Hello,
My maternal GG Father was Henry William Christian CARSTENS. Little is known of this man
before his marriage in 1889.
It is thought that he emmigrated from Germany to NZ as a 4yr old, with one sister and
parents.Using best guess, he was probably born in Germany during the 1860's and
emmigrated in the 1860's or early 70's.
Perhaps someone out there has info on a family leaving Germany for these shores about
that time. Although of course, I can't be sure that they came direct from Germany.
The surname is extremely rare in this country even today so any CARSTENS connections to NZ
may well be what I'm looking for.
I have a lot of Henry's descendant data if it is of interest to anybody.
Cheers,
Drew,
Whangarei, NZ