I'm looking for information on my great grandparents here in New Zealand

Question

Hi I'm looking for information on my great grandparents. Peter Frederick McLean was born the 2nd of December 1904 in Gisborne, New Zealand and Mary Graham Molesworth was born in 1909. They were married in 1927. I do not have death information so I can't add them in yet. Peter and Mary had 14 children all together. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Hopefully we can connect her into the broader Molesworth family. I've been working at putting in as many Molesworth's as possible. Working toward one Molesworth tree, look up Molesworth_Australia tag, for Molesworths in Australia project.

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She probably connects into Molesworth-332, which only goes back one extra generation at this stage to David Molesworth-24. His father David(-24), may be the son of David and Ann at www.genealogybuff.com/misc/ukmarwit/ukwitwor.htm, page 23.

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Unfortunately I can't find a further connection into the Molesworth tree at the moment with anything I've got, which means that it is not likely that you descend from 1st Viscount Robert Molesworth-131. But I'm still trying to gather as many Molesworths as I can to connect them, so hopefully we will find something later. Please enter whatever details you have.

Answer 1

The BDM database at the DIA is your friend!!

https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search

Births, deaths and marriages are kept seperate. Below you can find - your great grandparents birth, marriage and death records, their parents marriages and most of the siblings!!  No children yet since 100 years has not yet passed since the wedding.

Birth registrations

1905/9814        McLean     Peter Frederick     Janet    Harold Percy Charles    

1909/2412        Molesworth     Mary Graham     Mary    David

 

Marriage registrations

1927/9122        Mary Graham     Molesworth     Peter Frederick     McLean

 

Death registrations - including dates of birth

1978/37433    McLean     Peter Frederick     2 December 1904

1979/34773    McLean     Mary Graham     9 January 1909

 

Marriages of parents

1904/2977        Janet     Collett     Harold Percy Charles     McLean

1902/3738        Mary     Smith     David             Molesworth

 

Siblings

1905/9814    McLean     Peter Frederick     Janet    Harold Percy Charles    
1906/6933    McLean     Harold Bernard     Janet    Harold Percy Charles    
1910/8041    McLean     Janet Emmie     Janet    Harold Percy Charles    

1913/609        Molesworth     Stanley George     Mary    David    -  
1905/2271        Molesworth     Theophilus Gordon     Mary    David    -  
1904/15358    Molesworth     Desmond         Mary    David   
1903/17433    Molesworth     Edward Powell     Mary    David   
1906/13274    Molesworth     Lorna Frances     Mary    David   
1907/19940    Molesworth     Caroline Dorothy     Mary    David
1909/2412        Molesworth     Mary Graham     Mary    David  
1917/9292        Molesworth     Olwen         Mary    David   
1910/7716        Molesworth     Vera         Mary    David

 

I hope these details are helpful!!

This is all the RAW data.

If you need any help to interpret them, just add a comment.

Robynne

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Adding to Benjamin's comment above

I would agree - that Mary Graham Molesworth's father is David Molesworth aka Molesworth-332

BDM Database - DIA - Births

1880/12486    Molesworth     David     Dora    David

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Molesworth-332

Because his parents are David and Dora which matches Molesworth-24

BDM Database - DIA - Marriages

1877/2348        Dora     Graham     David     Molesworth

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Molesworth-24

Answer 2

Firstly, there is certainly no requirement, as far as I am aware, to enter a death date on a WikiTree profile. Else you could have put "after 1927" since they were certainly alive at their marriage.

One tree on MyHeritage claims that Mary Graham Molesworth's parents were David Molesworth and Mary Smith. The source claims she died in 1979. It lists her husband as Peter Frederik McLean exactly as you described.

Found a record for WW2 ballot that says he was a lorry driver on Te Puroa Road in Ngarauwahia.

I could not find a mention of their marriage on Paper's Past.

I hope this helps and is not information you know already.