The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameElizabeth Annie Cox
Birth18 Mar 1860, Featherston, Wairarapa, New Zealand
Death14 Jun 1948, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand
BurialKarori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand
FatherJames George Cox (<1832-1914)
Misc. Notes
Name, date and place of birth (Wellington) from “McCaul Family Scotland” compiled in 1991 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.

Date and place of death from:
http://www.firstfourships.co.nz/pics/othrppl.php?table=others&id=56
It is also noted that this page gives date of birth as 15th March 1860. The date of birth here has not been changed from the 18th Mar 1860

Brian of nzolivers.com is descendant through Elizabeth and Malcolm’s son Malcolm Graeme Cox McCaul.

New Zealand Electoral Roll - City of Wellington Roll for 1894
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Owen Street, married woman, residential
McCaul, Malcolm McFarlane, Owen Street, warehouseman, residential
[NOTE: This 1894 Electoral Roll is the first time “Elizabeth Annie McCaul” appears; woman did not receive the vote in New Zealand until the 1893 Election. Therefore, Elizabeth would not be on the Roll, even though she was married to Malcolm McFarlane McCaul in 1881].

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington Suburbs Roll for 1896, 1897
McCaul, Elizabeth Ann, Owen Street, married woman, residential
McCaul, Malcolm McFarlane, Owen Street, warehouseman, residential

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington Suburbs Roll for 1899
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, 81 Owen Street, married woman, residential
McCaul, Malcolm McFarlane, Owen Street, warehouseman, residential

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington Roll for 1900
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, 81 Owen Street, married

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Newtown Roll for 1902
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, 81 Owen Street, married

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Newtown Roll for 1905/6
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie
, 81 Owen Street, married [mother of Malcolm]
McCaul, Malcolm Graeme Cox, 81 Owen Street, Clerk

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Otaki Roll for 1911
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Muhunoa, Ohau, married [Ohau is south of Levin]
McCaul, Enid Isabella, Muhunoa, Ohau, spinster [Daughter of Elizabeth]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Otaki General Roll for 1914
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Muhunoa, Ohau, married [Ohau is south of Levin]
McCaul, Enid Isabella, Muhunoa, Ohau, spinster [Daughter of Elizabeth]
McCaul, Hilda Charlotte Alice, Otaki, spinster [Daughter of Elizabeth]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Hutt Supplementary Roll for 1919
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Korimako Road, Day’s Bay, married

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Hutt Electoral Roll for 1922
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Koromiko Road, Day’s Bay, married

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Hutt Supplementary Roll for 1928
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Koromiko Road, Days Bay, widow

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Hutt Electoral Roll for 1931
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Koromiko Road, Days Bay, widow

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Hutt Electoral Roll for 1935
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Koromiko Road, Eastbourne, widow

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wellington Suburbs General Roll for 1938
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, Koromiko Rd., Eastbourne, widow

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Masterton General Roll for 1941
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, 16 Pownall Street, Masterton, widow
Dodds, Isabella Enid, 16 Pownall Street, Masterton, widow [Daughter]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Masterton General Roll for 1946
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, 16 Pownall Street, widow
[Note: Daughter Isabella Enid is now remarried and living at Parkvale, near Carterton, Wairarapa. Elizabeth now moves to Wellington to a Convalescent Home].

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Mount Victoria Supplementary Roll for 1946
McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, 39 Henry Street, widow (WE) [Wellington East] [Kilbirnie] [Elizabeth died 1948]
According to QV website, house built 1900.

39 Henry Street was a Convalescent Home in the 1940s as per:
EVENING POST, VOLUME CXXV, ISSUE 114, 17 MAY 1938
BOULCOTT CONVALESCENT HOME. THE BOULCOTT CONVALESCENT HOME, formerly at 216 The Terrace, is now located at the Corner of Wellington Road and Henry Street, Kilbirnie. Address: 39 Henry Street, Kilbirnie. Telephone 45-503. C. E. WISE, Matron.

EVENING POST, VOLUME CXXIX, ISSUE 14, 17 JANUARY 1940
WANTED, Woman for morning work, Apply Boulcott Convalescent Home, 39 Henry Street, Kilbirnie.

EVENING POST, VOLUME CXXIX, ISSUE 117, 18 MAY 1940
WANTED, Young Refined Woman for cooking. Apply Convalescent Home, 39 Henry Street, Kilbirnie. Tel. 25-850.

EVENING POST, VOLUME CXXXI, ISSUE 145, 21 JUNE 1941
WANTED, a Sister for Convalescent Home. Apply 39 Henry Street, Kilbirnie.

