NZ society of genealogists
South Canterbury Branch
Newsletter
March-April 2017 - Volume 21 No. 2
From the editor
Carol Bell
Having regaled you with “what should be done” last newsletter with the Genealogical
Proof Standard piece I’ve decided to have a decent look at my own research - evaluating
every family line and either taking it further or writing good notes about why it can’t be
taken further. “Good notes” means notes I can understand this time next year when I
stumble across them, not scribblings of names and dates that mean nothing. And a
“decent look” means something approaching the Genealogical Proof Standard - an
evaluation of what I have found, whether it’s of any use or not, and what I think I would
need to progress the research.
Some lines are back as far as they are most probably going to get and won’t require much
attention apart from a check through the main sites to see if any further records have
come to light. But some are not back as far as I would like and I need a good outline of
why that is. Nicely organised genealogists, I’m sure, do this all the time but sad to say I’m
not one of those. I have a very efficient database but it’s not being used to its full potential
because I’m not using it as well as I might. I’ve been warning my grandson the student
about the dangers of procrastination recently. Time to practise what I preach!
Convener's report
from Liz Shea
http://www.genealogy.org.nz/
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzlscant/resources.htm
April is the time for our AGM with election of officers for the branch. The rules require all officers to
be members of the NZSG and only members can vote. I encourage all members to attend the AGM
to vote for the new committee and to also listen to our very good guest speaker, Beverley
McCoomb.
It is also time to thank the committee members for their support and dedication to the branch over
the last year. We have been well served at each meeting with some excellent speakers and this year
we are drawing on our own members where possible to tell their stories. We know that a lot of time
and effort goes into researching your own family and this is an opportunity to tell that story. If you
want to tell your story, please let us know.
As you all know, Paperspast is full of stories and I would like to relate this one regarding a certain
Mrs Tillotson. I was scrolling through the papers looking for a family member when this paragraph
caught my eye and from then on, my attention. I just had to find out more. From the snip you will
read that Mrs Tillotson, wife of William, had a wee accident with an axe. The article was dated 10
October 1884 and reported widely over a large number of NZ newspapers.
So now I wonder, did she survive this dreadful
accident , how did it happen and what caused the
mental excitement?? First I had to find her full name
so onto BDM historical. No marriage but three
children's births recorded to Jane and William
Shillingford Tillotson, from 1881 to the last baby born
in 1884. No death, so Jane must have survived so
back to Paperspast looking for Jane Tillotson.
And there we have the story. Poor Jane tried to kill herself with a
bread knife and an axe. From the dates, it is likely she was
suffering post natal depression, with three children under five, it
was all too much.
So what happened next? No deaths for Jane or William in NZ, so
checked Victoria, Australia and there is a death of Jane in 1887
age 35. Nothing in Trove so no axe attacks here.
William then went on to marry Edith Alice Laker in 1888 in
Victoria – he now had four children to look after with another one
born in Victoria in 1885. He had another four with Edith.
Have yet to check immigration but from Familysearch and
FreeBMD noted that William and Jane nee Brown married in
Yorkshire in 1877. Ancestry has a family tree for William but not
a great deal of information on poor Jane so perhaps I have given
her some attention that she missed when she was alive.
A walk with the departed
Our February meeting was held at the Timaru Cemetery on a glorious summer evening.
Members each spoke about selected burials and Liz had thoughtfully made small sprays to
leave at the places we stopped. Some participants spoke about family members and some
about well-known people or events. The profiles will be published in newsletters as space
permits.
Liz Shea, on behalf of Val Eddy, took us to visit John and Sarah Reilly - row 3, plot 118
with no headstone. John was employed as one of the first schoolmasters in Timaru. The
Anglican church led the way to education in 1859, sponsoring the Timaru Grammar School, to
which G. Clark was appointed by Bishop Harper. There were 30 pupils, both boys and girls
whose ages ranged from 2 to 11. By 1860 J. Reilly of the National Society’s Training College,
Westminster, London had taken over and on 30 October that year advertised he was prepared
to take six boys for a sound commercial education. The fee was 40 pounds a year, including
laundry, and Mrs Reilly made herself responsible for the health and well being of the boys.
