Name of “Rose Teresa HIGGIE”, date of birth of “16 Jul 1887”, place of birth of Wanganui?”, from CD prepared by Stuart Macfarlane and included with Pamela Booth’s second edition of her book, “Blink Bonnie”, published March 2010. Stuart is the grandson of James Higgie b. 1857. Pamela is the great-great granddaughter of Robert Clark Higgie b.1855.

Result from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in April 2023:

Rose birth registered under her Mother’s surname of TOZER, from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in April 2023:
1883/15955. Tozer, Rose Teresa. Mother: Eleanor. Father: NOT RECORDED
[Her mother was 17 years of age]

Different date of birth of 21 October 1883 from further searching in April 2023 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.

Year and country of marriage from search on New Zealand BDM website in April 2023:
1906/4254. Bride: Rose Theresa Tozer. Groom: John Killalea

Full date of marriage of 4 September 1906 from further searching in April 2023 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

Name of Rose’s father being “Arthur Bernard O'Connor”, date of death, from John O'Connor-Whyte in a document attached to an email dated 15 May 2023.
John's great-grandfather's brother, Arthur Bernard O'Connor, was the father of this Rose Teresa Tozer 1883-1963. Rose's mother was this Eleanor Tozer who later went on to marry David Higgie, brother to Jessie Higgie who married Samuel Oliver 1833-1907.

In this document referred to above, John O'Connor-Whyte in March 2020 reached out sensitively in a post requesting about his Great Uncle Arthur Bernadotte O'Connor, saying, 'Eleanor Tozer went to work as a housemaid to the O'Connor Family and was sent home in disgrace at age 16 years as she was pregnant to their son Arthur B O'Connor (aged 22 yrs)".

A Sue Kinnigit replied saying that she had received information from a Maureen Cooper back in 2012 where Maureen had written, "Eleanor went to work as a housemaid for the O'Conner family and was sent home in disgrace at the age of 16 as she was pregnant to their son Arthur O'Conner. Eleanor's daughter Rose Theresa Tozer was born in 1883. When I was 4, my grandmother Rose, her daughter (my mother) and myself went to meet Arthur O'Conner but I have no recollection of it! In 1886 Eleanor married David Higgie and had another twelve children. David Higgie always treated his stepdaughter very well...... Rose Theresa Tozer went on to marry John Killalea (my grandparents [Maureen Cooper]) and they had seven children".

In John O'Connor-Whyte's "O'Connor (Whyte) & McPhee" Family Tree online, as at July 2023, John lists the following children for John and Rose (nee Tozer) Killalea:
Delia Eileen Killalea 1906-1991
Julia Agnes Killalea 1908–1987
John Thomas Killalea 1909–1987
Thomas Patrick Killalea 1911–1982
Mary Ella Killalea 1917–2012
David Malcolm Killalea 1918–1996
Michael Killalea –1990
Joseph Killalea –1990