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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Still Chasing the ST. HILL Family
« on: Wednesday 26 March 14 09:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hobart born Charlotte Mills, my mother's aunt,  married Charles St Clair Beford; their daughter Aiudrey married William St Hill in Hobart.

From TROVE - 1908 The engagement is announced of Mr .
Loudon St. Hill, fourth son of Colonel St. Hill, to Misa Irene M. Simcox,
youngest daughter of the Rev. F. E.Tolling-Simcox, of ' Porangahan,
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

Between the Wars, in Tasmania and Victoria,Loudon St Hill of a later generation became well known as an artist and theatrical designer; after WW 2 in London.

From TROVE - Hobart Mercury Wednesday 3 March 1937 - The engagement is announced of Audrey Jessica, only daughter of Mr and Mrs. C. S. Belford, The Continental, Macquarie St., Hobart, and William! eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. St. Hill, Awatea, 4 Proctors Rd., Hobart!

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Still Chasing the ST. HILL Family
« on: Saturday 22 March 14 22:04 GMT (UK)  »
Re St Hills in NZ this may be helpful discovered via the Australian National Library on-line digitised newspapers.

Trove Hobart Mercury, June 1 1918


The death, took place yesterday, after a brief illness, of Colonel Windle Hill St Hill, for a period extending over 40 years one of the most familiar figures in Hobart the deceased was the youngest and last surviving son of Henry St Hill, Bradnach Manor, Devonshire, England, and was born in  1837, at St Omer, in France, and was therefore 81 years of age. He completed his education in England, and came out to New Zealand and served on the staff of General Cameron through the Maori war, afterwards going to India, where he held a commission in the 19th Regiment (Princess of Wales's Own)[/i] In the  late seventies he left England for Tasmania, and acted as private secretary to Governor Weld and from June 10,1878, until May 19, 1880, he was Commandant of the local forces, and was a very popular officer.

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