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Descendants
of Zohrab of the Manuchariants
The Family of Constantine
Ernest Henry ("Ern") Zohrab |
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The sixth child of Tino and Edith, the
second son, Ern lost his ambition to go to sea after a 17-day crossing
of the stormy Tasman Sea to Sydney in the sailing ship "G M Tucker".
City life was not his choice, so he opted for the freedom of the country,
and farmed at different times in Kimbolton, Matamata, Te Awamutu (on
the North Island) and Hororata (on the South Island, near Canterbury).
He loved animals and growing crops. He married Bertha Alice
Henley ("Birdie") in Wanganui in 1900, and they had two
sons, Constantine Eric Zohrab and Geoffrey Paul Zohrab, and three
daughters, Gladys Edith Beatrice ("Peggy" or "Pegs")
Batten, Joyce Bertha Rowell and Nancy Melita Scotland.
Constantine Edward ("Tino")
and Edith Zohrab's son, Constantine
Ernest Henry ("Ern") Zohrab, also named one of his
children Constantine (Constantine Eric ("Eric") Zohrab),
who went on to also name one of his children Constantine (Constantine
Howard Zohrab). However, the line of Constantine Zohrabs then
(fortunately or unfortunately) ran out, for the reason that Constantine
Howard Zohrab named his sons Tony (See: http://www.maf.govt.nz/food/images/people/tonyz.gif)
, Gary, and Roger !
Constantine Eric
Zohrab ("Eric"), Ern's and
Birdie's first born, decided in 1920 that farming in Canterbury,
which the previous winter had experienced three feet (one metre)
of snow, was not for him, so he left the family farm and joined
the gang erecting the power line from the power station at Lake
Coleridge to the town of Ashburton. He then joined the staff of
the Ashburton Power Board, remaining there until his retirement
to Christchurch. His bride, Ngaire Emma Webster Kerr, came
from Westport, where her father was the Postmaster. Eric and
Ngaire had one daughter, Ruth, who married Trevor McIlroy and lived
in Christchurch, New Zealand. There were three McIlroy children:
Erika, Mark and Coram. Erika and Coram excelled in ballet
dancing. Eric and Ngaire also had one son, Constantine Howard
Zohrab, who moved to Australia, married Julie Nicoll, and had
(Dr.) Anthony
(Tony) Howard Zohrab, Gary Stewart Zohrab, and Roger Lloyd Zohrab.
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Gladys Edith Beatrice
("Peggy" or "Pegs") Zohrab,
second child of Ern and Birdie, qualified as a kindergarten teacher
and continued her interest in that age-group of children for many years,
finally becoming the President of the Auckland Free Kindergarten Association.
She married Herbert Charles ("Mex") Batten, having two children,
Garrick and Angela. Garrick joined the Department of Agriculture
as a farm adviser and was Agricultural Attache at the New Zealand High
Commission in London. He had three daughters with his first wife,
Jenny: Amanda, Leigh and Kate. When Jenny died, he married Ann
and aopted her son, Ben. Angela married Richard Woodyear-Smith,
and their children were John, Stephen and Julie.
Joyce Bertha Zohrab,
third child of Ern and Birdie, after two or three office jobs, became
one of the staff of the Welfare department of Wellington Hospital, and
during the terrible 1930s saw many cases of destitution and hardship.
She always did her best to help people. Joyce married William
Mervyn Rowell, and they had three children: Janice (Jan), Grant and
Phillipa ("Pippa"), who married Roger Waldegrave.
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Geoffrey (Geoff) Paul Zohrab,
fourth child and second son of Ern and Birdie, followed in his father's
footsteps in farming, for a while. After war service in World
War II, he opened his own public accountancy practice in 1945 in Hamilton.
His first retirement took him to Whitianga, and he represented that
area on the Thames Coromandel District Council. In 1983 he moved
to Auckland. Geoffrey and his wife Frances Maude (nee Gainsford)
had three children: Diana, who married Frederik Houtman, Carol, who
married Ettore Brunello and Nigel Eric Gainsford ("Gain")
Zohrab, who married Mavis Gore. Diana's children were Geoffrey,
Matthew and Susan, Carol's children were Jonathan and Sally, and Gain's
children were Nicola and Belinda.
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Carol Brunello (nee Zohrab)
and her sister, Diana Houtman (nee Zohrab) in Australia in 2007
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Nancy ("Nan") Melita Zohrab,
fifth and last child of Ern and Birdie, married Sydney Alan Scotland
in 1937. They had four children, Anthony ("Tony"), Susan
("Sue"), Lyndsay ("Lyn") and James ("Jim").
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Latest Update |
28 September 2015
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