Who is W.P.B? The Burial Register provides the answer: Walter Phelps Bibbing. His death in the newspaper says ‘Little is known of Bibbing. He came to Wellington by the Waikere […]
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Harry Clifton Gibbons
Harry Clifton Gibbons – seed merchant Harry was born in Lincoln, England and came to New Zealand in 1884, aged 23. For many years was in the seed business on […]
Dulcie Quig
The Mystery of George Shaw Dulcie Belle Quig was the first wife of Thomas Ellis Glover, a well-known Wellington cartoonist. Dulcie married Tom in 1916, at the age of 20. […]
Claude Woodford
Claude Albert Curtis Woodford – served in WWI twice Claude was 8 years old when his father died in 1895 (see previous story). He went to Sydney Street school and […]
Thomas Woodford
Sudden Death of Mr T C Woodford Thomas Curtis Woodford was born in 1848 in Paddington, London to a watchmaking father. The family emigrated to Canterbury when he was ‘quite […]
Walter Mansfield
Monumental Mason Makes Mischief (1917) This wasn’t Walter’s first time in court. Back in 1896, he was there for assault charges against the Sexton of Karori Cemetery, Ernest Nash. The […]
Sarah McKinlay and Charles Ralph
Sarah McKinlay and her husband Charles Robert Ralph Charles was born in 1862 in Glasgow and Sarah in 1863. Charles’ parents were Charles Ralph and Ann Duncan. Who Sarah’s parents […]
Clarissa Bryden
[Cherub] Clarrissa ‘A Wonderful Wife and Loving Mother’ Clarrissa was born in 1898, to Frederick and Mary Jane Laughton. Her father was an umbrella maker when she was younger and […]
Dr Effie Muriel Morgan
Dr Effie Muriel Morgan 1901 – 1937 Percy Gates Morgan M.A married Mary Jane Gilmour in 1900. Percy was a graduate of the Otago School of Mines and Mary (Minnie) […]
Louisa Rhind
Louisa, wife of William Graham Rhind. Louisa was born in 1857. Her parents Arthur Harvey and his wife Emma Vernon seem to have bounced backwards and forwards from England to […]