PUTT family:
Richard Putt’s ancestry goes back to about 1470 in England.  He was born in 1793 in England and married Elizabeth Cook  (born about 1791 in England) in 1817, England.  Richard came to New Zealand on the ship “William Bryan” in 1840 and died in 1881 in New Plymouth.  Elizabeth died in 1874 in New Plymouth. They came with their children Ann, Catherine, John, another son, and Elizabeth who was 9 years old at the time. Elizabeth Putt was born on the 20^th of March in 1831 in Aveton Gifford, England.  She died on the 24^th of August, 1916 in New Plymouth. John and Elizabeth had 11 children.  Frederick, William, Helen, Harvey, Alice, John, Walter, Elizabeth, Ernest, Blanche, and Anabella. William Loveridge (born 27th of January, 1853) married Emma Busby (born 1864) and had 8 children.   Leslie, Edgar, Norman, Leonard. Olive, Kay, Inez, and Melvin. Leslie Loveridge married Hilda Eichstaedt, whose parents came out separately on the Frits Reuter and the Reichstag, and they had 3 sons: Errol, Lloyd, and Raoul. Errol Loveridge married Maisie Schneller and they had 3 daughters: Carol, Lorraine, and Gloria. Carole Loveridge married Robert Graeme Smart and they had 2 children, Tracey and Shane. Tracey Had one son in 1999, Sasha Eichstaedt Smart. Richard Putt and Elizabeth Cook have over 1241 descendents. Please feel free to contact me (Tracey Smart) if you think you may be related.