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1858/3762
Harding Edwin Isaac Shenton ElizaIsaac-Order Product
1858/3762
Harding Edwin Isaac Shenton Eliza Isaac
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1862/4613
Mary Polglase Isaac Harding Order Product
1885/3571
Fanny Mullis Isaac William Harding Order Product
1862/4613
Mary Polglase Isaac Harding
1885/3571
Fanny Mullis Isaac William Harding
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1944/26434
Harding Isaac William 186282YOrder Product
1944/26434
Harding Isaac William 1862 82Y
Gisborne Photo News (1954-1975, 1993–1996)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Hawke's Bay Knowledge Bank Who's WhoIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Nelson Photo News (1960-1972)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Tributes Online (obituaries)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Whanganui Council Property RollsHarding, Isaac        🔍 ASH

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Occupier/Owner Name(s)Property AddressYear
HARDING ISAAC
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1866-1867
Te Papa Collections - PeopleIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Otago Nominal Index        🔍 ASH

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Surname Forename Address Event Place Date
HARDINGIsaac Otago5 May 1864
HARDINGIsaac RevElm Row Dunedin1863
HARDINGIsaac RevDowling st Wesleyan Church Dunedin1864
HARDINGIsaac RevDowling st Wesleyan Chapel Dunedin1864
HARDINGIsaac, Rev Otago1840 - 1898
HARDINGIsaac, Rev Otago22 Sep 1863
HARDINGIsaac, RevDowling street; Wesleyan Chapel, Dowling street Otago1864
HARDINGIsaac, Rev Otago1864
HARDINGIsaac, Rev Otago23 Mar 1898
HARDINGIsaac, The ReverendWesleyan Methodist Society Otago19 Jan 1864
HARDING Isaac Otago 5 May 1864
HARDING Isaac Rev Elm Row Dunedin 1863
HARDING Isaac Rev Dowling st Wesleyan Church Dunedin 1864
HARDING Isaac Rev Dowling st Wesleyan Chapel Dunedin 1864
HARDING Isaac, Rev Otago 1840 - 1898
HARDING Isaac, Rev Otago 22 Sep 1863
HARDING Isaac, Rev Dowling street; Wesleyan Chapel, Dowling street Otago 1864
HARDING Isaac, Rev Otago 1864
HARDING Isaac, Rev Otago 23 Mar 1898
HARDING Isaac, The Reverend Wesleyan Methodist Society Otago 19 Jan 1864
NZ Presbyterian MarriagesIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH
Shadows of TimeIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH
Our Stuff - Denise & Peter's NZ history siteIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

Source: Our Stuff by Denise and Peter on Rootsweb / "All information, lists and stories on this site may be freely linked to"

MarriageAct
Alfred R. " Gittos William " Harding Isaac " Harper George S. " Hobbs John " Kirk William " Lawry henry H. " Lee William " Morley William " Quilty George " Reid Alexander "
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MarriageAct
Alfred R. " Gittos William " Harding Isaac " Harper George S. " Hobbs John " Kirk William " Lawry henry H. " Lee William " Morley William " Quilty George " Reid Alexander "
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Sooty NZ (NZ history and genealogical information)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH
NZ Genealogy Research Made EasyIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

Source: New Zealand Genealogy Research Made Easy, by Barbara Andrew / "pages may be freely linked"

hb1865
May, by theRev Isaac Harding, John William, second son of the late Richard Matthews, of Auckland, surgeon, to Christina Isabella, third daughter of the late James Stoddart,
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otago1864
One LEMON John Two HARDING Isaac One LESLIE John One HARRIS George One LEWIS J.G. Three HARRIS J.H. Two LIVINGSTON A.R. One HARROLD James One LIVINGSTON Alexander One HARROLD
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~babznz/genealogy/otagogazette1864.html
 
Transcriptions NZIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Prebbleton.All.Saints.churchyard
Harry, 1891 - 1953 HARDING - Isaac William 1862 - 1944 & - photo 114a HARDING - Fanny 1867 - 1947 HARPER - John Leonard, 1870 - 1941 & - photo 115 HARPER - Emma Louisa, 1873 -
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Alexander Turnbull LibraryHarding, Isaac        🔍 ASH

