Elinor McLAREN [Nellie]

1891 - 1971  (79 years)

• Name	Elinor McLAREN
  Known As	Nellie
  Birth	14 Apr 1891	Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Education	1897  [2]
  	Devonport, Auckland,
  Death	20 Mar 1971	Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand   [1, 3]
  Probate	26 Mar 1971	Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand   [4]
  Burial	Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand   [5]
  Person ID	I30	NZ Genealogy Project | DUXFIELD Descendant, McLERNON Descendant
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2018

  
  

  Father	Thomas McLERNON [Thomas McLAREN],   b. 21 Jul 1862, Carmavy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland d. 30 Apr 1958, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand (Age 95 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Sarah DUXFIELD [Lizzie],   b. 03 Aug 1861, Willington, Northumberland, England d. 12 Sep 1944, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	10 Apr 1889	Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand   [6]
  Residence	1896	Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand   [7]
  Residence	From 1905 to 1928	Manawaru, Waikato, New Zealand   [7, 8]
  Residence	From 1935 to 1958	Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand   [7]
  Family ID	F38	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alban George RUSHBROOKE,   b. 07 Aug 1885, Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England d. 21 Jul 1933, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	15 Aug 1914	Manawaru, Waikato, New Zealand   [9]
  Residence	1919	Manawaru, Waikato, New Zealand   [7]
  Notes	WEDDING. RUSHBROOKE - McLAREN A pretty wedding that created a great amount of interest at Manawaru was celebrated in Christ's Church (Anglican) at Manawaru on Wednesday, the Rev. H M. Smyth being the officiating minister. The contracting parties were Miss Elinor McLaren eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs T. McLaren, of Manawaru, and Mr Alban George Rusbbrooke, eldest son of Mr and Mrs E. E. Rushbrooke of Te Mawhai, Te Awamutu. There was a large attendance of relatives and friends of the young couple at the church which presented quite a pretty scene when the bride arrived accompanied by her father and bridesmaids. The party entered and left the Church to the strains of Mendelsohn's wedding march played by Mrs Robert Duxfield. When leaving the Church, the children from the school paraded outside and showered an immense amount of confetti on the young couple. The bride was attired in cream crystaline silk with allover silk lace and wore a veil, court train and orange blossoms. She also carried a shower bouquet of asparagus, maiden-hair fern, heath and narcissi. The bridesmaids, Misses Bessie and Ethel McLaren, sisters of the bride, both wore dresses of cream radianta trimmed with cream lace, insertion and buttons and cream mob caps trimmed with white lace. Both carried shepherd's crooks with white flowers and streamers. The bride was given away by her father. The bridegroom's presents to the bridesmaids were handsome greenstone broaches mantled with heavy gold. Mr Ernest Rushbrooke, brother of the bridegroom attended his brother as best man. The presents on view at the bride's home were of a beautiful and useful nature, and included several cheques and a silver kettle and spirit lamp from the adherents of the Manawaru Anglican Church. About forty-five guests assembled at the home of the bride's parents to partake in the wedding feast, and the tables presented a pretty array. These were profusely decorated with jonquils and narcissi, and carried a really sumptuous repast, including an elaborate three decker cake, manufactured by Messrs Wigg & Co. The toast of the Bride and Bridegroom was proposed by Rev. Smyth, and that of the parents of the Bride and Bridegroom by Mr R. L. Somers. The young couple left by motor car for Hamilton, from whence they will proceed to tour the Auckland Province. They will afterwards take up their residence at Te Mawhai. ' Source: Te Aroha News, 7 August 1914, page 2.
  Children	+ 1. Alban James RUSHBROOKE [Jim Rushbrooke],   b. 18 Apr 1915, Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand d. 27 Jun 1993, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand (Age 78 years)   2. Joan Elinor RUSHBROOKE,   b. 05 Jul 1921, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand d. 10 Aug 1991, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand (Age 70 years) + 3. Alisa Elizabeth RUSHBROOKE,   b. 08 Mar 1923, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand d. 18 Mar 1982, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (Age 59 years) + 4. Ethel Mary RUSHBROOKE,   b. 17 Oct 1925, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand d. 05 Sep 2015, Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand (Age 89 years) + 5. Ena RUSHBROOKE,   b. 16 Aug 1932, Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand d. 11 Apr 1985, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (Age 52 years)
  Family ID	F12	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2024

