Dinah or Diana TAPPER

[spades]

Morning all,

I have sent an advisory PM to the original poster, HBelle, in the hope that they are still around. They were last logged on in 2017, so don't get your hopes up 

Regards,

Spades

[PatLac]

Thanks, spades! Fingers crossed!

[Margaret Hansen]

May Georgina Florence Stilling Stratford
1871–1951
Birth 1 MAY 1871 • Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand

Death 17 MAY 1951 • Paihiatua, New Zealand
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171621896/florence-may-kilmister

Kilmister is where i entered the research for this family.
Leonard 'Ernest' Henry Kilmister was first married [1900] to Alice MAud Sanders. They had 3 children. She died in 1905.  He married May Georgina 'Florence' Stilling Stratford in 1907 & had 3 more children.

[PatLac]

Hi Margaret,

I'm inclined to think that Charlotte Florence Stratford's death mystery is somehow linked to her sister Olivia Stratford's whereabouts around 1875. Her mother Mary, and sister Georgina, were living in Spring Grove, Heston (Isleworth) in 1871 (census), but Olivia is nowhere to be found. She only appeared from the 1881 census onward, living in Paddington.

[Margaret Hansen]

Florence Alice May Tapper Stilling birth rego is 1869/10966
NZBDMs: 1869/10966 Stilling Florence Alice May Tapper Sarah Thomas William

[PatLac]

One newspaper ad of Mrs. TAPPER (Dinah Sarah) after she married Thomas William STILLING (11 Feb 1868).

Page 1 Advertisements Column 7
Otago Daily Times, Issue 2031, 28 July 1868, Page 1

Mrs. Tapper begs to inform her Friends and Public, that she is prepared to take Millinery and Dressmaking, and also every description of Machine Work, on moderate terms. Address: - Corner of Maitland and Steep streets, Dunedin.


And I wonder if Alice Mary TAPPER, born c. Dec 1865 in Greenwich and died age 1 c. Sep 1867 in Greenwich was her daughter with Henry John Tapper?

Strike that. Mother's maiden surname RENDELL.

This one is more promising:

Name:                                   Mother's Maiden Surname:
TAPPER, ERNEST  HENRY JOHN    SMITH 
GRO Reference: 1866  J Quarter in ISLINGTON  Volume 01B  Page 359

[Margaret Hansen]

Found this on Ancestry but having trouble confirming it. somebody else maybe able to find it. maybe married to a Joseph Brell: thx

Florence Alice May Tapper Stilling
Birth
1869 - New Zealand
Death
23 Aug 1906 - 314 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst
Mother
Dinah Sarah Smith
Father
Thomas William Stilling
Born in New Zealand on 1869 to Thomas William Stilling and Dinah Sarah Smith. Florence Alice May Tapper Stilling passed away on 23 Aug 1906 in 314 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst.

[Margaret Hansen]

this date is not her: people keep getting her mixed up with Florient 'Thomas' Arthur W Stilling
B:1896 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
D:23 Aug 1906 Sydney, New South Wales
who had the same father but mother was Eliza Annie Smith. Grrrrr:

[PatLac]

Family trees on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, etc without sources (official or from relatives) are often unreliable, unfortunately.


It seems that Diana/Dinah Tapper/Stilling had been using her husband's name to buy goods after all.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2065, 17 September 1868, Page 2

In the case Walls v. Stilling, a claim of L4 16s, for goods supplied to the defendant's wife, judgment was given for the defendant.