Nanango Queensland Australia Cemetery.
Last Name DAFT First Name PETER Middle Name 1 JOHN Middle Name 2 Gender ? Occupation PATTERN MAKER Religion UNKNOWN Cause of Death NATURAL CAUSES Former Residence SCOTT LANE NGO Birthplace Date of Birth Date of Death 1 December 1997 Burial Date Deceased Cemetery NANANGO LAWN Section L Row Prefix 9 Plot No Suffix Location << Back
After having a major stroke at the end of 2004 which affected her mentally then a year and a half later another stroke which again affected her mentally placing her in hospital.. She had further small strokes then another large one about the 13th of June 2007 which put her in a coma and she died on the 15th June 2007. She was cremated and her ashes were sent to England from Kingaroy Queensland Australia and her ashes were to be placed on her mother and fathers grave with a plaque at the, "St. Margaret's Church" East Wellow in Hampshire where her father was a vicar and Florence Nightingale is also buried.
Harold managed a farm in Uruguay, married , and also volunteered in the First World War and became the rear gunner in a two-seater fighter of the R.F.C. was shot down during action and miraculously survived as parachutes had not yet been invented. He was taken prisoner and released after the armistice. Back in Argentina he and his brogher-in-law G.H.Austin bought an Estancia in the Province of Cordoba called Las Cortaderas which is still in the family today.
Marjorie Sylvia Kent (my grandmother) had an affair with Harold Bridger (your grandfather) in approx. 1931, leading to the birth of my father. On his birth certificate he was named Cristobal Kent, but when my grandmother took him back to England (about 3 years later we think), she gave him the name Christopher Blake (she liked the poet, William Blake) and more or less officially "adopted" him, as far as we can work out. Apparently, she didn't tell him that she was his real mother until he was 21! He always knew her as "Auntie". At some point she told him that his father was a man named Bridger whom she'd met whilst working in Argentina, but that was all he knew really. She never married or had any other children.
Marjorie told my dad, and Geoff and Nancy confirmed this, that Harold and Phyllis (your grandparents) allegedly offered to officially adopt my dad themselves, and bring him up as 1 of the family, but that Marjorie didn't want to lose him. The family therefore arranged for her to move to a neighbouring farm to work as a housekeeper, after the baby was born. Apparently Nancy's mother and grandmother were midwives to her and she delivered the baby in their house. According to Geoffrey, afterwards Harold felt so guilty that he gave Marjorie 500 head of cattle to take with her and to help provide for their son.
His father was John Thomas Plant a shoemaker from Lancashire. Born 1844. He had two sisters Polly who became Mercer and Rose who became either Howarth or Hollister when they married. I have two addresses Bill and May Hollister nee Howarth, 10 Brook Street, RISHTON, Blackburn, Lancashire and Dolly Howarth, neice, 79 Sourton Street, Rishton, Lancashire. Grandad married his first wife Annabel Gregory and they had George Bede Hornby Plant - I think he may have been born in Norfolk or Jarrow. He was killed in the first world war at 18 years old. Grandad was in the Missions to Seamen and travelled from Liverpool on 18 January 1895 to Belize British Honduras with Annabel on a ship called 'Engineer' on the Harrison Line and was bound for Colon, Panama. On the 24 August 1899 he travelled again from Liverpool to Buenos Aires with I think Bede and Annabel on a ship called Oravia, The Pacific Steam Navigation with 63 passengers. He was on the Falkland Islands for a while and then Lomas de Zamora near BA. But other than that I don't have much more info. Hopefully you may be able to find out a bit more Judith, but it's a start. He was born in 1869 and died in 1946
Thomas was a curate at Christ Church in Jarrow-On-Tyne, and he married his sister Rose Emma at St. Peter's & St. Pauls in Rishton, Lancashire. in 1898
Nanango Queensland Australia Cemetery.
Last Name DAFT First Name PETER Middle Name 1 JOHN Middle Name 2 Gender ? Occupation PATTERN MAKER Religion UNKNOWN Cause of Death NATURAL CAUSES Former Residence SCOTT LANE NGO Birthplace Date of Birth Date of Death 1 December 1997 Burial Date Deceased Cemetery NANANGO LAWN Section L Row Prefix 9 Plot No Suffix Location << Back