AIGS/FHC Member's - Family Trees
Robert Blatchford Thomson
1912 - 1987 (75 years)-
Name Robert Blatchford Thomson Birth 1 May 1912 4 Shore Brae, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 
[1] Gender Male Death 26 Dec 1987 Hawera, South Taranaki, Taranaki, New Zealand [1] Person ID I2289 FHC029 - Stephen Family Tree Last Modified 7 May 2024
Father John Stephen Thomson, b. 13 Oct 1888, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. 13 Dec 1914, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 26 years) Relationship natural Mother Margaret Jane Noble, b. 26 Mar 1891, 24 Catterline, Catterline, Kincardineshire, Scotland d. 10 Jan 1961, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 69 years) Relationship natural Marriage 12 Mar 1910 St Nicholas Church, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland [2] Family ID F699 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Myra Colleen Spavin, b. 14 Feb 1918, Hawera, South Taranaki, Taranaki, New Zealand d. 3 Mar 1971, Hawera, South Taranaki, Taranaki, New Zealand (Age 53 years) Marriage 27 Dec 1937 Hawera, South Taranaki, Taranaki, New Zealand [1] Children 1. Margaret Anne Thomson 2. Peter Blatchford Thomson, b. 11 Jun 1938, Hawera, South Taranaki, Taranaki, New Zealand d. 17 Oct 1989, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand (Age 51 years) [natural]3. Heather Kathleen Thomson 4. Geoffrey Robert Thomson Family ID F758 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 May 2024
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Birth - 1 May 1912 - 4 Shore Brae, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 
Marriage - 27 Dec 1937 - Hawera, South Taranaki, Taranaki, New Zealand Death - 26 Dec 1987 - Hawera, South Taranaki, Taranaki, New Zealand = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - My father became a farmer after coming out to NZ to an apprenticeship at Flock House. The sheep owners of NZ set up a farm to train young people in all aspects of farming. His father John Stephen Thomson was drowned at sea in 1914, he was working as Marine Stoker when war broke out. Many of the Trawlers were requisitioned by the Navy to be made into minesweepers to patrol the channel and he was drowned just off the coast of Leith.
He was only 24 years old, my father 2 yrs. Dad had a brother & sister and his mother took them back to live with her family to the white cottages of Catterline. My cousins in Aberdeen have sent me photos of the cottages and the wharf where the family took their boats out to sea for fishing. The sons of the men killed in the War effort were offered a free passage by the Sheepowners to Flock House in the Manawatu NZ. He took up this offer and left for NZ 1 March 1929, on a cargo ship called Tainui.
- My father became a farmer after coming out to NZ to an apprenticeship at Flock House. The sheep owners of NZ set up a farm to train young people in all aspects of farming. His father John Stephen Thomson was drowned at sea in 1914, he was working as Marine Stoker when war broke out. Many of the Trawlers were requisitioned by the Navy to be made into minesweepers to patrol the channel and he was drowned just off the coast of Leith.
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