Elias KEAR 1847 - ? Bream Eaves (General)

by unknown, Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 09:52 (4597 days ago) @ AnneRafferty

Hi Anne
Elias Kear and Mary Ann Wilding followed the many of the Kear and Lee family members that emigrated to New Zealand, this family settling in the Westland area.
Paperspast.co.nz a free to access to digitisation of local papers does have some information about the family. I believe that they lost a son in the Brunner mine cdisaster here in New Zealand.
I haven't quite worked out where this Elias fits in relation to our family of Kear's however there is sure to be a connection.
My husband is descended from two children of William Kear and Ann Grindall's children who emigrated to New Zealand and their descendants reconnected generations on. Such a small world that we are interconnected through.
Hope this information helps.
Regards
Judi Smitheram