Francis Raymond Batchelor (Frankie) died 1924 age 2 ½ . He was the only child of Major Francis Roy Batchelor and his wife Helena. Frankie’s father, Frank, was a member…
Ethel Ulrika Adelaide Beu
Sometimes this research is just triggered by an interesting name. Ethel was the only surviving daughter of John Charles Frederick Beu and his wife Mathilda Nilson. John was born in…
Violet King
Haining Street. We recently shared the story of Yen Yep, a gardener in Haining Street. Today is the story of Violet King who died Haining Street in 1906, aged 32….
Beaman Buckland Mark Hooper
For such a long name, there is only a short amount that can be found out about ‘Mark’. Mark died aged 27 at Wellington Hospital. His funeral left the Hospital…
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…
Woolf Phillips
We recently assisted a local interested in finding the grave of Woolf Phillips. This task was made easy with the WCC search website Ever After. WCC have GPS located a…
Lepper Family
In the earliest Anglican area, there is a large solid column with an urn on top, all of which is wooden. Standing 8ft/2.44 metres tall it is an exact replica…
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…
Mollie Whitworth
Te Papa holds a wonderful collection of 3000 glass negatives that were found in a cupboard by the tenants of a property in Cuba St, Wellington. The property was a…