{"id":2226,"date":"2024-11-17T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T05:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2226"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:43:43","slug":"mary-jane-mckinnell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/elizabeth-steel-stark\/mary-jane-mckinnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Jane McKinnell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was born on the 9 April 1909\u00a0at\u00a0Mataura, Southland, New Zealand. Mary Jane attended Waimum School and then Croydon Siding School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the age of 21, Mary Jane married George Bruce, on the 19 Aug 1931&nbsp;at&nbsp;Gore, Southland, New Zealand. After that event, her and new husband George, moved to Ashburton, Canterbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From that union arrived 3 children, with one still extant at time of writing (2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Child<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Born<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Died<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Married<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Children<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Barry George Bruce<\/td><td>23 Aug 1932<\/td><td>28 Oct 1993<\/td><td>Mary Glassey<\/td><td>3<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>John Begg Bruce<\/td><td>23 Aug 1932<\/td><td>6 Mar 2001<\/td><td>Helen Broker<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><em>Living<\/em><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><em>Living<\/em><\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, George died at Ashburton on the 6 Feb 1964 at the relatively young age of 61.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-24.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-24.png 346w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-24-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30359, 7 February 1964, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary Jane&nbsp;passed away on the 3 December 1994 at&nbsp;Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand. She and husband George are buried together at Ashburton Cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.findagrave.com\/photos\/2023\/228\/207855585_4e4d6e70-39bc-4666-b84e-94949ddf4b1e.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-23.png 321w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-23-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Press, 5 December 1994, Page 43<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was born on the 9 April 1909\u00a0at\u00a0Mataura, Southland, New Zealand. Mary Jane attended Waimum School and then Croydon Siding School. At the age of 21, Mary Jane married George Bruce, on the 19 Aug 1931&nbsp;at&nbsp;Gore, Southland, New Zealand. After that event, her and new husband George, moved to Ashburton, Canterbury. From that union arrived 3 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/elizabeth-steel-stark\/mary-jane-mckinnell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mary Jane McKinnell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":895,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2226","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2226\/revisions\/3471"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}