Gillbanks in NewZealand
I am trying to identify any relatives living in New Zealand.
My Grandmother was born Amy Mason in Burnley Lancashire in 1886. Her mother was Hannah Eliza Gillbanks, born in Ingleton, N.Yorkshire in 1847, where her father was a stone mason (he also ran a beer house the 'Masons Arms')although the family originally came from the Matterdale/Threlkeld area of Cumbria.
I can recall that she coresponded with 'cousins' in New Zealand right up to her death in 1965. I believe they lived on South Island, in the Christchurch area, as they sent a pictorial calander of Christchurch to her each year.
From what I know I believe the family would have emigrated, probably from Liverpool, betweeun 1890 and 1940 (relatives serving with the ANZAC forces visited her during WW2 but my father was at sea and never got to meet them or learn their names)
Can anyone out there help??
Thanks,
Graeme
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