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Alfred South was the ninth child of Samuel South(1). After Samuel(2) had bought out the pottery interest following the death of their father in 1919, Alfred, together with his brothers, Walter and Arthur, founded South Brothers., builders. The company also administered the Estate of Samuel South(1). Married Dolly Rowley. Children: Eric. Ada Beaumont. Children: David |
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Arthur South |
Arthur South was the eighth child of Joseph South(1) and his first wife, Emma Bright. He accompanied his father and step-mother, Mary Ann Dutton, to New Zealand in 1874. Arthur worked at the family brick works and then opened a milliners and dyers business in Dunedin. Later he worked as a hairdresser in Dunedin and moved to North Island in 1917. Married Mary Daly. Children: Arthur, Herbert, Helena. |
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Arthur South was the seventh child of Samuel South(1). After Samuel(2) had bought out the pottery interest following the death of their father in 1919, Arthur, together with his brothers, Walter and Alfred, founded South Brothers., builders. The company also administered the Estate of Samuel South(1). Married Emily Field. Children: Iris, Alec, a RAF Flight Sergeant who died 7 September 1944. |
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Charles South was the eighth child of Samuel South(1). He remained in the family pottery business after, his brother, Samuel(2) had bought out the family interest following the death of their father in 1919. Charles was the traveller visiting customers. He also helped his nephew, Jim South, with advice at his Goffs Oak nursery. Married Florence Montague in 1918. Children: Joan. |
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Charles South, the fifth child of Samuel South(2) entered the family pottery business. He saw active service in Italy with REME during WW2. The joint ownership, together with his brother Samuel(3), of the pottery, passed to him on the death of his father in 1956. Following closure of the potteries in 1960, Charles acquired Croxton Motors, Thetford. Married Ethel Bond in 1933. Children: Brenda and Graham. |
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Cordelia South |
Cordelia South ("Nell) was the third child of Joseph and Mary Ann Dutton born soon after their emigration to New Zealand. She was an excellent seamstress, and contracted TB in her early 20s. After travelling to a remote Central Otago settlement, for the benefits of the climate and where her brother Moses had formerly taught, Cordelia sustained a fatal lung haemorrhage and died there soon after her arrival. She was just 22. |
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Cornelius South |
Cornelius William South ("Will") was the fourh child of Joseph and Mary Ann Dutton After first working at the family brick works he moved south where he was employed as a farm labourer on a series of Southland dairy farms. By 1921 his health was poor and he lived with his brother Ernest and then with his sister Eva until his death in Christchurch in 1930. He never married. |
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Edwin ("Ted") South was the seventh child of Samuel South(2). He worked at the family pottery before enlisting in the Royal Engineers following the outbreak of WW2. He received fatal injuries on 26 May 1940 at Les Moires during the Dunkirk retreat. He left a widow, Gwen, who he had married in July 1939. No children. |
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Elizabeth South ("Bess") was born in Dunedin, the ninth and youngest child of Joseph and Mary Ann Dutton and his eighteenth child. She worked in the china departments of a number of department stores in Dunedin, Timaru and Wellington. She married Rupert Scott, a warehouseman. Later he became a sales representative in Wellington and Dunedin. Children: Judith. |
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Elsie South, born in 1900, was the eldest of the eight children of Samuel South(2). She married Reginald Scapens who, at one time, worked at the South pottery. Children: Stanley, Leslie, David, Roger. |
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Emalene ("Lena") South, the eighth child of Joseph South(1) and his second wife, Mary Ann, was born in 1885 after their emigration to New Zealand in 1874. She was an accomplished pianist and married Herbert Hogarth-Gill, a chemist, in 1908. Their early married life was spent in a pioneering settlement in the South Catlins District of Otago. Children: Alberta, Alfred, Essie, Cleo, Herbert, Arta. |
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Ernest South 1878-1967 |
Ernest South was the sixth son of Joseph and Mary Ann Dutton. He worked at the family brick works. In 1901 he bought the business on his father's retirement and operated it until 1906. Later Ernest was for many years the caretaker of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the North East Valley Town Hall. He married Alice Thorn. Children: Alice, Leila, George, Charles, Clarence, Francis and Jack. |
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Evangeline South ("Eva") was the sixth child of Joseph and Mary Ann Dutton. She married Fredk. Ohlson, a railwayman. The family lived in Christchurch and then in Wellington. Children: Vera, Freda, Francis, Charles, Cyril. |
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Florence South was the second child of Joseph and Mary Ann South. She accompanied her parents to New Zealand in 1874 and married the Rev David Campbell, a Presbyterian Minister. They lived in various Otago parishes and finally in Dunback, Central Otago. Florence died from cancer in 1912. Children: Florence, Thomas, David, Eva, Joseph. |
