FAMILY TREE OF FRANCES MANDERSON (*29) AND HUBERT HART
(*asterisk number relates to the Manderson Family Tree number)
Frances Ann Beatrice MANDERSON (*29). Born September 1891 in Brunner.
NZL. Died Runanga NZ 1966. Aged 75 years.
She married Hubert HART, 1910. Born UK 1 September 1884, Birmingham
England Died Runanga NZ 1973, aged 89 years. Occupation fitter and turner.
“Hubert served in the Boer War for three years, 1899-1901. There he became friendly
with the New Zealand troopers who invited him to NZ. He travelled out from
Birmingham England, in 1906, on the same ship as Premier Richard John Seddon
died.” (the Oswestry Grange). He was involved in making the first electric lights in
the Southern Hemisphere, at Reefton. His war experiences were taped for NZ
National Radio.
They had the following children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Hubert John Hart
Reginald Warick Hart
Peter Albert Hart
Norman Francis Hart
John Edwards Hart
1. Hubert John HART (*110 i). Born 8 February 1911 in Runanga. Died 4
October 2001 in Greymouth aged 90 years. Buried in Greymouth. Occupation school teacher/headmaster.
His Teachers Training College education was interrupted by the Second World War
when he was “drafted” into Fort Dorset and subsequent “volunteering” into
mines/forestry/railways for further production requirements. After discharge, he
completed his university training with a B.A. and a Diploma in teaching. He spent
much of his time teaching at schools on the West Coast, including Runanga Primary
School, where he was still working in his 70’s. He encouraged many students to take
on the teaching profession and was regarded as an excellent mentor of young
teachers.
He did not marry.
2. Reginald Warwick HART (*111 ii). Born 1st May 1912 (at the Camp) died 23rd
July 2003 aged 91 years. Occupation – butcher, fisherman, driller.
Reg was born at Coal Creek and spent most of his working life in and around
Runanga. He began his working life as a butcher’s apprentice, eventually
establishing his own business in Runanga. In 1939 he sold the butchery business to
finance the purchase of a fishing boat in the East Coast of the North Island New
Zealand, between Gisborne and Waihau Bay, out of which he fished for the next 4
years. On returning to Runanga, he worked for most of the rest of his life in the coal
mining industry as an exploratory driller at the Liverpool and Strongman State mines.
Upon retirement in 1972 he built and launched a 50 foot steel fishing boat, the Grace
Mary, which is still fishing out of the port of Greymouth.
Reg married Aisla LITTLE, born 26July 1918 at Greymouth and died, while on
holiday in Auckland. They had 7 children.
2.1 Reginald George Hart born 5 January 1936
2.2 Pamela Ann Hart born 5 February 1939
2.3 Mary Elizabeth Hart born 14 June 1941(died 6 May 2000)
2.4 Hubert William Hart born 8 September 1942
2.5 George Thomas Hart born 30 December 1947
2.6 Richard John Hart born 31 August 1952
2.7 Aisla Josephine Hart born 4 October 1957
3. Peter Albert HART(*112 iii). Born 27 May 1914 in Runanga NZ. Died 27
February 1009 at Ashburton. Occupation – farmer.
He was with the RNZAF during WW2 and on return to NZ ,went to Christchurch to
play rugby league for Sunnyside, a top competition team. He played representative
league for Canterbury, the South Island and was selected for the NZ squad.
Unfortunately, a knee injury curtailed his sport. He worked as nurse at Sunnyside
Hospital where he met his wife-to-be. He then bought a farm and for the rest of his
working life he farmed a partially irrigated mixed sheep and cropping farm at
Lauriston near Asburton.
He married Frances Winifred Thwaites on 12 December 1942 and they had 3
children
3.1 Nan Marie Hart born 27 August 1943
3.2 Barbara (Pixie) Hart born 6 February 1946
3.3 Nicola Joy Hart born 21 May 1961
4. Norman Francis (Frank) HART (*113 iv). Born 3 June 1919 in Runanga, died
30 June 1967 in Christchurch aged 48 years. Buried in Linwood, Christchurch.
Occupation – miner, market gardener.
He spent his early working years based at Runanga/Dunollie working at Rewanui
State Mine and Boot and Party Mine, and also as assistant station master at Dunollie.
In 1955 he shifted to Christchurch and extended his lifelong interest in gardening by
developing a market garden including glasshouses, and continuing his daffodil
growing. He was the first tomato producer in Canterbury to use fertigation
(providing fertiliser to plants using irrigation). He was a regular judge of daffodils
for the West Coast Horticultural Society annual show.
On 20 February 1942, he married Dorothy Marna Bretherton. They had 4 children:
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
Grace Gertrude Hart born 19 October 1942
Norman David Hart born 15 July 1944
Frances Dorothy Hart born 9 November 1946
Joan Elizabeth Hart born 8 December 1953
5. John (Jack) Edwards HART (*114 v). Born 3 October 1928 at Runanga NZ.
Occupation – methods engineer, factory manager.
After finishing secondary schooling at Greymouth High, he attended the School of
Minung at both Canterbury and Otago Universities combined with work in L Moore
and Party Mine and also the Strongman Mine. In 1950 he went to the UK where he
worked in Midlands and Hampstead mines, and from 1953 to 1957, in South Africa
and Rhodesia for the De Beeres Mining Company on coal and copper. He returned to
England in 1957 and worked as a methods engineer for Southall Textile Company
before returning to NZ . For 2 years he was a methods engineer for Lane Walker
Rudkins (textile and clothing manufactures) at Christchurch before being transferred
to the company’s Ashburton factory initially as a “trouble-shooter” and than as
manager. He retired in Ashburton.
In 1952, he married Barbara Startin, who died November 2003 at Ashburton. There
were no children.