Captain Mollison on the Grey River , also with Eliza PHOTO ALBUM

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DescriptionCaptain Mollison on the Grey River...think the boat is the Kawaka Whaka...(bit blurred so cannot be sure?)...and second pic with his wife Eliza (nee Phipps of Nelson), mother of 9+ children, the youngest Pearl, was born at The Lyell and most married and remained on the coast....I cannot imagine how hard a life my great grandmother endured. I believe she sometimes looked for respite staying at a hotel owned by the Alborn family in Reefton... (some of the daughters lived in Greymouth & Cobden and included;
Eliza Trott whose adopted daughter Miriam (greymouth dancer) married Cliff Reinheimer.
Pearl who was crippled by childhood polio and married Joe Burt (the minister)adoptive parents of Nola who sadly died young of cancer, who lived in Cobden.
Ethel married Vic Alborn of Alborns mine in Reefton
Hilda married John (Jack Oates) of Reefton...they had a bookclub and milk bar on broadway.
Isabel married ?? Todd and I think lived in Cobden..likely she was the mother of Muriel Butterworth of Woodpecker Bay
They lost 2 year old and 4 year old sons... one boy survived to adulthood ....Richard Phipps Mollison who worked in Alborns mine.
Thought I would share this as their might be relatives on the coast who don't have access to these old pics.

1st Image.. newspoaper article about the tagic accident of their two year old son.Map^[1]ContributorJudy Ann Hinde

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Date Created22nd September 2021CommentsAnne Honey
Do you have a date for the photo.

Shelly Paul
Great photo! Thanks for sharing

Shona Ratana
Interesting story. Yes, mother would have needed to stay away from boat for a break? what a hard life she would have experienced at that time.

John Rosanowski
Think Oates's milk bar was the one on Buller Rd opposite the Criterion Theatre. Later Andy McLymont's.

John Rosanowski
Had a library attached. Was Andy's wife an Oates.

Margaret Harrington
Miriam & Cliff Reinheimer had one son, and had a farm, I think at Waipuna, Totara Flat

Ina Lineham
obituary written in 1933 to a Captain William Henry Mollison. I think this could be him. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/new.../NEM19330417.2.36...
Papers Past | Newspapers | Nelson Evening Mail | 17 April 1933 | PERSONAL ITEMS
PAPERSPAST.NATLIB.GOVT.NZ
Papers Past | Newspapers | Nelson Evening Mail | 17 April 1933 | PERSONAL ITEMS
Papers Past | Newspapers | Nelson Evening Mail | 17 April 1933 | PERSONAL ITEMS

Ina Lineham
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news.../EP18981205.2.61...
Papers Past | Newspapers | Evening Post | 5 December 1898 | LATE SHIPPING.
PAPERSPAST.NATLIB.GOVT.NZ
Papers Past | Newspapers | Evening Post | 5 December 1898 | LATE SHIPPING.
Papers Past | Newspapers | Evening Post | 5 December 1898 | LATE SHIPPING.

Judy Ann Hinde
Ina Lineham OMG. Thank you so much. I have done multiple searches for any obituary unsuccessfully. This is amazing. Interesting that my dad told me that the old Captain fell in a drain one night coming home drunk from th pub, and cut his hand on a bit of rusted barbed wire …and eventually died of blood poisoning. I don’t know if this is true now as they just mention ill health. I will ask my Uncle Graeme Mollison in Christchurch if he can confirm. But this obituary is gold. Thank you.

Ray Chandler
My wife and I got it from Andy and Joy McClimot in about 1963.

Judy Ann Hinde
Ray Chandler ….you bought the milkbar library Ray?? Can you confirm it was never on the Main Street of Reefton but instead was in the road running out of town towards Westport abd would be on the right hand side.

Judy Ann Hinde
Ray Chandler is this the building Ray. CNR Smith street and Buller road
May be an image of road and text that says '3:01 Safari 4G Google SmithSt Smith 水'

Ray Chandler
Judy Ann Hinde yes that is it.the extension on the left was added by the people their name being Reid.that took over from us.

Ray Chandler
Judy Ann Hinde the building was lost to a fire a few months ago.

Judy Ann Hinde
Ray Chandler ….you bought the milkbar library Ray?? Can you confirm it was never on the Main Street of Reefton but instead was in the road running out of town towards Westport abd would be on the right hand side.

Dorothy Wills
Interesting photo

Judy Ann Hinde
The death of the Captain and Eliza’s young son. So tragic.

Jill Kramer
Judy Ann Hinde that’s a sad story. Tragic, indeed.

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