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Am reposting this message as I noticed that keying "RALFE" did not reveal my original entry.
I was told that the surname RALFE should be pronounced “RAYF” not “RALF” which suggests that it should have a separate listing from “RALPH” ????
Part of the fascinating memoirs of Catherine Hester RALFE (born c1832 Bantry Bay, Ireland - died 5 Apr 1912 Ashhurst, New Zealand), can be seen online at “Dictionary of New Zealand Biography-Vol Two” http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=2R2
To my knowledge, Miss Ralfe’s memoirs have never been published in full. This is a pity because her memoir, written about 1896, contains a lot of genealogical information, and useful comments such as that c1866 “of my three brothers, one was in South America and two in New Zealand”.
In New Plymouth, New Zealand (in the historical document archives of the Public Library or Puke Ariki Museum) there are some more handwritten RALFE papers/documents.
Luckily there are a number of other online sources, such as:
http://isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/famhist/families/ralfe.htm
http://isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/famhist/families/lamothe.htm
http://isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/famhist/v03n2.htm#35-36
More RALFE genealogy @ http://www.dafoster.co.uk/family.php?famid=F314
Unfortunately some of those websites have omissions &/or errors.
RALFE burials- Isle of Man http://www.lawsons.ca/burials/r_01.html
To summarise briefly:
Pilcher RALFE married Hester RALFE (nee WHITFIELD ) 28 Dec 1791 New Romney, Kent. This couple had one known son (There may be other children???)
Pilcher Quint RALFE (Quint Pilcher? RALFE) born 1800 or 1812 Isle of Sheppy, Kent; died 26 Oct 1841, bur Lezayre, Isle of Man. Was a coastguard.
Pilcher/Quint married 18 Jun 1831 Anne Susannah LEMOTHE/LAMOTHE (1808-1841) at Maughold, Isle of Man.
This couple had four children:
Catherine Hester RALFE, born c1832 Bantry Bay, Ireland - died 5 Apr 1912 Ashhurst, New Zealand; never married; arrived NZ 1866 aboard “Leichhardt”, to assist her brothers’ families.
Pilcher Frederick RALFE, born 8 May 1836 Sheerness, Kent; died 30 May 1936 Raglan, New Zealand; was twice married; 1 Mar 1860 to Jesse Francis GREEN (1835-1861) at Lezayre, Isle of Man. Following Jesse’s death, Pilcher sailed to Australia in 1861, leaving his infant son (named Pilcher George RALFE but chr 1861 "Vilcher" in the care of relatives. In 1862 Pilcher (Snr) sailed from Australia to New Zealand. On 16 May 1865 Pilcher married Mary Isabella BATES (1857- ????) at Akaroa in New Zealand. Children Charlie born Christchurch 1866; Katie born about 1867; Family moved to Taranaki c1878/79. Charlie later married cousin Grace RALFE daughter of John Henry RALFE.
Frederick Whitfield RALFE, chr 28 Jun 1838 at Ramsey, Kent (C038271); died Jun qtr 1888 aged 49 Gelligaer, Glamorgan, Wales. Married 2 Jun 1863 at Lichfield Staffordshire to Susannah JOHNSON (1835-1874).
Marriage of Fred Whitfield RALFE http://listsearches.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ESSEX-UK/2003-01/1043513463. According to the memoir Whitfield had "six children ...some in Canada ...some in England"
John Henry RALFE, chr 4 Oct 1839 at Ramsey, Kent (C038271); died 5 Jul 1873 Ross, New Zealand; arrived NZ 1861 aboard “Chrysolyte”. Married 28 Jan 1861 at Barnabas , Douglas, Isle of Man, to Anna Maria GRANT (known as ‘Mater’).
“John Henry Ralfe married Anna Maria Grant, whose parents at one time resided in Stanley Terrace, Douglas, on 28th January 1861, in St. Barnabas, Douglas. They sailed for New Zealand on 15th April 1861, arriving at Lyttleton., NZ, on 31st July 1861, in the Chrysolite. They first settled at Akaroa on Banks Peninsular for two years. and then moved to the Canterbury Plains. In 1867 they crossed over to the West Coast, where John Henry taught school at Okarito, and later at Ross. They had a family of nine, 4 sons and 5 daughters – Hawthorne# c1861, Jessie c1862, Ethel c1863, Theo c1864, Spencer 1866, Margaret (Daisy)c1868, Grace c1869, Annie c1871, and Fred Dec 25th 1872 -died of scarlet fever early 1877. In 1871 John Henry Ralfe died of a stroke at Ross, barely 34 years old.” Family moved to Hokitika soon after. (#Hawthorne was christened Henry Hawthorne but was perhaps usually known as Hawthorne) from “La Mothe Family in New Zealand.”
Many of John Henry's family subsequently settled in Taranaki.
Hope this helps.
I am not related, but Catherine Hester RALFE was a close friend of my Gt. Grandmother, whom she mentions several times in the full copy of her memoirs.
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