Ruth Gwendoline Brooks (1908 - 1987)

Wife of William Harold Wilson — married 27 Jan 1930 in New Zealand

Died 1 Feb 1987 at age 78 in Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand

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Biography

Ruth Gwendoline Brooks. Given Name: Ruth Gwendoline. Surname: Brooks. ^[1] Gwendoline Brookes. Given Name: Ruth Gwendoline. Surname: Brookes. other spelling. Proof: disputed. ^[2] Found multiple versions of name. Using Ruth Gwendoline Brooks.

Born 10 DEC 1908. Note: 5 Nov 2016: This may be the summary birth record for Ruth Brooks: Registration Number: 1909/584. Family Name: Brooks. Given Name(s): Ruth Quindeline. Mother's Given Name(s): Jane. Father's Given Name(s): Samuel. Still Birth: -. 3 This record was retrieved via a Birth Search of the BDM Online Historical Records database using the following criteria: Family Name: Brooks. Given Name(s): Mother's Given Name(s): Search From Date: 10121908. Search To Date: 10121908. ^[3][4][5]

Died 1 FEB 1987. Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand. ^[6][7][8][9]

Buried 3 FEB 1987. Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand. ^[10] File Format: jpg. Ruth Gwendoline Wison (Brookes) Cemetery search detail, Invercargill District Council. Note: Retrieved 2811/2009 from http://www.icc.govt.nz/iccindex.cfm?DE79F5A3-E45A-AE82-884A-FB49BA08132F&id=47333. PHOTO Scrapbook: Y. File Format: JPG. William Harold and Ruth Gwendoline (nee Brookes) Wilson, Grave Marker. Note: Snipped 31 Dec 2011 from the Invercargill City Council website http:/www.icc.govt.nz/ServicesA-Z/CemeteriesCemeterySearch.aspx?CER_Surname=WILSON&47377. PHOTO Scrapbook: Y.

File Format: jpg. William Wilson and Ruth Brookes' Wedding. 1930 Note: Scanned from the Jenkins Family History book, page 124. PHOTO Scrapbook: Y. Format: jpg. William Wilson and Ruth Brookes' Wedding. PHOTO Scrapbook: Y.