References were required and extra fees were charged for teaching French, German and Latin.
This first school was in Barnard Street, formerly the Rhodes Brothers woolshed.
The library in Timaru had its genesis in the schoolhouse in Barnard Street where John Reilly
lived. This first reading room was established under his supervision and opened in April 1862
with John Reilly as honorary secretary 5pm-10pm weekdays and 10am-8pm Saturdays.
Plans for the year
April:
AGM & Beverley McCombs presents her new book
May:
Timaru City Council archives
June:
DNA, Dave Jack
July:
It started with a phone call, Lorraine Gasgoine
August:
Timaru Library
September: On the Road to Wagga - an Australian search, Liz Shea
October:
Passchendaele exhibition at the museum
November: Research night
December: Christmas
New zealand family history
of bonny riches
(Marion edna knight)
Third Edition (As at 15 January 2017):
Compiled by Andrew Neil Riches, Grandson of Marion Knight (Riches) using publicly available
Information. The first version was presented to Bonny on her 86th Birthday, 26 November 2014.
Bonny sadly passed away on the 29th of January 2015
Family Tree – Marion Edna (Bonny) Knight
Introduction
The following outlines the family history of Bonny Riches from the first arrival of her descendants in
New Zealand. It traces the families of her four grandparents as they arrived in New Zealand as
children in the early days of New Zealand immigration. All four families have the distinction of
arriving over a short space of time between 1862-1875 and settling in South Canterbury after
initially passing through Lyttelton.
On her father’s side, the Maberly family emigrated to Waimate in 1864 after trying their luck in
New York, London, Sydney and Christchurch. Their child and Bonny’s Grandmother, Lydia Roda
Maberly was her first direct descendant to be born in New Zealand in 1868. Lydia married Bonny’s
Grand Father William Thomas Knight, who came to New Zealand as a child in 1874 aboard the
‘Peeress.’ The Knight family settled in Waimate and lived in poverty, at times Thomas struggled to
feed his large family due to lack of work and hospitalisation and could not support himself in old
age.
Bonny’s mothers side consists of the Edgeler family who came to New Zealand on the ‘Waimate” in
1875 and settled in Temuka. Her Great Grandfather, George Edgeler was actively involved in the
community, running for public office, organising public meeting on issues of unemployment and
unionisation as well as lobbying ministers for the expansion of land and development of Temuka.
Her Grandfather Alma Edgeler however was bankrupted three times. He claimed to have sighted a
German Airship off the coast of Temuka in 1909. He married Mary Katharine Bryan of Temuka.
Mary Katharine’s father Henry Bryant died at a young age, her mother Comfort Townley re-married
James Davis and emigrated to New Zealand aboard the “Atrato” in 1874 while Mary and her
siblings were young. Comfort and James had a difficult relationship, at one stage a magistrate
advised them to divorce. Comfort was found deceased in a small stream in 1903, the death was
determined to have been caused by ‘Religious Mania.’
This history has been compiled almost exclusively from publicly available sources including
newspapers, wills, military files, shipping records, census records and obituaries. In particular the
narrative of events have been derived from newspaper clippings. It does not attempt to gloss over
negative events, nor embellish the positive, but tries to portray an accurate depiction of four
families establishing themselves in New Zealand and overcoming the challenges of beginning a life
on the other side of the world. The next generations of these emigrant families grappled with
tough economic conditions, the challenges of raising large families as well as two World Wars
which have taken life and limb from all four families.
Ultimately Bonny’s parents, William Edgerton Knight and Beatrice Alice Edgeler married in 1916
and shifted their young family to Christchurch in the 1930s where Bonny went on to meet and
marry William Andrew Riches in 1947 and raise a family of their own at 215 Innes Road, St Albans
in Christchurch.