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DigitalNZIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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31 (1,2) Isaac Harding - Wesley Historical Society Proceedings John Kinder Theological Library / John Kinder Theological Library
Preface - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 There is a fashionable cry in those times against any argument of religion. We may discuss in science, politics, and literature, but a theological controversy has an odium about it which is often injurious or fatal to a good cause. Yet, why? Is it because the deepest interests of men are in their religion, and they do not like it touched? But t... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Wanganui, Wesleyan Parsonage, 5th September, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 Rev. Sir,— Your note of the 2nd is to hand, and I beg to acknowledge the free expression of your views as more than I expected from one of a school usually remarkable for holding back from the clear and manly avowal of the church views which you have set out so promptly and so well. Allow me yet a little further to incroach upon your attention, ... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Correspondence and Strictures - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 Sir,— I have been informed by members of my congregation that you have, upon more than one occasion, attempted to lead them away from their "first love," and the church of their fathers, by offering your ministration to them unasked. Allow me to request that you will, in future, refrain from thus interfering with the members of the Church, who h... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Wanganui Parsonage, September 2nd, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 Sir,— As you seem to expect a reply to your note of last Saturday, I will do my best to give you one. You seem annoyed, if I may judge from the tone of your note, that I should presume to exercise that liberty of conscience and opinion which I know Dissenters claim for themselves, and which I believed they allowed to others. You claim to be addr... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
To the Revd. Chas. H. S. Nicholls, Incumbent of Christchurch, Wanganui - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 Rev. Sir,— Your note of the 30th August, 1867, dated from "Wanganui Parsonage," is now before me, and l beg to say that after thirty years' experience in the Christian ministry and some acquaintance with ministers of various branches of the Church of Christ in England, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and now and then a little kindly attritio... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
The Parsonage, Whanganui, September 13, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 My dear Sir,— Although I said in my last letter that I should not pursue this correspondence any further, I feel myself obliged to acknowledge your note of the 5th inst., and to thank you for the courteous manner in which you give me credit for straightforwardness, which I think it is best to exhibit on all occasions. Although my time is much ta... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Saturday Evening, 31st August, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 Rev. Sir,— I am in receipt of a note from you, addressing me In a manner quite unusual, and, before I reply to the subject of your note, allow me to ask if it was from design that you addressed me as Mr. Harding, being a member of another branch of the great Protestant Church. It may be that you do not respect my ordination to the office and wor... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Otago Boys high School, High Street, Rattray Street, Dunedin, 1862 Looking north west? showing Otago Boys High School with pillars (top right) and other buildings in High Street and Rattray Street, Dunedin, the Reverend Isaac Harding’s Wesleyan Church under construction (left) Richardson, James D Auckland Libraries Heritage Images Collection / Auckland Libraries
31 (1,2) Isaac Harding - Wesley Historical Society Proceedings John Kinder Theological Library / John Kinder Theological Library
Preface - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 There is a fashionable cry in those times against any argument of religion. We may discuss in science, politics, and literature, but a theological controversy has an odium about it which is often injurious or fatal to a good cause. Yet, why? Is it because the deepest interests of men are in their religion, and they do not like it touched? But t... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Wanganui, Wesleyan Parsonage, 5th September, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 Rev. Sir,— Your note of the 2nd is to hand, and I beg to acknowledge the free expression of your views as more than I expected from one of a school usually remarkable for holding back from the clear and manly avowal of the church views which you have set out so promptly and so well. Allow me yet a little further to incroach upon your attention, ... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Correspondence and Strictures - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 Sir,— I have been informed by members of my congregation that you have, upon more than one occasion, attempted to lead them away from their "first love," and the church of their fathers, by offering your ministration to them unasked. Allow me to request that you will, in future, refrain from thus interfering with the members of the Church, who h... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Wanganui Parsonage, September 2nd, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 Sir,— As you seem to expect a reply to your note of last Saturday, I will do my best to give you one. You seem annoyed, if I may judge from the tone of your note, that I should presume to exercise that liberty of conscience and opinion which I know Dissenters claim for themselves, and which I believed they allowed to others. You claim to be addr... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
To the Revd. Chas. H. S. Nicholls, Incumbent of Christchurch, Wanganui - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 Rev. Sir,— Your note of the 30th August, 1867, dated from "Wanganui Parsonage," is now before me, and l beg to say that after thirty years' experience in the Christian ministry and some acquaintance with ministers of various branches of the Church of Christ in England, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and now and then a little kindly attritio... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
The Parsonage, Whanganui, September 13, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 My dear Sir,— Although I said in my last letter that I should not pursue this correspondence any further, I feel myself obliged to acknowledge your note of the 5th inst., and to thank you for the courteous manner in which you give me credit for straightforwardness, which I think it is best to exhibit on all occasions. Although my time is much ta... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Saturday Evening, 31st August, 1867 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1 Rev. Sir,— I am in receipt of a note from you, addressing me In a manner quite unusual, and, before I reply to the subject of your note, allow me to ask if it was from design that you addressed me as Mr. Harding, being a member of another branch of the great Protestant Church. It may be that you do not respect my ordination to the office and wor... Isaac Harding New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Otago Boys high School, High Street, Rattray Street, Dunedin, 1862 Looking north west? showing Otago Boys High School with pillars (top right) and other buildings in High Street and Rattray Street, Dunedin, the Reverend Isaac Harding’s Wesleyan Church under construction (left) Richardson, James D Auckland Libraries Heritage Images Collection / Auckland Libraries
Legacy.com NZ ObituariesIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH
Auckland Museum Online CenotaphIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New ZealandIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Meeting at Pūtiki, May 1864 In May 1864 downriver Māori fought at Moutoa Island, just north of Rānana, against upriver Māori who threatened to march on Whanganui town. Later that month Dr Isaac Featherston (centre), the superintendent of Wellington province (of which Whanganui was a part) met with Whanganui Māori at Pū... William James Harding
New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Meeting at Pūtiki, May 1864 In May 1864 downriver Māori fought at Moutoa Island, just north of Rānana, against upriver Māori who threatened to march on Whanganui town. Later that month Dr Isaac Featherston (centre), the superintendent of Wellington province (of which Whanganui was a part) met with Whanganui Māori at Pū... William James Harding
New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Find A Grave (NZ cemeteries)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Name Born Died Cemetery Cemetery location Region
Isaac William Harding 1862 🔍 1944 🔍 All Saint's Churchyard Prebbleton, Selwyn District Canterbury
Isaac William Harding 1862 🔍 1944 🔍 All Saint's Churchyard Prebbleton, Selwyn District Canterbury
Kura Heritage Collections (Auckland)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Title Date Record type
Harding, Rev. Isaac Index Cards
Harding, Isaac 1881-10 1881 Electoral Rolls
Harding, Rev. Isaac Index Cards
Harding, Rev. Isaac Index Cards
Harding, Isaac 1881-10 1881 Electoral Rolls
Harding, Rev. Isaac Index Cards
Upper Hutt City Libraries Heritage CollectionsIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH
NZ Electronic Text CentreIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH
Archives NZIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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British Resident  >  Inwards letters