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1901
Owen Street, Left hand side from Mein St., first listing passed Lawrence St. Intersects:
81 McCaul, Mrs Malcolm M
[NOTE: This no. 81 is not as per current house numbering today. If the first listing was for the first house, today this would be no. 139 Owen St]
[NOTE: And, no sign of Malcolm. Believed to now be in Australia]

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1902
Owen Street, Left hand side from Mein St., first listing passed Lawrence St. Intersects:
81 McCaul, Mrs Malcolm M
[NOTE: This no. 81 is not as per current house numbering today. If the first listing was for the first house, today this would be no. 139 Owen St]

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1903
Owen Street, Left hand side from Mein St., first listing passed Lawrence St. Intersects:
81 McCaul, Mrs Malcolm M
[NOTE: This no. 81 is not as per current house numbering today. If the first listing was for the first house, today this would be no. 139 Owen St]

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1904
Owen Street, Left hand side from Mein St., first listing passed Lawrence St. Intersects:
81 McCaul, Mrs Elizb Annie
[NOTE: This no. 81 is not as per current house numbering today. If the first listing was for the first house, today this would be no. 139 Owen St]

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1907
Owen Street, Left hand side from Mein St., first listing passed Lawrence St. Intersects:
81 McCaul, Mrs Elizb Annie
[NOTE: This no. 81 is not as per current house numbering today]

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1910
Owen Street, Left hand side from Mein St., first listing passed Lawrence St. Intersects:
139 McCaul, Mrs Elizb Annie
- McCaul, Athol A, clerk
- McCaul, Malcolm G C, clerk
- McCaul, Douglas G, clerk
[NOTE: This first listing past the Lawrence St. Intersects used to be no. 81 Owen St. Obviously the house numbering has changed, although most probably the same house].

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1916
Ohau, Wellington 56m NE from Wellington; Horowhenua: McCaul Mrs E A, settler

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1923, 1926, 1930, 1936
Days Bay, including Lowry Mahina & York Bays:
McCaul, Mrs Eliz A

Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1938 and 1940
Days Bay - Korimako Rd, McCaul Mrs Eliz A

Location of cremated ashes from the Business Support Officer, Cemetery & Crematorium Wellington City Council, in an email dated 2 February 2022, says Elizabeth McCaul's plaque is located directly behind the crematorium in the archway. Each wall is marked with a very small tile. Her plaque is on Niche Wall A and is the 84th plaque on wall A.

On the 5th April 2022, Brian of nzolivers discovered this location for Elizabeth is the same as Brian’s grandparents, Malcolm Graeme Cox MCaul and Kathleen Rita McCaul (nee Clark).
A clearer description of the location would be, it is located behind the crematorium in the brick archway. It is on the left-hand side (known as Niche Wall A), with that wall labelled with an "A" at the very bottom. The exact location of the niche on that wall is:
The 12th across from the left (out of 18 across), and then
The 5th down from the top
Starting from the top left, and counting this works out to be the 84th plaque on that wall “A”.


A reply, in an email dated 6 April 2022, to a further follow-up by Brian with the Business Support Officer, Cemetery & Crematorium Wellington City Council reads:
I have checked the records for DIV A location 84 [and] I can confirm all 3 ashes were interred into this niche”.
“The urns they used to use were a lot smaller, they were normally the tin urns which in those days you could 3 tin urns into one niche
”.

Place of birth found in March 2022 as "Featherston, South Wairarapa District, Wellington” as per:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200998332/elizabeth-annie-mccaul

Result from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1860/6843. Cox, Elizabeth Annie. Mother: Louisa. Father: James George

Full date of birth of 18 March 1860 from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.

Result from marriage search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1881/966. Bride: Elizabeth Annie Cox. Groom: Malcolm MacFarlane MacCaul

Full date of marriage of 27 April 1881 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

Result from death search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1948/28886. McCaul, Elizabeth Annie, died age 88Y

Full date of death of 14 June 1948 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.
Spouses
Birth25 May 1844, Clarance Place, 124 Douglas St., Barony, Glasgow
Baptism8 Aug 1844
Death23 Mar 1932, Liverpool, NSW, Australia
BurialMar 1932, Presbyt. Cem., Liverpool, NSW, Australia
FatherMalcolm McCaul (1804-1891)
MotherIsabella Alston (1812-1875)
Marriage27 Apr 1881, St John’s, Featherson, Wairarapa, New Zealand
ChildrenIsabella Enid (Enid) (1882-1966)
 Douglas George (1885-1939)
 Charlotte Alice Hilda (Twin) (1886-1956)
 Athol Ambrose (Twin) (1886-1965)
 Gilbert James Alston (1891-1967)
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