MELVILLE Chart 0400

This is a Chart for Edwin Barnes/Edward George Melville and (Eliza) Margaret Hodges

  married
18th January 1898
Napier, New Zealand
 
 
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EDWIN BARNES/EDWARD GEORGE MELVILLE

born  
14th April 1870 
Moyston, Victoria, Australia
0ccupation
 1898 Labourer; 1949 Farmer
died  
7th April 1949 
Tauranga, New Zealand
Age 77 years 
Carcinoma Stomach - few months
buried
 8th April 1949 
Hillcrest Cemetery, Whakatane, New Zealand
  2
(ELIZA) FRANCES MARGARET HODGES
born  
28th September 1874 
Malvern Link, Worcestershire
emigration
1883
to Australia
occupation
1898 Domestic
died
 14th July 1965
Whakatane, New Zealand

3
George
David
MELVILLE

born
1st June
1899
Napier
New
Zealand
died 
10th 
September 1967
Kaitaia
New
Zealand
4
Alfred
MELVILLE

born
20th 
March
1900
Pohui
Napier
New
Zealand
died 
25th
March
1900
Pohui
Napier
New
Zealand
Jaundice
and Convulsions
5
Abigail
Margaret
Hinemoa
Mary 
MELVILLE

born
7th
November
1901
Napier
New
Zealand
died 
28th March 1987
Tauranga
New
Zealand

married(1)
???
born about
1897
Scandanavia

married(2)
???
born about
1897

married(3)
9th March 1936
Huntly
New
Zealand
Ernest
ATKINSON
6
Lorna
Edwina
Tanewha
MELVILLE

born
18th
February
1903
Napier
died 
27th
October
1994
Whakatane
New
Zealand

married(1)
???
born about
1898

married(2)
14th March
1928
Whakatane
New
Zealand
Nicholas 
John Charles
FENNELL

7
Albert
Edward
MELVILLE

born
1st
October 
1905
Napier
died 
18th 
September 1983
Auckland
New
Zealand

married
1935
Clarice May
MENARY
8
Richard Joseph
Charles
MELVILLE

born
28th
December
1906
Napier
died 
1st May 
1994
Whakatane
New
Zealand

married
12th July
1947
Whangarei
New
Zealand
Winnifred
Jessy
DRAKE
9
Dorothy
Mabel
MELVILLE

born
10th 
September
1907
Napie
New
Zealandr
died
 11th
October 1997
Gisborne
New
Zealand
Age 90 years

met (1)
 Ralph MASON
born about 1902

married(1)
2nd 
September
1938
Matata
New
Zealand
Victor 
Thomas
TRUMPER
10
Jessie
Louise
MELVILLE

born
16th
November
1909
Napier
New
Zealand
died 
10th May
1913
Tarndale
New
Zealand
11
Mary
"May"
MELVILLE
born 
6th October
1910
Napier
New
Zealand
died
16th June
2002
Aged 91

married
7th 
September
1932
Whakatane
New
Zealand
Neil John
LARSEN
12
Charles
Henry
MELVILLE
born
10th April
1911
Meanne
New
Zealand
died
16th August
2004
Aged 92

married
19th January
1955
Shirley
June
FARROW
13
Philip
Edwin
MELVILLE

born
24th July
1913
Meanee
New
Zealand
died
18th 
April
1958
Muriwai Beach
New
Zealand

married
28th 
February 
1939
Opotiki 
New
Zealand
Blanche Wilson
PARSONS
14
Alfred
Victor
MELVILLE
born
3rd August
1915
Walroa
New
Zealand

married
11th November
1942
Whakatane
New
Zealand
Doris
FLAVEL
15
Nellie
Joyce
MELVILLE

born
5th 
March
1917
Ruakituri
New
Zealand
died 
29th 
August
1996
Whakatane
New
Zealand

married
15th
December
1934
Awakeri
New
Zealand
William 
John
MENARY
16
Kenneth
Clyde
MELVILLE