The 92 page first draft of this history was written by her grandson Andrew Neil Riches and given to
Bonny for her 86th Birthday on 26 November 2014. Bonny passed away on the 29th of January 2015
three weeks before the birth of her first Great Grandchild, Charlotte Bonny Riches on 21 February
2015. Bonny was told Charlotte would be named after her before her death. Andrew has continued
expanding his history after her death.
FLORENCE (FLORRY) CUTHBERTSON DICK
17 April 1878 – 11 October 1905
BORN AT 25 LAWRENCE ST, YORK, YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND
DIED AT CORAKI, NEW SOUTH WALES. AUSTRALIA
BURIED IN THE WOODBURN CEMETERY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
_________________________________________________________________________________________
17 APRIL 1878
26 JUNE 1878
1881
1890
1903
1905
1905
BORN TO PARENTS MAHALA CUTHBERTSON AND JAMES DICK
JAMES WAS AN ENGINEER
FLORRIE’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE GIVES MOTHER’S SURNAME AS DICK BUT I HAVE NO PROOF THAT
MAHALA AND JAMES WERE MARRIED. MAHALA TENDED TO USE WHATEVER SURNAME WAS THE
BEST AT THE TIME
CHRISTENED AT ST LAWRENCE, YORK, YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND
THE 1881 CENSUS SHOWS FLORENCE - UNDER THE NAME CUTHBERTSON - NEARLY 3
YEARS OLD - LIVING AT BATTERSEA IN LONDON, WITH HER MOTHER MAHALA AND
HER 7 HALF BROTHERS AND SISTERS
ATTENDING GEORGE ST SCHOOL, DUNEDIN, OTAGO NEW ZEALAND
FLORENCE ATTENDED GEORGE ST SCHOOL IN DUNEDIN HER NAME WAS RECORDED AS FLORA
HER BIRTHDATE WAS GIVEN AS
17 APRIL 1878
ADMISSION DATE TO SCHOOL
20 JAN 1890
MOTHER’S NAME GIVEN AS MRS ROBERT CUTHBERTSON ALTHOUGH AT THE TIME
MAHALA WAS MARRIED TO JAMES KERR
HOME ADDRESS : NORTH DUNEDIN HOTEL- JUST OVER THE ROAD FROM THE SCHOOL
JAMES KERR WAS THE LICENSEE AT THAT TIME
PREVIOIUS SCHOOL GIVEN AS : BELL ST FITZROY ( I BELEIVE THIS TO BE IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA)
LIVING WITH HER HALF BROTHER ROBERT AT 564 HODDLE STREET, ABBOTSFORD, MELBOURNE,
AUSTRALIA
(1903 ELECTORAL ROLLS). OCCUPATION : SALESWOMAN
LIVING AT PRIDDLE'S EMPIRE HOTEL IN WOODBURN,
NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
WORKING AT ROW'S SHOP AS A MILLINER
11 OCTOBER 1905
–
–
AGED 27
DIED OF SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM FROM BURNS
SUSTAINED IN AN ACCIDENT
1905 16 OCTOBER BURIED WOODBURN CEMETERY, NEW SOUTH WALES,
AUSTRALIA ROW C PLOT 32, ANGLICAN SECTION,
* FLORRIE WAS THE EIGHTH CHILD OF MAHALA CUTHBERTSON (NEE
JOHNSON)
* ALTHOUGH FLORENCE'S REGISTERED SURNAME WAS DICK IT APPEARS SHE
WAS ALWAYS KNOWN AS CUTHBERTSON
* SHE POSSIBLY DID NOT KNOW HER SURNAME WAS ANYTHING BUT
CUTHBERTSON
* HER DEATH CERTIFICATE GAVE HER MOTHER AS MAHALA AND HER FATHER
AS ROBERT CUTHBERTSON
* WHEN SHE DIED SHE HAD NO RELATIVES LIVING NEARBY AND HER FRIENDS
TOOK UP A SUBSCRIPTION FOR HER BURIAL AND HEADSTONE
Sad Burning Fatality. AT WOODBURN
On Monday night last a burning accident attended with fatal consequences, and surrounded with very sad
circumstances, occurred at South Woodburn. Miss Cuthbertson, who had been a resident of that town for the past
12 months, being milliner at Mr. Row's store there, was in her room at Priddle's Hotel trying on a dress representing
' Winter’, which she intended wearing at the Church of England Fancy Fair, in which she was to take a leading part.