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2 August 1833 - ... "Badger" (ship) and that Government Brig ... after them and other escaped convicts ... John Nicola and William Dowson (p56-67) 2 August 1833 - Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land - Informs Colonial Secretary, New South Wales, that 2 convicts are supposed to have taken HM Schooner "Badger" (ship) and that Government Brig "Isabella" (ship) was sent after them and other escaped convicts (p54)
- Enclosed: Description of Schooner 'Badger' (ship) (p55)
- Enclosed: Description of convicts, John Venton, Richard Roe, Lauchlan Macintosh, John Roberts, John Deacon, John Wheeler, James Ward, Isaac Haines, William Philp, George Harding Darby, John Nicola and William Dowson (p56-67)📃 View Scan 1833 Wellington Open
30 July 1833 - Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land - Asks Busby to help Mr Kinghorne, master of the "Isabella" (ship), to recapture convicts who escaped on 17 July (p41)
- Enclosed: Description of George Harding Darby (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of William Philp (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of John Deacon, John Wheeler, William Dowson (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of John Nicola, Lauchlan Macintosh (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of John Fenton, Isaac Haines (p42-49)
30 July 1833 - Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land - Asks Busby to help Mr Kinghorne, master of the "Isabella" (ship), to recapture convicts who escaped on 17 July (p41)
- Enclosed: Description of George Harding Darby (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of William Philp (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of John Deacon, John Wheeler, William Dowson (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of John Nicola, Lauchlan Macintosh (p42-49)
- Enclosed: Description of John Fenton, Isaac Haines (p42-49)📃 View Scan 1833 Wellington Open

