Descendants of the Berkshire Bints
BERTHA BINT 1885-1961
EDWARD HAYWARD & CHARLOTTE BINT
COUSIN ARTHUR SOANES & 1880s TARATA
Sydney G Smith and Catherine Bint's wedding with chief bridesmaid her sister Bertha
The Bint Family of New Zealand
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Descendants of the Berkshire Bints
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BERTHA BINT 1885-1961
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EDWARD HAYWARD & CHARLOTTE BINT COUSIN ARTHUR SOANES & 1880s TARATA
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Sydney G Smith and Catherine Bint's wedding with chief bridesmaid her sister Bertha
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Bertha Bint was born at Christchurch, New Zealand on the the 6th of April 1885 the daughter of Philip and Charlotte Bint who had migrated to New Zealand from the UK on the Cardigan Castle arriving in 1877. She was baptised at the same time as her younger brother Lester at St Matthew's Church on the 6th of November 1887. The family's home address at the time was Crescent Road, St Albans, Christchurch. It was around 1890 that the Bint family moved up to the North Island and settled on 453 acres at Tarata, Taranaki. Their tenth child Catherine (Kate) was born there in July 1892.
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Bertha in 1910 |
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Bertha & Kate & Lester at Tarata
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Bertha Bint married William Gallaher, who was born in County Donegal, Ireland in 1871, on the 23rd of May 1922. Their son Philip James Gallaher was born at New Plymouth in 1923. He married Nita Jean Clemo in 1948. They had four children, Margaret, Helen, Catherine and Brian. |
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Bertha and Kate at Tarata
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| The Bint siblings assembled in older age - I have yet to identify them all - Catherine is in the centre and Will is the one with the bushy moustache I believe - haven't yet tried matching the other faces but no doubt Lester and or Walter is probably there. Stephanie | ||||
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Philip Gallaher from Charlotte's Album
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Bint brothers and sisters Top - Lester & William. Bottom - Kate (Catherine), Bertha, Charlotte |
Contributions, Corrections and Criticisms all very welcome!
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