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Amy Benbow Mattingley &
Charles
Barney
She was 24 yrs of age when she married CHARLES BARNEY on 8th Aug 1906 in Temuka, the son of GEORGE BARNEY, a carpenter and mother EMILY HARMAN. He was b: 26 Oct 1881 in Rangitata and was admitted 25 Oct 1886 to the Rangitata Station School until 23 May 1890 when his family left the district and was in Std 3 when he attended the Milford School, Temuka. In 1903 he as a carpenter at Fairlie After their marriage they
went to
Gisborne. Charles joined as a private in 1907 with the
Gisborne
Rifle Company who recognised his prowess as
an excellent
rifleman and in Aug 1909 was advanced to Corporal; then
passing a Non commissioned officer examination became a
Lance
corporal 31/12/1910 and was awarded a certificates to become
Corporal. They were next at Fairlie where he worked as a
carpenter,
then Georgetown then farmed at Makakihi, south of
Timaru.
1 Charles Barney (b: 26 Oct 1881 in Geraldine, Rangitata;
Mar: 08
Aug 1906 in Temuka to Amy Benbow Mattingley (b: 05 Apr 1883
in Temuka
to parents Died: 03 Aug 1970 in Reefton, West Coast 87Y
Burial: 1970
Reefton Cemetery
Their children:... 2 Amy Evelyn Barney (b: 01 Jun 1908 in
Gisborne, d:
14 Jul 1981 in Auckland; Bur: 17 Jul 1981 Cremated Purewa Cem)
Mar: 1942
in Auckland to James Ernest Collins (b: 24 Dec 1907; d: 09
Jul 1994
in North Shore Auckland; 12 Jul 1994 Crem. North Shore
Cem) 3 Dulcie Maud Barney (b: 22 Oct 1910 in
Fairlie, South Canterbury; d: 15 Nov 1981) Mar: 1944 in Auckland
to Alfred Trethowen McBurney (b: 10 Jun 1905; d: 28 Oct
1983 in
Kaniere, West Coast) 4 Ronald Charles Barney.html (b: 20 Oct 1913
in
Georgetown, Waitaki; d: 06 Apr 1978 in Oamaru) Mar: 1950 in
Oamaru to Evelyn Mavis Rawcliffe (b: 1929; d: 06 Sep
2016 in
Oamaru, Otago) 5 Marjorie Bertha Barney (b: 11 Dec 1916 in
Georgetown, Waitaki; d: 19 Sep 2005 in Palmerston North;
Bur:
Akatarawa Cem. Upper Hutt, Wgtm) Mar: 09 Dec 1939 in Wellington
to Sir John Dean* Goffin (b: 09 Jul 1916 in Wellington; d:
23 Jan
1984 in Auckland) 6 Florence Grace Barney (b: 22 Oct 1920 in
Georgetown, Oamaru, Otago; d: 2010) Mar: 1946 in Christchurch
to Archibald Anderson Christie (b: 17 Apr 1911 in Allanton,
Otago;
d: 26 Jul 1977 in Waikari Hospital, Dunedin; Bur: 02 Aug 1977
Crem.
Andersons Bay Ashes Plot 14 Block SF 17a) *2nd Husband of Florence Grace* Barney: Mar: 04 Apr 1981 in
Christchurch to Frederick James Peterson (b: 05 Jul 1924 in
Dunedin; d: 02 Nov 1996 in Dunedin) 7 Jean Edah Harman Barney (b: 06 Dec 1922 in
Georgetown, Waitaki; d: 2004; d: 1986) Mar: 1956 to Albert
Raymond
Wood (b: 20 Aug 1906) Charles's
health deteriorated and he suffered from diabetes for many
years
and retired to Waimate. He died 19 May
1956 aged 74
yrs. He bur: at the Waimate Lawn Cemetery
R03.10
Religion: Salvation
Army. A few years later, Amy lost all her
possessions in a house fire. Started by a lighted cracker, it was
caught
by a breeze in a bedroom curtain and was undetected until the
place was
alight. It was Christmas day and the Fire Brigade were out to a
dinner and
arrived too late to save anything. Amy could only shut the door
and walk
away. She spent the rest of her life moving from one member of her
large
family to the other. When with Olive and Gilbert at Reefton,
Amy died
aged 87 yrs and was bur; on Aug 3rd 1970 at the Reefton
Cemetery. |
