Joy Yates nee Hinton’s extended family

Here is one of the book about Eureka, Waikato.. There were a wide range of families living in Eureka back to 1860’s. Hinton family were one of the family came out to live here. This photo showed Thomas and Nelly Hinton were the longest residents in Eureka. Geoff Hinton who related to Thomas and Nelly, and another female family members who married to Tims’s family are the only family still here. My descendent – Joy Yates nee Hinton and her parents were James Hinton and Ada Henwood. James was related to Thomas Hinton as a brother of the large family. James and Ada moved away to Ngaruawhia and raised a new life there. Ada’s twin sister and her husband joined with them because they were very close knit family. So Joy was my great grand aunty who married Fredrick Yates. My father’s mother – Hilda Watkinson’s parents were Henry Watkinson and Alice Yates. I often spent times with Fred and Joy along with my grandmother Hilda (Biddy) during the school holiday and we talked about farming, old days and gardening. Joy often spoke of her father and other families of Eureka especially Tom (Geoff’s father?) These families were not close to James and Ada and the twin sister and the husband since James and the family moved away. there is an old homestead up the road and the second old homestead further out was burnt down. To me in here, it made me feel like a connection to this home here again.