Biography contributed by Bernadette Siebert
Mary Elizabeth Warren was born in Thames in 1871, the second of 12 children of Philip Warren and Selina nee Jones. Philip was of Irish stock and Selina from Staffordshire, England. Mary Elizabeth was known as Minnie by the family.
On 1 Apr 1896 at the home of Mrs H Pilcher, Rocky Nook, Mary Elizabeth married Arthur Haslock Yeoman. Arthur was a 26-year-old clerk, who was born in Mt Eden, Auckland, the son of Richard Henry and Elizabeth nee Coates. (Mrs Hannah Pilcher was the sister of Mary’s mother Selina).
Mary and Arthur settled down in central Auckland and had five children:
- Leonard Haslock (1897–1961)
- Daisy Mildred (1899–1980)
- Clifford Arnold (1901–1985)
- Esme Kathleen (1905–1971)
- Eileen Mabel Phyllis (1907–1971)
The family were members of the Mount Eden Congregational Church and they were part of the bowling community. Arthur served as secretary to the Balmoral Bowling Club for 25 years and the Auckland Bowling Club for 15 years as treasurer. His administrative acumen was praised in newspaper columns. When the headquarters of the New Zealand Bowling Association were in Auckland he was treasurer of that body on a number of occasions. By 1915 the family were settled at Eglinton Avenue in Mt Eden, the address where Mary died suddenly in 1927 in her fifty-sixth year. She was buried in the Hillsborough Cemetery.
When Arthur died in 1936, aged 66, he had been a clerk for the law firm now known as Hesketh, Richmond, Adams, and Cocker for 50 years, having joined it when he was 16. In his will worth 500 pounds, Arthur left his gold presentation watch to his eldest son Leonard, his gold life membership medal to son Clifford, 100 pounds to each child except Eileen, and the rest including insurance to be sold and held in trust for his remaining unmarried child Eileen.
Mary Elizabeth is the daughter of 380 S WARREN Port Fitzroy
Sources
Intentions to Marry Jan-Jun 1896
Archway probate Arthur
PAPERS PAST Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 188, 11 August 1927, Page 1
PAPERS PAST Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 79, 2 April 1936, Page 5
Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com)
Historical BDMs