Crocome family, Waikouiti

[Lucy2]

Hi Pinkie

Have you explored the RITCHIE side of the family to see how your Mum was linked to James RITCHIE ?

   ~   Lu

[pinkie76]

Thankyou everyone for all your efforts. My mother was a Ritchie, James was her oldest uncle. I knew about the stillborn baby but I can't find any subsequent births. Maybe there were no other children. I have researched the Ritchie family of Alexander and Jean, most of whom I have known personally, but there are a few loose ends to follow up on, - still working at it.

[Janette]

Hi Pinkie,

If you need help just holler

Cheers Janette

[minniehaha]

Maybe if you could obtain the newspaper death notice for Eleanor there may be more details?


Minniehaha.

[Lucy2]

Hi again Pinkie

Are you in the Otago area ... or do you have easy access to Archives New Zealand in Dunedin ?

The Probate Records for James and Eleanor Agnes (mentioned earlier in this thread) might be of help ??

   ~  Lu

[Lucy2]

Earlier when I was searching the electoral rolls for Eleanor and James - and this is often a good way of "flushing out" any children who may be living with parents at different times - the only people I found sharing an address with them, was Mary Ann CROCOME (Eleanor's mother) and Max RITCHIE who appears to have been James' younger brother.

Although e/rolls are a helpful "tool", they shouldn't be taken as conclusive proof of anything.   I did get the impression though from the rolls, coupled with the fact that their were no birth listings up to late 1913, that Eleanor and James had no children.

  ~  Lu 

[pinkie76]

That's all good info - I can visit the Dunedin Probate office next time I visit. Max was the youngest member of the Ritchie family.