Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
NameGertrude Norgrove 
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50Birth3 Dec 1846304
Death1 Sep 1913304
FatherWilliam Norgrove (1813-1886)
MotherSarah Hall (1818-1891)
Notes for Gertrude Norgrove
Lived in Wellington. 9 children – 7 boys – 2 girls. Visited Kate and Charlie and her children with Valerie and Kate and had the more-ish coconut ice. Eldest, John, Manager of Wisemans Saddle Shop in Auckland. One boy died about 9.
Kate’s account is not clear, but one descendant, a Gertrude Dempsey, wrote The Little World of Stewart Island, published in 1964 by AH and AW Reed, Wellington. She also wrote a number of other books about Stewart Island it seems. You can even still buy them.
According to Marion Dempsey, whose husband was the G-grandson of Gertrude, she was born on the 18th of October, 1844. I don’t have independent confirmation of either date.
Kate’s account is not clear, but one descendant, a Gertrude Dempsey, wrote The Little World of Stewart Island, published in 1964 by AH and AW Reed, Wellington. She also wrote a number of other books about Stewart Island it seems. You can even still buy them.
According to Marion Dempsey, whose husband was the G-grandson of Gertrude, she was born on the 18th of October, 1844. I don’t have independent confirmation of either date.
Notes for Joe (Spouse 1)
Saddler, according to the Nelson Examiner’s report of his marriage (3 May, 1862 was the date of the report).793 In 1889 he was living in Wellington, in College St, according to the marriage notice of his son, Walter Norgrove.