David Hughes
David Hughes was the first of his Hughes' line to enter New Zealand. He disembarked the Barque Cordelia about 13 October 1874...
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The Vincents of Canterbury
John Vincent emigrated (mysteriously, since no one knows what ship he emigrated on) to New Zealand. His brother, William, had already emigrated there at the age of 17, and helped set up one of New Zealand's first newspapers, The Independent. William married and moved his family to Australia and started another newspaper in Grafton, New South Wales. John stayed in New Zealand.
The Carrick Knot
The Carrick family was a pretty well established farming and manufacturing family in Yorkshire and there are wills from at least the mid 1700s to confirm many relationships.
For a time, it was believed there were two exclusive Carrick families in the Vincent family tree and this has since been refuted.