Thomas North

Research findings

1. Arrival: Thomas North + family — Mary Ann, Deal → NZ, departed 24 Sep 1841

   Co-subjects Mary Ann Gates (wife @I202224930730@) + Sarah North (daughter @I202221798530@). Wife and daughter presumed on the same voyage per Thomas's 'Married' status and the GEDCOM's age/family structure. Together with John Scutter family also on Mary Ann 1841, this defines the 'Mary Ann 1841 Hampshire cluster' for Charlie & August's direct ancestry.

   • [S85]https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDV-FLBH?lang=en(primary)
   Confidence: highDiscovered: 2026-05-30
2. 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