Marriage Husband William Harold Wilson. Wife Ruth Gwendoline Brooks. Marriage 27 JAN 1930. New Zealand. ^{[11][12][13][14]} Event: for about 5 years. Family Address. FROM 1930 TO ABT 1935. Crown Terrace, Otago, New Zealand. ^[15][16] Event: on a small farmlet. Family Address. FROM ABT 1935 TO 1954. Tisbury, Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand. ^{[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]} Event: called the Hi-way Diner Restaurant which they built on a section they bought. Family Business. FROM 1952 TO ABT 1969. Frankton, Otago, New Zealand. ^[25][26][27] Event: Dudley's Tearooms which they bought along with adjoining shops. Family Business. FROM 1957 TO 1966. Arrowtown, Otago, New Zealand. ^[28] Event: Family Address. ABT 1957. Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand. ^[29] Event: Family Address. 1966 Kelvin Heights, Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand. Note: They retired to Kelvin Heights. ^[30] Event: Family Address. AFT 1966. Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand. Note: They finally retired to Catherine Street in North Invercargill.^[31] Event: for a short while. Family Address. FROM ABT 1969. Winton, Southland, New Zealand. ^[32][33]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S251 103 Page 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P Ruth Gwendoline Brookes was born 1908, died 1987.
2. ↑ Source: #S251 103 Page 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P
3. ↑ Source: #S251 p 103 Page p 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P Ruth Gwendoline Brookes was born 1908, died 1987.
4. ↑ Source: #S356 p 65 Page p 65 Certainty: 3 QUAL Source: D P EVID D Show time The 10th of December was my Mum's birthday...
5. ↑ Source: #S244 searched; 7 April 2013; Death of Ruth Gwendoline Wilson (nee Brookes) AccessType searched AccessDate 7 April 2013 ItemOfInterest Death of Ruth Gwendoline Wilson (nee Brookes) QUAL Source: D EVID I Note: This record was retrieved via a Death Search of the BDM Online Historical Records database using the following criteria: Family Name: Wilson Given Name(s): Ruth Gwendoline Search From Date: 1/2/1987 Search To Date: 1/2/1987 Registration Number: 1987/30949 Family Name: Wilson Given Name(s): Ruth Gwendoline Date of Birth/Age at Death: 10 December 1908
6. ↑ Source: #S251 103 Page 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P Ruth Gwendoline Brookes was born 1908, died 1987.
7. ↑ Source: #S251 103 Page 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P ...they retired to...Catherine Street in North Invercargill. They both enjoyed the best of health until Bill died at the age of eighty and Ruth six weeks later at aged seventy nine years.
8. ↑ Source: #S254 searched; 28 November 2009 AccessType searched AccessDate 28 November 2009 ItemOfInterest Certainty: 3 QUAL P Surname WILSON First Name(s) RUTH GWENDOLINE Gender Female Age at Death 78 Years Date of Death Feb 01 1987 Date Buried Feb 03 1987 Last Address 81 CATHERINE ST,INGILL Cemetery Eastern Cemetery Classification General Block 40 Plot 219. Undertaker Macdonald & Weston All records for the same plot WILSON RUTH GWENDOLINE 1987 WILSON WILLIAM HAROLD 1986
9. ↑ Source: #S244 searched; 7 April 2013; Death of Ruth Gwendoline Wilson (nee Brookes) AccessType searched AccessDate 7 April 2013 ItemOfInterest Death of Ruth Gwendoline Wilson (nee Brookes) QUAL Source: D EVID I Note: This record was retrieved via a Death Search of the BDM Online Historical Records database using the following criteria: Family Name: Wilson Given Name(s): Ruth Gwendoline Search From Date: 1/2/1987 Search To Date: 1/2/1987 Registration Number: 1987/30949 Family Name: Wilson Given Name(s): Ruth Gwendoline Date of Birth/Age at Death: 10 December 1908
10. ↑ Source: #S254 searched; 28 November 2009 AccessType searched AccessDate 28 November 2009 ItemOfInterest Certainty: 3 QUAL P Surname WILSON First Name(s) RUTH GWENDOLINE Gender Female Age at Death 78 Years Date of Death Feb 01 1987 Date Buried Feb 03 1987 Last Address 81 CATHERINE ST,INGILL Cemetery Eastern Cemetery Classification General Block 40 Plot 219. Undertaker Macdonald & Weston All records for the same plot WILSON RUTH GWENDOLINE 1987 WILSON WILLIAM HAROLD 1986
