Janet O'Hara1

F, #287471
Last Edited=23 Oct 2000
     Janet O'Hara is the daughter of Bryon O'Hara and Helen Bennett.1

Citations

  1. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Life and Times of the Bennett Families of Canterbury 1862-1979 (Ashburton, NZ: author, 1979), page 153. Hereinafter cited as Bennett Families of Canterbury.

Sauy O'Hara1

M, #287472
Last Edited=23 Oct 2000
     Sauy O'Hara is the son of Bryon O'Hara and Helen Bennett.1

Citations

  1. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Life and Times of the Bennett Families of Canterbury 1862-1979 (Ashburton, NZ: author, 1979), page 153. Hereinafter cited as Bennett Families of Canterbury.

Marion O'Hara1

F, #287473
Last Edited=23 Oct 2000
     Marion O'Hara is the daughter of Bryon O'Hara and Helen Bennett.1

Citations

  1. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Life and Times of the Bennett Families of Canterbury 1862-1979 (Ashburton, NZ: author, 1979), page 153. Hereinafter cited as Bennett Families of Canterbury.

Margaret Bennett1

F, #287474
Last Edited=19 Aug 2008
     Margaret Bennett is the daughter of Robert Bennett and Maria Cummins.1 She married William Thompson, son of Robert Thompson.1
     Her married name became Thompson.1

Children of Margaret Bennett and William Thompson

Citations

  1. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Life and Times of the Bennett Families of Canterbury 1862-1979 (Ashburton, NZ: author, 1979), page 160. Hereinafter cited as Bennett Families of Canterbury.
  2. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Bennett Families of Canterbury, page 161.

William Thompson1

M, #287475
Last Edited=24 Nov 2012
     William Thompson is the son of Robert Thompson.2 He married Margaret Bennett, daughter of Robert Bennett and Maria Cummins.1
     Henry, Robert, William and William immigrated to Lyttelton, Canterbury, New ZealandG, on the ship Matoaka, arriving on February 1862.3 He lived at 65 Wakanui Road, Ashburton, New ZealandG, in 1917.4

Children of William Thompson and Margaret Bennett

Citations

  1. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Life and Times of the Bennett Families of Canterbury 1862-1979 (Ashburton, NZ: author, 1979), page 160. Hereinafter cited as Bennett Families of Canterbury.
  2. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Bennett Families of Canterbury, page 184.
  3. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Bennett Families of Canterbury, page 9.
  4. [S259] Commonwealth War Graves Commission, online http://www.cwgc.org. Hereinafter cited as Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  5. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Bennett Families of Canterbury, page 161.


Elsie Thompson1

F, #287476
Last Edited=19 Feb 2011
     Elsie Thompson is the daughter of William Thompson and Margaret Bennett.1 She married Douglas Craighead.1
     Her married name became Craighead.1

Child of Elsie Thompson and Douglas Craighead

Citations

  1. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Life and Times of the Bennett Families of Canterbury 1862-1979 (Ashburton, NZ: author, 1979), page 160. Hereinafter cited as Bennett Families of Canterbury.

Douglas Craighead1

M, #287477
Last Edited=23 Oct 2000
     Douglas Craighead married Elsie Thompson, daughter of William Thompson and Margaret Bennett.1

Child of Douglas Craighead and Elsie Thompson

Citations

  1. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Life and Times of the Bennett Families of Canterbury 1862-1979 (Ashburton, NZ: author, 1979), page 160. Hereinafter cited as Bennett Families of Canterbury.

Ruth Craighead1

F, #287478
Last Edited=23 Oct 2000
     Ruth Craighead is the daughter of Douglas Craighead and Elsie Thompson.1

Citations

  1. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Life and Times of the Bennett Families of Canterbury 1862-1979 (Ashburton, NZ: author, 1979), page 160. Hereinafter cited as Bennett Families of Canterbury.

Leslie Bennett Thompson1

M, #287479, b. 1897, d. 17 December 1917
Last Edited=21 Jan 2001
     Leslie Bennett Thompson was born in 1897.2 He was the son of William Thompson and Margaret Bennett.1 He died on 17 December 1917 at Ypres, BelgiumG.2 He was buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Flanders, BelgiumG.3
     He was a carter before 1917 at Ashburton, New ZealandG.4 Leslie served in the 3rd Battalion, Otago Regiment, 1st NZEF on 16 July 1917 as a private.4

Citations

  1. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Life and Times of the Bennett Families of Canterbury 1862-1979 (Ashburton, NZ: author, 1979), page 160. Hereinafter cited as Bennett Families of Canterbury.
  2. [S259] Commonwealth War Graves Commission, online http://www.cwgc.org. Hereinafter cited as Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  3. [S259] Commonwealth War Graves Commission, online http://www.cwgc.org, plot XXVII DD 20.
  4. [S2884] NZ Government, Rolls of NZ Expeditionary Force, 1917, Vol III (Wellington, NZ: Government Print, 1919), roll 68 5. Hereinafter cited as Rolls of the NZEF, 1917.

Eileen Thompson1

F, #287480
Last Edited=24 Sep 2010
     Eileen Thompson is the daughter of William Thompson and Margaret Bennett.1 She married George Leadley.1
     Her married name became Leadley.1

Children of Eileen Thompson and George Leadley

Citations

  1. [S160] G.E. Bennett, Life and Times of the Bennett Families of Canterbury 1862-1979 (Ashburton, NZ: author, 1979), page 160. Hereinafter cited as Bennett Families of Canterbury.