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Ralph Hartog Keesing

M, #31026, b. 9 June 1831, d. 14 March 1913

Parents

Father	Henry (Hartog Ben Tobias) Keesing (b. 31 December 1791, d. 10 May 1879)
Mother	Rosetta Raizche Barend Kesnich Kasner (b. 14 August 1796, d. 29 January 1862)

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Biography

Ralph Hartog Keesing was born on 9 June 1831 in Spittalfields, LON, ENG, age 61 in 1892 JGOC.^1,2 He and Fanny Magnusson were married on 24 August 1853 in York St Synagogue, Sydney, AUS.³ He died on 14 March 1913, at age 81, in Auckland, NZ.

9 descendants 1892 JGOC
PPA 7 sons one daughter 1900. Ralph Hartog Keesing immigrated to arrived Auckland from London 23 mar 1843 in the Union on 18 October 1842 JGOC has arrived Wellington.^1,2

Citations

[S743] Auckland Provincial Centennial Committee, Early Settlers Roll
[S807] J J CRAIG, Jubilee Gathering of Old Colonists October 10 1892
[S789] Wikipedia, on line WIKI trees

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Henry Hartog Keesing

M, #31027, b. 2 June 1825, d. 28 February 1895

Parents

Father	Henry (Hartog Ben Tobias) Keesing (b. 31 December 1791, d. 10 May 1879)
Mother	Rosetta Raizche Barend Kesnich Kasner (b. 14 August 1796, d. 29 January 1862)

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Biography

Henry Hartog Keesing was born on 2 June 1825 in LON, ENG.^1,2 He and Julia Sarah Solomon were married on 18 June 1848.³ He died on 28 February 1895, at age 69, in Auckland, NZ.³

Father pehaps Henry KEESING 1791
SL only has 6 children.
SL steerage. Henry Hartog Keesing immigrated to from London to Auckland on the Union arriving 23 march 1843 on 18 October 1842.^1,4,2

Citations

[S743] Auckland Provincial Centennial Committee, Early Settlers Roll
[S116] various web sites, Shipping Lists
[S789] Wikipedia, on line WIKI trees
[S845] Early Jews in NZ from Identity and Investment?

John Keith

M, #31028, b. 1794, d. 1849

Biography

John Keith was born in 1794.¹ He died in 1849, at age ~55.¹

John Keith immigrated to to Auckland in 1843.¹

Citations

[S743] Auckland Provincial Centennial Committee, Early Settlers Roll

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David (Captain) Kell

M, #31029, b. 1811, d. 25 April 1887

Parents

Father

Kell (b. about 1775)

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Family: Ann Hare (b. 1823, d. January 1887)

Son	William Henry Kell (b. 1846, d. 1870)
Son	David Kell (b. 1849, d. 1883)
Son	Frederick Kell (b. 1851, d. 1928)
Son	Walter Kell (b. 1854)
Son	Albert Kell (b. 1855, d. 1938)
Son	Charles Kell (b. 1857)
Daughter	Elizabeth Susan Kell (b. 1858)
Daughter	Matilda Kell (b. 1860)
Daughter	Ann Kell (b. 1863)

Biography

David (Captain) Kell was born in 1811.¹ He and Ann Hare were married in 1844 in Old St Pauls Church, Auckland, 2nd couple married in church.^2,3 He died on 25 April 1887, at age ~76, 76 years of age.^1,2

7 sons 3 daughters
PPA New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7934, 28 April 1887, Page 5
DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER.
Another old identity has passed away after an illness of only twelve hours, in the person of Captain David Kcll, 7b' years of age, who has only survived his wife four months. They leave a family of two sous and three daughters, all grown np. Their eldest son was drowned in the s.s. Tauranga, and other four sons have been taken to their long rest at different times. Captain Kell's father r.-as a captain in the East Indian Company's service, who brought his son up to the same profession. He was the first white boy who lauded at Owhyee, where Captain Cook was murdered, and he dined with tho king or chief of that; island. He came to New Zealand in 1539 with Capt. Symonds and Captain He.ile, ou behalf of an English company, to work the copper mines at the rvawan, and was afterwards connected with the shipping business at this port. He was at the Bay of Islands at the time of Honi Heke's war. ilia wife was an eye-witness to the Maoris cutting down the flagstaff at that time. Captain Sell was the second person married in Old St. Paul's Church. He was for 44 years an Oddfellow in the Fountain of Friendship Lodge of the Manchester Union. He was a principal witness in a civil case, the first tiied in the old Supreme Courthouse, in Queen street, the site now occupied by the City Hall and other buildings. He was unobstrusive, and of a retiring dispoaitiou, and very much respected by all who knew him. He has one married slater, upwards of SO years of age, living at Timaru, to whom he wrote the same afternoon he was taken ill. His funeral will leave his late residence to-day at eleven o'clock for Waikomit!. David (Captain) Kell immigrated to to Russell in 1839.¹

Citations

[S743] Auckland Provincial Centennial Committee, Early Settlers Roll
[S272] Newspapers Past, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
[S1012] Diane WILSON, The Wilson Collection

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Ann Hare

F, #31030, b. 1823, d. January 1887

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Family: David (Captain) Kell (b. 1811, d. 25 April 1887)

Son	William Henry Kell (b. 1846, d. 1870)
Son	David Kell (b. 1849, d. 1883)
Son	Frederick Kell (b. 1851, d. 1928)
Son	Walter Kell (b. 1854)
Son	Albert Kell (b. 1855, d. 1938)
Son	Charles Kell (b. 1857)
Daughter	Elizabeth Susan Kell (b. 1858)
Daughter	Matilda Kell (b. 1860)
Daughter	Ann Kell (b. 1863)

Biography

Ann Hare was born in 1823.¹ She and David (Captain) Kell were married in 1844 in Old St Pauls Church, Auckland, 2nd couple married in church.^2,3 She died in January 1887, at age ~64, age 64.^1,3

Ann Hare immigrated to to Russell in 1844.¹