Christchurch High Court  >  Christchurch Probate files

Name Scan Year(s) Held At Access
HARDING Isaac William - Templeton - Labourer HARDING Isaac William - Templeton - Labourer📃 View Scan 1956 Christchurch Open
HARDING Isaac William - Templeton - Labourer HARDING Isaac William - Templeton - Labourer📃 View Scan 1956 Christchurch Open

Blenheim District Court  >  Blenheim arbitration files

Name Year(s) Held At Access
Court of Arbitration - McIsaac versus Harding 1909 Wellington Open
Court of Arbitration - McIsaac versus Harding 1909 Wellington Open
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Lower Hutt MyRecollectIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH
Dictionary of NZ Biography (Scholefield, 1940)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Source: A Dictionary of NZ Biography, by Scholefield (1940), from NZ History / CC BY-NC 3.0 NZ

NameBiographyReference
Isaac Harding

HARDING, ISAAC (1815-97) was born at Wanstrow, Somerset, England, three months after the death of his father. At two years he was adopted by a childless uncle and aunt, and eventually he was confirmed in the Anglican church. Shortly afterwards he joined the Wesleyan Methodist church and soon became a local preacher. At the age of 21 he entered the ministry and was ordained at Newcastle-on-Tyne (1840). During the dissensions in British Methodism (1849-53) he rendered yeoman service by his loyalty and eloquence and his writings.

In response to a call for volunteers for Australia, Harding offered and sailed for Victoria in 1852. Landing at the height of the gold rush he engaged in strenuous labour, enduring hardships, establishing schools and erecting churches. He was one of the originators and the first editor of the Victorian Wesleyan Chronicle. In 1858 he was transferred to New Zealand, his first sphere being Auckland. The discovery of gold in Otago led to Harding's transfer to Dunedin, where the Rev James Buller had arranged for the erection of a church for him on Bell Hill. Harding held his first services in the Athenaeum and then occupied a canvas tent at the corner of Stafford and Melville streets. He speedily took the whole of Otago for his circuit and during two years churches were erected at Tuapeka, Clutha, Tokomairiro, Waikouaiti, Oamaru and elsewhere. In the course of one journey he went to Gabriel's Gully, thence proceeding through Teviot to Dunstan, up the Kawarau to Arrow and Queenstown, thence to Invercargill and Dunedin. In this journey he used four horses and made some very long daily journeys. He opened preaching services in 23 centres and had canvas and frame churches erected on the goldfields at Hogburn, Shotover, Alexandra, Clyde, Hyde and other places. A robust constitution, volcanic energies and an indomitable will gave him a rich endowment for pioneering work.

Harding was a man of unusual mental ability, a profound thinker and book lover. He was a contributor to leading magazines and reviews in England. His letters written from Auckland and Dunedin and published in the London Times over the signature 'Uncle John' did remarkable service to New Zealand and its intending colonists. In 1859 he published a lecture entitled Young Men for the Colonies, and a controversial pamphlet addressed to Governor Gore Browne on correspondence between him and Bishop Pompallier. In 1860 he published a pamphlet addressed 'To the intelligent Roman Catholic laymen of the province of Auckland,' regarding the inspection of schools receiving government grants. After leaving Otago Harding served at Wellington (1864-66) and Wanganui (1867). In 1868 he was transferred to Queensland, where in 1872 he founded the Methodist book depot in Brisbane. He died on 17 Jul 1897.

