George Dommett & Ellen Grant in New Zealand - looking for info on descendants

[Lucy2]

...a snippet ... account of the wedding of E.T.G. DOMMETT and Minnie DAWBIN - 1898.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC18980811.2.28

[Lucy2]

OBITUARY - George DOMMETT - 1918

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MT19180401.2.10

[Fresh Fields]

.....Edited....What's odd is that I know George Dommett was a butcher when he worked in London but on the emigration listing he is down as a Shepherd and on his funeral notice and will he is described as a carrier.

Hello.

In the era you are researching.

With the exception of large cities, where there could have been large slaughter houses and meat wholesalers, butchers needed a reliable source of live animals to keep their retail outlets open. So most would have had a strong connection to the land, by either renting or owning grazing land. Many also did their own slaughtering.

In the rural areas livestock sales would only be weekly or less frequently. Quite often a butchery business was an associate business of a farming operation. It was not until after WWII and the advent of supermarkets, did we see marked changes in the distribution chain of meat retailing.

- Alan.

[deejayEn]

Thanks once again to all who helped. I now have a lot to go on.

Lucy2 - I would be interested to see that letter from Carline Alexander, if you get a chance to look at it. Also it is interesting what you say about George Dommett owning land in NZ. In England his father owned a public house/inn in Axminster, Devon and I believe he died in 1862 so it's possible that George was left some money in his will.

[spades]

Images sent.

Spades

[Lucy2]

deejayEn  ... has the Caroline ALEXANDER information (letter) been sent to you ?

   ~  Lu
 

[minniehaha]

Photographs of headstones for George & Ellen Dommett.......

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Ellen-Mary-Dommett/21341931#/


Minniehaha.

[minniehaha]

Headstone photographs for Emanuel, his wife Minnie and their daughter Florence.....

[Also Mabel Constance Dommett, a daughter born 1910, died 1980]

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Emanuel-Dommett/21341914#/

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Florence-Marion-Dommett/21343599#/

This very sad report concerning the death of Florence, together with the inquest……..

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19301211.2.32?query=florence%20dommett



Minniehaha.

[minniehaha]

Some information regarding Edith, daughter of George & Ellen Dommett........

Her marriage:

1886/2065   Edith Grant   Dommett   James Alexander   Duley

Her children:

1908/7760   Duley   Leslie Malcolm   Edith Grant   James Alexander   -   

1901/11790   Duley   Elsie Winnifred   Edith Grant   James Alexander   -   

1904/15842   Duley   Cyril Morrell   Edith   James Alexander   -   

1896/6423   Duley   Edith Leah   Edith Grant   James Alexander   -   

1898/16085   Duley   Norman James Alexander   Edith Grant   James Alexander   -   

1887/9558   Duley   Alexander   Edith Grant   James Alexander   -   

1886/10447   Duley   Ellen Jane   Edith Grant   James Alexander   -   

1889/8313   Duley   Hubert George Thompson   Edith Grant   James Alexander   -   

1905/16287   Duley   Colin Clive Beresford   Edith Grant   James Alexander      

Death:
1951/30720   Duley   Edith Grant   86Y

Death:
1945/22798   Duley   James Alexander   83Y

Death of male children:

1990/30593   Duley   Cyril Morrell   20 April 1904
1977/44086   Duley   Norman James Alexander   25 May 1898
1947/26655   Duley   Hubert George Thompson   58Y
1887/5166   Duley   Alexander   8H
1994/32485   Duley   Leslie Malcolm   19 February 1908
1980/31490   Duley   Colin Clive Beresford   23 August 1915

Marriage of female children:

1922/3139   Elsie Winifred   Duley   Leslie Matheson   Loader
1923/9077   Edith Leah   Duley   Vernon Davis   Boyce

Death of female children [Elsie Winifred not yet found]:

1971/26659   Boyce   Edith Leah   74Y
1886/3830   Duley   Ellen Jane   24H


Minniehaha.