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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: minniehaha on Friday 10 April 20 22:17 BST (UK)
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Daughter of a New Zealand butcher becomes a Princess [1905].........
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/120892263/flashback-margaret-dowling-was-nzs-own-princess-bride
Her birth?:
1873/76 Dowling Margaret Margaret John
Added:
Marriages Mar 1905
Dowling Margaret Chelsea
1a 609
GHICA Albert Constantin Chelsea
1a 609
'Papers Past' has a number of snippets about the marriage.
Minniehaha.
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John Dowling and Margaret Brennan married in NZ in 1869 and had several children who died young:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187047036/agnes-theresa-dowling
Sister "Jose" aka Josephine Bridget Darling also had an interesting time of it - married in NY in 1913 to "Rafael Faldivar"
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24HH-L8D
I think this is a misspelling and her husband was Mr Zaldivar who died in 1922:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4DVM-8JW2
Here she is in 1930 - spoke French and English:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24F1-19R
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19160226.2.129?items_per_page=100&query=Zaldivar
- in papers past, Josephine described as "Mme Raphael de Zaldivar, Minister to Salvador" - and some info on her sisters' outfits!
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1922-10-22/ed-1/seq-39/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1919-05-11/ed-1/seq-53/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1922-05-19/ed-1/seq-8/
- a couple of pictures of her and a mention of her being with her sister Princess Ghika in New York at the time of her husband's death.
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Fascinating story. Has anyone figured out how Albert fits into the Ghica extended family tree? They being Hellenized Albanians ruling Turkish Romanian principalities on a musical chairs basis. Balkan history is fun.
Regards