M.A.R.P.

Volume 1, page 194
Isaac Harding

HARDING, ISAAC (1815-97) was born at Wanstrow, Somerset, England, three months after the death of his father. At two years he was adopted by a childless uncle and aunt, and eventually he was confirmed in the Anglican church. Shortly afterwards he joined the Wesleyan Methodist church and soon became a local preacher. At the age of 21 he entered the ministry and was ordained at Newcastle-on-Tyne (1840). During the dissensions in British Methodism (1849-53) he rendered yeoman service by his loyalty and eloquence and his writings.

In response to a call for volunteers for Australia, Harding offered and sailed for Victoria in 1852. Landing at the height of the gold rush he engaged in strenuous labour, enduring hardships, establishing schools and erecting churches. He was one of the originators and the first editor of the Victorian Wesleyan Chronicle. In 1858 he was transferred to New Zealand, his first sphere being Auckland. The discovery of gold in Otago led to Harding's transfer to Dunedin, where the Rev James Buller had arranged for the erection of a church for him on Bell Hill. Harding held his first services in the Athenaeum and then occupied a canvas tent at the corner of Stafford and Melville streets. He speedily took the whole of Otago for his circuit and during two years churches were erected at Tuapeka, Clutha, Tokomairiro, Waikouaiti, Oamaru and elsewhere. In the course of one journey he went to Gabriel's Gully, thence proceeding through Teviot to Dunstan, up the Kawarau to Arrow and Queenstown, thence to Invercargill and Dunedin. In this journey he used four horses and made some very long daily journeys. He opened preaching services in 23 centres and had canvas and frame churches erected on the goldfields at Hogburn, Shotover, Alexandra, Clyde, Hyde and other places. A robust constitution, volcanic energies and an indomitable will gave him a rich endowment for pioneering work.

Harding was a man of unusual mental ability, a profound thinker and book lover. He was a contributor to leading magazines and reviews in England. His letters written from Auckland and Dunedin and published in the London Times over the signature 'Uncle John' did remarkable service to New Zealand and its intending colonists. In 1859 he published a lecture entitled Young Men for the Colonies, and a controversial pamphlet addressed to Governor Gore Browne on correspondence between him and Bishop Pompallier. In 1860 he published a pamphlet addressed 'To the intelligent Roman Catholic laymen of the province of Auckland,' regarding the inspection of schools receiving government grants. After leaving Otago Harding served at Wellington (1864-66) and Wanganui (1867). In 1868 he was transferred to Queensland, where in 1872 he founded the Methodist book depot in Brisbane. He died on 17 Jul 1897.

M.A.R.P.

Volume 1, page 194
NZ War GravesIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Wellington City Council ArchivesIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH
Masterton Library Wairarapa ArchiveIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH
BillionGraves (NZ cemeteries)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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NZSG Kiwi Collection (non-member records)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Source: Kiwi Collection copyright The New Zealand Society of Genealogists

Name Date Record Type
HARDING, Isaac William 🔍
11 May 1956 NZ Probates
Puke Ariki Collections - PeopleIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Hocken Digital CollectionsIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Discover EverAfter (NZ Cemeteries)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Wikidata People (New Zealanders)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Soldiers of Empire - Muster RollsIsaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Caversham Project Trades Database (1894-1939)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Caversham Project Electoral Rolls (1893-1938)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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NZ Intention to Marry Index (1882-1899)Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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Bride Groom Marriage District Year Volume Page Entry
🌳 Fanny Mullis 🌳 Isaac William Harding Christchurch 1885 30 531 390
🌳 Fanny Mullis 🌳 Isaac William Harding Christchurch 1885 30 531 390
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Nurse Registrations, 1902-1931Isaac Harding        🔍 ASH

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