~New Zealand Polynesia ~

Reginald Stanley Kelsall

When Reg first arrived in NZ he worked in the gumfields in the North of the country. It was the worst job. Only Maori and Europeans with no skills did that job. The gum was dried resin from trees that once populated much of the top half of the country. They used to dig for it in swampy marshland where the trees once stood. The gum was sent to England and used to make varnish and glue."

Reginald Stanley Kelsall and Maria Collins (1877-1951) were Dominic Kelsall's Great-grandparents.
Maria's mother was Mini Karapo KEREHOMA, born in 1838, New Zealand North Island. Mini married Francis 'Frank' Collins (1825-1877). In 1854 Electoral Roll, Frank was a 'sawyer' in the Bay of Islands.
It is probable that Frank arrived from Australia, some time after 1851, and took work with the timber industry and the merchants of forestry produce.

Reginald Stanley Kelsall was born a twin in 1875 in Prestwich, Lancashire, England and baptised 14 Feb 1875 at St. Mary the Virgin, Prestwich, Lancashire, England. His occupation in England was Fish Monger.

Reginald and his twin Sydney had become 'too hot to stay' in England and so were sent into exile. They were sent abroad in the closing years of the nineteenth century. Sydney emigrated to the U.S.A. and Reginald to North Island, New Zealand where he married Maria Collins in 1900. He died on June 1st 1935 at Auckland. Reginald Stanley’s Kelsall moved his family to Peria, New Zealand and their stories largely known from his great granddaughter Liza Kelsall ~

“Reg married a woman who was half Maori [Maria Collins]. Her name was Maria (pronounced Mariah, as in the singer). Maria was descended from an important Maori lineage of chieftains. I can trace that lineage back to before the Polynesians came to NZ.

Source: https://kelsall.one-name.net/trees/staffordshire-trees/kelsall-brothers-fish-merchants-sons-of-richard-kelsall-and-ann-kettle/reginald-stanley-kelsall/

Children of Reginald Stanley Kelsall and Maria Collins are:

1. John Kelsall.
2. Ruth Kelsall, born: 21 Mar 1939.
3. Stanley Kelsall, born: 1899, died: 13 Jan 1983.
4. Veronica Kelsall.
5. Pauline Kelsall.
6. Jennie Kelsall, born: 14 May 1900, died: 1983.
7. Constance Mary Kelsall, born: 1904, died: 1977.
8. Reginald William Kelsall, D: 12 Mar 1942.
9. Edmund Kelsall, married Linda Barclay, 1950.
10. Marion Kelsall, D: 04 May 1984.
11. Evelyn Kelsall, born: 1916, married Robert Bruce May, Jan 1941.
12. Sidney Noel Garnet Kelsall, born: 11 Nov 1918. died 03 Aug 1983, Kaitaia, NZ Garnie Kelsall married Clarice Joyce May who was born in 1922 to Jennie Jane Gibb aged 37 and Jesse May aged 37 (NZ BDM 1922/2947). Jesse past away 29 October 1942, and Jennie on 7 April,1978 at Wanganui.

Ancestral chart for Jennie Jane Gibb (1897-1978)

plausible Maternal ancestral linage,

based on NZ BDM records and Ancestry.

Jane 'Jennie’ Gibb (1898-1978) born 13 August, 1898, Hexham, Northumberland, England. Jane and her family travelled to Wellington, New Zealand in 1904, and married Jesse May in in 1918 when she was 20 years old. Jennie’ May died on 7 April 1978 in Kaitawa, Manawatu-Wanganui, when she was 79 years old.

‘Jennie’ Gibb was born the daughter of Rebecca Simpson (1875-1921) and Arthur Gibb (1873-1920) born Southshields, Durham, England. Rebecca was born 18 October 1875 in Bellingham, Northumberland, England and died 2nd March 1921. Both died in Hamilton City, Waikato, New Zealand

John Edmond Ambrose Kelsall (1835-1919), was born on 21 July 1835 in Burslem, Staffordshire, to Ann Kettle, aged 23, and Richard Kelsall, aged 32.
see Liza Kelsall's storyline and Andrew Kelsall Pearson [AKKP] at:
~ https://kelsall.one-name.net/trees/staffordshire-trees/john-kelsall-and-elizabeth-ratcliffe/ ~ copyright of Andrew Kevin Kelsall Pearson - https://akkp.kelsall.info/

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