Rainer Matthew Macalister

Research findings

1. Identity: Rainer Matthew Macalister

   Not derivable from the GEDCOM (the tree just shows Rainer with surname Macalister and no explicit name-change record). Worth recording so future sessions don't treat this as a tree error or get confused about the surname mismatch with his recorded biological father.

   • [S24]primary(primary)
   Confidence: highDiscovered: 2026-05-30
2. Identity: Richard Malcolm Herbison + Susan Macalister Bonda

   Resolves the 'missing marriage date for Rainer's parents' flag from the Gen-2 audit. The missing marriage event in the GEDCOM is intentional — they were never married. Susan later married Jeremy Taylor (see susan-bonda-jeremy-taylor-marriage).

   • [S24]primary(primary)
   Confidence: highDiscovered: 2026-05-30
3. Marriage: Susan Macalister Bonda + Jeremy Taylor

   Explains the F76 family record. Rainer (via F75) and Zoe Taylor (via F76) are half-siblings, sharing mother Susan.

   • [S24]primary(primary)
   • [S6]derived(derived)
   Confidence: highDiscovered: 2026-05-30
4. Identity: Mary Ann 1841 Hampshire families rejoin at Rainer × Abbey marriage 2017 — 176 years apart

   Identified via line-walk analysis of people.jsonl following Rainer's observation. Probably worth a place in any future family-history narrative document; the symmetry of two unrelated Hampshire families taking the same ship and rejoining 176 years later is the kind of detail that makes oral history. CLARIFICATION (2026-05-31, after Rainer pushback): this finding documents the SHARED-VOYAGE rejoin — North + Scutter on the Mary Ann 1841 rejoining at Rainer+Abbey 2017. Generic descent convergences (e.g. William Edward Simmonds m. Esther Chapman 1879, which connects the Mary Ann North line to the Prince of Wales Chapman line) are NOT analogous: those families never shared a voyage, never co-occupied shipboard space, and their grandkids marrying is just unremarkable settler-descendant convergence of which thousands exist. Only same-voyage settler-family rejoins warrant this kind of structural finding.

   • [S92]derived(derived)
   • [S83]primary(primary)
   Confidence: highDiscovered: 2026-05-30
5. Identity: Three families in early Nelson (1842-1860s) underpin Rainer's present-day closest social ties

   Social-history finding (not a pedigree-geometry claim). The poetic shape is that the small Nelson 1840s settler community generated three direct-ancestor families whose descendants now form Rainer's closest present-day relationships. Logged at Rainer's direction after he flagged the Chapman / best friend connection 2026-05-31.

   • [S92]derived(derived)
   Confidence: highDiscovered: 2026-05-31