Name, date of marriage, and occupation of Chemist 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.

Result from marriage search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1882/1133. Bride: Emma Bayly. Groom: Alfred Alexander Gower

Full date of marriage of 20 April 1882 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

Children of Alfred and Emma found from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1883/2447. Gower, Elenor May. Mother: Emma. Father: Alfred Alexander
1884/9554. Gower, Alfred Morrison. Mother: Emma. Father: Alfred Alexander
1886/1793. Gower, Arnold Arthur. Mother: Emma. Father: Alfred Alexander
1887/9596. Gower, Clarissa Alethea. Mother: Emma. Father: Alfred Alexander
1891/13530. Gower, Percival Fred. Mother: Emma. Father: Alfred Alexander

Year and country of death, from death search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1940/19352. Gower, Alfred Alexander. Died age 84Y [Therefore born circa 1856]

Full date of death of 13 November 1940 from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.

Year and country of birth from search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1857/5476. Gower, Alfred Alexander. Mother: Emily Isabella. Father: George

Full date of birth of 21 October 1857 from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.

Date of death confirmed for Alfred, place of burial in the Gower family plot, from Aramoho Cemetery records found in March 2022:
Block D row 2. 1651.
In loving memory of EMMA wife of Alfred A GOWER, died 20th December 1925 aged 68 yrs; also ALFRED ALEXANDER GOWER, died 13th November 1940 aged 83 yrs.
Block D row 2. 1652.
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
Block D row 2. 1653. [First husband of daughter Elinor]
In loving memory of PERCIVAL FRED GOWER died 17th June 1951 [Son of Alfred and Emma]
Block D row 2 p57:
McCAUL Elinor May - crem. Wellington, ashes bur 13 Apr 1965 [Daughter of Alfred and Emma]

Place of birth “48 Hawkstone St in Wellington”, from Winsome Griffin, in an email dated 25 December 2023.

Winsome Griffin's (nee Guilford) husband, Neville Griffin, is related to the Bayly family. Neville's maternal grandfather, George Newsham, had a sister, Emma Eliza Newsham. She married Albert George Bayly. Albert had a sister, Emma Bayly, and she was the mother of Elinor May Gower, the maternal step-grandmother of Brian of nzolivers.

And, Winsome Griffin (nee Guilford) is the granddaughter of Francis Charles Guilford (1876-1961) whose second wife, Laura Elizabeth Wood, was first married to Charles Ernest Oliver, grandson of James (1805-1886) and Ruth (nee Batten) Oliver.

Newspaper account of wedding between Alfred Alexander Gower and Emma Bayly, sourced from New Zealand ‘Papers Past’ website in January 2024:
Hawera & Normanby Star, 1 May 1882
News and Notes
The Waitara correspondent of the Taranaki News writes: - "A wedding took place here on Thursday, the 20th inst. The bride was Miss Emma Bayly, niece of Thomas Bayly, Esq., and the bridegroom Mr. Alfred A. Gower, of Patea. The bridesmaids were Miss C. Bayly, the bride's bister; Misses M. and N. Bayly, her cousins. The gentlemen were Mr. Gower, who gave the bride to his brother; Mr. F. Bayly, and others from Hawera. The Rev. H. H. Brown officiated. The happy couple left for their home at Patea by the 4 p.m. train, amidst a shower of rice. This is the first public wedding that has taken place at Waitara.