Hi, can anyone help please? In connection with a book that is being written about the history of the legal firm Brookfields, we are looking for information and in particular any photo of Edward Joseph Prendergast, an Auckland barrister and solicitor who was born in 1876 in Feilding (parents John Prendergast and Mary Bradley) and married in Wellington in 1914 to Agnes Ethel Devine.
The following is taken from "Prendy's" 1956 obituary - "Mr Prendergast was admitted to the Bar as a solicitor over 50 years ago and started to practise in Levin. He later came to Auckland and joined the firm of Devore and Cooper, later amalgamated with Brookfield and Schnauer in 1919 to form Brookfield Prendergast and Schnauer. Once a promenent Court lawyer, Mr Prendergast appeared in the first case in NZ in which a man was convicted of a crime on fingerprint evidence - the Gunn murder case. Several years ago he left Auckland and, until his final illness, practised in the back-country districts of NSW." Thank you