The costume was of light material, and had a large amount of wadding about it, and in turning round one of the
sleeves caught fire at a candle on the dressing table. Miss Cuthbertson was instantly enveloped in flames, and
rushed out of the room, along a passage, and down two flights of stairs, where she was met by several young men,
one of whom had the presence of mind to envelope her with a table cloth, and the flames were thus extinguished
but not before the unfortunate young lady had been terribly burned.
In the room where the accident occurred a picture and several other articles caught fire, but were put out by Mr. H.
Priddle, who was in the vicinity, and who also received burns about the hands in rendering assistance. Dr.
McDonogh was immediately sent for, and ordered the patient's removal to the Coraki Hospital, to which institution
she was brought next morning. Here Dr. Cahill was also in attendance, and everything possible was done to save
the patient and alleviate her sufferings. Human aid was, however, of no avail, and death took place at six o'clock on
Wednesday morning. The suddenness of the sad event has cast quite a gloom over Woodburn, where Miss
Cuthbertson through her kindly and affable disposition was very popular and loved and respected by all.
Deceased, with many others, was in high spirits on Monday evening preparing for the fancy fair above mentioned,
but it is only another instance of the uncertainty of life, for within the short period before the time appointed for the
opening of same, which was to have been yesterday, joy was turned to suffering and sorrow and her spirit called to
its eternal rest. As a mark of respect to deceased the fair has been postponed. The remains were encased in a
leaden coffin and removed to South Woodburn yesterday where we understand the funeral will move from Mr.
Row's residence at about four o'clock this (Friday) afternoon for the Woodburn Cemetery.
An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding this sad fatality is to be held at South Woodburn.
Friday, 13 October, 1905
MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY - THE LATE BURNING FATALITY.
On Monday last Mr. F. G. Adrian, District Coroner, held a magisterial inquiry at South Woodburn into the
circumstances surrounding the recent burning accident by which Miss Florence Cuthbertson met her death.
Florence Ethel Roffey deposed : I am a general servant and reside at Woodburn. On the night of 9th instant I was in
deceased's room at Priddle's Hotel. I am in Mrs. Priddle's employ and Miss Cuthbertson was boarding there. She
was trying a dress on which she was to wear at the Fancy Fair in aid of the Church of England. It was a white calico
dress trimmed with wadding. She had the dress on, and when she turned round to look at the dress in the glass the
sleeve caught the candle. The flames ran up her sleeve, and I ran out for assistance. She followed me along the
passage and down the front stairs, screaming out, and when we got down the stairs several men caught her and
wrapped her in a table-cloth, and put the flames out. She was quite conscious. They took her upstairs to her own
room and sent for a doctor. He arrived later. I was then in bed. I did not see her again alive.
Bernard MacDonogh deposed : I am a legally qualified medical practitioner at Coraki. On 9th instant I received a
telephone message to come to Woodburn to attend a woman seriously burned. I came at once and arrived about
11.50 p.m. I saw deceased. The case was a hopeless one. I ordered the removal of deceased to the Hospital. I first
dressed the wounds. I stayed at Woodburn all night, and accompanied deceased to Coraki next morning. She was
then conscious. She was admitted to Coraki Hospital, and was then in a state of collapse. I saw her again at Coraki
Hospital at about 7.30 p.m. She was no better. At about 4 a.m. the following day the matron of the Coraki Hospital
telephoned to me. I went to the Hospital. Deceased was rapidly sinking, and she died at 6 a.m. I saw her body after
death. In my opinion her death was caused from shock to the system consequent upon the burns received.
