[REQ] Birth and Marriage Lookups

[SignalHill]

What I know of her parents, or who we presume are her parents, are from her brother, Peter McEwan, born 9 Feb 1912, who married the sister of Vivian Albert Sinnamon (Daisy's first husband), who was Vera Jane Sinnamon.  There is a book on the Omakau/Ophir area that says that Peter and Daisy are siblings.  If that is correct, then their parents were Peter McEwan, who married Mary Jane White in 1902.

Is your Peter McEWAN of Manorburn Dam father of W McEWAN the jockey from Central Otago ?
This Peter McEWAN seems to be married to a prominent member of the Poolburn - Moa Creek Women's Division of Federated Farmers
That would probably mean that the Manorburn Dam is what I know as the Upper Manorburn Dam accessed from Poolburn.   Poolburn is over the Raggedy range from Ophir
The Poolburn - Moa Creek area is part of the wider Ida Valley District where 4 SINNAMONs were baptised in 1910
Allen Darcey          SINNAMON
Louisa Rachel        SINNAMON
Albert Vivian         SINNAMON
Ruben Elizabeth    SINNAMON
These appear to be part of your family of interest  as they are connected with McBREENS by marriage at the nearby Parish of Lauder of which Omakau was probably a part in 1902

SINNAMON Allan Darcey 22y married   McBREEN Margaret 19y on 16 Apr 1902

There is a second SINNAMON-McBREEN marriage recorded at Ida Valley 5 years later
SINNAMON Albert  22y  married McBREEN Louisa  19y  1 Jul 1907

from Presbyterian Archives
http://www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz

The connection seems to be established by the report of the Poolburn - Moa Creek WDFF in the Dunstan times of 3 Aug 1936

"Presentations were made to three recently married junior members, Mrs V. Sinnamon, (nee D. McEwan), Mrs S Simons, (nee M. Harrex), and .Mrs B. Turner, (nee I. L. Harrex)."

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/dunstan-times/1936/8/3/5

I have not found other related McEWANs in the Presbyterian Archives though there are a number of Lauder and Ida valley marriages connected with McBREENs

One of these related names DUNDASS features in the Ida Valley District History by Judy BECK

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ps What is the title of your Ophir - Omakau (Manuherikia) source ?
 

[SignalHill]

There was a benefit social held  in June 1937 which raised £77 5s 9d
Papers Past - OMAKAU Dunstan Times, 7 June 1937

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P.S.
Are you in contact with the Sinnamons who still live in the Omakau - Pool Burn area ?

[DukeM]

After Daisy McEwan married Stanley Fraser, they had a daughter Valmai Jean, born 1946. She is my mother-in-law and gifted me her old family photos including those that had passed before she was born