Marriages  - 
        Grooms
        George Arthur Clifford 
Whitford  &  Rosina
        King 
COWLIN  m.  12 March 1903  at 
        res. Nicholas Davey,  Lyttelton.
        ages:  20 / 18:       occ:
        shipwright:     born: Christchurch /
        Lyttelton:
        parents:  James Richard & Maria Dorcas Whitford, 
        nee 
NEWTON,  mariner.
                   
                Walter & Rosina
        Frances Cowlin,  nee 
KING,  labourer.
        witness:  William Stephen Cowlin,  Sydenham, 
        coach builder:   Elizabeth Jane Carter, 
        Lyttelton:
        
        James Richard 
Whitford  &  Alice 
BEATTIE 
        m.  15 October 1917  at  Methodist Parsonage,
        Addington.
        ages:  59 / 49:   widower, 15 Sept.1914 / widow
        11 June 1912:     occ: seaman:  
        born:  Melbourne / England:
        parents:  George Arthur  & Mary Jane
        Whitford,  nee 
ROSS,  Sea Captain.
                   
            Henry  & Susan
 PARRIS, 
        nee 
OLLIVER,  ret. railwayman.
        witness:  H. Parris, ret. railwayman, 
        Selwyn:   Kathleen H. Cowan, clerk, Timaru.
        
        John 
Whitford  &  Florence Hilda 
NORRIS 
        m.  5 October 1901  at res. Mr Mintrom, Opawa.
        ages:  21 / 18:       born:
        Christchurch /  Oxford, North Canterbury:  
        parents:  Joseph & Mary Whitford,  nee 
Whitford, 
        labourer.
                   
                Thomas & Mary Ann
        Norris,  nee
 SAVIN,  farmer.
        witness:  F.J.Mintrom,  brickmaker, Opaw:  
        Lottie Mintrom, Opawa.
        
        John Thomas 
Whitford  &  Annie 
THOMPSON 
        m.  19 March 1889  at res. John Blair Thompson.
        ages:  22 / 20:        occ:
        bootmaker:        born: Lyttelton /
        Rangiora:
        parents:  Edward & Elizabeth Ann Whitford,  nee 
PIPER, 
        labourer.
                   
            John Blair  & Ann Thompson, 
        nee 
WATSON,  shipwright.
        witness:  Charles Whitford,  baker:  Mary Emma
        Whitford:  Walter Thompson, clerk, Lyttelton:
        
        Leonard Norris 
Whitford  &  Rosina
          JACKSON  m. 22 June 1931  at res. Mr
        J.A.Jackson, Spreydon.
        ages: 23 / 22:      occ: painter: 
              born:  Christchurch / Leicester,
        England:
        parents:  John & Florence Hilda Whitford,  nee 
NORRIS, 
        labourer.
                   
                James Alfred & 
        Lilian Rosina Norris,  nee 
BECK,  bootmaker.
        witness:  Charles Clifford Stemmer,
        Christchurch:     Violet Ellenor Stemmer,
        Christchurch:
        
        Reuben Charles 
Whitford  &  Mary Ann
          FENTON  m. 25 April 1906  at res. James Richard
        Whitford, Hawkhurst Rd, Lyttelton.
        ages:  20 / 24:       occ: labourer /
        laundress:       born:  Okain's Bay /
        Lyttelton: 
        parents:  James Richard & Maria Whitford,  nee 
NEWTON, 
        seaman.
                   
                John & Elizabeth
        Fenton,  nee 
NURSE,  labourer.
        witness:  John Ealam,  stevedore,
        Lyttelton:    Merino Fenton,  Lyttelton:
        
        William 
Whitford  &  Esther 
POWDITCH 
        m.  6 July 1897  at res. Rev. W.G.Parkonson.
        ages: 22 / 21:   occ: sawmiller:  
        born:  both Canterbury, NZ:
        parents:  Joseph & Mary Whitford,  nee 
WHITFORD, 
        labourer.
                   
                Charles & Elizabeth
        Powditch,  nee
 WOODS,  labourer.
        witness:  Edward Becks,  chaff cutter,
        Sydenham:   Mrs S, Fraser, Sydenham:
        
        William Conrad
 Whitford  &  Isabel
          ERICKSON m.  13 Oct. 1901  at  res. Mr
        J.R.Whitford, Salts Gully, Lyttelton.
        ages:  20 / 20:     occ:
        riveter:     born: Timaru / Lyttelton:
        parents:  James Richard  & Maria Dorcas
        Whitford,  nee 
NEWTON,  mariner.
                    
                Isaac & Mary Jane
        Erickson,  nee 
PLASTED,  labourer.
        witness:  William Cogle,  Lyttelton:  Thomas
        Edward Lewis, Lyttelton:
        
        
        
Marriages  -  Brides
        Herbert Robinson
 McDONALD  &  Dorothy
        Eileen
 Whitford   m. 24 Feb. 1914  at res. Mr
        J.R.Whitford, Lyttelton.
        ages:  26 / 17:   occ:  seaman: 
           born: Southport, England / Christchurch:
        parents:  Charles James  &  Susy Ann
        McDonald,  nee 
MOORHOUSE,  architect.
                   
