George Tasker of Hertfordshire had two sons who emigrated to New Zealand: James with his wife Martha Lockyear arrived on the ship 'Christian McCausland' on 5 September 1872, whist his brother George, with wife Eleanor Martha Knowles and young son, arrived in Dunedin on the 'Carnatic' in March 1874. Their many children are shown on the Birch family website.

Thomas Tasker, born in 1822 in Leeds, Yorkshire, married Elizabeth Nussey and emigrated to Australia with young sons James and Henry Buckton Tasker. They had four more children in Adelaide, before emigrating to New Zealand, where they had their final child, leaving relatives in all three countries. Find out more at the amazing website of Jim Mann Taylor from Aberdeenshire.

Ernest Edward Tasker was a son of James Tasker, a butcher of Ashburton, New Zealand. He emigrated to Australia with his parents when he was a child went to Nelson, New Zealand, when he was twenty-one years old. On leaving school he went into business with his father until 1895, when he moved to Geraldine and started a delivery business. While in Ashburton he was a Druid, but on going to Geraldine he joined the local Oddfellows' Lodge. As a pigeon shot, Ernest Tasker was well known all over New Zealand and won a large number of trophies. From the Geraldine 1903 website

More recently, Martin Tasker was the deserving winner of the New Zealand Golf Media Awards 2003, presented at Wairakei Monday 3 November 2003:

Meanwhile Peter Tasker Design offers a range of consumer and industrial products, including the famous Tasker Garlic Press!

And after all that stress with family history research, why not go for a relaxing soulful massage with Margaret Tasker?:

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