When my mother-in-law died, my husband inherited a box of family treasures. The box contains a collection of photos, postcards and other family-related items.
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| Photo ©Jane Chapman 2022 |
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| Emma Mumford (Born Veale, previously Darcy), Shirley Coop (later Chapman) and Winifred 'Winnie' Coop (born Darcy - Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand about 1935 |
Emma
Emma was born Mary Emma Veale on 26 September 1873 at Kyeburn in Central Otago, New Zealand[1]. During her childhood, her father was a miner at the Kyeburn Diggings. Later, the family moved to the West Coast.
Emma married her first husband, William Darcy, on 4 May 1893 at Reefton on the West Coast[2]. Emma and William had been married for a little over 5 years when, on 5 July 1898, William died from a cerebral inflammation following measles[3]. Emma found herself widowed with two children, Winnie, then a toddler of 2½ years and Isabel, just 2½ months old.
Emma remarried on 7 December 1900 to Arthur Tregarthen Mumford[4]. She and Arthur had two children together, William and Francis (see below).
You can read more about Emma here.
Sometime between 1905/06 and 1914, Emma and her children moved to Wellington[5].Winnie
Winnie was born Winifred Alice Darcy at Black’s Point in Reefton on the West Coast on the 25 November 1895[6]. She had one full sibling, Margaret Isabel Darcy, known as Isabel, who was born in Reefton in 1898[7], and two half-brothers, Arthur Francis ‘Frank’ Mumford, born in Reefton in 1902[8], and William Charles Mumford, born in Reefton in 1905[9].
You can read more about Winnie’s family background here.
Winnie married William Harold Coop on 18 December 1915 in Wellington[10]. You can read more about Winnie and Bill and their wartime correspondence here.Shirley
Shirley was born in Wellington on 22 January 1927. She died in Tauranga in 2018[11].Specific Items in the Treasure Box
Posts about specific items from the treasure box and what we know about them, or can infer from them, include:Correspondence
from Jack
Wartime Correspondence from Bill to Winnie (posted 4 December 2021)
Postcards from Frank (posted 7 January 2022)
From the War - Cards from James (posted 5 June 2022)
N.B. I have now moved by blogging efforts from this platform to We Are.xyz so that I can integrate building my family history archive with blogging. This post, or a similar version of it, can be found at: Our Treasure Box
Notes
[1] Birth Entry - Registration 1873/42251 Births, Deaths & Marriages Online [digital index], New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs [Website]. Accessed 2 June 2022.
[2] Marriage Entry - Registration Number 1893/3974 - See Note 1[3] Death Entry - Registration Number 1898/3769 - See Note 1.
[4] Marriage Entry - Registration Number: 1900/926 - See Note 1.
[5] Emma is listed on the 1905-1906 Buller Electoral Roll as a married woman living in Reefton and on the 1914 Wellington Central Electoral Roll as a married woman living at 107 Tory Street in Central Wellington. See: 1905-1906 Buller Electoral Roll and 1914 Wellington Central Electoral Roll via Ancestry.com. New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Accessed 2 June 2022.
[6] Birth Entry - Registration Number: 1895/12109 Births, Deaths & Marriages Online [digital index], New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs [Website]. Accessed 2 June 2022.
[7] Birth Entry - Registration Number: 1898/15541 - See Note 6.[8] Birth Entry - Registration Number: 1903/15173 - See Note 6.
[9] Birth Entry - Registration Number: 1905/11172 - See Note 6.
[10] Marriage Entry - Registration Number: 1915/5076 - See Note 6.
[11] Personal Knowledge of Author
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