Wow, I didn't expect so much so quickly. Thank you all very much for this.
Norah is my first cousin twice removed according to Ancestry, she was someone my grandfather & mother talked about at times and mother exchanged Christmas cards & odd letters but lost contact. The family also interest me as Norah's brother Jack was chief draughtsman for Bolton Paul Aircraft during the 2nd World War and I now live about 15 miles from the former factory & the house where Jack lived.
So we now have that Norah was born 28 April 1889, the New Zealand death records are right and the UK emigration records are wrong as Ellis Island records give her age as 22y 11mo when they arrive on 10th April 1912. Norah was a teacher before her marriage.
Charles & Norah married in 1912 and must have left for America within a couple of days of their marriage. Mary was born in 1913 and Catherine in 1915. Charles' draft registration card of 1917 shows them still in America and that they had had no more children at this date.
By 1920 they have returned to the UK as a son, William Henry F Earl, is born on 27 Mar 1920 in the Kingston on Thames area of Surrey. Electoral Registers show them living near Guilford, Surrey between 1926 and 1929. From 1931 onwards they are at 3 Molineux Road, Farncombe, near Godalming, Surrey and Mary Hilary Earl appears on the Register from 1935 onwards. The last Register before the start of the 2nd World War is in1938 and they are all still there. The only post-war Register easily available is in 1945, Charles & Norah are still at the same address but Mary isn't.
Charles dies in 1946. Mary emigrates to New Zealand on 13 Aug 1954, giving 3 Molineux Road as her address on the UK Outward Passenger List and arrives in Wellington on the 14th September, presumably to work as a teacher. Norah leaves England on the 7th January 1956 to join her daughter in New Zealand and arrives on the 18th February. They live at 113A Kowhai Road, Mairangi Bay. Norah dies on the 5th April 1986 and is cremated at North Shore Memorial Park, Aukland, on the 8th.
Minniehaha, if it isn't too much trouble I would appreciate any information about newspaper death notices. Once again, thanks to all of you for such a tremendous effort
Robert
