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A Very New Zealand Family is a family history book produced in 2014 by Tauranga family researcher Cushla Randle (nee Weston). ISBN: 978-0-473-30883-4
Cushla, who was born in Wellington but now lives in Tauranga, started researching her book in 2011, inspired by questions from her children about the family. A family tree started by Judy Weston and her husband Bill Williams was a great source of information. Her uncle, Crowley Weston, had also started a family history trail many years ago, even visiting the English village where many Weston's originated from; Meonstroke.
Cushla used these beginnings to work the information into a family story, carrying out extensive further family research and historical research into the time periods that the family dramas unfolded against.
She wanted to write a book in a format that would be enjoyable to read and give a feel for her ancestors personalities, episodes from their life, joys, sorrows, triumphs and daily routines. Most of the photographs included are from the family collection and span the over one hundred years of the story.
One of the resources used was the diary of Henry Weston, written during a trip to Asia, as he accompanied his Uncle Warwick on a business trip. Another was the diary of Warwick Weston in which he records one of his many business trips taken whilst he was establishing branches for The New Zealand Insurance Company (NZI) around the world.
'Three Years with The New Zealanders' written by Lt. Colonel C.H. Weston is a book by Claude Weston about his World War One experiences and proved another valuable source of information.
A local connection is Margaret Steuart who married Mervyn Stewart, son of Adela Blanche Stewart (nee Anderson), who published a book about her Katikati pioneering days, 'My Simple Life in New Zealand' (1908).
BLURB: "The story of the Weston Family who emigrated to New Zealand in the 1850s. They had a strong belief in helping forge a new country and entered enthusiastically into a range of activities, both paid and voluntary. Many were prominent in law, economics and politics and the development of education. They, and the families they married into, were strong-minded interesting individuals, both men and women. They left several entertaining accounts of the time. Their stories reflect the pioneering life, the politics, the wars and the everyday life of New Zealand during this period."
ISBN: 9780473308834
