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- Alvin's note: Val Stern says that Mary's father was a seafaring man; he married an Ann Matheson, who may be a relation. The father lived in Ponsonby, where he owned houses. He died on a Christmas day, and is buried at Leigh. There has been a flurry of interest in the Haskells, and there is a New Zealand historian of the family. Joan Fryer.
- 970109: Iris asked me again a few days ago to find Mary Haskell's date of birth: she wants to put up a plaque at theLeigh Cemetery in her memory.
I'm having some trouble in finding the date of death. Unfortunately, the New Zealand room of the Auckland Public Libraryis currently closed - for the next seven weeks or so - I had hoped to look at their index of deaths. Today, aftervisiting Vivian, I went up to the library of the Auckland Museum to see what genealogical resources they had. The entryto the library is from the back of the museum, where there's quite a bit of parking. They have an extensive card indexto death notices in the Herald, but I failed to find an entry for our Mary Matheson. (I took notes of what I found:these are on a sheet of A4.) I then discovered fiche on 'NZ Cemetery Records', and looked at Rodney County, fiche00018, which is for Leigh, but there's no Mary Matheson listed for this cemetery.
I then noticed the NZSG fiche for indexes of NZ births, marriages, and deaths, and looked there for Mary's death. Iscanned the years 1933 to 1941: there's a Mary Ann Matheson in 1934, ref. 3036; Mary Black McLean Matheson for 1937;and Mary Elizabeth Matheson for 1938
Mary Ann Matheson, though, if cousin Alex really saw his grandmother being lifted into a ca no more than three years oldat the time.
It may be worth asking:
1: Audrey Binstead at the Warkworth Museum if she has some record of the death of Mary Ann Matheson (nee Haskell).
2: Brian Tozer.
3: Carol Murray.
4: Look at Carol Murray's file of Mathesons, yet again. PS: There's no Mary Matheson in this file who can be'ours'.
5: Ring Joan Fryer, genealogist of the Haskells.
I accept her name as Mary Anne, from a typescript note of mine written immediately following Rosa Matheson's request tome to put up an inscription to the group of now unmarked Matheson graves.
- 970206: I was speaking to Val of Rosa's request for a memorial at Leigh for her * sister *,
- Her father left her property at Titirangi.
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1862 - 1938 (76 years)
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