Photo Identification of Couple

[kiwihalfpint]

The above 1970 Jessie Elizabeth Anderson was a widow according to her probate.

Was Mason a first or middle name?  Only reason I ask, is that some people are known by their middle names and don't use the first.


Cheers
KHP

[fandes]

Hello again and thank you for your latest comments. Unfortunately the only response I have managed to elicit from 'Bex' is the following:

"I strongly believe that
My aunty Jessie,her four brothers   may have been born somewhere in New Zealand for example Napier, hawke'sbay new Zealand"

I've just received this from 'Bex' also:

I have a feeling that the guy in the photo could have been aunty Jessie's brother
Is there a possibility that the guy in the photo could have been Adrian Ferguson
It looks like that lady next to him could have been his wife
Yes I reckon that the photo of that lady and that man would have been taken in New Zealand
I also have a feeling that that guy could have committed sucide by discovering his brother William henry Ferguson, William's wife and their two kids (were) murdered including their family pet named lilly
From
Bex

I strongly believe that aunty Jessie died from a broken heart by discovering that (the) man (in the photo) who I strongly believe was aunty Jessie's younger brother (Mason?) who shot himself in the head because of what he saw.
From
Bex

[mckha489]

So, Is the maiden name of Jessie/Jessica Elizabeth  FERGUSON not ANDERSON?

either way there is no birth on the NZ BDMs for 1900. 

There is no death of an Adrian FERGUSON, nor a Mason FERGUSON
There are quite a few William Henry FERGUSON deaths

I haven't managed to find a sensational murder like that in the NZ newspapers, but maybe I am  using the wrong search terms. 

[Fresh Fields]

Hello.

Is this what BEX is looking for ?  I few names in common, but we have not been given a time line, to go by.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19310227.2.100?query=shot%20Lilly&sort_by=byDA&items_per_page=100&page=6&start_date=01-01-1912&end_date=31-12-1950&snippet=true

Alan.

[mckha489]

Alice Rose Florence ANDERSON was nee PEEL born 1894 she married Rupert Victor ANDERSON in 1921


added other siblings.  Only one brother Ernest

1888/7035   Peel   Edmund Ernest   Edith Blanche Beatrice Pittaway   Ernest Hope
died 1890 age 1y
1891/3717   Peel   Minnie Adelaide Frances   Edith Blanche Beatrice   Ernest Hope
married Bernard William   Currie 1915
1892/3231   Peel   Lilian Edith Isabel   Edith Blanche Beatrice   Ernest Hope
married Albert   Tolley 1913
1894/3804   Peel   Alice Rose Florence   Edith Blanche Beatrice   Ernest Hope
1895/5341   Peel   Dorothy Winifred Agatha   Edith Blanche Beatrice   Ernest Hope
married Thomas   Blair 1916
1896/2240   Peel   Audrey Violet May   Edith Blanche Beatrice   Ernest Hope
married Alexander Findlay   McLeod 1919
1901/13702   Peel   Adelaide Marjory Alexandria   Edith Blanche Beatrice   Ernest Hope
married  Charles   Goodall 1935


Not a Ferguson, a William or a Mason among them

[kiwihalfpint]

So it looks like Lilly was a person and not a pet.


Cheers
KHP

[Fresh Fields]

Hi KHP

We won't know until BEX gets back to us through her contact. Could not see any likely starters on NZ HISTORY [Crime] nor most of my search criteria on Papers Past. But that is not saying I have not missed a key element. It's like looking for a needle in a hay stack. Pre WWII murders were big news and the OBSERVER and then NZ TRUTH were always happy to follow up with the scandal.

Alan.

[kiwihalfpint]

Hi KHP

We won't know until BEX gets back to us through her contact.
Alan.

Yes Alan, I realise that, was just thinking out loud.

[minniehaha]

Try Papers Past: "shot himself in the head"......

Over 1000 items come up.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers?phrase=2&snippet=true&query=shot+himself+in+the+head


Minniehaha.