Marie Moller

Dorothy Pilkington Posted: 27 Aug 2022

The surname is incorrectly transcribed. This should read as Moller not Noller.
Marie Christiane Moller arrived in New Zealand from Norway during the 1860s. She was, according to a report in the New Zealand Herald ( 8 August 1900) the daughter of a clergyman. She was an accomplished musician and singer, and performed throughout the country. The family lived in Auckland, Wellington, and Nelson before moving to Palmerston North in the late 1880s. At the time of her death on August 3, 1900, aged 67 the Herald states she had lived in Palmerston North for 13 years. According to one report she was "at one time organist of St Paul's Church, Auckland". Her husband was Johan Lauritz Moller and their son Olaf Moller managed the Palmerton North Sash and Door Factory. When she signed the petition the family lived in Broad Street near to the flour mill and saw milling business her son was involved with. One of the couple's three daughters was the wife of Jacob Nannestad, one of the partners in the milling business. Johan died in 1907. Marie Christiane and her husband are buried together in the Terrace End Cemetery.

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