John Powell Payton (1875 - 1953)

Born 30 Aug 1875 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Ann (Hawthorn) Powell — married 30 Mar 1907 (to 30 Dec 1927) in Wellington, New Zealand

Husband of Alice Camelia (Farmer) Payton — married 1928 in Wellington, New Zealand

Died 15 Sep 1953 at age 78 in Wellington, New Zealand

Biography

John was the son of Susan Annie Hall and John Bonelba Payton.

He worked as a Engineer and later an Engine Driver, in the Wellington district.

In 1907 he married Mary Ann Hawthorn, Irish immigrant, at his parent's home in Wellington.

One known child was born in their marriage, Muriel Coffey.

John was called up in the 1917 WWI Reserve Ballot - 2nd Division.

Mary Ann died 20 years later in 1927, age 50. The following year John remarried to widow, Alice Camelia (nee Farmer) Price. The marriage didn't last and they divorced in 1949.

John died age 78 and was cremated at Karori, Wellington.

Sources

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-H8YW BIRTH
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG6K-L6BS DEATH

• https://wellington.govt.nz/services/community-and-culture/cemeteries/cemeteries-search/results?serviceType=All&firstNames=JOHN+POWELL&lastName=PAYTON&fromDate=01%2f01%2f1840&toDate=04%2f08%2f2019&cemetery=All

• https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz : NZBDM Marriage Index 1907/734, 1928/6582, Death Index 1953/30385

• https://ancestrylibrary.com.au

NZ Electoral Rolls

WWI Reserve Rolls

• https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Evening Post - 4/4/1907 Out of copyright
• K Price

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