Signed family name
Fruhstuch
Signed given name
Grace
Given address
Melbourne St
Notes
Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Grace Brook was born about 1855 in Australia, she came to New Zealand and, in 1878, married Dusenius Frühstüch from Denmark.
They had a daughter, Violet Ethel in 1879. Dusenius worked as a gardener and they lived in Kaikorai then later in Melbourne St, Brunswick St and Reid Rd in South Dunedin. Dusenius worked for many years as a gardener for T K Sidey – MP and Mayor of Caversham. He suffered from lung trouble and while going to Middlemarch for his health was thrown from the buggy, a wheel running over him.
He died in 1911, Grace died on 4 August 1939. They are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz