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Grandmother Remembers – Memoirs of Alice Clarkson 1944
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Description
Eleven people from four families arrived in Wellington 5 October 1898 on the “Kaikoura” – Alice’s family (Alice, Edward, Ida, Neville, Oswald, Eric), her sister Mina’s children (Raby, Maud, Arthur), her sister Aggie, her brother Spencer Coleman’s daughter Becky
Raby, Maudie, Arthur, Jeff, Thomas and William are the children of Alice’s sister, Mina Edwards
Aggie is the sister of Alice
Other surnames in this memoir –
Colart, Currie, Fitzroy, Forbes, Gavin, Grey, Hayward, Henley, Jameson, McEvoy, Ogilvie, Orr, Powdrell, Quartley, Stannard
[Note from HB Knowledge Bank – it is normal practice for a transcription to be an exact copy of the original but in this case, the original was so poorly typed and is so full of errors that it is hard to read; in this case, any deviations from the original are indicated by italics in the transcript.]
Subjects
Format of the original
Bound, typed diaryDate published
1944Creator / Author
People
- Sister Anderson
- Captain Baillie
- Emily Batley
- Norah Biddle
- Nelson Cherer
- Charles, Derek John, Douglas, Hugh Neville, Marjorie Alice, May, Wilcocke Clarkson
- E Clarkson
- Eric Clarkson
- Neville Clarkson
- Oswald Clarkson
- Agnes (Aggie), Becky, Mary Ellen, Spencer Charles Coleman
- Mr and Mrs W H Coleman
- David, F and Sam Cooke
- Kitty Downing
- Arthur, Jeffrey, Maud, Mina Ellen, Ray, Tom, William Edwards
- Archie Gavin
- Sylvester Lister
- Emily Macdonald
- Roy McLennan
- D McLean
- M E McLean
- Miss Jenny Mitchell
- A J Petherick
- C, Francis, Herbert, Leonard, Louisa, May Rae
- H B Ramsey
- M Riddiford
- Olive, Ronald Taylor
- Miss Ruth Waterhouse
- Clement H Wilson
- Dolly Wilson
- Ida Wilson, nee Clarkson
- Joan Blanche Wilson
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