Signed family name
Becroft
Signed given name
Florence M.
Given address
Port Albert
Notes
Biographical information provided by Gillian Lee for the He Tohu exhibition:
Florence Mary Bradbury was born in Nottinghamshire, England in 1861. The following year on 8 September 1862 her parents took the family to New Zealand on the Matilda Wattenbach. Her future husband David Becroft was on the same voyage. Their parents were among a number of immigrants that established Albertland, a nonconformist religious settlement on the Kaipara Harbour at Port Albert. She married David in 1881 and had seven children: James, Cyril Maxwell, Edith Zoe, Florence Ivy Irlam, Herbert Frank, Muriel Genevieve and Verena Emmeline. Florence died on 8 March 1932 in Port Albert.
