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…
Category: Women
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…