11. ↑ Source: #S251 103 Page 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P William and Ruth were married in 1930.
12. ↑ Source: #S244 searched; 2 October 2013; Marriage details for William and Ruth Wilson AccessType searched AccessDate 2 October 2013 ItemOfInterest Marriage details for William and Ruth Wilson QUAL Source: D EVID I Note: This record was retrieved via a Marriage Search of the BDM Online Historical Records database using the following criteria: Bride's Family Name: Brooks Bride's Given Name(s): Groom's Family Name: Wilson Groom's Given Name(s): Search From Date: 27/1/1930 Search To Date: 27/1/1930 Registration Number: 1930/2535 Bride's Given Name(s) Ruth Gwendoline Bride's Family Name: Brooks Groom's Given Name(s): William Harold Groom's Family Name: Wilson
13. ↑ Source: #S122 Page 92 of the BALE, PEARL-CURRAN, ALVIN Marriages 1930 fiche Page Page 92 of the BALE, PEARL-CURRAN, ALVIN Marriages 1930 fiche QUAL Source: D EVID I Brookes Ruth Gwendoline 2517
14. ↑ Source: #S122 Page 862 of the WHITE, LIONEL-ZUPPICICH, EDITH Marriages 1930 fiche Page Page 862 of the WHITE, LIONEL-ZUPPICICH, EDITH Marriages 1930 fiche QUAL Source: D EVID I Wilson William Harold 2517
15. ↑ Source: #S356 p 19 Page p 19 Certainty: 3 QUAL Source: D P EVID D With no time to think of a Honeymoon, they travelled to Kingston by train. They boarded the Earnslaw to Queenstown and then caught the bus to Arrowtown. There they met Dr Aicken, owner of Glencoe Station on the Crown Terrace, and their new employer.
16. ↑ Source: #S251 p 103 Page p 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P 9/2 WILLIAM (Bill) HAROLD WILSON William and Ruth were married in 1930. After the wedding they left by tram for Kingston, then boat to Queenstown, bus to Arrowtown, then they forded the Arrow River and rode up Tobins Track to the Crown Terrace where they had obtained positions as a cook and cowman-gardener.
17. ↑ Source: #S251 p103 Page p103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P 9/2 WILLIAM (Bill) HAROLD WILSON Before their son Russell was born five years later, they shifted back south to a small farmlet at Tisbury. In 1952 Bill and Ruth sold the farm.
18. ↑ Source: #S251 p103 Page p103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P 9/2 WILLIAM (Bill) HAROLD WILSON Contributed by Alma Stevenson: ...then they moved to Boxall Road, Tisbury.
19. ↑ Source: #S263 1935 Invercargill General Electoral Roll; fiche 56; Wilson family; 15 May 2010 SpecificVol 1935 Invercargill General Electoral Roll Page fiche 56 ItemOfInterest Wilson family DateAccessed 15 May 2010 Annotation 12434--Wilson, William Harold, Boxall Road, labourer 12418--Wilson, Ruth Gwendoline, Boxall Road, married
20. ↑ Source: #S263 1938 Invercargill General Electoral Roll; fiche 61; Wilson family; 15 May 2010 SpecificVol 1938 Invercargill General Electoral Roll Page fiche 61 ItemOfInterest Wilson family DateAccessed 15 May 2010 Annotation 13149--Wilson, William Harold, Boxall road, labourer 13132--Wilson, Ruth Gwendoline, Boxall road, married
21. ↑ Source: #S430 searched; 22 May 2011; 1946 residence of Bill and Ruth Wilson AccessType searched AccessDate 22 May 2011 ItemofInterest 1946 residence of Bill and Ruth Wilson Certainty: 2 QUAL Source: D S EVID I Note: 1946 Electoral District of Awarua General Roll, as at 13 Sept 1946. Page 149 149 No. on Roll 12360 12376 Name in full Wilson, Ruth Gwendoline Wilson, William Harold Residence Boxall Rd., In'gill Boxall Rd., In'gill Occupation married labourer
22. ↑ Source: #S430 searched; 22 May 2011; 1949 residence of Bill and Ruth Wilson AccessType searched AccessDate 22 May 2011 ItemofInterest 1949 residence of Bill and Ruth Wilson Certainty: 2 QUAL Source: D S EVID I Note: 1949 Electoral District of Awarua General Roll, as at 5 Sept 1949. Page 255 255 No. on Roll 12652 12667 Name in full Wilson, Ruth Gwendoline Wilson, William Harold Residence Boxall Road, In'gill Boxall Road, Invercargill Occupation married labourer
