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French immigrants did not build up a significant community, although there are informal groups. The Cercle Français, established in 1908, was renamed the Alliance Française in 1984. In 2003 there were 11 branches with about 2,500 members. The clubs offer regular film festivals, concerts, exhibitions and language classes.
Country of birth
The New Zealand census figures listed here show the number of residents born in France.
1858 census: 173
1901 census: 609 (including possessions)
1951 census: 324
1976 census: 666
2001 census: 1,614
2006 census: 2,475
Ethnic identity
In the 2006 census, people were asked to indicate the ethnic group or groups with which they identified. The numbers include those who indicated more than one group.
French: 3,819
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Thanks Rob for links and information.
I hope to find more could not find what I need with my information.
I think some may have gone to england first under british protection and restarted new lives In New Zealand,Australia etc.
Apprreciate your efforts,been bit crook apologies for not much interaction in photo competitions.
I hope to find more could not find what I need with my information.
I think some may have gone to england first under british protection and restarted new lives In New Zealand,Australia etc.
Apprreciate your efforts,been bit crook apologies for not much interaction in photo competitions.
gt hold the french ships passenger lists
think that's how family tree peps track colonial migration, ships passenger list are recorded some times
my mothers great great grandmother was a full blooded french canadian red indian , but haven't any knowledge other than tat
think that's how family tree peps track colonial migration, ships passenger list are recorded some times
my mothers great great grandmother was a full blooded french canadian red indian , but haven't any knowledge other than tat
you might ask her
benidorm: Thanks Rob for links and information.
I hope to find more could not find what I need with my information.
I think some may have gone to england first under british protection and restarted new lives In New Zealand,Australia etc.
Apprreciate your efforts,been bit crook apologies for not much interaction in photo competitions.
I hope to find more could not find what I need with my information.
I think some may have gone to england first under british protection and restarted new lives In New Zealand,Australia etc.
Apprreciate your efforts,been bit crook apologies for not much interaction in photo competitions.
Sorry to hear you were crook. Probably the only one happy to herar that as it kept you away from the Photo Comp was LiLee as she ended up winning it. I would have appreciated your vote for me to get me off the bottom rung of the Comp.
Back to French immigrants and hysterical things. At the time of the French Revolution, many escaped and headed (before beheading) to other countries and ended up with different spellings for their names due to the customs people often being almost illiterate. Imagine the name "Beauchampe" being pronounced "Bowshomp" "Beshomp" or even "Bishop" being so easily written as something different to the original spelling.
I worked with a guy of Irish decent whose surname was "Delaney." Even though he knew his name was centuries old, could not work out the origin. I was reading a book on early French history and came a cross a mention to the Bishop de Ney. Reference to the man who was the Bishop of the town of Ney in Normandy, France. My high school French kicked in....that is The Bishop OF Ney (a town/region in France).
"Delaney" can be broken up into "de la Ney" which literally translates to of the Ney. Mystery solved, his name goes back to the Norman times when they were the rulers of England and later conquered Ireland.So "benidorm" could be a corruption of some other European language as written in English. "Benni" and many other variations usually means "good" while "dorm" could be a Latin derivation of "Dormitory" or literaly "home."
So Benidorm could be derived from "Good Home." Or even a Latin translation of the Scottish "Greyholme" misunderstood to mean "Great Home" due to the accent. Try saying that with a broad Scottish accent rolling off your toungue
"Tis a grrraaa holmme we ave, lasssssiee"Thanks wash for your response.
Was thinking people would have had to change there names especially with this english speaking world would have been pretty hard for french integrating into the colonies.
Rob thanks for your input and very interesting about your great grandmother.I was not aware of my heritage during testing in muraroa attol.I do hope to learn more and in time be more in tune with my heritage and celebrate when can and or make time to do so.
Was thinking people would have had to change there names especially with this english speaking world would have been pretty hard for french integrating into the colonies.
Rob thanks for your input and very interesting about your great grandmother.I was not aware of my heritage during testing in muraroa attol.I do hope to learn more and in time be more in tune with my heritage and celebrate when can and or make time to do so.
benidorm: Thanks wash for your response.
Was thinking people would have had to change there names especially with this english speaking world would have been pretty hard for french integrating into the colonies.
Rob thanks for your input and very interesting about your great grandmother.I was not aware of my heritage during testing in muraroa attol.I do hope to learn more and in time be more in tune with my heritage and celebrate when can and or make time to do so.
Was thinking people would have had to change there names especially with this english speaking world would have been pretty hard for french integrating into the colonies.
Rob thanks for your input and very interesting about your great grandmother.I was not aware of my heritage during testing in muraroa attol.I do hope to learn more and in time be more in tune with my heritage and celebrate when can and or make time to do so.
Beni, judging by your photo, it looks like the French Atomic testing at Muraroa Atoll did lead to some birth defects they keep talking about.
