| William Edgerley was a builder, these
could be his workmen. The man in bowler hat could
be Walter Whyman see photo below, so it is possible this is Walter Whyman's
work crew. |
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| Mystery house and two men.Possibly
Ballarat if not Auckland, very faded original |
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| Photo taken by Wah Sun in Penang,
identities unkown. |
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| St Marks Remuera, a short walk
from Edgerley Avenue, local church for the Edgerley's for many decades.
Several family members were buried in the church yard and when I visited
a few years ago their gravestones formed part of a wall at the rear of
the church. |
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| My fathers Great Grandmother, Johanna
O'Donnell b ~1820 d 1900 New plymouth (nee Scully or Skully). Her
husband was Michael O'Donnell who served in the Crimean war see his photo
in the 1900 decade ( 5 photos down) with tropical helmet and medals. The
family also lived in India before coming out to New Zealand, the
date and ship are not known. They had only two children, Richard
b Poona, India in 1861 and a daughter 11 years older name unknown |
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| Whyman family circa 1895, only
photo I have of Sarah Newnham Edgerley b 1850, sister to Jack and
William. Walter Whyman was a builder / bricklayer. I can put anyone
interested in touch with a Whyman descendant who has built a family tree. |
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| Half of duplex house, 105 Keele St, Collingwood,
Melbourne. Where my paternal grandfather Edward Walter Arthur b 9 April,
1884 likely lived as a boy. He had assumed the surname Hughes by the time
he married my grandmother in New Plymouth in 1907, see photo in next decade.
The address comes from an 1898 Melbourne directory. His parents were Samuel
Arthur from Cornwall who I understood was a butcher and Alice Mary (nee
Maggs), they were married in 1874. Edward had two older brothers, George
Samuel b 1875 and William John Harry b 1880. Side
view shows the house is two storied in the back. Photo from year
2000. |
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