Lydia (Gould) Otterson (1858 - 1937)

Born 1858 in New Zealand

Ancestors

Died 10 Feb 1937 at about age 79 in Kensington, London, England

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Biography

Lydia was born in 1858. She was the daughter of George Gould and Hannah Lewis. Her father had emigrated to New Zealand with her mother in 1850 and Lydia was born 8 years later. When she was about two, however, her mother Hannah died. However her father remarried and her stepmother Elizabeth then raised her.

Her father became a successful and wealthy businessman in Christchurch.

Lydia married Alfred Selanders Otterson in 1878 when she was about 20 years old. Alfred is described as a gentleman on the Electoral roll of 1896.

She passed away in 1937 when she was 79 years old in London, England. She was a widow when she died and living at 8 St Georges Court in Kensington.

Sources

• New Zealand Birth Index -Ancestry.com. New Zealand, Birth Index, 1840-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Name: Lydia Gould; Birth Date: 1858; Registration Place: New Zealand; Folio Number: 223
• New Zealand Marriage Index - Ancestry.com. New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Name: Lydia Gould; Marriage Year: 1878; Marriage Place: New Zealand; Spouse: Alfred Selanders Otterson; Folio Number: 525
• 1896 New Zealand Electoral Roll - Ancestry.com. New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Name: Lydia Otterson; Electoral Year: 1896; District: Riccarton; Region or Province: Canterbury
• England & Wales Civil Death index - Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007. Name: Lydia Otterson; Death Age: 79; Birth Date: abt 1858; Registration Date: Mar 1937; Registration district: Kensington; Inferred County: London; Volume: 1a; Page: 180
• England & Wales National Probate Calendar - Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England.