Left to Right - William Walker, Roy and Lily, Jessie Burrow. 1920, Dunedin, New Zealand
The children grew up and eventually moved away.
William Burrow, the eldest son, was hit in a motorcar accident in Featherston (north of Wellington) in 1914. Apparently he was bending down to pick up his hat which must have blown off his head. He died at Greytown Hospital, aged 25 years old (and 8 months to be precise), and was buried in an unmarked grave on an undertakers certificate. William's grave now has a gravestone.
William had been working in Featherston as a Cheese factory employee. He must have kept pretty much to himself as there are not a lot of details on his death certificate. His friends or his employer knew he was William Burrow Junior, so that meant his father had to be William as well. Someone said or guessed that he was 24 years old. There is no information on his mother or where he was born. But he was known to be not married.
Mabel and Edith stayed at home with their parents. Edith went to the Sumner School for the Deaf where she did learn to read and write. Neither of them ever married. Mabel died of cancer in 1961 and Edith died in a seniors home in Dunedin in 1975.
The eldest daughter Bessie Jane Burrow married twice. Her first marriage was in October 1907 to Frederick Michael McEneany. He was born in St Bathans in Central Otago in 1882, and died in Dunedin in 1918. As far as I can tell, there were no children. In 1924 Bessie Jane married again. This time to Edward Bentall Collis. Edward was born in Essex, England in 1885 and he died in Balclutha in 1936. Bessie and Edward had 2 sons, 5 grandchildren and at last count, 13 great grandchildren.
Edward Collis's father was David Collis, and his grandfathers name was John Collis. Edward's uncle was one Samuel Bentall Collis. Samuel murdered the local bailiff in September 1896. After his trial and conviction, Samuel was eventually committed to a Criminal Lunatic Asylum where he died 3 years later.
James Burrow married Mary McLennan and (at last count) had 6 children, 21 grandchildren, and obviously a large number of great grandchildren. Rewa Bryson was one of the great-grandchildren. She was killed by David Gray during the Aramoana Massacre on 13 November 1990, in which 13 people died. Rewa Bryson was only 11 years old. I knew Rewa Bryson and her family very well. They were our next door neighbours when Rewa was growing up. It was a great surprise when I discovered that they were cousins as well.
Jessie and Lily both moved to Dunedin before World War One broke out. They boarded with a family in Mornington, and worked at the Roslyn Woollen Mills before and during the war years. They also went to the local Mornington Baptist Church. That is where they met their future husbands.
Lily Burrow married Roy (my grandfather, whose family were pretty much all of Scottish and celtic origin) in 1920 after his Army Service. Roy has been injured at the Battle of Messine in France on June 7th, 1917. He was sent to England where he recovered and eventually came home on a hospital ship called "Marama". After convalescing, Roy joined his fathers Boot Factory, rising to become the manager until the factory was closed in 1966. Lily and Roy had 4 children. At last count they also had 10 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren. I believe there are a few great-great-grandchildren as well. Lily died in 1969 aged 72, after suffering osteo-arthritis for many years. Roy died of cancer in 1989 aged 95.
Below is a photo of Lily and Roy's wedding.
Left to Right - William Walker, Roy and Lily, Jessie Burrow. 1920, Dunedin, New Zealand
Jessie Burrow married William Walker and they lived in Brighton, just south of Dunedin for many years. Jessie and William were the witnesses at Lily's wedding. Laurel writes about spending summer holidays at Brighton before and during World War Two, where she and her siblings and her Walker cousins had fun playing on the beach and the sand dunes, building sand-castles with moats, playing in the creek, climbing all over the rocks and paddling canoes. The sea was not safe for swimming, (There is still a very bad rip-tide at Brighton Beach) and only paddling close to shore under supervision was allowed. Jessie's son was in the Royal Navy serving aboard the HMS Leander during this time.
The four youngest sons of William and Mary (George, Earnest, John and Frederick) all married and had children and grandchildren as well. While I do have some names, I have very few other details. I do know that Earnest died in Balclutha in 1992, John died in Waikouaiti (just north of Dunedin) in 1988, and Frederick died in Mosgiel in 1991. Oh yes, and in 1947 George and his wife Winnifred were living in Westport on the West Coast.