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Hello Ngairedith.
That is a coincidence, coming across your Blewden names after having exchanged messages earlier. I have been researching Beatrice Lillian Scott who I think married Peter Sydney Enting somtime between 1938 and 1946. I found that Peter Enting had married Eileen May Blewden in 1924. Do you have a death date for her ?.
A relative had told me that Beatrice Lillian Scott had married an Enting. I found that in the 1946 Timaru Electral Roll Beatrice and Peter were both living at the same address, 16 Collingwood St, Timaru. Therefore seems that the two were married.
Beatrice Lillian Scott was the daughter of my grandfather's (Alfred Vickers Scott) brother (George Litson Scott). I don't have a great deal of information on George Litson Scott. Only found out he was my grandfather's brother about two weeks ago.
The following was extracted from Ancestry.com Library Edition, NZ Electoral Rolls.
1938 Eileen May Enting, Timaru
1938 Beatrice Lilian Scott, Avon, Christchurch.
1946 Eileen May Enting, 183 Wai-iti St, Timaru
1946 Beatrice Lilian ENTING, 16 Collingwood St, Timaru.
1946 Peter Sydney Enting, 16 Collingwood St, Timaru.
1963 Eileen May Enting, 30 Grove St, St Kilda, Dunedin
1969 Eileen May Enting, 30 Nelson St, Fielding.
1972 Eileen May Enting, 30 Nelson St, Fielding.
1972 Peter Sydney Enting, 42 Tawa St, Timaru. Real Estate Agent.
1972 Beatrice Lilian Enting, 42 Tawa St, Timaru. Housewife.
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Would love to be in touch with any Blewden researchers as I believe I am able to add more information regarding the UK Blewdens.
Hi - I came across your posting whilst doing research on the Soar family. Mary Ann Blewden was my great great grandmother through her marriage to John Hutchinson Soar. I am the great grand daughter of Richard Soar # 3 and grand daughter of Frederick Charles Soar. I have a number of copies of a booklet that was produced in 1988 "Quarantined on arrival: the Soar family in New Zealand, 1863-1988" that you referred to above and can forward some copies if you would like them. It refers to Mary Ann and details of their journey to NZ in 1863. I work in the family business Soar Printing in Auckland and we printed the book for the anniversary. I would be interested in any further information you have on Mary Ann Blewden - previously Soar and nee Bower.
Regards,
Jenny Carter
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Hello I would also like to be in touch with any Blewden descendants, and still hope to make a visit to NZ in the not too distant future and woukd hope to visit places connected to William Blewden as well as meet some folk! Sadly very few of our branch of Blewdens still living and yet the sons and daughters of William Blewden and Ann Soar in NZ meant that NZ has many more descedants from the family who origins can be found in Wiltshire for many generations then Portmouth, Hampshire...where then dispersed.