Family Group Sheet : John Murray Tatham/Elsie Hawthornthwaite (F0493)

• Father | Male John Murray Tatham

  
  

  Birth	03 May 1922	Pietermaritzburg, Natal?
  Death	04 Jun 2002	South Africa
  Burial
  Marriage	29 Jun 1946  [1]	Warner Beach, Natal  [1]
  Father	Edmund Murray Tatham | F0483 Family Group Sheet
  Mother	Rose Collier | F0483 Family Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Elsie Hawthornthwaite

  
  

  Birth	15 Jan 1923	Natal
  Death	Dec 2009	Camperdown, Natal
  Burial
  Father	James Hawthornthwaite | F1870 Family Group Sheet
  Mother	Annie Blackburn | F1870 Family Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Female Living

  
  

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  Child 2 | Female Living

  
  

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  Spouse	Living | F0862
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  Child 3 | Female Living

  
  

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  Child 4 | Female Living

  
  

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• Notes

  John Murray - always "Tats" to his wife - lived and worked in Lesotho for a number of years until about 1956, land surveying in the roughest mountain conditions. He and Elsie lived under canvas for a long time (imagine the cold) and later in traditional huts. They rode Basuto ponies for surveying, for shopping excursions and for visiting. The only roads in their area were no more than steep pony pathways. Elsie would ride many miles unaccompanied to the local trading store for provisions, leading a pack mule, with Dawn as pillion behind her and little Shirley in front. Quite something for the ultimate 'townie'. By the time their third daughter Carole was born they'd developed a road and enjoyed a modicum more comfort. Marriage: married in the the church of the Province of South Africa

  
  

• Sources

  [S03] Family Members, MA.