Alyson, if you are still there (all your emails are old) I have just found this posting and I think that my grandmother Edith Emily Jessop must be the younger sister of your Richard Thomas Jessop; she was born in Auckland New Zealand in 1879 and her parents were Richard Jessop and Mary Reid Watson. Apart from believing that Richard was from Devon, England, and Mary from Melbourne Australia, I know nothing about her family; any information you have would be most welcome. Where does the Samoan connection come in? Can you enlighten me? thanks, Philippa