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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: red3 on Monday 22 January 24 02:22 GMT (UK)
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Hi
I am trying to find Myra Madge Brown.
She was the adopted daughter of William John and Laura Brown.
The birth appears to have been recorded in 1971 under the name Myra McLeod Brown.
She is mentioned in William's will which is available at NZ Archives 1928. (Will written February 1922)
Myra Madge married Kenneth Steward Eather on the 28 June 1922 Auckland NZ. (NZ Herald 1 July 1922)
The marriage notice gives Kenneth's father as J Easter of Australia.
The last record of her is from Family Search - Passenger record on the Moeraki for Sydney 29 June 1922 travelling with her husband. Eather KS aged 27 - Gentleman and Eather MM aged 21.
Can anyone see what became of Myra?
Thank you Red3
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The birth appears to have been recorded in 1971 under the name Myra McLeod Brown.
From that can deduce her date of birth was 2nd August 1900. (Might help for subsequent records)
Have you the cert?
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https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE49862661
I have not given any bequest to my adopted daughter Madge Myra Brown (who is now temporarily living with me again) because of her loose, improper conduct and because of her having left home several times in defiance of the wishes of myself and my wife and because I am utterly disappointed and grieved over her
23 Feb 1922.
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Red3, not directly Myra, but Kenneth looks likely to be the death registered in NSW in 1989 to a Samuel John, and Anne. Have you seen this?
EATHER KENNETH STEWART 12572/1989 SAMUEL JOHN ANNE
Have you looked across the ditch for Myra?
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He seems to be still in NSW in 1925.
Failed to pay hotel bill
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/252055168/28051289
Sue
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Red3, not directly Myra, but Kenneth looks likely to be the death registered in NSW in 1989 to a Samuel John, and Anne. Have you seen this?
EATHER KENNETH STEWART 12572/1989 SAMUEL JOHN ANNE
Have you looked across the ditch for Myra?
Ww1 record though gives father as John Roland Eather , mother Hanna.
Hanna died 1952. Will is online. Only daughters are named.
Cannot see Kenneth on a single electoratal roll
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yes its strange they just seem to disappear.
Had not seen those bits on Trove. Thanks
In the Papers past marriage notice father of Ken is Mr J Eather of Australia
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John Roland EATHER . Death Notice.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155733251
Sue
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Just pinning these snippets on the EATHER family in case they help round something out or eliminate someone:
https://www.familytreecircles.com/u/janilye/?cat=1041&next=31
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eather-514
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Kenneth Stewart EATHER remarried in 1931 under the name of Kenneth Stewart LEVER.
Kenneth S LEVER m. Celie SCOTT 8 September 1931 North Sydney #13337
https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search
He appears to be using the assumed name LEVER during the 1920's with reports in the newspapers from VIC, SA and NSW., including a 3 month gaol sentence in VIC.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?keyword="kenneth stewart lever" (https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?keyword="kenneth stewart lever")
https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/16DA5957-F8B8-11E9-AE98-4967E3A93EC2
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It's clear from his death notice that his second family knew of his two different surnames.
Death and Funeral Notices:
EATHER (Lever) Kenneth Stewart. - May 23. 1989. father and father-in-law of Kay and Bill Welsh (Lindfield). grandfather of K**** and L****-J****, greatgrandfather of S******** and L***** C*****.
EATHER (Lever) - The cremation of the late KENNETH STEWART EATHER will be held at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium, tomorrow (Thursday) morning, commencing at 10.30 a.m. Please assemble at the crematorium. WALTER CARTER Pty. Ltd. 302 Oxford Street. Woollahra. (02)389 3499. F.D.A.of N.S.W.
LEVER , Celie. - March 7 1988. late of 11 Treatts Road, Lindfield. loved sister of Lilla Coleman, beloved mother of Kay Welsh, mother-in-law of Bill Welsh, dearest grandmother of K**** and L****-J**** Welsh, great-grandmother of S******** and L***** C**** and dear friend of S***** C****.
LEVER. — The relatives and friends of the late Celie LEVER, of Lindfield are invited to attend her funeral service, to be held at Northern Suburbs Crematorium. tomorrow (Friday), at 11.10 am. ALLEN MATTHEWS PTY LTD. NORTH RYDE 8S7 2244 887 2244
***Kay (nee LEVER) WELSH, William (Bill) WELSH and Lilla COLEMAN are now deceased the others mentioned in the notices are still living. If you require their names I can send them to you via a PM***
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Kenneth Stewart EATHER/LEVER - WW1 and WW2 service records:
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3533205
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=6165837
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=6192165
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Thats a big find Thank you!
The next big question is what happened to Myra Marge Brown?
Did she change her name too?
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Moving forward on Merlin's excellent finds there. .
Looking at the enlistment record for Kenneth Stewart LEVER in WW2. Dated 22/4/43
First page I do note that in completing the document, Kenneth who was usng a false name, thought at first to also give a false birth date, altering the month by one. He reconsidered ;D, sctatched it out and wrote his correct one!
Looking at page 9 of this same record. There is a letter about financial assistance and it is dated 1963.
It is from a different wife.
Thelma LEVER .
She states her husband is 70 years old and the address is 8 Manning Rd. Double Bay.
Thelma Louisa Howick LEVER died in 1976
LEVER Thelma Louisa Howick
16721/1976
Parents Maurice & Amy
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She was nee GARWOOD and can be seen on the Australian electoral Rolls in Tasmania and NSW living with her mother, Amy Beatrice GARWOOD, and both perform HDs.
They were English and can be seen in 1911 together where Thelma is an infant.
A possible immigration in 1930. To Sydney per Mongolia . Amy GARWOOD aged 48, and Nellie GARWOOD (is this Thelma? not sure) aged 20.
Amy Beatrice died in 1944, (b. 1879) in Victoria.
I have not located a marriage for Kenneth and Thelma.
No closer to the whereabouts of Myra. >:(
Sue
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Would that birth registration be helpful (the 1971 one). She must have initiated it mustn’t she? Who else would? And presumably because she needed it for some reason at that age (71). Pension? Or citizenship for a child?
It is supposed to have the residence of the informant on it.
Is the McLeod a clue?
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In the 1922 of Myra's adoptive father William, which I seem unable to access, were there siblings, adoptive or other, mentioned ?
Sue
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In the 1922 of Myra's adoptive father William, which I seem unable to access, were there siblings, adoptive or other, mentioned ?
Sue
No. Estate goes to wife’s nephew if she predeceased him
I note he revisited the Will (codicil) in 1927 and still didn’t put Myra back in.
https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE49862661
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So father was still outraged or did not know anything further about her since Myra Madge married and left NZ all within 24 hours. ;)
Sue