Brief Life History of Ema Te Noho Mokemoke
When Ema Te Noho Mokemoke Collier was born in 1909, in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, her father, Hamiora Ngairo Collier, was 29 and her mother, Ema Te Reremoana McLeod, was 26. She married Joseph (Joe) Robert Edwards in 1926. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 2 August 1980, in her hometown, at the age of 71, and was buried in Ōpōtiki Lawn Cemetery, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Emma Mokemoke Edwards, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1904–1971 Male
1909–1980 Female
Children (11)
1931–2005 Male
1946–1980 Male
–1936 Male
–1988 Female
– Female
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Parents and Siblings
1880–1947 Male
1883–1955 Female
Siblings (17)
1899–1988 Male
1901–1981 Male
1904–1984 Female
1905–1960 Female
1905–1979 Male
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World Events (8)
1914
Age 5
1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica
Age 14
1939
Age 30
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English colier, in most parts of the country ‘maker or seller of charcoal’, but in some areas (such as Bolton le Moors and Wigan, Lancashire) where coal measures were near the surface, ‘miner or seller of coal’ (in the modern sense, ‘fossil fuel’). The name was taken to Ireland from England and was first recorded there in 1305. In Petty's ‘census’ of 1659, it was recorded as a principal surname in Meath.
English: occupational name from Middle English coilour, coliour, culliour, Old French coileor, coillour ‘tax collector’. Surnames with this origin seem to have died out in Britain.
French (northern): from collier ‘collar’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of collars.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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