Martha Neugeschwender
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Original information:
Martha Neugeschwender (nee Brown). She married Augustus Amandus Neugeschwinder on June 5, 1866, in the parish church in Rangiora. She was 17. Augustus was a farm labourer in Fernside. At one stage he was gardener at Horsley Downs. They had a large family but no further information is available.
Readers’ response:
Martha Neugeschwender (note different spelling) nee Brown was two years old when she arrived with her parents, Charles and Martha Ann Brown, on the Randolph. 1
A family member has said the reason no further information is available on the Neugeschwenders is that the family changed its name by Deed Poll to “Freeman’’. There are apparently many Freemans in the Rangiora district. 2
Martha died on October 25, 1920, aged 71. The couple are buried at the Church of England Cemetery, Rangiora. 3
Footnotes:
1. Chrisanthi Freeman, unpublished family history
2. Aaron Clark, unpublished family history
3. Information supplied by Rhoda Thompson