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« on: Wednesday 05 July 23 05:48 BST (UK) »
Thank you Lu and Minniehaha for all the information you have provided. Amazing in a short time, very much appreciated. My error, we do not know Elwyn's birth-date, have searched here in NZ and Melbourne to no avail.
We know about Elwyn's life from marriage on wards and that of her daughter Josephine Elwyn Stockton. The JOE on the grave is for Josephine, this was the name she was known by. She died a few months following her son's death. Her husband Thomas Munro was a WW2 bomber pilot who lost his life and is buried in the C.W.W.G. section in the Ipswich cemetery in England; we have visited the cemetery.
Unfortunately Joseph Stockton's headstone was ruined by a groundsman who ran his whipper - sniper over it. We had visited the day before and commented we would return for more photos the following day. Nearly wept when we saw how he "cleaned it, for us." Thankfully we have good photos taken before hand. Joseph's life we have, thanks to papers-past and English folk.
The sale notice for Elwyn's house made interesting ready. My husband was always told that the grandfather clock promised to him by his grandmother, never left the house. Not in the sale, nor her crystal and good china.
The mystery remains where was Elwyn (known as Nell) born. The family who have appeared with the DNA match are all born in NZ. The children belonging to John Newman Lyons and Anastasia Fleming. No ancestry family has Elwyn on their tree. At the time of her marriage, she as a barmaid in a Nelson Hotel. Doubt Anastasia would have popped over Melbourne, for a birth when she had other children in NZ.
Many thanks again.
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