Born in New Zealand
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Henry Sawyers
and Clara Ruth (Clarkson) Sawyers
Sister of
Clara Bird Sawyers, William Henry Sawyers, Thomas Clarkson Sawyers, Isabel Mary (Sawyers) Dwyer, Grace Peile Sawyers, Marjery Alice Sawyers, Harold Wentworth Sawyers and Zillah Lurline (Sawyers) Whyte
Wife of
Lawrence Victor Porteous
— married
1913 in New Zealand
Wife of
Charles Morrell Rowe
— married
1940 (to 5 Jul 1949) in New Zealand
Mother of
Lawrence William Porteous and Unnamed infant Porteous
Died
at about age 56
in Rongotea, Manawatu, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Mar 2014
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Biography
Dinah was born in 1893. She is the daughter of William Sawyers and Clara Clarkson.
Dinah was born in 1893, the daughter of Clara Ruth Clarkson and William Henry Sawyers.
In 1914 she married Lawrence Victor Porteous (c1888-1965).
In 1940 Dinah married Charles Rowe.
She passed away in 1949 and was buried at Rongotea Cemetery.
Sources
- https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz - New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (Digital Database), Department of Internal Affairs
- Parents' Marriage Registration. Accessed 10 September 2022: 1880/1608 Clara Ruth Clarkson William Henry Sawyers
- Birth Registration. Accessed 10 September 2022: 1893/2943 Sawyers Dinah Grisdale Clara Ruth William Henry
- Marriage Registration. Accessed 10 September 2022: 1913/1506 Dinah Grisdale Sawyers Lawrence Victor Porteous
- Marriage Registration. Accessed 10 September 2022: 1940/16981 Dinah Grisdale Porteous Charles Morrell Rowe
- Death Registration. Accessed 10 September 2022: 1949/25617 Rowe Dinah Grisdale 55Y
- Burial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 September 2020), memorial page for Dinah Grisdale Sawyers Rowe (1893–15 Jul 1949), Find A Grave: Memorial #174305937, citing Rongotea Cemetery, Rongotea, Manawatu District, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand ; Maintained by Daisy✿ (contributor 47104279) .
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dinah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dinah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dinah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dinah:
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~0.78%
~0.78%
Kathy (Goulstone) Viney 
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member kathy_viney
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~0.78%
Laurence Norton :
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