Horace Leonard Priddle deposed : I am a shipping agent, and reside at the Empire Hotel, South Woodburn, of
which my mother is the licensee. I knew deceased, Florence Cuthbertson. She was boarding at my mother's hotel
about 12 months. She was employed at Row's drapery store as milliner. About a quarter to ten on the night of the
9th instant, I heard screams of 'Fire.' I was then in the bar. I ran to see what was the matter, and saw Florrie Roffey
running down the stairs followed by deceased, who was all in flames. I caught deceased round the waist to
extinguish the fire. I put her down on the floor and covered her with a table cloth and smothered the flames. She
called out that her room was on fire. I then left her with a number of people in the hall, and went up to her room
where the mantel drape was on fire. I extinguished the fire. Deceased was brought to her room, and I telephoned
for Dr. MacDonogh. Everything was done that could be done till he arrived about 12 o'clock. Next morning she was
sent to Coraki by steamer to the Hospital. I accompanied her there, and saw her admitted. Some of her relatives
lived in Melbourne, and some in Sydney. Her mother lived in New Zealand. She was of a cheerful disposition.
Friday, 20 October, 1905
SC branch resources
South Canterbury Schools
We have admission records for many local schools. Indexes for most schools are at the SC
museum. For records, contact us at [email protected] or fill in one of the
forms available in the museum archives room. As a branch of the NZSG we are restricted from
publishing information about living persons, and so require confirmation of death of any person
who entered school after 1920 (strictly speaking, 95 years before the date of the request). A
copy of the death entry on the BDM website https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/ is
sufficient. Records held by SC Branch NZSG at SC Museum unless otherwise stated.
School:
TAWAI
Years open:
1890 - 1947
Rolls held:
1913 - 1947
Notes:
Known as Waitaki Village Settlement until 1909
School:
TE AWA
Years open:
1917 - 1954
Rolls held:
1917 - 1954
Notes:
also known as Winchester Settlement; building moved from Rangitira
Valley.
School:
TE MOANA
Years open:
1891 - 2004
Rolls held:
1891 - 1950
Notes:
1891-1950 not from admission register, but a copy of appendix to
jubilee publication (only source of pre-1951 admissions), so probably
incomplete. Later records lost in asbestos scare
School:
TE NGAWAI
Years open:
1903 - 1939
Rolls held:
None
Publications:
Albury and District Schools: compilation including Tengawai DH91
Albury School 125th Jubilee 1882-2007 (Te Ngawai, Chamberlain, Mona
Vale, Mt. Nessing) DH101
Notes:
Consolidated on Albury School 1940
School:
TEMUKA
Years open:
1865 - OPEN
Rolls held:
1881 - 1938
Publications:
Temuka District Schools: compilation including Temuka DH93
100 Years in Three Days, by B.E Gale
Notes:
Opened 1873; a school conducted from 1865; prior to 1865 known as
Arowhenua; first public school erected in 1867
School:
TEMUKA DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL
Years open:
1883 - OPEN
Rolls held:
None
Publications:
1866-1934 Whakakotahitanga
1866-1956 90th Reunion
1866-1991 Temuka Schools, L.H McGillen
1866-1891 125th Jubilee
Notes:
Became known as Temuka High School in 1968 then merged with Pleasant
Point High School in 2005 to become Opihi College
School:
TIMARU BOYS HIGH SCHOOL
Years open:
1880 - OPEN
Rolls held:
None
Publications:
Schoolroom and Playing Field: A Centennial History of Timaru Boys'
High School Centennial 1880-1980 - compiled by G. A. Macaulay DH52
The Rectorials: The Story of Boarding at Timaru Boys’ High School –
Alon Shaw & Dion Crooks DH118
Heart of Oak 1908-1983: A 75th Jubilee History of the Boarding Establishment at Timaru Boys’ High School – Compiled by G. A. Macaulay DH119
Musings from the Dead Ball Line on Timaru Boys High School 1st XV
