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Surname: HENDRY
Forename: WILLIAM CUMMING
Age: 79 Years
Gender: Male
Date of Death: 21 Jan 1964
Place of Death: DUNEDIN
Last Address: 15 CREST STREET DUNEDIN
Funeral Director
Hope & Sons Ltd, P O Box 5013, Andersons Bay, DUNEDIN
Date of Cremation: 23 Jan 1964
Ashes Disposal
Scatter 24 Jan 1964
Date of Birth: Not recorded
Notes: Original reference:- C19640142
Occupation:- BAKER


DUNEDIN Cemetery...

Christine,
It looks as if the address of 209 Donnington Road is a mis print.... and should read:
209 WARRINGTON ROAD, GLAZEBURY

Phonebook:
HENDRY. W.A
1970-1978: 209 Warrington Road, Glazebury
1978- 1981: at 15 Beechmill Drive
1981-1984 : 211 Warrington Road, Glazebury.
Always a Culcheth Tel No

Anne

HENDRY

Forename

WILHELMINA M
Age 2 Years
Gender Female
Date of Death 10 Sep 1909
Last Address
Next of Kin
Funeral Director
Cemetery NORTHERN CEMETERY
Location Block 179A. Plot 14
Date of Burial 12 Sep 1909
Type Burial
Occupation
Place of Birth
Date of Birth Not recorded
Notes Original reference:- N19090921



Last Name: ROBINSON
First Name: ANGELA WINNETTA
Age: 32 Years
Deceased Date: 12-08-1943
Service Date: 13-08-1943
Service Provided: Cremation
Cemetery: Karori Crematorium
Record Number: 4953

Christine,
Did Stuart send you the travel dosc for William Jnr and his wife Hilda coming into the UK In Nov 1946?
It looks like they married in Lancs mid 1945, and at some point ,travelled back to NZ , returning to the UK Nov 1946

28yr old William was a Baker and 23 yr old Hilda was a housewife
They travelled on the Akaroa from New Zealand to Southhampton arriving 22 Nov 1946 and their forwarding address was: 2 Enfield Grove, Leigh, Lancs
The answer to your question is YES. You have been looking in the wrong country, but then again, .... how were you to know.?

Anne

Hi Anne

Thanks for confirming that.

I will be back on the trail tomorrow. Thank you so much

Christine

Hi Anne

Than you for confirming that

Kind Regards

Christine

Hi Anne

Messages have crossed. No Stuart did not send me info re travel docs. I would love to have them.

Christine

Hi Cupcakes

Thanks for the information

Christine

If you PM me your own email address I can send a copy of the original travel document to you. Meantimes here's the transcript

UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 about Mr William Hendry
Name: Mr William Hendry
Birth Date: abt 1918
Age: 28
Port of Departure: Auckland, New Zealand
Arrival Date: 23 Nov 1946
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ports of Voyage: Newport News
Ship Name: Akaroa
Search Ship Database: View the 'Akaroa' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Shaw Savill Line
Official Number: 133648

Hilda's is much the same apart from personal details
Mrs William Hilda Hendry Age 25

I don't see them travelling out to NZ 1945/6. I wonder if they went on a returning Troop Ship, so wouldn't appear on Passenger lists?

Stuart,
I sent the original yesterday and Christine has it now.

I think you will be correct, William will have married as a serving serviceman returned to NZ with his unit, and demobilised sometime in 1946

My inlaws did a simlar thing... married in Italy 1945 before returning to the UK, where they were both demobilised in 1946

Anne

Name: Mrs Jessie HENDRY
Date of departure: 21 December 1956
Port of departure: London
Passenger destination port: Wellington, New Zealand
Passenger destination: Wellington, New Zealand

Date of Birth: 4 May 1884
Age: 72 (calculated from DOB)
Marital status: Married
Sex: Female
Occupation:
Passenger recorded on: Page 2 of 11
The following people with the same last name travelled on this voyage: -
Mr William C HENDRY Page 2 of 11
RANGITANE
R S Reis
The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited
Wellington, New Zealand

