Daughter of Huzetta Lowry (referred to as Aunty throughout her life in NZ) (JAN 1873 • Totnes, Devon, England to 29 NOV 1958 • Morrinsville New Zealand) (cert)
Wife of H.D. Williams
Date of Birth: 24 JUNE 1892 • Bath, Somerset, England (cert)
Date of Death : 19 June 1986, Auckland 94 yr.
Cremated: at Purewa Crematorium, Auckland.
Married: H.D. Williams 1917 after WW1 in Staines England (record)before moving to NZ 1919 with child Zetta.
Children:
Zetta Gwenith Lumley (previously Sutton)(1919-1993) 74 yr
Harry Keith (1920-1944) 23 yr
Mona “Meryl” Sage (1925-2020) 95 yr
Clive Daniel (1929-2024) 94 yr
Pauline Anne Bolton (1932-2022) 89 yr
After returning from the war in September 1919, Henry and Mona settled into farming in Tauhei, where they brought up the family.
The 550 acre farm and Homestead was on flat, peat land to the West of Tauhei, off Seifert rd, and over time was developed to include tennis court (prior to the Tauhei Tennis club being formed at the Memorial Hall / School) and pool.
Henry also bought 100 acres of dairy farm in Morrinsville (page 28 of memoires), where he built a house in 1944 (page 32 of memoires) and lived with some of the family (most of which were by then at secondary school or had left home to travel the world):
Zetta was married 1942, but widowed by 1947, lived at Seifert rd.
Keith went to war 1941 and Died 1944,
Meryl was married 1957,
Clive married 1953 and built a house on Parahiwi,
Pauline married 1959.
Zetta and her two Children Jocelyn and Roger lived there for a time
Clive lived there while working on Parahiwi, then lived on the Seifert rd farm with Zetta after Arthur died, and then lived on Parahiwi after marrying in 1953.
They lived there for eighteen years (until around 1966), after which he and Mona moved to Howick Auckland.
Mona (left) with Daughter Zetta (centre) and her Daughter (Mona’s grand daughter) Jocelyn
Mona and Henry’s family