David Mitchell Tomlinson

[Lucy2]

In 1897 Thomas Tomlinson married Rhoda Faulding Tomlinson.
ER shows them at 150 Fendalton Road 1911 to 1919 at least.
He is a Drainage Board Inspector.

I would guess the correct spelling of house name would be "Ngaroma"

John B

Hi John

It looks as if the above Thomas TOMLINSON (m. Rhoda ) is someone else. 

Annie Pourie TOMLINSON (bc 1845) died in 1927.  (I don't see a record of her having divorced Thomas TOMLINSON) ?

  ~  Lu

[Lucy2]

1905-06 - Riccarton (Christchurch) Roll

TOMLINSON - Thomas - drainage inspector

TOMLINSON - Rhoda Falding - married ... both at Glendovy Rd

1905-06 - Dunedin South

TOMLINSON - Thomas - coal merchant
TOMLINSON - Annie Pourie - married
... and children,  Charles Edward, engineer /Annie Pourie, spinster ... all at 133 High Street

1911 - Dunedin Central

TOMLINSON - Thomas - coal merchant ... with Annie Pourie (1x married) and (1 x spinster) and Thomas Sherwood TOMLINSON, clerk ... all at 17 william Street.

[Cramond Brig]

Everyone

What a wonderful response. You have been so helpful - and that produces the Scottish connection that I suspected would be lurking in the background.

There must have been something in the genes to make these lads come all the way to Scotland.

Alistair

[johnbarr]

Hi Lu,

Thanks for pointing that out -

BUT Mrs Tomlinson's address on card shown in original post is Fendalton Rd, Christchurch   

John B

[johnbarr]

and just to make things more complicated   

Their marriage is shown at BDM as
1897/3682   Rhoda Pickering    Tomlinson    Thomas    Tomlinson

So the bride's surname was also Tomlinson,

and her second name is shown as Faulding (not Pickering)  on Marriages CD and ER. 

John B

[Lucy2]

BUT Mrs Tomlinson's address on card shown in original post is Fendalton Rd, Christchurch   

John B

Jeepers, John B.   .... mmm .... I see what you mean .... the TOMLINSON / Fendalton Road connection is surely not merely a co-incidence.   

And on checking the e/rolls a little further back, I found this.

1896 - Otago - Dunedin

TOMLINSON  (the only ones of that name listed)

- Annie Pourie - Dunedin - Houskeeper -- residential
- Rhoda Faulding - Dunedin - Teacher -- residential
- Thomas - Dunedin - coal merchant - Freehold, section 35, block 2
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I get the feeling now that this Rhoda, was maybe the first-born of Annie Pourie FISHER and Thomas TOMLINSON ?

BUT ... 
- can't see a birth reg. for her online
- can't find a reason why she is listed as "Pickering"
- and have no idea, who Thomas TOMLINSON (the drainage inspector) was ?

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~  Lu 

 

[Lucy2]

Rhoda Faulding TOMLINSON - 24  (bc 1873)
Thomas TOMLINSON - 34
Married :  27 February 1897
First Church (Prebyterian), Dunedin
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[Annie Pourie TOMLINSON (the younger) m. aged 32 to Andrew HAMILTON at the same church in 1913. ]

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Annie Pourie FISHER - 27 yrs m. Thomas TOMLINSON (43)
on 14 June 1872 at St. Andrew's (Presbyterian) Church, Dunedin.
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I guess it's possible then that at the time of David's enlistment (1916) that his mother, Annie Pourie TOMLINSON, was in Christchurch, sharing accommodation at Fendalton Road, with Rhoda and her husband (the other Thomas TOMLINSON).  ?   

[johnbarr]

Rhoda Faulding is still in Fendalton Rd on ER for 1949, then dies 1950
1950/27944   Tomlinson    Rhoda Faulding    78Y (bc 1872 )

Thomas is with her until 1938, then possibly this death 
1938/24824   Tomlinson    Thomas    76Y  (bc 1862)

John B

[Cramond Brig]

I found an entry about David's will and it indicates that the probate was carried out by Thomas Sherwood Tomlinson, Accountant, after the War.

Alistair