Selwyn Times: December 02, 2020

Wednesday December 2 2020 Selwyn Times
• By Matt Slaughter
HALF A WORLD away in
England, Barbara Hind is
on the search for more
information about her
grandmother Annie Spring,
who lived in Weedons.
Hind is 74 and has never been
to New Zealand but wants to
know more about the 30 years
Annie spent here, including 13
in Weedons.
Annie moved to New Zealand
from Maryport, Cumberland,
England, some time between
1921 and 1928.
She married John Spring some
time after arriving.
The couple lived in Weedons
from about 1946 until John’s
death in 1957. Annie moved
back to England in 1959.
They had previously lived
on Ferry Rd, Woolston, in
Timaru and other parts of
Canterbury.
Said Hind: “She obviously met
John Spring sometime before
1928 as the records for that year
show them living together at 8
Ferry Rd, Canterbury. By 1935
they were shown as married,
but I have not been able to find
a record.
“The records always show
John as a labourer, although
in 1946 when they were living
in Weedons he is shown as a
farmer.
“Annie was always shown as
a housewife. They lived there
[Weedons] until John’s death,
aged 70, in 1957. I have not
been able to find a record of any
children.”
After Annie died in 1961, her
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Tracing a long lost grandmother
FAMILY HISTORY: Annie Spring lived in Weedons for 13
years in the mid-1900s and her grandaughter in England
Barbara Hind wants to know more about her. ​
will left everything to Muriel
Feast, the wife of Harry Feast of
Rolleston, and James Lancaster
of Lincoln.
“I came across her will while
doing family history research
Do you have any
connection to or know
anything about the
life of Annie Spring?
Email matt.slaughter@
starmedia.kiwi if you have
any information on her
but I have no idea who the two
beneficiaries were. I know nothing
of her friends,” said Hind.
Annie was married in the
United Kingdom, she had
children, one of whom was
Hind’s mother, but the marriage
broke down soon after World
War 1. Hind presumes this
was why she emigrated to New
Zealand.
Annie died at the age of 76 in
Keswick, England.
NEWS 13
Scholarship
presented
to student
VIRGINIA HOGAN was recently
presented with the 2020 West
Melton Scholarship in front of a
packed assembly of West Melton
School students.
Water management
and irrigation
expert Terry
Heiler, whose
career spanned
about 50 years,
presented her
with the award.
Panel convener
Alastair Nicol
said at the assembly,
Virginia not
Virginia
Hogan
only had a good academic record
during her Lincoln University
degree in environment science and
management, she also had such
extensive involvement in coaching
sports teams, taking young people
on overseas trips, and with the
Pink Ribbon campaign.
Heiler complimented Hogan on
applying for, and being so successful
in, her involvement in a large
number of environmental and
water-related projects between her
university studies.
Hogan thanked the selection
panel and Heiler and told those
at the assembly to take every
opportunity and to “step out of
their comfort zone” and give
things a go.
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