Grandma Edna May nee TURNBULL, nearly 100
Photo taken 1938, Christchurch, NZ Dads mum Edna who would have been 100 on 26 December [Boxing day] 2009. She died 24 October 1993. That's my dad in the cane pram aged about a year, he's 73 next June. She married on 2 April 1934, St Peters Church Manse, Woolston, Christchurch to grandad John William who was born 7 December 1908, Craichmore, Leswalt, Wigtownshire, Scotland. He emigrated to NZ on board the Tainui with his mother and brother - 1925 and died 23 May 1986. Edna's mother Eva TURNBULL nee HAMILTON [control F when on page to find], was born in Christchurch on 27 December 1877 and married in 1899, in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Henry [Harry] Fitzroy TURNBULL. Henry had an untimely death in 1902 in his early 20's. She had two children to him Henry Alexander born c 1900 and Annie Rose Elizabeth born c 1902. After Henry's death, Eva came back to New Zealand and had 4 more children - fathers unknown. Leslie Frederick born...