A Brick Wall (demolished) - Mary Dorothea THRUSTON - COMPLETED

[spades]

Hi everyone.

I'd love some help finding this lady.

Mary Dorothea THRUSTON was born in 1894 Epsom, Auckland, the daughter of Herbert Edward Thruston, a mariner aged 34 years, born in Wales, and Emma née CRICHTON, aged 24 years born at Nelson.

In 1919 she married George Henry RILEY (1881-1948) at Auckland. He was a life insurance agent and she was a school teacher. The marriage was not a success and by 1924 they were living apart.

In 1926, according to the divorce file, Mary was living in Mountain Road, Epsom, Auckland, the last record I have of her. They divorced in 1927 without children and later that same year George Riley married again.

Can anyone help me trace her death or burial?

Spades

Edit: Subject title altered to correct spelling of the surname due to momentary dyslexia on my part lasting ten years. <sigh>

[TwiggyTree]

There is only one entry indexed for a Mary Dorothea Riley registered on the Electoral Roll in 1928 in Rotorua (on A$).

Updated to add: Due to Rotorua Council Cemetery Database running on Silverlight I can't access it, otherwise I would see if you could search there for her first two names only, in case she married there and stayed.
http://www.rdc.govt.nz/Services/CemeteriesCrematorium.aspx

[kiwihalfpint]

I noticed that, but would she still be classed as married ... after the divorce?

The only other one for that year had the spelling of the middle name Dorathea living up in Marsden, Northland, but classed as married.    So that probably rules that one out.


Cheers
KHP

[Janette]

Could she have reverted to her maiden name?
there is this death which may be stretching things

1940/25705 Thurston  Dorothy Mary  56Y

10 years out but maybe

Cheers Janette

[Janette]

Hi Spades,
Do you know where her parents are buried?

Cheers Janette

[kiwihalfpint]

Nothing comes up on the Rotorua database, can only search by surname.


Cheers
KHP

[TwiggyTree]

Using the names "Mary Dorothea" in Archway, here is a looooooooong shot at a probate that reveals a burial, that may just fit her age:

Record No:   MV03C077
Family Name:   CONRADSON   Age:    85 years
Given Names:   MARY DOROTHEA   Date Deceased:   
Address:      Interment Date:    2/02/1981
Gender:   F      
Cemetery:   MARSDEN VALLEY   
Plot   077   
Block:   03C      
Grave/Ashes:   Burial       
Funeral Director:   P. DAY & SONS
Notes   M D
DAY /

Edited to cite: Nelson City Council Cemetery Database

Sorry, not cross-checked nor of the utmost genealogical standard...grasping at straws for you

[spades]

Ohhhhh Twiggytree, I think you've found her!  She certainly looks very likely.

<tree-hug>

Right age, right first and middle names. When did she marry this CONRADSON, can anyone check? I presume it was after 1956 so if anyone can find it you might need to PM me.

Hi Janette, No,  I don't know when her parents died or where they're buried.

Spades

[Janette]

This is the only male Conradson death

1964/34901 Conradson  Steffan James  65Y

Her death

1981/32756 Conradson  Mary Dorothea  14 August 1895


Cheers Janette