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So for my ancestry project I found the person who came to New zealand. His name was Jack Ellis, he was born in 1905. His wife was called Edith, She was born one year after Jack (1906). In 1940 they went to australia because of the world war two this is were they had their first and daughter marie, two years later they had a another daughter that died at birth, the doctors said if Edith has anymore children she will most likely die but after they war they moved back to england were she had twins john and chris (john is my grandfather). 3 years after john and paul were born Jack went to america and stopped by New Zealand Christchurch, he loved the place but he had to go back to England, there John and Paul had just started school and Edith had another child chris This generation of the family were very good with engineering when chris grew up he was able to build a car from scratch. John and chris could fix a car and marie was into the science part of life. john and paul were still very good with engineering but looked for an academic life john also took the path of a christian today he plays the organ in this church in rotorua
Now the biggest reason why my family left England was because they were very poor like very poor. Jack and paddy had a job but the job didn’t offer much they even worked full time but they still got paid under wage they worked all day just to get enough for lunches, dinners and breakfasts. Somehow they could afford to pay for the kids school marie was selected to come to london to for a bunny hopping competition but the family could not afford it so she couldn’t go after this family had many other opportunities but they couldn’t do because of the money.
Also a lot of world war two was in England so there were still unexploded bombs in some parts of the town/city these were the two main push factors of why my family left England
Now the smaller push factors the first one is school, the school they went to in england was not what they were looking for, they didn't have the right vibe for the family, the family was christian and they were looking for a cathlic school but in this part of england there was no cathlic school. Also the price of the school was quite a lot and they were very poor. Secondly they had close to no food.
The first discussion is why there was no food, there was no food because of world war two the full reason I do not know but i think it was something to do with world war two. Secondly the main reason why they were poor, this was because there was not much food so it was a lot more expensive somehow they managed to afford some of it the rest they just had fruit trees and vegetables and the stuff you can grow instead of buying the items
Now the first pull factor is the environment in new zealand was a lot less polluted than england there was a lot more green there and a lot less buildings secondly Jack was offered a well paid job and that would help the family a lot which was the main reason that pulled them to new zealand but then they found in christchurch were they moved to had several cathlic schools which meant the children/teenagers could have a better experience then what they had in England now the third big reason was the food, New Zealand had a lot more food and cheaper food.
Now the first small pull factor is the houses, they were cheaper for power water and stuff like that. The second one is the cars the fuel was cheaper in New Zealand than England.the last small pull factor is health when they moved there,they were a lot more healthy mostly because they had more money to afford more food and and didn’t have to work as much.
The first discussion is why New Zealand had more food? Like said there wasn't much of it in England. But there was more population in England ( UK ) so the food went a lot faster, and in New Zealand it was much cheaper but that didn't matter because they had more money.
8. Conclusion
Now you may have thought how did they afford to come to
New Zealand, well they had three children that worked very hard to get enough money to move to New Zealand chris made the most money john and paul made quite a lot of money as well as the children/teenager/adults, the parents Jack and Edith gained quite a lot of money by selling their house.
THE END !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bibliography
I got all my information from a book my grandmother wrote
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