Family notices in New Zealand newspapers reveal that this Worden family lived in Christchurch. Mary's mother died in Christchurch Hospital on 22 December 1917,[2] and her father died at his home in New Brighton on 7 May 1937.[3]
Mary married Edgar Gibb Parker on 6 October 1937.[4] Edgar was born in New Zealand on 23 December 1893, to parents named Robert and Fanny.[5]
Edgar Gibb Parker and Mary Bligh Parker are both buried in the Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch. Edgar died on 8 December 1974[6][7] and Mary died on 27 November 1989.[8][9]
↑Death of Jane Worden: Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17670, 24 December 1917, Page 1. Papers Past (National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa). WORDEN.—December 22, at the Christchurch Hospital, Jane, dearly loved wife of Samuel Bligh Worden, of Bexley Road South New Brighton; in her fifty-second year.
↑Death of Samuel Bligh Worden: Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22087, 8 May 1937, Page 1. Papers Past (National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa). WORDEN.—May 7, 1937, at his residence, 281 Bexley road, New Brighton, Samuel Bligh, husband of the late Jane Worden, and also dearly loved father of Mary B. Worden.
↑Find A Grave Memorial no. 157107656. Find A Grave, database and images, https://www.findagrave.com, accessed 06 March 2020; memorial page for Edward Gibb Parker (unknown–8 Dec 1974); Bromley Cemetery, Bromley, Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand; Maintained by Southern Man (contributor 48043025).
↑Find A Grave Memorial no. 157107674. Find A Grave, database and images, https://www.findagrave.com, accessed 06 March 2020; memorial page for Mary Bligh Parker (unknown–27 Nov 1989); Bromley Cemetery, Bromley, Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand; Maintained by Southern Man (contributor 48043025).
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