Rugby 1880-2008 – compiled by Brian Petrie and Noel Smith DH120
Timaru Boys’ High School Memorial Library 1917-2007 – compiled by
Brian Petrie and Jeff Elston DH121
Eighty Years On: Timaru Boys’ High School 1st XV v St Andrew’s
College 1st XV – R. Mervyn Taiaroa & Don Davison (1929-2011) DH122
Timaru Boys’ High School Prospectus, 1953 DH143
Notes:
Originally on same site as Timaru Girls’ High School, with dividing fence
School:
TIMARU GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL
Years open:
1880 - OPEN
Rolls held:
None
Publications:
1880-1930 Chronicle (Jubilee No.19 March 1930)
1880-1955 75th Jubilee
Timaru Girls' High School Hostel Reunion Booklet 1916-1971: "House"
50th Anniversary DH67
Timaru Girls' High School Centennial Magazine 1880-1980 DH68
Timaru Girls' High School Centennial Celebrations 1880-1980 DH68a
Timaru Girls' High School Prospectus (1995) DH69
Lively Retrospect: Timaru Girls High School 1880-1980 - Averille
Lawrence 1980-2005 A 25-year Snapshot DH110
Timaru Girls’ High School: A 25 year snapshot from 1980-2005 DH112
Members’ Interests
from Carole Cowan
HAMBLYN
ENGLAND
Somerset Castle Cary
1700-1820
HANNA
IRELAND
Cavan
pre1870
HANSEN
NEW ZEALAND
South Canterbury
HARDING
ENGLAND
Dorset Swanage
1820+
HARDING
ENGLAND
Sussex Preston
pre1850
HARDING
NEW ZEALAND
Wellington
1891+
HARDING-COLLISS
AUSTRALIA
Victoria
All
HARNESS
ENGLAND
Yorkshire
1850s
HARNESS
NEW ZEALAND
Sth Canterbury Timaru
1880s
HARNESS
NEW ZEALAND
Wellington
1890s
HARPER
SCOTLAND
Midlothian Auchendinny
pre1860
HASLEM
ENGLAND
Lancashire Manchester
pre1837
HASLEM
ENGLAND
Lancashire Newton Heath
pre1837
HAUGH
SCOTLAND
Kirkcudbrighshire Kirkenhick pre1866
HAXTON
ENGLAND
Kent Deal
pre1860
HAXTON
NEW ZEALAND
Wairarapa Carterton
1860+
HAY
SCOTLAND
Aberdeenshire Forgue
pre1870
HAYDON
ENGLAND
Norfolk Massingham
1700-1900
HAYES
IRELAND
Killarney Listowel Kerry
1860
HAYES
IRELAND
Offaly Finnoe, Roscrea
abt 1817
HAYHURST
ENGLAND
Lancashire Manchester
1700-1900
HELLYER
NEW ZEALAND
Otago Dunedin
1889
HENWOOD
ENGLAND
Cornwall Warleggan
HERTNON
IRELAND
Kings
1840-1870
HICKINGBOTTOM
ENGLAND
Lincolnshire Donington
pre1900
HICKS
IRELAND Co
Cavan
1845
HICKS
NEW ZEALAND
Coromandel Thames
1870
HIGINBOTTOM
NEW ZEALAND
Canterbury Cust
1870+
Any member wishing to have their surname interests published in this newsletter,
which is distributed to branches of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists all over New
Zealand, or who wishes to add or delete names from their present list, please contact
Carole Cowan, phone 03 684-5491 or [email protected]
Library report
from Teresa Scott
South Canterbury Branch Library - recent accessions include:
· Branch newsletters 2017 :
Cambridge – March, April
Canterbury – March, April
Dunedin – March-April
Feilding – March
Franklin – February
Gore – March
Hamilton – April
Hibiscus Coast – Jan/Feb, March
Hutt Valley – March
Kapiti – February
Kilbirnie – March, April
Nelson – February, March
New Plymouth – March, April
North Shore – February, March
Oamaru – February, March
Otaki – February, March
Papakura – March
Papamoa – March, April
Riccarton – March
South Canterbury – January-February
South Waikato – March, April
Southland – February
Stratford – March
Te Awamutu – February, March, April
Waimate – February
Wairarapa – March
Wellington – February, March
Whanganui – Jan/February/March
FamNet – February, March
Dunedin Family History Group –
March, April
· Family Tree Magazine – March 2017
Please note September 2013, October 2013, November 2013, Christmas 2013, January 2014, November 2014, January 2015, February 2015, March 2015, December 2015,
Christmas 2015, October 2016, November 2016, December 2016, Christmas 2016, January
2017, February 2017, March 2017 Family Tree magazines have gone out on the 'round-robin'
and will not be on the library shelves for some time. As each new issue is received it will be
dispatched to readers.
