Living

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Hamilton Motors in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand; Machinery Salesman
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Notes:

Bob was unlucky to be a victim of the polio epidemic in 1926 and lost the use of his left arm.
Robert was also a Lay Moderator for theTrinity Church at Timaru

Robert married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: farmer
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Notes:

It was in Gore that their first child was born.
"Dave then decided to move his family to South Canterbury. They first settled on a farm at St Andrews where the rest of their children were born. It was here that their eldest son Robert contracted polio. Unfortunately Dave had a fall off some sacks of potatoes and broke his neck, although there was no permanent damage he was never properly well again. The potato market was not doing well and they ended up losing the farm and having to move to Levels, an area just north of Timaru where they farmed on a property known as 'Gurteen'. Nellie apparantly didn't cope well with this and eventually took her own life on 12 Feb 1942. Dave lived only a further two years and died on 23 Dec 1944."
Kate Patterson nee France

Probate to his will was granted at Timaru 31 Jan 1945

David married Nellie Stewart Aitken in 1914 in Gore, Southland, New Zealand. Nellie (daughter of James Allison Aitken and Helen Stewart) was born on 26 Nov 1887 in Waikata Valley, Gore, New Zealand; died on 12 Feb 1942. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• _UID: 372EB02672474074A7028CADA966DE40B76A

Notes:

It was in Gore that their first child was born.
"Dave then decided to move his family to South Canterbury. They first settled on a farm at St Andrews where the rest of their children were born. It was here that their eldest son Robert contracted polio. Unfortunately Dave had a fall off some sacks of potatoes and broke his neck, although there was no permanent damage he was never properly well again. The potato market was not doing well and they ended up losing the farm and having to move to Levels, an area just north of Timaru where they farmed on a property known as 'Gurteen'. Nellie apparantly didn't cope well with this and eventually took her own life on 12 Feb 1942. Dave lived only a further two years and died on 23 Dec 1944."
Kate Patterson nee France