The New Zealand branch of the Clan Matheson Society is having its annual meeting in Auckland on Sunday 30 July, and all members and potential members are welcome. Please feel free to come along and help guide the branch’s activities over the next year, and meet other clan members. The meeting is at the Logan […]
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Three Mathesons are on a list of those called ‘military defaulters’, who refused to take part in the First World War. This new article on the website describes how badly they were treated.
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This Anzac Day sees a new section on the Clan Matheson New Zealand website about New Zealand Mathesons who served in the Second World War. Telling their stories is a large exercise, made difficult in part because the WW2 service personnel files have not yet been digitised, unlike those from WW1. To kick this project
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I’ve reorganised the pages on New Zealand Mathesons in the First World War, and have created a new ‘landing page‘ for this area of the website. More material is being added to this section of the site. The latest is the sad story of Alexander George Matheson.
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We know of 80 Mathesons who went overseas from New Zealand to fight in the First World War. They’re listed on our website, and you can now follow links from 25 of the 80 entries to find out more about some individuals. In passing I’ve written accounts of four Mathesons who served in other countries’ armed
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I’ve discovered two more publications about Mathesons in New Zealand, and profiled them on the Clan Matheson website. By ‘Chance’ to Victoria is, despite the title, more about New Zealand than Australia. It recounts the stories of the families of John and Elizabeth Matheson and Christopher and Ann McRae. The Paparimu Matheson family tree details
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I’ve added material to the page on the clan website that contains additional information about Mathesons who served in the First World War. Thanks to one of the publications about New Zealand Mathesons, I’ve been able to tell something of the story of twin brothers Alexander Victor Mathieson and William Alfred Mathieson and their cousin
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One performance of next year’s Edinburgh Tattoo will feature Clan Matheson. Check out our events page for details.
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The international Clan Matheson Society website has had a complete overhaul. Do visit and check out the useful information there.
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The Onward Project seeks to locate and publish a photograph of every member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who served overseas during the First World War of 1914-1918. Each image is captioned with the name and service number of the individual, plus a reference to the source of the photo. Three volumes in the
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