Elizabeth Speden Cockburn

Notes:

This lady's surname has been spelled a variety of ways -
Some cemetery records state Speydon
others: Spedon, Spedin,

New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1896 Otago Oamaru
#4088 Wilkie, Andrew Oamaru Butcher Residential
#4090 Wilkie, Eliza Speden Oamaru, Wife, Residential

New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1911 Canterbury Ashburton
#6472 Wilkie, Andrew Nelson Street Hampstead Butcher
#6473 Wilkie, Elizabeth Speden Nelson Street Hampstead, Married


New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1928 Canterbury, Mid-Canterbury
#9870 Wilkie, Andrew, 77 Aitken Street, Ashburton, Butcher
#9072 Wilkie, Elizabeth Speden 77 Aitken Street Ashburton, Married
#9075 Wilkie, Lilian Mary 77 Aitken Street, Ashburton Married

New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1935 West Coast Buller
#8803 Wilkie, Andrew, 32 Queen Street, Westport, Bacon Curer
#8804 Wilkie, Elizabeth Speden 32 Queen St Westport Married


Christchurch City Council Cemeteries Database:
Wilkie, Elizabeth Speden
Date of Death: 06 Nov 1942
Burial: Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Monday 09 Nov 1942
Married
Age 71 yrs
Years in New Zealand: Life

Other Cockburn residents buried in Rutherford Cemetery - possible relations to Elizabeth

Elizabeth married Andrew Wilkie on 27 Dec 1890 in , , New Zealand. Andrew (son of Robert Wilkie and Elizabeth Mitchell) was born in 1867 in Kinglassie, Fife, Scotland; died in 1946 in , , New Zealand; was buried on 11 Dec 1946 in Old Presbyterian Oamaru Cemetery, Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:

One newspaper article notes marriage on 25 Dec 1890 Oamaru by Rev. A. Todd of Andrew Wilkie of the Taieri to Elizabeth Speden Cockburn
Celebrating 50th Anniversary 24 Dec 1940

Another newspaper article states marriage was 27 Dec 1890

1. Andrew Douglas Wilkie was born on 21 Dec 1892 in Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand; died in 1967; was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
2. Robert Alexander Wilkie was born on 12 Mar 1894 in Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand; was buried on 26 Jan 1965 in Oamaru Lawn Cemetery, Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand.
3. Sarah Muriel Wilkie was born about 1896; died on 8 Oct 1961 in , , New Zealand; was buried on 10 Oct 1961 in Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Canterbury, New Zealand.
4. Beatrice Elizabeth Wilkie was born about 1897; and died.
5. William James Mitchell Wilkie was born about 1897; died on 30 Jan 1899 in Reed Street, Oamaru, New Zealand; was buried on 31 Jan 1899 in Old Presbyterian Oamaru Cemetery, Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand.
6. Gordon Thomas George Wilkie was born on 18 Jan 1899 in Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand; died on 28 Nov 1956 in , , Palmerston, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand.
7. Grant Alen Wilkie was born about 1900 in Waimata, Canterbury, New Zealand; died about 1901 in Ashburton, New Zealand.
8. Dorothy Pearl Wilkie was born about 1903; and died.