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Updated every 3 months . Last update June 2024
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June 24 |
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Website administrator Maurice R. Troy |
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If you have any comments you would like to add about anything on this website please contact the website administrator.
maurice@troyfamily.co.uk |
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June 2024. (Will try to be updated every 3 months from now on)
See my DNA test and full family tree on Ancestry.com.
New page 3 on the E. Troy’s lorries I drove and the men I worked with. Also on the Links page a number page navigation for the Troy family history.
Some interesting NZ Troy family facts on my new website plus information on my classic cars at www.troyfamily.co.nz
Link to my grandfather Edward Troy’s presentations are now on Troy family history plus the history of St Patrick’s church (Jersey) and Patrick Troy’s tragic death. Also Edward Troy’s Silver wedding is at the bottom of my contact page. Complete Troy Family Tree now in Troy family history page.
The life story of my cousin Major Patrick Troy RM here A magazine article on my nephew Stephen Troy’s daughter Jessica here.
Thanks to all the Troy’s from around the world who have been contacting me. The Troy’s from America, Australia, Canada, Britain and New Zealand who died in World wars 1&2 and Korean War who are buried overseas are on the Troy Family history pages 3 & 4, plus there are now new snippets & page 5( jokes) Our Kelly family relations Here. Plus new page with Bits & pieces.
Three videos of my grandchildren on YouTube below.
Sam playing piano on stage Nov 2023 https://youtu.be/egm9tTqhF7M
Joanna playing guitar on stage Nov 2023 https://youtu.be/LMzV1J6M5GM
Matthew playing piano on stage Nov 2023 https://youtu.be/sbsQMOUdB2A |
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Poppa (me) with Eva and Rachael when they were little. |
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All of us on holiday on the Norfolk broads 2001 before any Grandchildren were born. Kayleigh our foster daughter is with us and we also took our dog with us |
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Above. On a walk in the woodland with Natalie navigating. Jan 2015
Below at JJ and Mark’s house |
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Christmas time. Three daughters and seven grandchildren just after opening presents. |
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Above. Two of Natalie representing Cambridge in Mark Todd’s old club on her pony George. Feb 2013 |
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Our family picnic at the creek on Paul & Nicola’s land. |
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All of us on a day out at a Reserve. |
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Above Natalie reading a bedtime story to Joanna.
Below Natalie reading a bedtime story to Matthew ( our oldest and youngest grandchildren). |
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Pictures below taken in New Zealand 2015 |
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Below, Me helping Rachael build a jewellery box for her Mum in my workshop. Jan 2015. Natalie and Paul did help. |
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Below all fifteen of us in Fiji in Oct 2019 |
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Nicola’s new addition. Comet born 2014 |
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Below are some of our New Zealand pictures |
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Below. Poppa at Hamilton zoo with Joanna 2010 |
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All except baby Samuel and Matthew in Granny & Poppa’s bed (baby sitting Nov 2010). |
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Our Golden wedding present July 2021. Instead of holiday (because of Covid).Volvo XC40 Recharge Hybrid. |
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2014. All of them in a tree.
Below. My workshop and classic cars 2020 |
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Below. Strange how some things age faster than others….. |
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2017. Below all our Grandchildren in our garden. |
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All my family in the new restaurant at Lake Rotoroa 2011, only Graham not in the picture as he took it. |
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Us with our seven Grandchildren. |
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Above. Rachael bird watching with her toy binoculars and dolly. |
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The two of us at Machu Picchu recently. |
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Left. Val and I on Great Barrier Island 2016. Solar power only here. |
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2014 Val on Waiheke Island. It is very much like Jersey but warmer. |
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Me on Norfolk Island Aug 2015. Emily Bay. |
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On the Gordon river in Tasmania 2018 |
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Above. JJ and Mark’s house and land .2012 |
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Above. Nicola and Paul’s house they built in 2023 on their new land. |
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March 2015 in Queenstown on the Doubtful Sound which we preferred to Milford Sound even though it started to rain. We saw seals, dolphins and drank water direct from a waterfall whilst still on the boat. |
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Above. Boxing day 2014 |
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Above. Marianne and Graham’s house they built in 2016. |
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What I tell my children.
Life is over so quickly. Everybody is frightened of change but things are slowly changing around us all the time without us having any choice, so it’s best to be in control, don’t be afraid and make the decisions that can directly change your life for the better |
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Cousins Eva and Rachael at Lollipops land NZ |
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My Dad’s 1945 letter describing life endured through the German Occupation of Jersey |
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Above The two of us on the Galapagos Islands. |
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Website note: Viewing on a tablet or phone sometimes corruption. OK on a PC |
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(Top left) The whole family at Waihi beach bach Dec 2012.
(Top right) Val and me with all our Grand children.
(Left) Our seven grand children. |
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My 1955 MG sports car. |
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Above. Our house 2012 |
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Left. My brother Dick’s double mastered schooner he built single handed before he died. Named Sarah Kelly after our Grandmother. |
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The youngest and the oldest Nov 2014 |
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New Years Day 2015 at our house. |
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Above. Our salt swimming pool Can be a fully enclosed or outdoor pool and at a constant 30 degrees C
Very interesting Ancestry DNA results taken in 2023 which backs up all the research I have taken.
I have found living DNA relations all over the world.
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Below. Val and I on the Desert road Nov 2014 North Island |
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Me and my Renault in 1965 (Jersey)
And again below in 2024 (New Zealand) |
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Below us in Samoa 2018 |
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Left. All fifteen of us on Fiji in Oct 2019
Right. All our grandchildren with us on Fiji |
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Out door lazar Dec 2020 |
