Name, date and place of birth and death from “McCaul Family Scotland” (first compiled in 1991 and updated to 2002) by Marcia Barbara (Barbara) McCaul, Canada (b. 1932, d. 2002). Barbara was the great-great grandaughter of Gilbert McCaul (b. 1765) and Janet McFarlan (b. 1770). Brian of nzolivers.com is the great-great-great grandson of Gilbert and Janet.

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington Central Main Roll for 1957
McCaul, Elinor May, 48 Hawkestone St, married
McCaul, Malcolm Graeme Cox, 48 Hawkestone St, Mrcht

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington Central for 1963
McCaul, Elinor May, 48 Hawkestone St, married
McCaul, Malcolm Graeme Cox, 48 Hawkestone St, Retired

Result from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1883/2447. Gower, Elenor May. Mother: Emma. Father: Alfred Alexander

Full date of birth of 19 February 1883 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.

Result from death search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1965/26903. McCaul, Elinor May. Died age 82Y

Full date of death of 21 March 1965 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.


New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui Roll 1905, 1911, found in March 2022:
Gower, Elinor May, spinster, Victoria Avenue
Gower, Alfred Alexander, chemist, Victoria Avenue [Father]
Gower, Emma, married, Campbell Place [Mother]?

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui General Roll 1914, found in March 2022:
Gower, Elinor May, Victoria Avenue, spinster
Gower, Alfred Alexander, Victoria Avenue, chemist, [Father]
Gower, Emma, Campbell Place, married [Mother]?

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui General Roll 1919, 1922, found in March 2022:
Gower, Elinor May, 321 Victoria Avenue, spinster
Gower, Alfred Alexander, 321 Victoria Avenue, chemist, [Father]
Gower, Emma, 321 Victoria Avenue, married [Mother]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington North General Roll 1928, found in March 2022:
Gower, Elinor May, 48 Hawkestone Street, spinster
Gower, Alfred Alexander, 48 Hawkestone Street, chemist, [Father]
Gower, Percival Fred, 48 Hawkestone Street, commercial traveller [Younger Brother]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington North General Roll 1931, found in March 2022:
Steele, Elinor May, 48 Hawkestone Street, married
[Note: Elinor is now married. Therefore married circa 1930]

No record of marriage could be found on the New Zealand BDM website as at March 2022.

Year and place of marriage found in March 2022:
Name: Oswald Kay Steele
Gender: Male
Marriage Registration Year: 1929
Marriage Registration Place: Victoria, Australia
Spouse: Eleanor May Gower
Reference Number: 2367

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington North General Roll 1935, found in March 2022:
Steele, Eleanor May, 48 Hawkestone Street, married

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington North Supplementary Roll No. 1 1935, found in March 2022:
Steele, Oswald Kay, 48 Hawkestone Street, commercial traveller

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington North General Roll 1938, found in March 2022:
Steele, Eleanor May, 48 Hawkestone Street, married

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington North General Roll 1941, 1943, 1946, 1949, found in March 2022:
Steele, Eleanor May, 48 Hawkestone Street, married
Steele, Oswald Kay, 48 Hawkestone Street, commercial traveller

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Onslow General Roll 1954, found in March 2022:
McCaul, Eleanor May, 48 Hawkestone Street, married

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington General Roll 1957, found in March 2022:
McCaul, Eleanor May, 48 Hawkestone Street, married
McCaul, Malcolm Graeme Cox, 48 Hawkestone St, mrcht

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington Central Main Roll 1960, found in March 2022:
McCaul, Elinor May, 48 Hawkestone Street. household duties
McCaul, Malcolm Graeme Cox, 48 Hawkestone Street. merchant

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington Central Main Roll 1963, found in March 2022:
McCaul, Elinor May, 48 Hawkestone St., married
McCaul, Malcolm Graeme Cox, 48 Hawkestone St., retired

Date and place of burial from Aramoho Cemetery records found in March 2022:
McCAUL Elinor May - crem. Wellington, ashes bur 13 Apr 1965 Block D row 2 p57

Elinor was buried with her first husband, Oswald as found from Aramoho Cemetery records in March 2022:
Block D row 2. 1653.
In loving memory of OSWALD KAY STEELE beloved husband of Eleanor May, died 5th July 1950 Elinor May - crem. Wellington, ashes bur 13 Apr 1965

Entry found in March 2022 for Q.S.M.V. Dominion Monarch, Passengers Emabarked at Cape Town November 1954 for Wellington (arriving January 1955), Voyage 46 Out:
415 McCAUL Mr. Malcolm Graeme Cox, Retired, 48 Hawkestone St., Wellington, C.1.
416 McCAUL Mrs. Elinor May, Housewife, 48 Hawkestone St., Wellington, C.1.

Kim Cripps (wife of Douglas Cripps, with Douglas being a cousin of Brian of nzolivers) alerted me to a Facebook post of 22 December 2023 by parliamentary MP, Andrew Bayly. Andrew wrote, "The Bayly’s arrived in New Plymouth on the ship Amelia Thompson in 1841 and I grew up on a farm near Whanganui".
Now, the Olivers had arrived on the same ship.
However, of equal interest, Elinor May Gower's mother was a 'Bayly' and a check on the Amelia Thompson Passenger List shows her Bayly family on board with two others:
1. James age 25 and Grace age 22 [Nellie's grandparents] with son Arthur age 1 year
2. William age 30 and Elizabeth 26 with children Daniel 6, Ann 2, and Jane 11 months
3. Thomas Bayly age 36 and Susan Bayly age 35 with children Elizabeth 10, Thomas 8, William 6, Ann 4 and Issac 11 months
NOTE: Elinor May Gower is the maternal step-grandmother of Brian of nzolivers].