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Gladys Short, born in 1903, was the third child of Samuel South(2). She married Ernest Short in 1928 and in the early 1950s the family moved to Ashstead, Surrey. Children: Michael, John, Jean. |
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"Harry" South was the seventh child of Joseph South(1) and his second wife, Mary Ann Dutton. He became a succesful book seller establishing South's Book Depot Ltd with a chain of bookshops. The business was sold in 1966. Harry married Gladys Park in 1910 and after her death in 1957 he married Alice Corbett who, also, pre-deceased him. No children. |
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Hilda South was the second child of Samuel South(2). She married Cyril Beech in 1928 and, after the premature death of her husband in 1940, Hilda continued as Managing Director of Resistances Ltd., the company that he had founded in 1938. The business was sold in 1967. Children: Martin, Richard |
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James South ("Jim") is the sixth child of Samuel South(2). He entered the Lea Valley Nursery Industry, initially working for W H Cull and, later, at the Millfield Nursery of H B May until 1935. He acquired his own nursery at Goffs Oak which traded until the early 1950s. Married Minnie Cocks in 1936. Children: Chrisopher, Ann, Stephen, Sarah. |
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John South was the fifth child of Samuel South(1). He remained in the family pottery business after, his brother, Samuel(2) had bought out the family interest following the death of their father in 1919. John worked as the engineer but left in the late 1920s. Married Maud Borley in 1908. Children: Maud, John. |
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Joseph South(1) was born in Barley in 1822. After his marriage to Emma Bright in 1844 he moved south and founded a pottery in Edmonton in 1868. After the death of Emma in the same year, Joseph married Mary Ann Duttton in 1869. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1874 where he founded a brickmaking business. The pottery was sold to his third son, Samuel South(1). |
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Joseph South(2), the eldest of the nine children of Joseph(1) and Emma Bright, was born in Ware and married Sarah Webb in 1870. It is believed that he worked at the Dyson's Road pottery. Joseph stayed in the UK with his younger brothers, Solomon and Samuel(1), when their father left for New Zealand in 1874. By the 1890s Joseph was was renting a brickfield at Bury Street, Edmonton. He suffered a minor injury in a fall at the brickfield on 26 January 1897 and died four weeks later from a blood clot. Children: Emily, Florence. |
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Joyce South was the youngest of the eight children of Samuel South(2). After working in the City of London, she joined the family pottery business in the office and continued, latterly as part-time wages clerk, until the pottery closed in 1960. In 1940, Joyce married Harry Barker who pre-deceased her in 1959. Children: Kenneth, Donald. |
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Keziah South was the sixth child of Joseph South(1) and his first wife, Emma Bright. She accompanied her father and step-mother, Mary Ann Dutton, to New Zealand in 1874. Keziah was widowed in 1886, six years after her mariage to Thomas Clarkson. Children: Thomas, Fredk, Maude, Jack. |
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Moses South was the ninth child of Joseph South(1) and his first wife, Emma Bright. He accompanied his father and step-mother, Mary Ann Dutton, to New Zealand in 1874. Moses trained as a teacher and spent many years at Nuhaka, Hawkes Bay, teaching Maori children. He married Emma Dodd in 1903 and, in later life, was an Elder of the Presbyterian Church. Children: Lawrence, Leslie, Joyce, Muriel. |
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Samuel South(1) was the fifth child of Joseph South(1). He entered the pottery business founded by his father and which he bought when Joseph emigrated in 1874. In 1886 he transferred the pottery to a much larger site in White Hart Lane, Tottenham and expanded into brick- making, cartage and property. Married Alice Barnard in 1875. Children: Samuel, Alice, Walter, Maud, John, Ethel, Arthur, Charles, Alfred, Lily. |
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Samuel South(2) was the eldest of the ten children of Samuel South(1) and entered the family pottery business at the age of 12. On the death of his father in 1919 he bought out the other family interests and became the sole owner. The business flourished during the 1920s and 1930s but did not fully overcome the enforced closure during WW2. Married Emily Maud King in 1898. Children: Elsie, Hilda, Gladys, Samuel, Samuel, Charles, James, Edwin, Joyce. |
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Samuel South(3), the fourth child of Samuel(2) entered the family pottery business. He saw active service with the Royal Artillery in Burma during WW2. The ownership of the pottery, passed to him and his brother Charles. Married to Mary Brown. Children: Peter, Margaret Kathleen. |
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Walter South was the third child of Samuel South(1) and entered the family pottery business. After Samuel(2) had bought out the pottery interest following the death of their father in 1919, Walter founded South Brothers., builders, with his younger brothers, Alfred and Arthur. The company also administered the Estate of Samuel(1). Married Edith Cook in 1914. Children: Kitty, Doris. |
