User:Doug Lambert

After 48 years as primary school, I am now retired. My wife  Tricia and I have lived in many places in both the North and South Islands and over the last 7 years of my teaching career,  we were working myself as a teacher and principal at Ruamrudee International School, Bangkok, and Tricia as an educational psychologist. We now live in Tauranga and enjoy the location and the great climate.

We have three adult children _ Jonathan Campbell Douglas (Jon), Rachel Ann Patrician(Flinn) and Paul Andrew Hamish Lambert. We have three grandchildren Caitlin Eve, Millicent Patricia (Millie) Lambert and Nathan Paul Atkinson(USA). Caitlin is currently studying at Victoria University, Wellington.

Tricia and I share fairly common interests with overseas travel being our favourite. We have done extensive travelling in Britain, Australia, Asia and Europe and have scratched the surface of the USA. I have a strong interest and commitment to my family and the history of our family. For me, it is important to know where my ancestors came from and who they were and what they did.

My mother's family are German Scottish. My German great great grandparents Carl Johan Heinrich and Katerina (nee Stelli) Hammerich came to NZ from Dassow Mecklenberg, Germany in Nelson - 1844. One of their daughters, Amelia Hammerich (my great grandmother), married David Waters Gunn who as a young 17 year old, travelled from Braemore, Caithness, Scotland to work on the Otago goldfields. He had three brothers alrady here in NZ. My paternal Lambert great great grandparents, Alfred and Sarah both came from Ardleigh, Essex, England and settled in Porangahau, Hawkes Bay 1853. One of their sons (born in NZ), Henry Arthur Lambert married my great grandmother Anna Margaret Madsen. Their son Alfred Ocean Lambert (2nd) married my grandmother Gisella Theresa Breuer. Her father Baron Adolf Ludovit Breuer (my great grandfather) came to NZ  from Gelnica, Hungary (now part of Slovakia) around 1867 meeting his wife my great grandmother Anna Sophia Hemmig Jensen (Hemmingsen) who was travelling to NZ with her parents. Her parents, my paternal great great grandparents were travelling from Denmark on the same  ship as Adolf. Adolf and Anna were married in Waipawa and they also settled in Hawkes Bay in the Waipawa Waipukurau districts. Our family is now a big family scattered throughout NZ and beyond. "The Lambert Family Tree and History" compiled by my cousin Carol Lambert was published around 2003. This is a comprehensive and interesting document published by Evagean Publishers, Te Aroha.

I am descended from David Breuer and Verna Muade (nee Gunn) Lambert. I am the 3rd child of four. 1. Valerie Helen (deceased aged 7) 2. David Alfred (deceased aged 72) 3. Douglas Victor (Doug) 71 years 4. Valda Heather Eileen Ryan (nee Lambert) 69 years.

Doug Lambert

7th September, 2014