BJNL's GENEALOGY

Dear Readers ... I have decided to move my blogging efforts elsewhere.  In recent times, I have been busy building my family history archive at  We Are.xyz ; an exciting new platform for family tree archiving. I wrote about We Are.xyz in an earlier post (November 2022) . I have been using my blog posts here, along with other research, to develop articles in my family tree archive at  We Are.xyz .  More recently,  We Are.xyz  has introduced 'integrated blogging' to support an interconnection between family archive building and the sharing of family history information via blog posts. This means that any article or document in my archive can become a post in my We Are.xyz blog at the click of a button -  Blog and Build . It really seems like a 'no-brainer'. I would be silly not to move my blogging efforts there. As a starting point, I am pulling articles from my family tree archive into my new blog. That is, articles based on posts from this blog. Where I have done that,

The stone jar and bottle in the photo below once contained beverages manufactured by W. Lane & Company, manufacturers of aerated water and cordial. W. Lane & Co. was started by William Lane. Lane's stone jar and bottle. Photo: Jane Chapman 2023 William Lane (1836-1922) emigrated to New Zealand in 1863. He was accompanied by his wife, Fanny, née Greek (abt. 1839-1928); their two young sons Josiah (then 2 years 3 months old) and William (then 6 months); and Fanny’s sister, Lucy Ann Greek (abt. 1848-1927). The family travelled from London aboard the ship ‘Crimea’ and arrived at Port Chalmers, Dunedin in September 1863 [1] . They came from Devon in England. An unsourced article, Lane & Co, Dunedin [2] suggests that, in 1865, William took up employment with Reeves & Co.; an aerated water business in Maclaggan Street, Dunedin. The owner, Charles Reeves, had bought the business from Baker & Kilner in 1863. Baker & Kilner had established their partnership in the