Name: Mr William C HENDRY
Date of departure: 21 December 1956
Port of departure: London
Passenger destination port: Wellington, New Zealand
Passenger destination: Wellington, New Zealand

Date of Birth: 28 September 1884
Age: 72 (calculated from DOB)
Marital status: Married
Sex: Male
Occupation: Retired
uk address Donnington Road Glazebury

Name: Mrs H HENDRY
Date of departure: 25 January 1946
Port of departure: London
Passenger destination port: New Zealand
Passenger destination: New Zealand

Date of Birth: 1924 (calculated from age)
Age: 22
Marital status:
Sex: Female
Occupation: Housewife
Passenger recorded on: Page 5 of 8



Ship:
Official Number:
Master's name:
Steamship Line:
Where bound:
Square feet:
Registered tonnage:
Passengers on voyage:
AKAROA
133648
W Hartman
Shaw Savill Line
New Zealand
9448.52
210
3 Enfield Grove leigh Lancs

Hi Everyone

Thank you for all of this information.

Catching up in my lunch break

Regards

Christine

? Page 1 of this thread says that there is a picture taken on Christmas Day in NZ with Hilda in it. So did they visit again at some point or is Lady Kira's find for January 1946 of a Mrs H Hendry travelling to NZ a coincidence, or did they "put on" a Christmas Day for the visitors? William and Hilda are recorded as coming back to UK November 1946

Good Point! I will check the photo when I get home. I suppose I could have assumed it was taken in NZ it might have been taken in the uk. it is a very formal photo. i will get back to you

Christine

May I suggest you arrange these events in date order. You will find it easier to follow. :-)

This gives helpful NZ tips.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1246090

Hi

I will try doing that tonight. I was lucky enough to find my Great Aunt Isabella- sister to Jessie and my grandmother - on someones family tree and they had already done it and let me have a copy.

My Great Uncle Gavin also emigrated to NZ.Younger brother to Jessie (Hendry)isabella (Lightfoot), Helen (Fitzgeral de Ros) ( my grandmother) Jemima (Sumner) and Christina (Macdonald)

If you are up for some more searching I know the following:
Gavin Emslie Melrose born 1895 Aberdeenshire married Evelyn Douglas ironside in Aberdeen Feb 1921. Evelyn was 24 on her marriage cert so was a similar age. They sailed to NZ on the Suffolk in Feb 1925 with their 3 children Helen Margaret melrose (known as Margaret) born abt 1922, Gavin melrose Junior born abt 1922 - must have been twins and Jessie Melrose born abt 1924. They had a 4th child in NZ Eric Melrose born abt 1931/32.

Gavin Jnr was killed in Italy in 1943 during WW2 in NZ Air Force. From Dunedin Cemetries site found Gavin Snr died in 1966 and at the same plot is Eric who died in 1953 aged 21 and his wife Evelynwho appears to have died 16 days after her husband.

i have made contact with 2nd cousin in NZ (descendant Isabella Lightfoot) and they have no knowledge of the Hendrys - obviious now as there are no living Hendry relations in NZ or the descendants of Gavin Melrose.

Assuming Margaret & Jessie Melrose had married they would probably had children

So any information regarding the final part of the NZ family puzzle would be most welcome

Christine

New Zealand Army WWII Nominal Rolls, 1939-1948 about Gavin Emslie Melrose
Name: Gavin Emslie Melrose
Embarkation: 1943
Army Number: 450813
Last Residence: Dunedin, New Zealand
Relative Name: Mrs E M Melrose
Relationship: Mother
Nominal Roll: 1 Jul 1943 - 31 Dec 1943
Alexandra st Dunedin

New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981 about Gavin Melrose
Name: Gavin Melrose
Electoral Year: 1963
District: Dunedin Central
Region or Province: Otago
20 Parkhill Avenue with Evelyn