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 14 Apr 1891 - Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand Marriage - 15 Aug 1914 - Manawaru, Waikato, New Zealand Residence - 1919 - Manawaru, Waikato, New Zealand Death - 20 Mar 1971 - Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Probate - 26 Mar 1971 - Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Burial - - Te Aroha, Waikato, New Zealand  = Link to Google Earth
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  1921 Letter from Northern Ireland - Transcript Transcript of a letter from Elizabeth McLaren (nee DUXFIELD) to her eldest daughter Elinor Rushbrooke (nee McLAREN). The letter was written while Thomas and Elizabeth McLaren were staying with relatives in Northern Ireland, near Carmavey in County Antrim where Thomas had grown up.

  
  

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  Albums		Rushbrooke, Alban and Elinor (9) Photos of Alban and Elinor Rushbrooke and their children.
  		McLaren, Thomas and Elizabeth (8) Photographs of Thomas McLERNON (1862-1958), known as Thomas McLaren, his wife Elizabeth Sarah DUXFIELD (1861-1944), their children and grandchildren.

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY Elinor McLaren, known as Nellie, was the eldest daughter of Thomas McLernon and Elizabeth Duxfield, born on 14 April 1891 in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand. She attended school at Devonport and moved with her family to Manawaru in 1906 when her father started farming there. Nellie married Alban Rushbrooke in 1914 and they planned to live at Te Awamutu. Within days of Alban and Nellie returning from their honeymoon, Alban began vomiting blood. He had an aneurysm in his stomach. After three months they moved to Manawaru and lived with Nellie's family. In 1921 Alban purchased a business in Te Aroha with stables, wood and coal merchandising and horse haulage. Alban and Nellie had five children. Alban died in August 1933 at Te Aroha aged 48, leaving a family of five children aged between 1 and 18 years. Nellie's son Jim ran the wood and coal merchant business after Alban died. Nellie raised her family in Te Aroha. After her children had all married Nellie moved to a smaller house in the same Te Aroha street (Gordon Ave) as her parents and son. She regularly visited her daughters and their families. In about 1956 Nellie moved to Hamilton, purchasing a house next to her youngest daughter Ena. In 1963 she moved to Auckland having purchased a house close to Ena and her family, following Ena's husband's job moving from AFFCO Hamilton to their Auckland wharf cool stores. Nellie died on 20 Mar 1971 in Auckland. Both Alban and Nellie were buried in Te Aroha.

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Jenny Miller, Auckland, NZ, Descendents of Thomas McLaren, (Jenny Miller, Jan 2003). [S65] Address to Queen Victoria 1897, (Auckland City Libraries 2004), none. Name - McLaren, Nellie; School - Devonport [S10] New Zealand Registrar-General's Office, NZ Register of Deaths - Indexes. Elinor Rushbrooke, 79, Te Aroha, 1971 #963 [S17] David Bryant, NZSG Index, (New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc., 2005). Probate Record. Elinor Rushbrooke, Auckland, Widow. Court: Auckland. Archives reference BBAE 1570 0830/71. Probate number 0830/71 filed 26 Mar 1971. Type Will. [S26] New Zealand Society of Genealogists, NZ Cemetery Records, (New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc 1985). Te Aroha Cemetery headstone: Alban G., husband of Elinor Rushbrooke, died 21 August 1933 aged 47. Also his wife Elinor, died 20 March 1971 aged 79. [S14] Jenny Miller, Auckland, NZ, Descendents of Thomas McLaren, (Jenny Miller, Jan 2003). Married at St. Lukes Church, Mt. Albert, Auckland. [S614] NZ Electoral Rolls, 1853-2010, (Ancestry.co.uk.), none. [S604] Diane Wilson, NZ 1911 Electoral Roll, (New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc., 2010). [S86] New Zealand Registrar-General's Office, NZ Register of Marrages - Indexes. Alban George RUSHBROOKE and Elinor McLAREN #6715 1914