At the beginning of the year Val’s nephew Greg Machin went to New Zealand, and we told him about some of the Green family relatives living there. Yesterday he met some of them, when he went to have lunch with Denton and Ione Evans in Auckland.
Greg Machin and Ione Evans, Auckland, New Zealand 8 May 2010
Greg and Ione are third cousins twice removed, their nearest common ancestors being William John Green (1790-1866) and his wife Margaret Gray (1795-1844). The Green family lived in Quebec, but after Margaret died in about 1843 (we think in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but are not certain) William John Green and the surviving younger children came to the Cape Colony. One of the brothers, Henry Green, married Ida von Lilienstein, and is Ione’s ancestor, while his younger brother Fred Green was Greg’s great great great great grandfather.
We did not know anything about Ione until she was put in touch with us by Colleen Tapscott (another descendant of Henry Green) in January 2006. Ione was researching the von Lilienstein family, and sent a great deal of information on her branch of the family, descended from Henry Green’s daughter Edith Susanna Green who married Ernest Borwick and went to Kenya, which was why we had not been able to find them.
Greg went to New Zealand to be closer to his daughter Abby, who went there with her mother Sharon and Sharon’s husband about 18 months ago. He works in computer networking, and is hoping to find a job in New Zealand. Ione was born and grew up in Kenya, and after leaving school went to London, where she married Denton Evans (who grew up in the Falkland Islands and later lived in Kenya; his father has written an interesting book about the Falkland Islands). After their marriage Denton and Ione went to New Zealand, and all their children were born there.
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Hayes & Greene family history 
Margaret Gray who married William John Green had to have a different mother then Mary Pullman. Mary married John Gray in 1806. and Margaret was born in 1795 England. I have a John Gray born 1792 England, lived in Montreal married in Saint Gabriels, was a soldier. I think he could be the sister of Margaret Gray.. Do you know where John Gray was born in England? Hope to here from you soon.
I cant find a mother for John Gray. I think John Gray Sr. had two wives one in England and one in Montreal, as he was 40 something when he married Mary Pullman.
Hope to hear from you soon. Maureen
My email is masavell@verizon.net
I am also researching John Gray 1791-1792 of Rawdon, Quebec. Any further info? Curious about his possible connection to Margaret. Possible “country wife” (native) before he married Mary?
Maureen Savell