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Mabel Kate
Herring
Birth: 1874 ,ST LEONARDS
NSW Reg. No. 5839/1874
Death: 25/Nov/1942 in Moss Vale NSW [Australia]
Buried In the Old Berrima Cemetery (Church Of England
Section) at Berrima NSW [Australia]
Sex: F
Father:
Lesley George Herring
Mother: Kate
EmilyTucker
Spouses & Children
Husband: Maurice Myles
Witts: born 28/ Feb/1877 in NSW., [Australia] died
1/Sep/1966 in Moss Vale NSW
[Australia]
Buried in the Old Berrima Cemetery (Church Of England
Section) at Berrima NSW
[Australia]
Children
1. Helen Kate WITTS: b.23
/Oct/1907: in Santo: New
Hebrides
2. Betty Lesley WITTS: b.
13/july/1912: in Moss Vale: NSW Australia
3.
Nancy Mabel WITTS: b.
25/Dec/1912: in Moss Vale: NSW Australia
The following note was copied from Legion of Frontiersmen
(New
Zealand) Command�s Web
Site
Maurice Myles WITTS
Maurice Myles Witts was born in
Bombala, NSW in 1877 and died in Moss Vale, NSW in 1966. During
1899-1900 he worked for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. in
Fiji. In 1900 he enlisted
in the Mounted Rifles and fought in the Boer War, after which he was
discharged as a Sergeant in 1902. In 1904 he moved to Espiritu Santo
in the New Hebrides where he established a coconut plantation at
Hog
Harbour. In
1904 he married Mabel Herring (born Sydney, 1877) on Santo. The Witts
returned to Australia about
1913.
In a diary of Mabel Witts, 7 February
to 4 November 1909, it describes daily life at Hog Harbour, including the birth of
daughter Helen in October 1909. Family correspondence, business and
other documents, 1900-17, 1931, 1941, 1968. Includes personal and
official letters, printed material and other papers documenting inter
alia: Maurice Witts' work in Fiji, 1900; Boer War service,
1902; planting activities on Santo, 1905; membership of the Legion of
Frontiersmen, 1906-7; marriage in 1907; appointment as a police constable,
1911; and purchase of property at Wyong, NSW, 1911. Also includes letters
from Witts to daughter Betty, 1931 and wife Mabel, 1941 and a letter from
a firm of Port Vila Solicitors to Mrs Betty Tyler of Moss Vale re the
ownership of Lathu Island off Hogg Harbour,
1968. |