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On 26 May 1895 Dora Kate Leo was born in Waverley to Kate Verdon and James Leo. [1]
Children born to Kate (Verdon) and James Leo [2]
In 1919 she was living at Eltham Road, Kaponga, Egmont.
Pre-marriage announcement [3]
On Thursday evening Miss Leo and Mr. D. Fitzgerald, who are to be married shortly, were entertained by the Kaponga Tennis Club at a social in the Parish Hall.
On 25 July 1923 Dora Kate Leo and Daniel Thomas Fitzgerald were married in St Joseph's Catholic Church, New Plymouth by Rev. Fr. Moore. [4]
They farmed in the Egmont area between 1928 and 1935.
She had two children, Daniel James and Sean Anthony before they separated and were divorced in 1940.
Timeline
Daniel Thomas Fitzgerald was a farmer. Before marriage, he was farming in 1919 at Kaponga Rd, Egmont, with parents Daniel and Mary Fitzgerald.
She died in Wellington on March 7 1946, aged 51. [6]
She was buried in the Kaponga Cemetery, Taranaki, Plot G-37.[7] The gravestone reads In loving memory of Dora Kate, loved mother of Dan and Sean Fitzgerald, died 7 March 1946 aged 51 years. R.I.P.
Her will dated 3 August 1945 left her estate to sons Daniel James (farmer at Kaponga) and Sean Anthony, and gave guardianship of her "infant children" to her sister Mary Elizabeth Leo in Clive. [8]
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