born
13th
September 1918
Ruakituri
New
Zealand
died 
26th 
August 
1983
Auckland
New
Zealand
  1. 1898 Pukerituri, New Zealand
    1949 Whakatane, New Zealand
    Changed name to Edward George MELVILLE when going to New Zealand 
  2. 1898 Puketiri, New Zealand
    Father - Charles HODGES born 9th July 1848 South Worcestershire died 10th May 1901 Freemantle, Australia. Married 25th December 1873 Worcester, Worcestershire to Mary JENNINGS born 11th August 1841 Eldersfield, Worcester died 9th January 1938 Freemantle, Australia 
    Information concerning the HODGES and JENNINGS families can be obtained from Fay Chisholm, 132 Harris Street, Gisborne, New Zealand 
    ???SDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 1964
    NINETY-YEAR OLD’S VIVID MEMORIES
    Primitive Early Days
    In Bush-clad Moaka
    Crack rifle shot, expert horsewoman, the first white woman to brave the primitive existence of a timber contractor’s wife in the heavy bush country surrounding Mohaka, Mrs Margaret Melville celebrated the 90th anniversary of her birth on Monday. Still bright-eyed and alert, Mrs Melville lives with her son Dick.
    A family surprise party on Sunday brought relatives and close friends to Hillcrest for a pre-birthday tea when the cake was cut. Four of her children - Mr Richard (Dick) Melville, Mr A Melville, Thornton, Mrs J Larsen and Mrs V Trumper Te Teko, were present to give their congratulations.
    On Monday the telephone was busy all day relaying messages from the Post Office. The Prime Minister and Mrs Holyoake sent their good wishes for "many more happy and active years"; congratulations came from Mr P. B. Allen, M.P., and Mrs Allen; from the Mayor, Mr H. G. Warren, and from Mrs Warren; from the vicar of her church the Rev. J. R. Maclean; from many other well-wishers in addition to those members of her large family of seven sons and five daughters who were unable to greet her in person.
    Although she has seen the face of New Zealand change almost beyond recognition, Mrs Melville has accepted the new while treasuring the old. She is an ardent advocate of air travel and of late years she has been a frequent passenger to Airoa and Gisborne where she visitis relatives and friends. But she remembers when horses went crazy at the sight of a motor car; the time she and her husband were driving a light spring cart along the road to Napier when an automobile driven by one of Hawkes Bay’s very prominent personalities came snort-ing towards them.
    "GET OFF ROAD"
    "Our horse just stood straight up between the shafts and the owner of the car shouted "Get off the road." We did........and ended up on the beach". It was obvious Mrs Melville still felt deeply indignant over the affair.
    As Margaret Hodges, the eldest of four girls and two boys, Mrs Melville immigrated to Perth, Australia, from Worcestershire with her parents when she was nine. Her father was a painter. It was not until she was 25, that she accepted in 1897 an invitation from an aunt who, with her husband, managed the Mohaka Hotel, and came to New Zealand and had her first real taste of back-country life.
    She took to it so whole-heartedly that within a year she had married George Melville who had a contract to supply pit-sawn timber from the area.
    FEW COMFORTS
    Queen Victoria’s jubilee had just passed; the Dominion was prospering; timber for building was in heavy demand but life among the totaras at Donelly’s Bush above the Titiokura River had very few comforts to offer. With a young and fast-growing family, life couldn’t be all shooting and riding, although Mrs Melville said that she had kept up her shooting until a “few years ago. Education became a problem. There were no schools nearby and the three "Rs" had to be learnt with long breaks between. Finally, the move to Meeanee proved a solution and it was in that more conventional coastal en-ironment that the youngest Melvilles were born. Mrs Melville returned to Australia once only to see her mother and sisters. She was widowed 10 years ago and lived for a few years in Anzac Avenue, Whakatane, before making her home with her son and his family.
    "It is quite a job being asked to tally up one’s descendants when you have 12 children and are 90 years old”"Mrs Melville said. "I have kept a good count, however, and have 35 grandchildren, 47 great grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren". Congratulations are more than ever in order for as well as reaching her 90th birthday with her faculties unimpaired - in fact, it would be quite correct to say that she is as bright as a button - she has achieved a century of direct descendents.
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