Talk:James Farrell (police officer)

Strange coincidence
In researching James Farrell I came across a memorial on findagrave which has a buriel site for James and Bridget Farrell. Bridget's page findagrave titles her Bridget Megley Farrell. James' death notice Auckland Star has him arriving in 1861 and being a member of the militia. A most curious co-incidence or maybe an error somewhere? NealeWellington (talk) 06:33, 12 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Yeah,, I had a poke around on Papers Past yesterday and came across the Farrells from Kihikihi. James Farrell Sr got quite a bit of press over the years and it was clear that he was a different person to our constable. But yes, that's quite a coincidence that their wives had the same name! But definitely different people. Whilst our constable was in Fiji, our man in the Waikato was chairman of the Kihikihi Town District Board.


 * Also, here's an obituary for the Waikato lady. It says that she "arrived with her late husband (Mr J. Farrell) and family at Auckland in 1861". The constable got married in 1863 in Dunedin according to DNZB, and there's no mention of him having arrived in NZ with family.  Schwede 66  07:37, 12 April 2023 (UTC)


 * My suspicion is that this is an error. Anyway I'll keep on digging around to see if I can locate what happened to Farrell and his wife. His name seems to hav been very common at the time with about five I have able to identify around the same time period in NZ NealeWellington (talk) 10:16, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Nah, they were really different people. Our Waikato man has featured in relation to Kihikihi since 1870 with quite some regularity.  Schwede 66  10:32, 12 April 2023 (UTC)