            James Richard & Maria Dorkes
        Whitford,  nee 
NEWTON,  seaman.
        witness:  
        
        Ernest Allan 
HOWLAND  &  Edna Elora 
        
Whitford  m. 1 July 1927,  at res: 
        Norwich Quay,  Lyttelton.
        ages:  27 / 20:   occ: blacksmith:  
        born:  Onahau, Isle of Man / Lyttelton:
        parents:  John Hugh &  Annie Howland,  nee 
WADE, 
        engineer.
                   
                Reuben Charles & Mary
        Ann Whitford, nee 
FENTON,  billiard room prop.
        witness:  Herbert Robinson McDonald,  seaman,
        Woolston:     William Henry Whitford, 
        Lyttelton:
        
        
Henry William Francis TROUSSELOT 
            &  Elizabeth Ann Whitford   m. 28
            Dec. 1882,  at res, Mr Edward Whitford, Lyttelton.
            ages:  22 / 17:       occ:
            labourer:    born: Jersey,  Channel
            Islands / Lyttelton:
            parents:  Francis William & Kate Trusselot, 
            nee HOP,  labourer.
                       
                   Edward  Edwards &
            Elizabeth Whitford,  nee PIPER,  labourer.
            witness:  Edward Whitford, labourer, Lyttelton:
                 Samuel J.Garlick, Wesleyan Minister,
            Woodend:       Elizabeth Ann Whitford,
            Lyttelton:
        
        David William
 PORTER  &  Florence Hilda 
Whitford 
        m.  30 Oct. 1915 at res. Rev. A.N. Scotter, Sydenham.
        ages:  35 / 32:    bachelor / divorced 17
        Dec. 1910:      born:  Dunedin /
        Oxford:   occ: carpenter:
        parents:  John & Sophia  Porter,  nee
          ERWIN,  carrier.
                   
                Thomas  & Mary
        Ann 
NORRIS,  nee 
SAVIN,  farmer.
        witness:  Margaret Scotter, Sydenham:   John
        James Kerr, watchmaker, Sydenham:
        
        John Robert Thompson 
HENDERSON  &  Mary
        Emma 
Whitford  m.  5 February 1896  at
        res. Mr Gideon Henderson,  Diamond Harbour.
        ages:  26 / 23:    occ:
        farmer:     born:  Esting, Shetland
        Islands / Lyttelton:
        parents:  Gideon & Barbara Henderson,  nee 
THOMPSON, 
        farmer.
                   
            Edward & Elizabeth Ann Whitford, 
        nee 
PIPER,  labourer.
        witness:  D.Henderson, farmer, Diamond Harbour:  
        B. Henderson, Diamond Harbour:
        
        Ernest William Frederick 
GOHNS  &  Rosina
        
Whitford  m.  1 April 1890 at Wesleyan
        Parsonage, Sydenham.
        ages: 20 / 18:         occ: tailor /
        boot machinist:       born:  Oxford,
        England / Cornwall, England:
        parents:  John F.  &  Jane Gohns,  nee 
CALLENDER, 
        a printer.
                   
            Joseph  & Mary Whitford,  nee 
WHITFORD, 
        labourer.
        witness:  Annie McArthur,  Montreal st:  
        Helen McArthur,  Leeston:
        
        Frederick Charles Gordon
 OLLIVER  &  Sarah
        Elizabeth Ann 
Whitford  m.  7 Dec. 1901 at
        Wesleyan Parsonage, Sydenham.
        ages:  20 / 19:       occ:
        machinist:     born: Opawa,Christchurch /
        Christchurch:
        parents:  Thomas &  Susan Jane Olliver,  nee
        
HOLES,  butcher.
                   
                Joseph & Mary
        Whitford,  nee 
WHITFORD,  labourer.
        witness:  Alice Maud Roscoe, 
        Springston:    William Thomas House, 
        Sydenham:
        
Frederick Charles Gordon Olliver b. 25 Feb. 1881  to
          Thomas Stammer & Jane Susanna,  Opawa, 
          brickmaker.
        
