Name from Vivienne Margaret McGonagle in a telephone conversation with Brian of nzolivers on 22 February 2019. Vivienne is the daughter of Laura’s sister, Elsie Roma Collett. b1910.

Year of birth (circa 1887), born Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, from 1891 England Census for Yorkshire/Armley/District 33 found in February 2019:
Household Members:
Name and Age
John Macdonald age 34 [Father]
Mary A Macdonald age 29 [Mother]
Mary H Macdonald age 8 Scholar, Born Yorks Leeds [Sister]
Margaret H Macdonald age 5 Born Yorks Leeds [Sister]
Laura Macdonald age 4 Born Yorks Leeds
Elsie Macdonald age 1 Born Yorks Leeds [Sister]

Date of birth confirmed, date and place of baptism, abode, found in February 2019 from Page 98 of the Baptism records of the Parish of St. Mary New Wortley in the County of Leeds in 1895:
Baptised: 1895 Feb 6
Born: March 18 1887
Christian Name: Laura
Parents’ Name: John & Mary Macdonald
Abode: 25 Fearnley Street
Father Trade or Profession: Warpdresser

Date and place of marriage, from marriage certificate found in February 2019.

Year of death registration, country of death, date of birth confirmed, from death search on New Zealand BDM website in February 2019:
1985/31672. Manley, Laura. Date of Birth:18 March 1887

Full date of death of 29 December 1984 from further searching in February 2019 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.

Place of death from Mark Blackburn in an email dated 25 February 2019. Mark’s birth name was Mark Patrick Collett. His grandfather’s (Harold Collett) older brother’s (Albert Collett) daughter was Elsie Roma Collett who married Oliver descendant, Kenneth Norman McGonagle b1905.