old Volunteer," and I naturally presumed that it would be quite authentic. However, again I have checked up and find that on digging up the "Family Tree" from an old ottoman which has not been disturbed for many years, that "Argosy" is quite correct. "Old Volunteer" had stated that the Roses "had occupied the ancestral home for quite a thousand years," evidently it was for something under 800 years, "and so we go on from tragedy to farce." My! what I started when I attacked " Winchester." I’ve dragged his noble forbears in, and my own, and "Argosy’s" and L.: Cooney (Mt. Eden). Who next? and I think it all began with "Zebedee" (or did it? More research work for me). But as "Argosy" says "it’s great
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(Petone)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 May 1941, Page 4
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205FAMILY HISTORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 May 1941, Page 4
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