Calkin, Raymond Ninth of 11 children born to Ernest Alfred and Eveline May Raymond emigrated to New Zealand in 1958. In published vessel passenger lists, he is listed as travelling from London to Wellington. Ray and Iola divorced in 1995 (see Iola's details) |
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Born: | 23.09.1933 | registered in Romford, England. | |
Married: | 03.12.1960 | to Iola Brackenbury in Wellington, New Zealand. | |
Calkin (nee Brackenbury), Iola Daughter of Frederick William Brackenbury (b.7.12.1910 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk) and Julianne Marianna Turianna Johnston. Raymond and Iola divorced in 1995 and Iola has since remarried with Neill Haggarty. |
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Born: | 16.05.1940 | in Wellington, New Zealand. | |
Iola is a Great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Fletcher Christian of The Mutiny on The Bounty.![]() Fletcher Christian. Born : 25 SEP 1764 Moorland Close, Cumberland, England Died : 03 OCT 1793 Aged 29, Pitcairn Thursday had a son (imaginatively) named Thursday October Christian (10.1820 - 27.05.1911). Thursday II had a son named Francis Hickson Christian (18.02.1859 - 03.01.1938). Francis had a daughter named Caroline Agatha Christian (28.08.1886 - 17.10.1959) who married Louis Johnston. Caroline had a daughter Julianne Marianna Turianna Johnston (18.01.1906 - 26.11.1969). Julianne married Iola's father, Frederick William Brackenbury on 08.09.1939 in Wellington, NZ. |
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Four Children | |||
Greg | |||
Born: | 19.03.1963 | in Wellington, New Zealand. | |
Married: | c. 02.2000 | to Joanne Wright in Palmerston North, New Zealand. | |
Roger | |||
Born: | 23.08.1964 | in Taumaranui, New Zealand. | |
Married: | 02.11.1996 | to Maria McArdle in New Zealand. | |
Brett | |||
Born: | 22.01.1969 | in Hamilton, New Zealand. | |
Married: | ? | to Susan Cain in Palmerston North, New Zealand. | |
Glen | |||
Born: | 12.03.1970 | in Hamilton, New Zealand. | |
A recap on the events of Fletcher Christian's patriation to the southern hemisphere.
The Bounty
Fletcher Christian, acting 2nd Lieutenant, irritated at the arbitrary conduct of Lieut. Bligh, began constructing a raft in order to leave the ship by night. Another sailor suggested to him that he may as well take the ship and turn the Captain adrift, since they were all dissatisfied. He followed this suggestion, and the next day, April 28, 1789, more than half the ship's company joined in the mutiny. The Captain and his party were sent adrift, and after much suffering, reached Timor.
Fletcher Christian took the Bounty and the rest of the crew to Tahiti, where they had previously been. In September of the same year, he and eight other men from the Bounty, six Tahitian men, eleven Tahitian women and one child, sailed away from the others, leaving them there at their request. At the beginning of the following year, they landed on an uninhabited island, Pitcairn's, and burned the ship in order to escape detection.
At first, the island seemed a paradise. But then the Englishmen mistreated the Tahitians and stole one of their wives, causing a rebellion. Within four years, Fletcher Christian, all of the Tahitian men and all but four of the Englishmen had been murdered.