Might help to do a bit of research of Noumea (French/New Caledonia).
Thats a bit harsh but very funny.
wash2u: Sorry to hear you were crook. Probably the only one happy to herar that as it kept you away from the Photo Comp was LiLee as she ended up winning it. I would have appreciated your vote for me to get me off the bottom rung of the Comp.
Back to French immigrants and hysterical things. At the time of the French Revolution, many escaped and headed (before beheading) to other countries and ended up with different spellings for their names due to the customs people often being almost illiterate. Imagine the name "Beauchampe" being pronounced "Bowshomp" "Beshomp" or even "Bishop" being so easily written as something different to the original spelling.
I worked with a guy of Irish decent whose surname was "Delaney." Even though he knew his name was centuries old, could not work out the origin. I was reading a book on early French history and came a cross a mention to the Bishop de Ney. Reference to the man who was the Bishop of the town of Ney in Normandy, France. My high school French kicked in....that is The Bishop OF Ney (a town/region in France).
"Delaney" can be broken up into "de la Ney" which literally translates to of the Ney. Mystery solved, his name goes back to the Norman times when they were the rulers of England and later conquered Ireland.
So "benidorm" could be a corruption of some other European language as written in English. "Benni" and many other variations usually means "good" while "dorm" could be a Latin derivation of "Dormitory" or literaly "home."
So Benidorm could be derived from "Good Home." Or even a Latin translation of the Scottish "Greyholme" misunderstood to mean "Great Home" due to the accent. Try saying that with a broad Scottish accent rolling off your toungue "Tis a grrraaa holmme we ave, lasssssiee"
Back to French immigrants and hysterical things. At the time of the French Revolution, many escaped and headed (before beheading) to other countries and ended up with different spellings for their names due to the customs people often being almost illiterate. Imagine the name "Beauchampe" being pronounced "Bowshomp" "Beshomp" or even "Bishop" being so easily written as something different to the original spelling.
I worked with a guy of Irish decent whose surname was "Delaney." Even though he knew his name was centuries old, could not work out the origin. I was reading a book on early French history and came a cross a mention to the Bishop de Ney. Reference to the man who was the Bishop of the town of Ney in Normandy, France. My high school French kicked in....that is The Bishop OF Ney (a town/region in France).
"Delaney" can be broken up into "de la Ney" which literally translates to of the Ney. Mystery solved, his name goes back to the Norman times when they were the rulers of England and later conquered Ireland.
So "benidorm" could be a corruption of some other European language as written in English. "Benni" and many other variations usually means "good" while "dorm" could be a Latin derivation of "Dormitory" or literaly "home."
So Benidorm could be derived from "Good Home." Or even a Latin translation of the Scottish "Greyholme" misunderstood to mean "Great Home" due to the accent. Try saying that with a broad Scottish accent rolling off your toungue "Tis a grrraaa holmme we ave, lasssssiee"
just to go off topic a wee bit .
I wont say my surname online but it can be either irish or english. Mines irish .Some net surfinf research turned upthe following
The normal french to it to ireland as Le Poer and the irish turned into da paor wont say what the english turned into as thats my surname.
But it could go back to old french for a native of Pois !!
And the english here in australia couldnt understand my irish ancestors acscents and on documents the name was written down as "Poor"
So who would have thought from an ordinary surname all the above lol
Pitty im not a royal lol
benidorm: Thats a bit harsh but very funny.
Sorry mate, but the French (and a few others) did do a bit of experimentation to see what would happen.
I work in road safety alongside the Police. We have to deal with a lot of work with serious and often fatal crashes. Our "humour" is not often seen as our way of trying to dealing with things related to our work-life that really do have an impact on us outside of work.
I was on a contract with VicRoads for 12 months when I first moved to Vic. First 6 months was good dealing with the normal (okay, political re-ferals) with general road safety.
2nd 6 months and all those who couldn't get their act together left me with investigating the fatilities in the area. 23 investigations over the next 6 months because "they" couldn't/didn't want to deal with it.
Of those 23, I could only classify 1 of them to being an "accident." The other 22 were strictly related to "human behaviour." Nothing to do with the engineering side of the road, just down to what the driver was doing at the time.
People are very quick to blame someone else for what they were doing. But with the atomic testing, it is a bit different. "They" told us it was SAFE the way they were doing it
This does make me sick to at the time and even now a bit despite my heritage.With nuclear tests the british started but to continue so long testing was desrespectful to redsidents in region, though there has been excellent improvements in nuclear technology with safe waste.I wish they stopped asap,I remeber wearing french rugby jersey to my first rugby practise, they never forgave me I was always on the bench.
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Did any make it to australia,canada,new zealand,usa the colonies to escape persecution,bit uninformed of them and have some connection.Am happy been commoner without the burdens bestowed upon a royal.