Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
NameHorace James Melville 50
Spouses
Birth15 Sep 1880304
Death20 Apr 1911304
FatherOscar Alfred Norgrove (1842-1907)
MotherEdith Brook (1848-1936)
Marriage14 Apr 1906304
ChildrenEric Jack (1907-1963)
Notes for Bertha Emma Mabel (Spouse 1)
Called Tots. Maybe drowned (possibly a post-natal depression). Very tentative memories of Mum.

2 sons. Eric (a minister) married Helen, and Allan was a builder.50 According to Ian Melville, Bertha’s grandson, she committed suicide.

Accounts of her suicide appeared in the Marlborough Express and Wanganui Chronicle. See attached multimedia.
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