Common Themes: Emigration and Ordinary People

Samuel and Eliza (nee Magilton) Adams, my 2x great grandparents on my mothers side, left Plymouth in England for New Zealand as assisted immigrants on the Stad Haarlam, a steamship under charter to the New Zealand Company, on 15 February 1879. They were from County Down in what is now Northern Ireland and recently married. They left a supportive social network of family and friends behind and were facing impending parenthood.

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