· Timaru South School – The Year That Was, 2015 [SM100] [donated]
· From Waste Land to a Garden of National Significance: Timaru Botanic Gardens 1864
– 2014 - by Keith Bartholomew [DH144] [donated]
· CD Explore the Archives – CD (Family Tree Magazine, February 2017)
Note – from end April 2017, the newsletters from other NZSG branches, which until the
present have been filed on our library shelves, will no longer be printed and filed.
Those which are emailed to us will be stored for a limited time. If you want any issues –
which will be advised in the newsletter – please ask Teresa to forward them to you.
Others are found on the NZSG website - https://www.genealogy.org.nz/- > About Us ->
Branches & Area Contacts
The committee has agreed to drop the charge for borrowing books and magazines from our
branch library. Only branch members may borrow items from our library. Every item borrowed
(whether or not there is a card) and the date of borrowing must be written into the small exercise
book in the Sunday box by the duty member. When items are returned, the duty person will
again sign them out. “Reference” materials may not be borrowed, except by request to the librarian (Teresa Scott). Current newsletters from other branches are “Reference Only” until the end of
the year.
Museum Sunday roster
South Canterbury Museum research room
Sunday roster 1.30pm - 4.30pm
NOTE: If you are unable to do your duty please arrange for another on the roster
to do it for you and advise your partner who your replacement is.
Any queries please ring Janette Clarke 684-5327 - email : [email protected]
9 April
Lois White
684 4173
Robyn Kin g
688 4522
16 April
Liz Shea
684 7790
Ted Hansen
688 4957
23 April
Lois Shears
688 1655
Lorraine Gasgoine 688 3357
30 April
Dave Jack
021 770 000
Janette Clarke
684 5327
7 May
Teresa Scott
688 9034
Carol Cowan
684 5491
14 May
Lois White
684 4173
Robyn King
688 4522
21 May
Liz Shea
684 7790
Ted Hansen
688 4957
28 May
Lois Shears
688 1655
Carol Bell
684 7733
4 June
Dave Jack
021 700 000 Janette Clarke
684 5327
11 June
Teresa Scott
688 9034
684 5491
Carol Cowan
Local contacts
SC Branch NZ Society of Genealogy - Officer Bearers
Convener:
Liz Shea
03 684 7790 Branch Contact
Minute secretary:
Lesley Tennent
03 612 6759
Treasurer:
Carolyn Johnston
684-5709
Committee:
[email protected]
Teresa Scott
03 688 9034 Library
Lois Shears
03 688 1655 School Rolls
Maree Bowen
03 686 0584
Lorraine Gascoigne
03 688 3357
Carol Bell
03 684 7733 Newsletter Editor
Off committee: Carole Cowan
03 684 5491 Members Interests
[email protected]