Was the governess and then step mother of Lilian Tomkins (nee Crab)
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
Was the governess and then step mother of Lilian Tomkins (nee Crab)
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
This is pure legend, and false. Annie was born in New Zealand, her birth cert is readily available here in New Zealand.
Annie Crabb nee Henson was born in New Zealand. Lilian Jane Crabb came to New Zealand in 1881 and was born in 1865 in Somerset England. She would have been 16. Maybe her father Hugh engaged Annie to be her companion in Halcombe, a fairly raw community at the time. Annie's father was farming at Mangaone farm, not far away.
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