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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Quelch / McKeon - Auckland??
« on: Monday 01 June 15 22:39 BST (UK)  »
Hi Maggie
Will contact you later in the week.  Dying to see the photos you have of the family. I have some that I will send to you of my Grandmother and her family.

How does this post work, as I need to get your email address.

HB

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Quelch / McKeon - Auckland??
« on: Sunday 31 May 15 07:48 BST (UK)  »
Hi Maggie
Great to hear from you.  I was wondering if I would get a response. 
I was unaware that my grandmother had a half brother, but I do recall the name Jenner been spoken about on a few occasions.......now the puzzle fits. 
Yes I am the daughter of Joan and I have lived in Sydney, Australia since 1979. I am surprised that mum never mentioned that you had contacted her. I would say maybe she didn't won't to open old wounds (who knows).
My grandmother left William Lynch because he treated her badly along with the children. My mother was sent to live with 2 aunts Annie? and Mary Ann McKeon.  She would go back to the family home daily to get her siblings ready for school and cook and clean for them and her father. During that period I don't know where my grandmother resided.  I am wondering if Annie who I know was married and lost her husband is the missing link in this puzzle as my grandmother was very close to both aunts.
I loved my grandmother dearly.......and I was very fortunate to have a great relationship with her.   I loved her humour and wit. She was a very wise and caring soul (No fool though). 
My mothers brother William Lynch, got mixed up with a religious cult and married a woman called Jessie. Not long after the marriage they disappeared of the face of the earth and none of the family ever saw them again.  I did a bit of research and found that they lived at Taumaranui and he died 21 Sept 1968 aged 41yrs.
Mum's sister Eileen Palmer died at an early age also, if I recall she was 50 when she passed.
Looking back, I wished I had asked more questions about the family, but life was so different then.
I have some pictures of my grandmother that I will send to you and if possible could you send some of the ones you have of her family.  The pictures are packed away so will have to do a bit of a hunt.
Look forward to the next instalment.
Thanks for replying

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Quelch / McKeon - Auckland??
« on: Saturday 30 May 15 10:32 BST (UK)  »
Hi All
I am also interested in finding out who my Grandmother's mother was (a bit of a mystery). Yes I am the granddaughter of Myrtle May McKeon/Lynch/Filmer she lived in Auckland at Arthur Street, Ponsonby and retired to Port Waikato with my grandfather Harold Filmer.  She died in December1979 and was buried at Tuakau.
My grandmother Myrtle was born 1 January 1900 and had 4 children to William John Lynch who died a couple of years after my birth.  My mother was the eldest of the 4 children, her name was Alma Joan Lynch (Deceased) and she had 2 other sisters and 1 brother.  The sisters were Eileen Katherine Lynch, (Deceased) Betty May Lynch (Elizabeth Marie Whyte) (don't know if still alive) and William John Lynch (Deceased).
My grandmother's father was a McKeon but unsure of his first name and I know he never married.  He had 2 sisters that lived together called Aunt Mary Ann and Aunt Cecilia (I believe Cecilia was married at one stage) and there were a couple of brothers as well. I remember Mum talking about them and the name Arthur kinda rings a bell with me. I know that my grandmother was educated at a private girls school in the South Island that her father paid for.  Apparently he was quite well off.
By the way the family were catholics.  My grandmother had all of her children educated at St Patrick's School in Auckland located next to St Patrick's Cathedral.
Have to go now......will keep in touch

Well folks the mystery continues. 


 

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