I wonder if we can find what ship she emigrated on?
Spades
Hi again...
Maybe Mary Dorothea's daughters know when their parents moved to Australia.
Here's a **link** to the funeral notice for Eva Grace HARKER m.s THRUSTON. Eva is the second of the three Thruston sisters. The notice mentions Mary Dorothea's daughters, and possibly their husbands, but unfortunately no married surnames.
**link** removed as thread completed but in a nutshell it said: HARKER, Eva Grace d.11 May 1998. Wife of Paddy (dec) and loving Aunty of Dorothy and Peter, Sheena and Philip
I don't know how to find recent-ish marriages in Australia so I started a
thread on the Australian board asking for help. The upshot of which is you're unlikely to find a recent-ish marriage unless you know an approximate date. You then need to physically search the newspapers. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent to our BDM NZ microfiche.
The few Australian obituary sites I know of didn't seem to help.
Apart from contacting the funeral director mentioned in the notice or stumbling across them in a google search I can't really see how to get contact details for Mary's daughters. But I'm sure someone else does.
It's interesting to think that, as the daughters were born in Australia, there is a chance they may not even know that their mother was previously married and divorced in NZ.
Regards
Beg