Norah Earl, nee Batchelor COMPLETED

[Janette]

Here is her death on BDM's
death
1994/52152   Curnow    Mary Hilary    born 14 February 1913

Cheers Janette

[minniehaha]

Don't want to get ahead of ourselves here, but there is a probated will (1995) held @ Auckland archives for Mary Hilary Curnow (married woman).


Minniehaha.

[minniehaha]

Well done Janette!! 

Here is the husband of Mary Hilary nee EARL.

CURNOW John Henry Tremayne. On July 1, 2003 (peacefully) at Lady Allum, Milford. Beloved husband of the late Molly* and Avril. Loved brother of ** and the late Allen. Special thanks to the staff at Lady Allum for their love and care of John. A service will be held at the Lady Allum Chapel, Napoleon Avenue, Milford, tomorrow (Friday) at 2.30pm, followed by private cremation. Dil's Funeral Services FDANZ.

**Name deleted as perhaps still living..........

*This was the name of one of the daughters in Norah's death notice, but spelt as Mollie.


Minniehaha.

[Janette]

Well done Minniehaha,Molly is a pet name used for Mary or Margaret

Cheers Janette

[minniehaha]

I will still go and get the death notice for Mary Hilary as this may reveal more about her sister Catherine and family, hopefully..............


Minniehaha.

[robbo43]

Thanks for all this, at the moment I am on holiday with an awful Wifi connection and with few of my records. I will reply properly next week when life is back to normal.

Robert

[robbo43]

I've just made a step forward with Catherine. I hadn't been able to find her at all in UK records but picked on two possible marriages, both of which are incorrectly recorded in BMD registers. One in 1933 turned out to be wrong but one Q4 1945 Surrey SW 2a 1382 showed a Catherine B Earl marrying either Henry H Jones or Henry H Smail. I then searched for Catherine Smail and hit the jackpot. Catherine Beatrice Smail (37) with her husband Henry Houliston Jones Smail (47) and their sons aged 6, 3 and 1 (names omitted as they may still be alive) appear on Passenger Lists leaving UK on the P&O Strathnaver leaving London on the 26 March 1953 bound for Sydney, Australia, their ultimate destination New Zealand. To confirm their identity their last address in the UK is given as 3 Molyneux Road, Farncombe, the same as Norah & Mary Hilary (Mollie). http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=tna%2fbt27%2f1722%2f00%2f0038%2fp%2f0015f&parentid=tna%2fbt27%2f1722000038%2f00550.

This identifies three of the people in the death notice for Norah in the New Zealand Herald which Minniehaha kindly sent me, leaving two to find. At the moment it looks as if Catherine & Henry emigrated to New Zealand first and were followed by Mary, then Norah.

I think that Mary must have married John Curnow in New Zealand as she was still Mary Hilary Earl when she emigrated to New Zealand in 1954.

Robert

[robbo43]

A picture of Norah with her elder brother Jack William and younger brother Henry c1904 when she was 13 or 14 by her appearence

[robbo43]

One of her a couple of years later, I would guess she was 16 as her hair is now up.