| The de'Ath family, my maternal grandmother Maude is third from left.
Edna on right was born 1899 I think. |
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| I think this is Laura Whyman b 1889. |
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| This very faded photo I think is Kate
Edgerley b 1887 who taught at Auckland Girls Grammar. |
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| I think this is Edna de'Ath b 1899 |
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| My paternal grandmother's family, the O'Donnells,
outside Tongaporutu Post Office, just after 1900. My grandmother,
Annie Elizabeth Catherine b 14, March, 1887 is the taller girl in centre.
Her father Richard is carrying Arthur b April 1899. Richard was born in India
about 1861 and his wife Elizabeth Ann (nee Barrett) was from Cornwall, they
were married in New Plymouth in 1882. Richards father, Michael O'Donnell,
with army hat and Crimean medals was born ~1818 in Ireland and came
to New Zealand, presumably from India probably in early 1860's. My aunt Mrs
Jean Smithson is the source of this photo and she has listed all names and
birth dates plus given me several registry certificates relating to family
members. |
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William John Henry
Arthur b 1880 with Billy the horse at his Fairfield (Melbourne) home.
Good likeness to his younger brother Edward, (my Grandfather)
in picture below. Photo sent to me by Paul and Valerie Mudie. Valerie
b 1946 (see 1940's) is a grandaughter of William who had twelve children.
Valeries mother Clara corresponded for years with her Uncle Eddie in New
Zealand. Valerie has told me that Samuel and Alice Arthur, the parents of
William and Edward both died of TB in 1899 and their older brother
George Samuel b 1875 was killed in an electrical accident at work.
She believes Edward went to live with people called Hughes after his
parents died and took the name that way.
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| My paternal grandparents, Edward
Walter Arthur Hughes b 1884 and Annie Elizabeth Catherine O'Donnell
b 1887, probably at the time of their wedding 1907. |
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| Richard O'Donnell holding
child in photo two up. |
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| Photo identified on back by my mother as Mrs Turner. Any help as to how she fits
into the family would be welcome. |
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