Can you tell me what happened to Minnie Algar after 1911?
QMinnie Bibby Algar was born to my widowed great grandmother, Elizabeth Algar, on 20 March 1884 at Nash, Buckinghamshire. She was with her mother at Great Horwood, Buckinghamshire, on the 1891 census. On the 1901 census, she was a servant at Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, and in 1911, she was a servant at Reigate, Surrey. I can’t find her in any records after this date.
Peta McCauley
AAs well as UK records, I searched those for the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The marriage index for New Zealand on Ancestry ( ancestry.co.uk) has a Minnie Algar marrying David George Sparks in 1913. They can be found in the Auckland area in electoral rolls from 1919 up to 1972.
This is your Minnie, because her date of birth is given as 20 March 1884 in the results of a death search for her. For birth, marriage and death information from New Zealand, you can use the New Zealand government’s website at bdmhistorical records.dia.govt.nz. Searching is free, but email copies of printouts of the records each cost NZ$25 (around £13.21).
Minnie and David had two children: David Jack Sparks (born in 1914), and a daughter Algar Sparks (born in 1917). David Jack married Frances Mary Jackson in 1938, but Algar remained unmarried. Neither David nor Algar seems to have had children.
David George Sparks died in 1975,
Minnie in 1982 (aged 98) and Algar in 1991. All three were cremated at Purewa Cemetery, Auckland. David Jack died in 1993, but I could find no record of a burial or cremation for him.
FamilySearch’s collection of New Zealand passenger lists at familysearch.org/search/ collection/1609792 reveals that David George Sparks and Minnie travelled to New Zealand on the Shaw Savill and Albion line’s ship Tainui. It left London on 20 July 1911. Alan Stewart