        Births -
        Albert Charles -  b. 2 November 1869  to  Edward
        & Ann,  Lyttelton,  a miner.
        Annie -  b. 17 February 1877  to  Joseph &
        Mary,  Waltham.
        Charles Flemming - b.  9 October 1888 to Charles &
        Maggie,  nee
 Fleming
        Dorothy McDonald -  b. 30 March 1918  to  William
        Henry & Isabel,  Lyttelton.
        Douglas James Hill -  b.  27 July 1907  to 
        George Arthur Clifford  &  Rosina King, Lyttelton.
        Edna May - b.  28 September 1909 to John &
        Florence,  a carter.
        Edward Charles -  b.  25 Sept. 1862  to 
        Edward & Elizabeth Anne,  Lyttelton,  a miner.
        Edward Charles -  b. 6 October 1868  to Edward
        &  Ann,  Lyttelton.
        Edward Prebble Ericson -  b. 30 Jan. 1911  to William
        Conrad & Isabel,  Lyttelton.
        Eileen Thelma -  b. 24 Feb. 1903  to  William
        Conrad  & Isabel,  Lyttelton.
        Elizabeth Anne - b. 22 May 1865  to  Edward &
        Elizabeth Anne,  Lyttelton.
        Elsie Erica -  b. 16 December 1921  to William &
        Isabel,  tally clerk.
        Eric William - b. 13 August 1913  to  William Henry
        & Isabel,  Lyttelton.
        Florence Hilda -  b. 29 Oct. 1902  to  John &
        Florence Hilda,  Christchurch, labourer.
        George Arthur Clifford - b. 13 August 1903  to  George
        Arthur Clifford  & Rosina King
        Georjean Fae -  b.  to George Arthur Clifford 
        &  Jean.  master shipwright, Lyttelton.
        Henry Nicholas - b.  24 Feb. 1913  to  Geo.
        A.C.  & Rosina King.  Lyttelton.
        Herbert John  - b. 9 Jan. 1906  to  John &
        Florence Hilda,  labourer.
        Herbert McDonald - b.  17 April 1918  to  Reuben
        Charles  & Mary Ann,  drover, Lyttelton.
        James George Henry -  bap. 27 Dec.1882, age 15mths. 
        to  George Harper & Ellen,  Christchurch.
        James Richard -  b. 18 August 1908  to  Reuben
        Charles  & Mary Ann,  Lyttelton.
        Jennifer Robin -  to george Arthur Clifford  &
        Jean.  master shipwright.
        John - b. 26 June 1879  to  Joseph & Mary, 
        Oxford tce East, Christchurch,
        John Thomas - b. 10 March 1867  to  Edward &
        Elizabeth Anne,  Lyttelton,  a miner.
        Joseph - b. 2 January 1873  to  Joseph &
        Mary,  Waltham.
        Kenneth Noel - b. 19 December 1919  to George Arthur
        Clifford  & Rosina King.
        Leonard Norris - b. 18 Oct. 1907  to  John &
        Florence Hilda,  Montreal st.
        Mabel Mary -  b. 22 March 1891 to  Albert
        Charles  & Maggie,  nee
 Fleming, 
        Amberley.
        Margaret -  b. 29 July 1887  to  Charles &
        Margaret,  nee 
Fleming.
        Mary Emma -  b. 29 Oct. 1871  to Edward &
        Ann,  Lyttelton,  a miner.
        Mary Jane -  b. 15 December 1878  to George &
        Ellen,  Christchurch.
        Mary Jane - b. 16 November 1884  to  Joseph &
        Mary, nee Whitford.
        Mona Isabel - b.  5 July 1909  to William Conrad &
        Isabel, Lyttelton.
        Phyllis Mary -  b. 23 April 1919  to  Reuben
        Charles &  Mary Ann,  a drover.
        Reuben Charles  - b. 11 July 1910  to Reuben Charles
        & Mary Ann,  Lyttelton.
        Roland Sherlock King -  b. 31 August 1905  to George
        & Rosina, Lyttelton.
        Rosina Vivienne -  to Clifford G.A.  and Jean. 
        shipwright.
        Runa Dorcas Davina - b. 3 June 1905  to William
        Conrad  &  Isabel,  Lyttelton.
        Sarah Elizabeth Ann  - b. 16 Dec. 1881  to 
        Joseph & Mary,  nee Whitford.
        Violet -  b. 3 Nov. 1889  to Ernest John &
        Rosina.,  Sydenham,  a tailor.
        Violet Eleanor - b. 24 Dec. 1904  to John & Florence
        Hilda. Montreal st.
        William -  b. 3 Nov. 1874  to Joseph & Mary, 
        Waltham.
        William John - b.  31 August 1903  to William &
        Esther,  school rd,  labourer.
        
        
        
Burials -
        Annie -  bur. 4 March 1878,  age 1 yr.  Addington
        Cemetery.
        Edna May -  bur. 27 November, 1909,  age 8 weeks. 
        Addington Cemetery.
        Edward Charles -  bur. 2 October 1868,  age 5yrs.
        Lyttelton.
        Edward Charles -  bur. 13 January 1869,  age
        3mths,  Lyttelton.
        James George Henry - bur. 29 Dec. 1882,  age 15mths.
        Joseph -  bur. 1 March 1892    age 19.
        Addington Cemetery.
        Joseph - bur. 22 July 1896,  age 57.
        Mary Ellen -  bur. 8 December 1885, at Addington Cemetery,
        dau. of Joseph & Mary,  age 17,  
        Mary Jane -  bur. 22 July 1885  at Addington
        Cemetery,  dau. of Joseph & Mary,  age 8mths.
        
        Beverley Evans
        Christchurch NZ
        13 September 2013
        
        
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