William Francis Arthur (1895-1964)

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Bill Arthur ‡
Birth:	14 December 1895 Henley, Dunedin City, Otago, New Zealand Ω
Death:	22 June 1964
Father:	Thomas Moore Arthur (1859-1934)
Mother:	Harriet Mary Ann Swale (1861-1945)
Spouse / partner:	Hannah McKenzie (1897-1942)
Wedding:	1922 New Zealand
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Bill Arthur was born 14 December 1895 in Henley, Dunedin City, Otago, New Zealand to Thomas Moore Arthur (1859-1934) and Harriet Mary Ann Swale (1861-1945) and died 22 June 1964 of unspecified causes. He married Hannah McKenzie (1897-1942) 1922 in New Zealand.

Children

Offspring of Bill Arthur and Hannah McKenzie (1897-1942)¢
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
William Duncan Arthur (living)
Ernest Anthony Arthur (living)

Residences

• 1935, Balcairn
• 1943, Cust

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‡ General

Married first cousin. A story handed down through the descendants from several reliable sources that Thomas Moore Arthur (1859-1934) was originally engaged to Amy Evelyn Swale (1864-1917) but got her sister Harriet Mary Ann Swale (1861-1945) pregnant. T M A's father, also named Thomas Moore Arthur, insisted that his son marry Harriet. Amy Evelyn married Duncan McKenzie and had a daughter Hannah McKenzie (1897-1942), who married her first cousin William Francis Arthur (1895-1964), a son of Harriet. William and Hannah married in 1922 and (in addition to children from their own union) reared the illegitimate son of Hannah, Thomas Neil McKenzie (1916-1993), and also the illegitimate son of Hannah’s sister, Ada Beatrice McKenzie (1899-1976) (Charles Whitney McKenzie (1920-1944)). More About WILLIAM FRANCIS ARTHUR: Fact 1: 1917, NZ Gazette 1917 page 2673 Fact 2: 1914, Army No 62904 Private Fact 3: 1939, Army No Sourced from rtf descendant table supplied to Isobel Wardrop in 2021 by Brian Swale. #28

Ω Birth

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¢ Children

Hannah's first son and a nephew were reared in the same household.

Robin Patterson