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Kate Brandon
1882 - 1982 (100 years)-
Name Kate Brandon [1, 2] Nickname Kitty Birth 11 Apr 1882 Whanganui, New Zealand 
[1, 2] Gender Female Death 16 Oct 1982 Gisborne, New Zealand [1] Burial 19 Oct 1982 Taruheru Cemetery, Wainui, East Cape, Poverty Bay, Gisborne, New Zealand [3] - Ash Burial. Block: RSA, Plot: 93 [3]
Person ID I22621 Great Wooster Tree Last Modified 13 Jun 2023
Father Richard Brandon, b. 1842, Rotherhithe, Surrey d. 5 Feb 1898, Whanganui, New Zealand (Age 56 years) Mother Lucy Ballard, b. 11 Sep 1841, Broadstairs, Kent d. 14 May 1926, Wellington, New Zealand (Age 84 years) Marriage 5 Sep 1865 Parish Church, Broadstairs, Kent [1] - Married by the Rev Fred Newell
Family ID F05982 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family William Todd Veitch, b. Abt. 1879 d. 10 Feb 1953, New Zealand (Age ~ 74 years) Marriage 9 Jan 1907 New Zealand [1, 4] Children 1. William Brandon Veitch, b. 13 Nov 1907, New Zealand d. 5 Jun 2001, New Zealand (Age 93 years)2. Richard Brandon Veitch, b. 11 Dec 1908, New Zealand d. 23 May 1985, New Zealand (Age 76 years)3. Helen Veitch, b. 12 Apr 1911, New Zealand d. UNKNOWNFamily ID F480062 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 26 Apr 2021
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Birth - 11 Apr 1882 - Whanganui, New Zealand 
Marriage - 9 Jan 1907 - New Zealand 
Death - 16 Oct 1982 - Gisborne, New Zealand = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Kate Brandon and William Veitch
From Rev. Brian Brandon
Kate was born in Wanganui, the 11th child of Richard and Lucy Brandon, on the 11th of April, 1882. On the return from a trip to England to visit her sister, Edith and their aunts in Bournemouth, she met William Veitch who was coming out from Scotland to take up farming. He bought a place between Gisborne and Morere but this was sold when they married in 1907.
They had three children, Bill, Richard and Helen. He then bought `Powha', the place where their family grew up. Somewhere around 1919-1920 `Powha' was sold, but it was then the slump came and the farm fell back into their hands. When Bill married and continued on the farm, they moved to Whitaker Street in Gisborne. When William died, Kitty built a small house at 16 Clifford Street to be closer to the town.
Kitty was totally blind for the last four years, and for the last 7 - 8 months of her life as she deteriorated in her health she was cared for at the Chelsea Private Hospital. She died in Gisborne on the 16th of October, 1982, just six months after reaching her 100th birthday.
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