User:Noracrentiss/sandbox/Ethel Hackworth
Ethel Sarah Constance Hackworth 1893 -1955
- first woman fellow of NZ Society of Accountants 18 February 1935 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19350219.2.101
First Public Accountant in Canterbury Otago and Southland (cite Trove) https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-414958466/view?sectionId=nla.obj-438826512&partId=nla.obj-414970182#page/n12/mode/1up
The Australian Woman's Mirror , Vol. 11 No. 48 (22 October 1935) Founded a scholarship for fliers (aviators!!) . Also Sec of Invercargill Plunket Society. (Trove has photo of her.) https:Gazette Notice of her as public accountant: http://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1946/87/29.pdf
- https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19350219.2.17
Biographical details
[edit]Evening Star, Issue 21958, 19 February 1935, Page 3
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
[edit]See Constance Hackworth's Probate: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSZ5-K2S9?i=1195&cc=1865481 Ethel deputes that her father was born in Nelson in 1857 and that he left the family in 1908 and never communicated with her or her mother after that.
"Mr. Vernon Richard Hackworth , Manager of the Riverton Branch of the National Bank, is the third son of the late Mr. James Hackworth, Collector of Customs at Dunedin, who was a popular public officer. Mr. V. R. Hackworth was born at Nelson in 1857 and educated at the Wellington Grammar School. He joined the bank as a junior at its head office In Wellington in 1873; subsequently, he was advanced to the position of sub-accountant at the Dunedin office, after wards accountant at Nelson, manager at Port Chalmers, and in 1881 was transferred to the Riverton branch. Mr. Hackworth takes a great interest in matters pertaining to the welfare of the Riverton district; and is president of the Riverton Mining Association, and of the Regatta Club, vice-president of the Cricket Club, treasurer of the Riverton Racing Club, and secretary of the Athenæum." (Geni)
28 April 1909 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/new-zealand-police-gazette/1909/04/28/2 Warrant out for him accused of stealing 102 pounds!!
30 June 1909 - Still on the run! https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/new-zealand-police-gazette/1909/08/04/6
Probably changed his name and possibly went overseas. But does turn up again in Southland
According to the NZ Gazette in 1924, he was granted a provisional Certificate of Title for a parcel of land in Eton Street, Otautau, Southland.
https://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1924/16/20.pdf
See https://lrs.linz.govt.nz/search/titles/SL84$80?fromSearch=true
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22038, 19 February 1935, Page 10
[edit]PRESS, VOLUME LXXI, ISSUE 21407, 25 FEBRUARY 1935, PAGE 2
Plunket
Crippled Childrens Society (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19440627.2.10)
Business and Prof Women's society https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19430312.2.22 (Southland Times, Issue 25000, 12 March 1943, Page 3)
Biographic details
[edit]Southland Times, Issue 25400, 27 June 1944, Page 3
Death: 5 February 1958 - no citation https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203501784/ethel_sarah_constance-hackworth
Obit Southland News 6 February 1958: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2W3-T3W3
Obit 6 February Southland Times See
OBIT
Schools attended:
Primary school in Riverton
Southland Girls High School for 3 or 4 years
(Other Hackworths: James Brooks Hackworth, (Ethel's uncle) grandfather James Hackworth. JB Hackworth was b London in 1853 and came to NZ in 1857 by the SS John Masterman John's children: William, Phillip and Cedric James, Evelyn, Mildred and Ethel. Mother: Amy Caroline Turton.
Yvonne Hackworth of Hove UK, flier
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