U.K. RESEARCH FINDINGS DISPLAYED

Good news is that Pat has updated the REYNISH archive on the Guild of One-Name Studies website. See...

http://www.one-name.org/archives/reynish.html

It is now an open archive (i.e. no need to register with Pat in order to see it). Anyone can use it.

Pat has added to BIRTHS index from 1837 to 2006 and will shortly add any christenings or baptisms she can find to correspond with these births.

Also MARRIAGES have entries have increased from 1837 to 2005. Several of these marriages have full details with them so be sure to pan well to the right and click on "Details" for this information. If you are willing to donate any  information on the marriages that have no details it would be really good if you could contact Pat on reynish@one-name.org

Also DEATHS from 1837 to 2005 are upgraded. Burials will be added shortly for some of them.

You can now make a "General Search" across all the records on this site. See at the bottom of "Contents of Reynish Archive". So for example if you enter "James REYNISH" you will see the number of entries for that name collected SO FAR and you can click on these numbers to access the records. These include all the censuses from 1841 to 1911 in UK as well as probate and adoptions and of course the BMDs mentioned already.

Bad news is that Pat regretfully cannot organise a REYNISH reunion in October 2013, as she had hoped, due to family circumstances. Her 99 year old mother, brother and husband all have health problems. So instead there will be a concentration to add to this archive as much as possible in the coming months.

The committee of the Guild of One-Name Studies request that all its members nominate someone to take on the archive in the event of the member's death or incapacity. This nomination would be done legally in Pat's will. A volunteer or volunteers would be welcomed. She is not giving up just yet but would like to know of someone who is interested....to contact her see:
http://www.one-name.org/profiles/reynish.html

George Edward Crowther REYNISH

The New Zealand immigrant - this evidence has been collected together to celebrate the REYNISH New Zealand reunion to be held on the weekend of February 19 and 20th 2010. I hope it all goes well. Greetings to you all. I wish I could be there.

George REYNISH was born in Roch PEM in 1836 the eldest child of James & Mary (nee DAVIES). He does not seem to have acquired the additional names of Edward & Crowther until the New Zealand records, although two of his brothers had Crowther as 2nd names at some time.
In 1841 census, aged 5, he was living with his parents and brother James at Thornbush, Camrose.
In 1851 census the family were in Steynton. George was a farm boy, aged 15 and now had siblings James, John, Jane, William and Charles.
In 1861 census he is a seaman aged 25 on board the "Jane GLASSIN" in St George's Channel (between Wales and Ireland). I have not found the rest of the family in the 1861 census.
By mid 1870 (according to Tony & Denise CRAFTS excellent book "Pembrokeshire to the Peninsula") he is settled in Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand with his wife Avis (nee GILES). It was her second marriage. They went on to have 15 children. The photograph shows him with his eldest daughter Eva born in 1875.
There is a story that his brother John went to NZ to ask him to go home to Wales and unfortunately drowned in Auckland Harbour aged 29 in 1873 (so born in 1844). Could someone provide more detail of this sad event please. "Our" John is not in the 1871 census here in UK and his birth was registered in 1841. The year of birth is close enough in date to be the same person. There is no John born in England & Wales in 1844.

John may have gone to NZ because their father James had died. There is a death of a John KEYNISH in Haverfordwest Registration District in 1863. Mary is a widow in the 1871 census living at Furzey Park, Haverfordwest with sons Charles and Thomas Henry aged 18 and 11. In 1881 she is still there aged 70 with son Thomas. I have not found her in 1891 census and she may be the Mary REYNISH who died aged 74 in 1885 in Haverfordwest RD. I am still following up the other children to find out what happened to them.

REYNISH ONE-NAME REUNION

There is to be a REYNISH reunion held on the weekend of Sat and Sun 2 and 3 October 2010 at Solva Memorial Hall. Please contact Pat to express your interest in this event so that she can send you more details.
There are two speakers already arranged and a dinner on Saturday. Then on Sunday there will be a local history event(details later).
This reunion is, coincidentally, happening during the same year as the 900th anniversary of the founding of Haverfordwest by the Flemings. Reynish is thought to be a Flemish name of course. Please support us and see:
http://www.haverfordwesttown.co.uk/haverfordwest900.asp