The following information was provided to me by Robin Pawsey who lives near Christchurch in New Zealand. Robin visited England earlier this year on his way to France. When I met him here with his young son Callum. He gave me some details regarding his tree, and also a large pictorial family tree which contains a vast amount of information and which I hope to display on the site.

In 1982 and 1983, Linda Pawsey arranged for Debrett's to investigate the ancestry of two of her ancestors; 

• John Robert Pawsey c.1826, New Bells Town, Haughley, Suffolk, UK. John emigrated to New Zealand in 1859 on the "Clontarf", where he purchased Oak Farm, near Christchurch in 1863.
   

• James Pawsey c.1753, a farmer.

Much of the information here comes from that research.

JAMES PAWSEY ? - 24.06.1773.

James married Sarah How on the 25 November 1717, in Shrimpling, Suffolk. Sarah died on the 12 August 1774 in Stanningfield, Suffolk.

They had 15 children:

 
 
Joseph (1721), married Mary Pinchback 1743.

Edward (1727), married Mary Bidwell (1734), in 1759.

Elizabeth (1729), married John Eastgate.

John Pawsey (1735) married Mary Twitchett (1743-1789) on the 3.03.1767. He remarried in the same year Mary died, to Hannah Parker (1738 - 7.10.1815) Hannah was  previously married to Abraham Parker, 12.11.1789, Chevington, Suffolk.

 

JOSEPH PAWSEY C.1721/22 - 1790.

Joseph of Lidgate married Mary Pinchback in the parish of Bradfield St Clare on the 3 October 1743. Mary died on the 22 March 1803.

They had eleven children recorded in the Lidgate & Alpheton parish registers:
 

JAMES PAWSEY  13.05.1753- 19.10 1795 .

James was a farmer. He married  Charlotte Peachey on the 28 February 1785. She died 24 May 1825 aged 62 at Little Saxham.

James died on the 19 October 1795. Both James and Charlotte are buried in the parish churchyard of Little Saxham. They had 6 children:

George (1790|) married Elizabeth?

Mary Ann (1791) married Francis Drew.

JOSEPH PAWSEY 23.12.1793 - 7.12.1850

Joseph married Sarah Ann Smith (b.1789 d.1872). The 1841 census describes Joseph as a farmer aged 45, living at New Bells, Haughley with wife Sarah Ann also aged 45 (though in the 1841 census, all ages were rounded down to multiples of 5). Joseph died in 1850 and is buried at Haughley parish church.

Joseph and Sarah had 4 children living with them at the time of the 1841 census:
 

The 1851 census records Sarah Ann (60) as a farmer ( New Bells) of 172 acres, employing 3 labourers and a 17 year old boy domiciled at the farm. Sarah Ann died at 83 and was buried at the Haughley Parish on 22 June 1872.

Joseph (1817) married Rachael Edwards (16.08.1814-1889), on the 12 December 1838.
George Cooper (1823), emigrated to New Zealand on the 2 October 1849.

John Robert (1823), is not listed in the 1841 census. He would be approximately 15 at this time and would probably have left home. Joseph emigrated to New Zealand in 1859. he married Mary Ann Byles Simpson in 1843.

Sarah Ann (1831), married Robert Barnes.

JOHN ROBERT PAWSEY 1826-23.03.1904.

The death certificate for John Robert, confirms that he was born at Haughley, Country Suffolk, England and that he was the son of Joseph Pawsey and his wife Sarah Ann.

John Robert married Mary Ann Byles nee (Simpson), at the parish church of Haughley in 28 June 1843. The marriage certificate reveals that John Robert was a farmer (miller), and Mary Ann - a dressmaker. Mary Ann's father was a miller. There were 5 children, all born at Haughley:

In the 1851 census returns of Green, Haughley describe John as a miller, presumably working with his father in law. He was then 26 and his wife 33. The census data also reveals the male children's names.
 

