The Ancestry DNA process has not identified any surprises in the Woodhouse/Lyng DNA, and has determined that our ethnicity is very English, quite Irish and a touch European.  Somewhere along the journey a very very small element of Asian is evident...     

Harold Edward Lyng was born 13 June 1900, to Edward and Laura Lyng, and was the oldest of their five children. He lived at 6 Swan St with his parents until 1931. Margaret Annie (Peg) Burk was born 30 September 1909, and was the third child in a family of four children to James and …

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On Thursday 8 December 1966 Thomas Edward (Tom), David Andrew (Dave) and Robert Paul (Rob) Woodhouse were born.  The following is a newspaper and photo journey over 50 years. The following day Sid Scales penned a political cartoon with a theme around triplets. The next generation: Rob with Charlotte Grace (born 11 September 1999), Dave …

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John (1840-1892) and Margaret Hannan (1844-1905)   Patrick (1832-1903) and Agnes Lyng (1843-1908)                

John Nicklin (1869-1935) and Eliza Merry (1874-1950)   William (1822-1883) and Annie Burk (1835-1908)   William Francis Buckland (1880-1913) and Mary Eliza Lucy Burk (1881-1939)                  

Elizabeth Woodhouse (1845-1919)   Thomas (1879-1959) and Catherine Woodhouse (1886-1966) Thomas (1909-1945) and Gladys Woodhouse (1907-1975) and Robert Leo Woodhouse (1913-1954)     Annie Day (1867-1943)     Tom (1869-1935) and Emily Brosnan (1874-1950)   James (1876-1955) and Catherine Burk (1874-1918) Harold (1900-1998) and Peg Lyng (1909-2003)   Edward (1868-1937) and Laura Lyng (1870-1949)   …

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Emily Catherine Wareing was born in Temuka, on 29 March 1874, to Joseph and Margaret Wareing. She married James Whelan on 27 April 1897 at St Joseph’s Church in Temuka and they had two children – James (1898-1964) and Eileen in (1899-1983).  Unfortunately after only six years of marriage James Whelan passed away on 9 …

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On Christmas Eve 1907 William Francis Woodhouse (my grandfather Frank) was born in Gore, to Thomas and Catherine Woodhouse of Waikaka.  Emily Margaret Brosnan was born in Naseby to Thomas and Emily Brosnan on 28 October 1909.  They are my paternal grandparents. After Frank’s family moved from Waikaka to Dunedin they lived at 49 Broughton …

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Simon is the son of Simon and Catherine Leach and was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, England in 1580.  Susan was also born in the same year and they are the second oldest generation of the 14 traceable generations of my family and this line leads to my grandmother Emily Brosnan.  The names flow from Leach …

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The oldest record that I can currently trace of my family line is back to the 1500's.  Simon and Catherine Leach go back 14 generations and this line leads to my grandmother Emily Brosnan.  The names flow from Leach (5 generations), to Houltan (3 generations), to Durden, to Wareing (3 generations), to Brosnan and to …

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