ETHELBERT WILFRED GREG RATHBONE⁽⁷⁶¹⁾

• Birth: 19 Oct 1866, Liverpool, Lancs. (Ratbone Register). This date is also listed in the IGI, based on a member submission without information as to source. There is a GRO births index entry him for the Dec quarter of 1866 (W. Derby, 8b, 307).
• Christening:not known.
• Death: 02 May 1911, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand (Ratbone Register).
• Burial: 03 May 1911, Purewa Cemetery, Auckland, plot E/49/76.
• Occupation: journalist.

Census data

• England Census 1871: Aged 4, already described as a scholar, living at Greenbank Cottage, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, with his parents: Philip (42) & Jane (37) and siblings: Alfred S. (17), Herbert R. (9), Edmund H. (7) and Ethel M. L. (1). a visitor: Allen BRODERICK (b. c1847) and six servants.
• England Census 1881: None of the children are at Greenbank Cottage, and my guess is that he was at Clifton College, which he left at the end of the 2nd term of 1882, when he was 15 or 16 (Clifton College Register).

He emigrated to New Zealand prior to 1893, became a succssful journalist, and was the editor of the New Zealand Graphic, Ladies Journal and Youths Companion. This journal was founded by Henry Brett in 1890, introducing photo-engraving to New Zealand.

Marriage

• Marriage: 18 Mar 1893, Auckland, New Zealand (Rathbone Register). New Zealand BMD index has 1893, 62.
• Spouse: Ellen "Helen" Butler LUSK.
  • Birth: 27 Mar 1871, Mauku, New Zealand (Rathbone Register).
  • Christening: not known.
  • Death: 02 Jan 1966, Kerikeri, New Zealand (Rathbone Register).
  • Burial: cremated on 05 Jan 1966 at Purewa Crematorium, Auckland (Purewa Cemetery, Microfiche Index).
  • Father: Daniel Henderson LUSK (1833-1921).
  • Mother: Ellen Harriet BUTLER (1843-1909).

  Children

  • Helen May Stewart RATHBONE (1898-1982)
  • Alfreda Ethelwyn Stewart RATHBONE (1901-1978)

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