Benjamin Smith married Lucy Jane Evans in 1869. They apparently had nine children: The eldest was  Mary Ann Eliza (d. 1883 aged 9). The other daughter - Alice Francis (New Zealand), married George Thomas Cox.

George Cooper (1850), married Margaret (1850). Margaret died on the 23 May 1924, aged 74 and George Cooper died 17 January 1933, aged 82.

Joseph married Mary Jane Magowan.

The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1859, on the "Clontarf", as the excerpt from the New Zealand Cyclopedia shows:
 

One child remained in England.

John Robert died at Balcairn, Rangiora, New Zealand on the 23 March 1904 and was described as a farmer aged 77. He had lived 45 years in New Zealand. The death certificate confirms his date of birth as being 1826/27.

Mary Ann Byles died 12 October 1892 aged 76.

JOSEPH PAWSEY 10.07.1852-25.09.1909.

A farmer based at Mt. Lance Hawarden (in New Zealand). Joseph emigrated to New Zealand in 1859 on the Clontarf. He married Mary Hane Megowan (b.24.09.1869 - d.29.03.1939), on 4.07.1906.

They had three children:

Joseph died at Masons Flat (Rocklea), Hawarden on 25.09.1909.

JOSEPH JOHN PAWSEY 20.10.1907-1968.

(Father Joseph 1852-1909). Joseph married Edna Mary Macartney (b.30.09.1909 d.13.03.1986), on 20 January 1937. Jospeh was a farmer at Rocklea and Mt Lance Hawarden. They had two children:

Joseph died at Christchurch in 1968.

ERIC WILLIAM IVAN PAWSEY 6.06.1909-10.10.1974.

(Father Joseph 1852-1909). Eric was a farmer at "Double Tops, Hawarden. He married twice. His first wife was Bessie White (b.21.01.1910 d.2.08.1942), whom he married on 6.07.1932.

They had one child:

Eric remarried Gwendolin Rose Taylor (b.19.04.1911 d.16.06.1983), on 6.10.1943.

They had two children:

Eric died at Double Tops on 10.10.1974

MARY IRENE PAWSEY 6.06.1909-28.08.1982.

(Father Joseph 1852-1909). Mary married Alex Fairbairn in 1930, and divorced in 1940. She died at Christchurch on 28.08.1982. Her ashes were scattered to the "four winds" on the top of Double Tops.

JUDITH ANNE PAWSEY 6.11.1941-

(Father Joseph John 20.10.1907-1968). Judith married Donald Hewitt Andrews (d.7.07.1987), on 13.06.1966. They had two children:

Judith's occupation is: Agricultural Research Officer, Leeton, New South Wales.


DIANE MARY PAWSEY 1.12.1944-

(Father Joseph John 20.10.1907-1968). Diane married William Douglas MacDonald on the 21.08.1971 at Sydney Nova Scotia. They have one child:

ROBIN JOHN PAWSEY 23.11.1938-

(Father Eric William Ivan 6.06.1909-10.10.1974). Robin married Susan Elizabeth Kathleen Boulter (b.12.11.1949), on 25.07.1981 at Chicheley, Buckinghamshire, UK. They have three children:

Robin was an Agricultural lecturer, and now a music editor.
 

ERIC WILLIAM PAWSEY 20 JULY 1944-

(Father Eric William Ivan 6.06.1909-10.10.1974). A bachelor, Eric is a teacher of English as a second language in Sydney.
 

HARRY EARL PAWSEY 9.04.1946-

(Father Eric William Ivan 6.06.1909-10.10.1974). Harry married Virginia Ann Sinclair on 18.02.1947. They have two children:

Harry is a farmer at Double Tops, Hawarden.

NICOLA JANE ANDREWS 18.11.1967-

(Mother Judith Anne Pawsey 6.11.1941-). Nicola married Alan Berrie Stockman on 1 July 1995.

They have 3 children:

JOHN FRANCIS HEWITT ANDREWS 2.02.1969-

(Mother Judith Anne Pawsey 6.11.1941-). de fact Tracey Pritchard.

They have two children: