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Title: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: minniehaha on Thursday 01 March 18 03:29 GMT (UK)
Nurse Cupples operated maternity hospitals (to which I have a personal connection!) in Dunedin, details of these can be found at the following website -

https://sites.google.com/site/nzmaternityhomes/home/otago

Her death:

1937/29187   Cupples   Mary Matilda   61Y

Her obituary:

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19370731.2.101?end_date=31-12-1937&page=3&phrase=2&query=nurse+cupples&start_date=01-01-1937

Said to have been born at Orepuki (which is in Southland), I have not found a birth registration for her.

Could she be connected to the Cupples family being discussed in this topic?

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=788885.0


Minniehaha.
Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: Lucy2 on Thursday 01 March 18 04:19 GMT (UK)
This birth to Mary Matilda CUPPLES :

1893 - CUPPLES - Robert
Mother :  Mary Matilda
Father :  N/R

Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: Janette on Thursday 01 March 18 04:27 GMT (UK)
Hi Minnehaha,

FindMyPast has a probate for her in Victoria Australia

It gives date of death as 29 Jul 1937
The probate was granted 05 Aug 1938

Cheers Janette
Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: minniehaha on Thursday 01 March 18 04:49 GMT (UK)
This birth to Mary Matilda CUPPLES :

1893 - CUPPLES - Robert
Mother :  Mary Matilda
Father :  N/R



My goodness, what a tangled web!!

And thank you too, Janette. Australia....... ??? Maybe the probate was resealed. The 'plot' thickens....

Minniehaha.
Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: Janette on Thursday 01 March 18 04:50 GMT (UK)
Nurse Cupples operated maternity hospitals (to which I have a personal connection!) in Dunedin,
Minniehaha.

 :o :o :o :o :o :o   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: minniehaha on Thursday 01 March 18 05:01 GMT (UK)
Probate must have been resealed in Australia because here is the link to the probate granted in New Zealand.......

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9PT-MWF5?i=861&cc=1865481


Minniehaha.
Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: minniehaha on Thursday 01 March 18 05:09 GMT (UK)
Nurse Cupples operated maternity hospitals (to which I have a personal connection!) in Dunedin,
Minniehaha.

 :o :o :o :o :o :o   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D


Yes, it was where two generations, my father and I, started life. When I visited Dunedin about 5 years ago, imagine my surprise when I opened the Saturday newspaper to find a full page spread about 'El Nido', as it was on the market. It had certainly stood the test of time.  ;D


Minniehaha.
Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: Lucy2 on Thursday 01 March 18 05:25 GMT (UK)
Found this earlier > Probate file for Frederick Herman WILSON, late of Orepuki, Hotelkeeper.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSZC-PB9B?i=821&cc=1865481

The name of Matilda Mary CUPPLES, Nurse of Dunedin, appears in the section relating to the Administration Bond.

   ~   Lu
Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: Lucy2 on Thursday 01 March 18 05:35 GMT (UK)
The relationship between Matilda Mary (May) CUPPLES and the WILSON family is clarified somewhat in her Probate record.

Frederick Herman WILSON had married Catherine FORBES in 1892.
He was born at Riverton - and Catherine at Orepuki.
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The headstone at Orepuki Cemetery for Catherine WILSON - died 1926 (w/o Frederick Herman), as well as naming them both, also carries the following names.

CUPPLES - Robert  /  Matilda  / Hamilton

WILSON - John /  Elizabeth  /  Frank /  Caroline / John W.
HERRICKS - Charles J.

A note on the cemetery record says >   "(All named on three sides of the stone)".

    ~  Lu
Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: Lucy2 on Thursday 01 March 18 05:51 GMT (UK)
The birth registered 1st quarter at Riverton >

1873 - CUPPLES - John Hamilton
Parents :   Eliza Matilda and Robert


This marriage may be relevant ?

Robert CUPPLES - Elizabeth M. WILSON -- Year:  1872
Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: minniehaha on Thursday 01 March 18 06:26 GMT (UK)
Thanks Lu.

No mention in the will of Mary Matilda Cupples of her son Robert, born 1893.

There is the burial of a Robert Cupples in the Orepuki cemetery, but no details such as age are provided.


Minniehaha.
Title: Re: Nurse CUPPLES, parentage........
Post by: Lucy2 on Thursday 01 March 18 08:20 GMT (UK)
Deaths registered at Riverton :

1875 - CUPPLES - Robert - aged 27 years

1880 - CUPPLES - Elisabeth Matilda - aged 23 years


Likely those who are recorded on the Orepuki Cemetery headstone of Catherine WILSON (d. 1926) ???

  ~  Lu
Title: John Cupples
Post by: Mollie Maloy Hosto on Friday 09 March 18 16:33 GMT (UK)
ABT. 1916 • Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

died Wales, Atrim, Dorset,
Married  Isabelle. Dont know last name . They had John, Gerald, Molly,Samuel may have had more children.

john cupples jr married Kathleen Lucinda Owens. Her father Ernest Victor Owens believe he was born lived in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales died in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Title: Re: John Cupples
Post by: Lucy2 on Friday 09 March 18 22:19 GMT (UK)
ABT. 1916 • Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

died Wales, Atrim, Dorset,
Married  Isabelle. Dont know last name . They had John, Gerald, Molly,Samuel may have had more children.

john cupples jr married Kathleen Lucinda Owens. Her father Ernest Victor Owens believe he was born lived in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales died in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales

Mollie ...   

None of the people you've listed above ^, appear to have been in New Zealand.
There are no apparent marriages or deaths for them in this country ... they don't appear in NZ electoral rolls.

    ~  Lu