Helen Ramage Blackhall Millar Brown Holdaway

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1837-1901

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1901-1910

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1910-1936

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The Crimean War 1854-1856

Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species 1859

American Civil War 1861-65

Lewis Carroll Alices's Adventures in Wonderland 1865

First long-distance telephone call by Alexander Graham Bell 1876

Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb 1879

Women's suffrage in New Zealand 1893

First commercial film release and the invention of the gramophone record 1894

First modern Olympic Games 1896

The Boer War 1899-1902

The first cars

Kenneth Grahame - The Wind In The Willows 1908

The first planes

WWI 1914-18

Russian Communist Revolution 1917

Radio

A. A. Milne publishes Winnie The Pooh 1926

LIFE

GEDCOM Note (from Helen's page on Wikitree. Formatting makes sense there)

Category:Mangahao Cemetery, Ballance, Manawatu-Wanganui

Biography

Helen was born in about 1847 in Newborough, Fifeshire, Scotland, and moved to New Zealand with her family when she was eight.<ref name="HelenObit1">"Obituary: Mrs. C. Holdaway, Sen.", Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10248, 27 May 1926, Page 6. Retrieved 2 Sep 2021 from https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PAHH19260527.2.38</ref><ref name="HelenObit2">"Personal Items", Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 May 1926, Page 5. Retrieved 2 Sep 2021 from https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19260528.2.16</ref>

Helen Mair married Charles Holdaway in Nelson<ref name="CharlesObit">"The Late Mr. C. Holdaway: Particulars of Career", Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10470, 16 February 1927, Page 5. Retrieved 2 Sep 2021 from https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PAHH19270216.2.18</ref> in 1868,<ref> http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/ NZ Marriage registration 1868/8087</ref><ref>"New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1896," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-TXGP : accessed 2 October 2017), Charles Holdaway and Helen Ramage Miller Mair, 1868; citing Marriage, New Zealand, New Zealand, Wellington; registration number 1868/8087.</ref> and they had a number of children. Charles worked in the flour industry in Motueka and Masterton and then was involved in setting up the township Ballance (named after NZ Land Minister and later Premier John Ballance who founded it) and its butter and cheese factory, before Helen and Charles moved to Rototuna, near Hamilton, in 1915-20.<ref name="CharesObit"/><ref name="HelenObit1"/> In Rototuna Charles and Helen were very involved in the church and community support and had many friends.<ref name="CharlesObit"/><ref name="HelenObit1"/>

Helen died on 26 May 1926 at her oldest son Ernest's house in Ballance.<ref>"New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9V-V83Y : 27 April 2016), Helen Miller Holdaway, 1926; citing Hamilton, Hamilton Probates - Second Sequence, 1910-1953, record number 2135, Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office; FamilySearch digital folder 007202873.A</ref><ref name="HelenObit1"/><ref name="HelenObit2"/> Charles died the following year.<ref>"Otorohanga News", Waipa Post, Volume 33, Issue 1971, 15 February 1927, Page 4. Retrieved 2 Sep 2021 from https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAIPO19270215.2.17</ref><ref>"Obituary. Mr. Charles Holdaway", New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19561, 14 February 1927, Page 10. Retrieved 2 Sep 2021 from https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19270214.2.105</ref>

They are buried together in Mangahao Cemetery, Ballance, Manawatu-Whanganui, New Zealand.<ref>Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 02 September 2021), memorial page for Helen Ramage Miller Mair Holdaway (15 May 1849–26 May 1926), (sameas=yes, citing Mangahao Cemetery, Ballance, Tararua District, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand ; Maintained by Daisy✿ (contributor 47104279) .</ref><ref>"BillionGraves Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24Z-4724 : 27 September 2016), Helen M Holdaway, died 26 May 1926; citing BillionGraves (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Mangahao Cemetery, Ballance, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand.</ref>

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