23. ↑ Source: #S430 searched; 22 May 2011; 1954 residence of Bill and Ruth Wilson AccessType searched AccessDate 22 May 2011 ItemofInterest 1954 residence of Bill and Ruth Wilson Certainty: 2 QUAL Source: D S EVID I Note: 1954 Electoral District of Awarua General Roll, as at 17 Aug 1954. Page 268 268 No. on Roll 13316 13328 Name in full Wilson, Ruth Gwendoline Wilson, William Harold Residence Boxall Road, Invercargill Boxall Road, Invercargill Occupation married labourer
24. ↑ Source: #S674 accessed; 5 September 2016; William Harold Wilson' service in WW2 AccessType accessed AccessDate 5 September 2016 ItemOfInterest William Harold Wilson' service in WW2 Annotation Certainty: 2 QUAL Source: D S EVID I Note: Notice as to Men called up under the National Service Emergency Regulations 1940 for Service Overseas with the Armed Forces. The New Zealand Gazette Extraordinary Wellington, Wednesday, 24 June 1942, page 1814 No. 581811 Name Wilson, William Harold Occupation linesman Residence Place Boxall Rd., South Invercargill Link: William Harold Wilson' service in WW2 URL: http://interactive.ancestry.com.au/6166/42024_b0154334-00165?pid=21658&backurl=http://search.Ancestry.com.au//cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D6166%26h%3D21658%26tid%3D13509260%26pid%3D-55766570%26hid%3D6859798012%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DzZP670%26_phstart%3Ddefault%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue&treeid=13509260&personid=-55766570&hintid=6859798012&usePUB=true&_phsrc=zZP670&_phstart=default&usePUBJs=true
25. ↑ Source: #S251 p 103 Page p 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P In 1952 Bill and Ruth sold the farm. They bought a section at Frankton and built the Hi-way Diner Restaurant. Then in 1966 they retired to Kelvin Heights... Contributed by Alma Stevenson: When Bill and Ruth sold the Hi-way Diner they moved to Winton for a short while.
26. ↑ Source: #S330 SUE FEA; Family history inspires author; Books; 21 December 2009; accessed; 4 September 2010; http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/entertainment/books/3183603/Family-history-inspires-author Author SUE FEA Article Family history inspires author ItemType Books IssueDate 21 December 2009 SpecificContent AccessType accessed AccessDate 4 September 2010 CreditLine http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/entertainment/books/3183603/Family-history-inspires-author Annotation Mrs Stevenson has combined her own Queenstown Wilson family and Southland farming history in the book. Her parents Bill and Ruth Wilson owned the Hi-Way Diner at Frankton corner – it was here she met her husband: "Noel would call in for Mum's hot pies," she said.
27. ↑ Source: #S356 p 40 Page p 40 Certainty: 3 QUAL Source: D P EVID D My Parents - Mum & Dad Wilson Julie was born in 1969 and it was about this time Mum and Dad sold the hi-way diner at Frankton and retired to Winton.
28. ↑ Source: #S251 103 Page 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P Five years later they bought Dudley's Tearooms and adjoining shops in Arrowtown. Bill made the vacant section into a putting green which is now the village green in Arrowtown. Then in 1966 they retired to Kelvin Heights...
29. ↑ Source: #S430 searched; 22 May 2011; 1957 residence of Bill and Ruth Wilson AccessType searched AccessDate 22 May 2011 ItemofInterest 1957 residence of Bill and Ruth Wilson Certainty: 2 QUAL Source: D S EVID I Note: 1957 Electoral District of Invercargill Main Roll, as at 31 Jul 1957. Page 287 287 No. on Roll 14251 14268 Name in full Wilson, Ruth Gwendoline Wilson, William Harold Residence 135 Nelson St 135 Nelson St Occupation married handyman
30. ↑ Source: #S251 103 Page 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P Then in 1966 they retired to Kelvin Heights...
31. ↑ Source: #S251 103 Page 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P ...and later to Catherine Street in North Invercargill.
32. ↑ Source: #S251 103 Page 103 Certainty: 3 QUAL P Contributed by Alma Stevenson: When Bill and Ruth sold the Hi-way Diner they moved to Winton for a short while.
33. ↑ Source: #S356 p 40 Page p 40 Certainty: 3 QUAL Source: D P EVID D My Parents - Mum & Dad Wilson Julie was born in 1969 and it was about this time Mum and Dad sold the hi-way diner at Frankton and retired to Winton.

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