Monteith grave. 26 Bolton Street, Wellington.
2001. I visited my first family gravesite some weeks after travel to Europe and England correctives.co.nz/ gallery It was not many weeks after I had seen the Twin Towers come down in New York, on the television.
Women and men caught my curiosity and affection as Hythe people. I visited the cemetery (Wellington) in 2001 with my sister Angela and her husband, John Campbell. I wanted to look at the Monteith plot and plinth. Also, I wished to see the Edinburgh pink granite marking the graves of Caroline and Louisa Tiffen. These two sisters were wives of my great uncle Henry Tiffen. They were born Misses White, Caroline in England and Louisa White in France, daughters of a RN Captain M. White and his wife. Great Grandad Fred attended Louisa Tiffen's funeral in Wellington in 1875, accompanying his widowed brother, Henry. Fred designed the gravestone for his sisters-in-law.
The women's graves of 1842 and 1876 had been absent and then reinterred after the cutting and building of the Motorway out of Wellington. in 2018, seventeen years later, I started to write notes for my story.
Caroline and Louisa Tiffen's grave. Bolton St Cemetery, after the motorway went through.(10)
Dr. G. D. Monteith, Elizabeth Monteith, their son Jacob, and their daughter Maria and husband George Neill's baby Ava are buried here.
2022Eleven years later.In 2021 and 2022 I made ready to settle into family archive material. I made three trips to the MTG storehouse in Napier where I knew all family provincial records are kept. Three Monteith daughters, Maria, Lizzie and Lucy had married, two of them in Hawkes Bay. Lizzie married Afred Chapman in 1859. Lucy married Frederick Tiffen in 1859. Maria married an Imperial soldier, George Neill. in 1864. Maria divorced from George. George died in a' local battle' in Melbourne. Ava, their baby, lived just a few weeks. I went to Napier Cemetery, Ormand cemetery gates and Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne, to become aware of more of the Tiffens, and by then, Lysnar graves and other documents for story. (CHAPTER TWO)
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