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I think this is her death 1967/30962   McAllister   Melba Elaine

I have a photograph of her mother Nita Bowyer. Would love to see a photo of Melba

Melba Eileen Bowyer was born in 1913 with no father listed to Nita (Althea) Bowyer.
NZBDM 1913/22261   Bowyer   Melba Eileen   Nita Selina Helena   NR.

I also think Melba went on to marry John Gordon McAllister that lived in Rotorua?

Someone on ancestry has Melba's parents wrong as she was born before my greatgrandfather arrived in New Zealand from Scotland, was widowed and then became Nita's second husband.

"Bazena Clifton, an old lady of caste almost equal to that of a Lee or a Holland, confirms the story. She has lived in tents all her life. She was born in a tent, married from a tent"
London Evening Standard 1879

"Bazena Clifton, who said that she had sixteen children, fifteen of whom are alive, several of
them being born in a roadside tent. She says that she was married out of one of these tents ; and her brother died and was buried out of a tent at Packington, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch. This poor woman knows about three hundred families of gipsies in eleven of the Midland and Eastern
counties, and has herself, so she says, four lots of gipsies travelling in Lincolnshire at the present time. She said she could not read herself, and thinks that not one gipsy in twenty can. She has travelled all her life. Her mother, named Smith, of which there are not a few, is the mother of
fifteen children, all of whom were born in a tent."

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028693632/cu31924028693632_djvu.txt

She is called Bazena Clayton here!!
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28548/28548-h/28548-h.htm

What was her mothers fist name?
Who was her partner?
What were any of her childrens names?

Has anyone ever found a Scottish Prisoner in a census in a prison?
Is this even possible?

1861 Dairsie in Fife

Clark Andrew 50 FIF Leuchars born 1811
Clark Magdalene 51 FIF St Andrews born 1810
Clark George 27 FIF Forgan born 1834
Clark Magdalene 22 FIF Forgan born 1839
Clark David 16 FIF Dairsie born 1845 (born 02 Oct 1844)
Clark John 12 FIF Dairsie born 1849
Clark Janet 7 FIF Dairsie born 1854 (born 22 May 1853)

Anyone have a tree going backwards from here, thinking Magdalene Clark snrs maiden name was Magdalene Hutton.

Missing from this census
Andrew Clark born 16 June 1832 in Forgan
James Clark born 9 February 1836 in Forgan