“Look Before You Leap” . This was the title of a newspaper article reporting on Mary’s marriage in 1882. Andrew Parris married Mary Jackson at St Mary of the Angels…
Category: Women
Harriet Hair
An interesting name is always an invitation to research. Harriet wasn’t born Hair, or Uridge, or Clark (her three married names), but Harriet Elizabeth Wond. Her parents were John and…
Margaret Brickley
The woman who married two brothers … or did she? Margaret McNeash McKenzie married Thomas Brickley in Glasgow in 1863. They emigrated with their three young children to Lyttelton on…
Euphemia Culbert Baxter O.B.E.
Euphemia Cunningham, known as Effie, was born in Edinburgh in 1892 and was working in a printing factory when war began. Two of her brothers were regular soldiers and were…
James Searle
Our second photo from the Berry & Co collection features the grave of James Searle (1872-1926). James was born in Plymouth and had moved to Gisborne at an early age…
Working Bee Treasures
Two of the treasures revealed in the 14th February working bee – the plot with the checkerboard ledger has two other Masonic symbols, one being the compass and set square….
IN MEMORY OF ROSE J WILLIAMS
This is the information we can piece together on Rose: she was born Rosina Hazelwood in 1868 in Islington, London. She came to New Zealand with her family on the…