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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Rickard/Rees
« on: Monday 03 November 14 06:20 GMT (UK) »
Happy to oblige after correct roots chat guidelines have been met. Cheers Wendy:)
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mabel Alice Rickard nee Blair
« on: Friday 08 August 14 11:08 BST (UK) »
Well. I have just seen the will and even though there were no surprises I was sad that I never knew her. I see where my mother got her handwriting from. I will get more 'together' tomorrow. Thanks so much to you all.
P.S. The discoveries that Newbie helped with culminated with my daughter and I going to Christchurch in March this year to lay my Mothers ashes with my brother.
Seriously wonderful people on this site.
P.S. The discoveries that Newbie helped with culminated with my daughter and I going to Christchurch in March this year to lay my Mothers ashes with my brother.
Seriously wonderful people on this site.
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mabel Alice Rickard nee Blair
« on: Friday 08 August 14 07:50 BST (UK) »
I got your pm, thanks. I did reply but I think I did it wrong. What is a 'look-up thread'. Sorry to be a bother. I imagine this would all be much easier if I moved back home lol.
Thanks again for all your help.
Cheers
Wendy
Thanks again for all your help.
Cheers
Wendy
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mabel Alice Rickard nee Blair
« on: Friday 08 August 14 03:46 BST (UK) »
Thanks Lu. Can I obtain these records if I live outside NZ?
Stanell (Stanley) and Irene lived in Palmerston North for many years. In fact, he lived there until his death.
Cheers
Wendy
Stanell (Stanley) and Irene lived in Palmerston North for many years. In fact, he lived there until his death.
Cheers
Wendy
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mabel Alice Rickard nee Blair
« on: Thursday 07 August 14 23:03 BST (UK) »
Oh thanks for your efforts KHP. According to the paperspast the divorce stories list William as a farmer and they were married at the Maori Church in Otaki. A search on him in the electoral rolls has them living in Manakau.
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mabel Alice Rickard nee Blair
« on: Thursday 07 August 14 10:52 BST (UK) »
Hi KHP,
My Mother and her parents lived in Albert Street, Palmerston North for a donkeys age. I can see on Electoral roles that William and Mabel lived in the Otaki area. William remarried and died in 1971 in Auckland.
Still no sign of Mabel once she was last seen in Wellington about 1916.
This is probably a wild goose chance, but anything is worth a shot lol.
Cheers
Wendy
My Mother and her parents lived in Albert Street, Palmerston North for a donkeys age. I can see on Electoral roles that William and Mabel lived in the Otaki area. William remarried and died in 1971 in Auckland.
Still no sign of Mabel once she was last seen in Wellington about 1916.
This is probably a wild goose chance, but anything is worth a shot lol.
Cheers
Wendy
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mabel Alice Rickard nee Blair
« on: Thursday 07 August 14 10:37 BST (UK) »
Hi Minniehaha,
Thanks for the links. I am pretty sure William was born in New Zealand. I shall go hunting lol.
Thanks again
Wendy
Thanks for the links. I am pretty sure William was born in New Zealand. I shall go hunting lol.
Thanks again
Wendy
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mabel Alice Rickard nee Blair
« on: Thursday 07 August 14 10:34 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the info Beg. I didn't want to go purchasing records without something a bit solid to go on. If Mabel remarried it would have made her at least 90ish. William and Mabel married in 1902.
I will take your advice and follow some other leads.
Thanks again.
I will take your advice and follow some other leads.
Thanks again.
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Mabel Alice Rickard nee Blair
« on: Thursday 07 August 14 05:16 BST (UK) »
I am trying to find my mothers family and Mabel keeps popping up as a possibility of being my Great Grandmother.
Mum Joy Margaret Rees b:1934 d:2011 married Peter Ivan Murrell 1956
Nana Irene Margaret Rees b:1919 d:1958 married Stanell William Gale Rees 1938 then Arthur Ralph Fenton 1956
GG Mabel Alice Rickard
Now, we know that Alice was married to William Rickard in 1902. They lived in Manakau quite happily so William thought. Mabel and William had 4 children, (no names) but in the early stages of the last babies life, Mabel left William out of the blue. William started divorce proceedings years later and was granted his divorce in 1919.
Mabel was thought to have been in Wellington in 1916.
Did Mabel re-marry and have another child?
What were the names of the other children?
Did William ever see them again?
If anyone can help with some information I would be most appreciative.
Cheers
Wendy
Mum Joy Margaret Rees b:1934 d:2011 married Peter Ivan Murrell 1956
Nana Irene Margaret Rees b:1919 d:1958 married Stanell William Gale Rees 1938 then Arthur Ralph Fenton 1956
GG Mabel Alice Rickard
Now, we know that Alice was married to William Rickard in 1902. They lived in Manakau quite happily so William thought. Mabel and William had 4 children, (no names) but in the early stages of the last babies life, Mabel left William out of the blue. William started divorce proceedings years later and was granted his divorce in 1919.
Mabel was thought to have been in Wellington in 1916.
Did Mabel re-marry and have another child?
What were the names of the other children?
Did William ever see them again?
If anyone can help with some information I would be most appreciative.
Cheers
Wendy