WHO ARE WE?
Adrian was born 1944 Hastings, New Zealand, son of Cyril Henry VERRY (1914-1980) and Audrey Mary (nee INNES) (1917-1993) daughter of George INNES and Mabel PAPPRILL . Cyril's father, Arthur VERRY emigrated to New Zealand in 1905 and married his fiancee Frances Helena MOORE in 1907. Frances was a descendant of a MOORE family, Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire. Arthur VERRY's ancestry is on this site. Adrian began his interest in 1965, at a time when family history research was regarded as a somewhat peculiar pastime. His other interests are Social History, Shortwave DXing and in particular the design of strong signal active antennas and radio engineering.
Maggie was born 1947 Napier, New Zealand, daughter of Kathleen Marion HERLIHY. She was adopted at two weeks of age by Robert (Bob) Andrew HEWETSON (1885-1979) and Freda Emily WILLIAMS (1907-2002). . Bob was the son of Thomas HEWETSON from Penpont, Dumfriesshire, Scotland and Ellen (Margaret) DUGGAN, from Kilcummin, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Coincidentally Margaret came from a village two miles distant from my natural mother's father, Timothy Desmond HERLIHY, Killorglin, County Kerry. Freda's parents were George Henry WILLIAMS and Violet DENNETT, both from early settler families. Maggie had three older brothers, John, Peter and Kevin. Peter died aged 26. Maggie's interest in Family History was mainly limited to typing an untold number of typescripts for Adrian on an ancient Imperial typewriter. Oh the bliss of word processing. However when she decided to try and trace her natural family, Adrian used the same methods as he used for tracing his ancestors. So many years on, she is in touch with members of the Herlihy family which is really great. Her interests include Gardening, Genealogy (big time), Cryptic Crosswords.and Sudoku.
Maggie and Adrian
have two sons, Peter
Robert Hewetson VERRY born 1970 and Brendon James Cyril VERRY
born 1971. We have a lovely daughter-in-law Rachael nee HOUGHTON) and three
great grandchildren - Jasmine and Liam born 2000 and
Sian born 2006. Many pictures to be loaded - sorry grandma's can't help
it.
We are subscribed to several Rootsweb mailing lists and enjoy offering help and advice whenever we can. We have offered a look up service on the Co. Kerry list for several years. In May 2002 we decided it was time to present a pot pouri of some of our research for the benefit of others and are grateful to Rootsweb for providing the resources for this site. We have deliberately avoided reference to living generations, except where they have expressed a desire to be included. Further it is not a comprehensive account of our respective ancestry, which now fills several volumes of typescript material.
Please e-mail us or write to A and M Verry, 6 Grey Street, Martinborough, New Zealand if you have any questions or additions regarding family histories on this site. If you are researching your family or contemplating doing so, we wish you success.
Kia ora from
Aotearoa, land of the long
white cloud - New Zealand.
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QUERIES AND INFORMATION
I am putting other people's interests on the site. If anyone is researching family with the same name or in the same areas as my research, I would be happy to add them.
SITE
UPDATED:
Complete revamp of the The BEATTY and McNAUGHER Family
Verry Family and the Mormon Emigration
The
Beatty and McNaugher Family of Drumhaggart Townland,
Parish
of Burt, Co. Donegal
Documentation
sed in my Search
McNaugher/Wylie
Mystery Solved
Some
Unrelated Names in Parish of Interest
Civil
Parishes of Co. Donegal (Thanks to Bob Hilchey)
QUERIES AND INFORMATION
The
Duggan Family of Kilcummin, Co. Kerry
(Link to John Finnegan's web site)
The
Ferris Family of Craig's County, Co. Antrim
(A
Computer Generated
Ferris Family Tree)
The
Herlihy Family of Killorglin,
County
Kerry
An
abstract from CHARLES SMITH's "ANCIENT AND PRESENT STATE
OF
THE COUNTY OF KERRY" (1759)
Miscellaneous
References to the HERLIHY name
Griffiths
Valuations of the Tenements 1852 and Censuses 1901 and 1911
Parish
of Killorglin, Townland of Gortloughra
(Abstracts
relating only to Herlihy and other tenants in Gortloughra)
The
Famine Years
Extract from
an
Unpublished Book on a HERLIHY Family of Ballyvourney
Details of
Four Generations of a HERLIHY Family
Records of
the HERLIHY name from the 15th Century onwards
The Irish Declaration of
Independence
QUERIES AND INFORMATION
Unrelated Kerry Family
MAGGIE's SCOTTISH KIN
The
HEWETSON Family of Penpont,
Dumfriesshire
A More Detailed Family History
Miscellaneous
Hewetson Records
1851
Census HEWETSON Name and Variants
Hewetson
Monumental Inscriptions
Descendants of Thomas HEWETSON and Grizel HAINING
HASTINGS
JANE
HEWETSON
KENNEDY
LORIMER
MILROY
MITCHELL
ROSS
WILLIAMSON
A
Site containing information and history on the
HARKNESS
Family - Robert LLOYD's Webpages
Genealogy
of the HEWETSON's in Auchenbainzie
Written 1822 by a member
of the Hewetson family with additional information
written 1824 by
James Hewetson
An
Article Written by William HEWETSON in 1801
on
the reason for lack of Birth Entries at Penpont
Queries and Information
The HAINING/HANNING Family, (Penpont to Nova Scotia)
Hoatson, Chanlockhead, Dumfries
Descent
from James HEWETSON and Mary KERR
including
the KRUEGER Connection
AN
OUTLINE OF
ADRIAN VERRY'S FAMILY HISTORY
The
VERRIOR/VERRY
Family of Herefordshire.
Gloucestershire and New Zealand
Part
One - Glassmakers?
Part
Two - Farms, Civil War, Name Change
Part
Three - To Forest of Dean, To New Zealand
Part Five - Verry Family and the Mormon Emigration
Notes on the Parish of Much Dewchurch, Herefordshire
Notes
on the Parish of Aconbury, Herefordshire
A Collection of Essays illustrating
Diverse
Records for Family Historians
INNES Pauper family of Marnoch, Banff
MANGER, Lutterworth, Leics. - Tracing the Poor
Marianne HARBRIDGE and Napoleonic Hamburg
Teresa COLLEY, buried at sea 1851
William MOORES, Royal Buckinghamshire Militia
Thomas GROVES, Inspector General, Excise, London
Stanley PAPPRILL, An Involuntary Infantryman WW1
Ancestry and the Law - Misc. Item
Newspapers and Historians (Three Examples)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The DUGGAN Family was almost entirely due to the endeavours of JOHN FINNEGAN of England. I supplied the New Zealand families.
The HEWETSON Family was almost complete when it came into my hands. Mr KEITH LOVAT WATSON had done a one name study. The Penpont family was not his, but he sent the completed typescript. A very interesting family.
And I would like to acknowledge my husband ADRIAN whose years of experience in genealogy and an interest in history gave me the impetus to try and find my birth family, which consists of the BEATTIE's, the McNAUGHER/McCONNOR's and the HERLIHY's.
FAVOURITE LINKS - Irish Genealogical Sites
http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlker
Co
Kerry site - very informative
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/
A
wonderful site on Co. Donegal
THERE IS A LOT MORE TO BE ADDED TO THIS SITE. PLEASE COME BACK SOON.