Mum and Valerie
Mum and sister Valerie at 9 Dillon St.
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Robert McPherson
Gummy (Mum's father, Robert Adair) when they were traveling, horsing around on the boat.
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Freda Alice McPherson (nee Neal)
Ma (Mum's mother).
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Ma
Freda Alice McPherson (nee Neal), my mother's mother.
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Marlborough College
Ma (Freda, Mum's mother) at Marlborough College with her class. Freda is the teacher here, centre front.
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McPhersons with the Queen
Ma and Gummy (Mum's parents, Robert and Freda) in a press photo with Queen Mary, in London, while they were on their long overseas trip. They got a copy from the newspaper. Taken around 1952,
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Dillon St.
Dillon St in Blenheim, where Mum was brought up. Mum and sister Valerie on the verandah.
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Freda and Kate, striding along very purposefully. Some Candid Camera thing, where a photographer on the street would just take your photo and then hope you bought a copy.
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Another of the houses in Blenheim where Ma and Gummy lived. Not entirely sure which, or where.
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Gummy, not long before he died. Taken by Mum in Ravenswood Rd.
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John Frederick Neal (back row, left). His wife, Kate, back row, far right, holding granddaughter Valerie (Mum's sister). Robert McPherson, front right, and his wife Freda (daughter of John Neal and Kate), front row, second from left. Algy and Rangi, back row, 3 and 2 from right.
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Mum's parents (Ma and Gummy) at Marlborough College, with academic robes.
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Mum, playing the violin. Maybe she was about 11 or 12.
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Valerie (Mum's sister), when she was about 24 or so.
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Staff at Marlborough College. Freda (Mum's mother) is back row, 2 from right. Her husband, Robert McPherson is middle row, far left, with his hair standing up as it always did. The lady in the middle of the middle row, with a white collar (Mrs Forbes), told my mother that she was going to grow up into a bad woman. She was right. Mum went home and told her parents, who were furious.
Back row, far left, is Jim Allport, Beverly Hugget's father. Beverly was Mum's best friend for many many years. 3 days older than Mum, and lived opposite for 8 years.
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Valerie (Mum's sister) as a baby.
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Mum and sister Valerie, in the back garden at Dillon St. Mum remembers those clothes, a white blouse with green spots. Valerie's was pink with a navy shirt. Like we care.
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New Plymouth prefects. Mum is 2 from left in front row. She lived with the girl 3 from right in front (from Fiji) and the girl at far right in back row. Mum remembers being asked if she minded. They probably were too.
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Doreen and Ron Marks' wedding. Mum is bridesmaid, 2 from left in front. As kids, we knew Ron as Ron the Rubbish Man. Lived in Christchurch. Doreen was originally a Neal, Freda's cousin,and lived in Dillon St. Babysat Mum as a kid.
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Robert Adair's (Mum's father) work mates. Probably in Dunedin. Robert is extreme right.
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Mum. Taken when she was at University.
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Mum. Taken when she was at University.
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violin
Robert Adair McPherson. Note how the violin is strung the wrong way. This is how he played it, because he lost fingers on his left hand. He was rather a good player, apparently.
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Sarah and Christina (dead)
Daughter Sarah sitting on Christina McPherson's grave. Southern Cemetery, Dunedin. 2005 or so.
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Christina's grave
Christina McPherson's gravestone in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin
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Mother of Doreen Marks
And Mum as child. A different Grandma Neal, not a direct Neal ancestor of me, but maybe Doreen Marks' father and Mum's grandfather were cousins.
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Doreen Marks and Mum
Doreen Marks and Mum (Rosalie Sneyd). Late 1930s.
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Benjamin McP. certificate
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Rob. McPherson info
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