Life, sometime after the horse was harnessed
THREE WOMEN A DIARY AND TWO GRAVES
Front. Phyllis Tiffen and Mavis Burton, her sister. My mother and Aunt. Behind is Kath Beck a friend of nana and great to talk with.
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Angela and Stephanie Tiffen. Elmshill. 1948.
Fred Tiffen (1828 - 1911) wrote 1875 through to 1911 in his diary.
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Maria Neill lived in her house in Clyde Square, Napier. This Clyde square house was kept in the family for all of the time that Fred started having his Station Street house built. By 1910, by the time Lucy was becoming ill (developing heart trouble- Lucy had an accompanying nurse in attendance). Lucy liked being in lodgings on the Terrace in Wellington. She, Fred and the nurse would go there.
Fred and Lucy moved to the Station street Napier home with daughter Winnie for the months of 1910 before her death.
Fred and Lucy moved to the Station street Napier home with daughter Winnie for the months of 1910 before her death.
Gravesite of Henrietta Charlotte Davenport, Amelia Mary Randall, Ansell and Henry Tiffen. Napier Hill. Hawkes Bay.
HENRY STOKES TIFFEN cont
1875'Now a wealthy man, and childless, he planned to travel to seek out European plants which might thrive there, but Louisa’s death in 1875 meant he would travel alone. He was away for a year. Then in 1880 he traveled to Japan where he was much taken by the persimmon plants, several of which he brought home.
Henry gave his two nephews (Whites) farmland.
When he died, his Estate was bought by the Council so that the land could be cleared for the Municipal Theater. In 1940 $800 was bequeathed to build gates and steps to the Park. It was opened in 1954.' **
Great Uncle Henry Ernest Tiffen. Old Napier Hill.
1869 - 1920
Maternal family relative.
BURTON
2.Note. WAR references on my mother's side.
Ormand Burton.I became aware that one male relative on my mother’s family side, went to WWI and in the next war became a Pacifist because of having been in service in WWI and seen such mayhem. He was Ormond Burton. He went with the No 1 New Zealand Field Ambulance.
At Gallipoli he stayed aboard the Lutzow to tend the wounded and dying but was later a stretcher-bearer. Objectors such as he and consequences for those such as he became a visible topic in my parent’s generation. O. Burton was a conscientious objector in WWII. *
My Mother’s eldest brother, Fred Burton, was in WWII in Egypt. His son, David Burton wrote about Fred’s impressionable years during that time. Fred Burton became a caterer in Nelson of magnificent spread of food, a passion that he developed within the cuisine epicenter of the old middle eastern world when away in Egypt. David Burton became a keen food writer.
* https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/ormond-burton