{"id":2405,"date":"2024-11-22T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T01:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2405"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:16:58","slug":"mary-osborne-carson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/margaret-mitchell-stark\/mary-osborne-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Osborne Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Born on the 14 November 1902\u00a0at\u00a0Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand, Mary was the second child and second daughter. She attended High Street Dunedin, Middlemarch, South Town Belt Christchurch and East Christchurch Schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary married Cyrus Edmondson Mitton in 1922 and there were 6 children from the union.<\/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>Lester William Edmondson Mitton<\/td><td>17 Oct 1923<\/td><td>21 Sep 1993<\/td><td>Verbena  Nancy Mary Ford<\/td><td>6<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Frances Margaret Mitton<\/td><td>27 Nov 1924<\/td><td>14 Jul 2022<\/td><td>John Emerson Humphreys<\/td><td>3<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Clifford Desmond Mitton<\/td><td>15 Jun 1926<\/td><td>23 Nov 2015<\/td><td>Fanny Elizabeth Cook<\/td><td>6<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cyrus James Mitton<\/td><td>4 Jul 1927<\/td><td>17 Oct 2003<\/td><td>Eileen Elizabeth Winifred O&#8217;Meagher<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><em>Living<\/em><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Rose Murial Mitton<\/td><td>24 Apr 1930<\/td><td>2 Aug 1977<\/td><td>Ronald Gordon Basil Vivian<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The living child was born in 1928, but I have been unable to definitively prove she is extant or deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary passed away on the 8 November 1974\u00a0at\u00a0Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cyrus passed away in 1987. Both are buried in Christchurch at Waimairi Cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.findagrave.com\/photos\/2018\/11\/143670652_f8cc6197-27da-428a-87d3-a5ff24e3c909.png\" alt=\"Larger memorial image loading...\" style=\"width:940px;height:533px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"407\" height=\"905\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-9.png 407w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-9-135x300.png 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33687, 9 November 1974, Page 51<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-29.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3524\" style=\"width:420px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-29.png 310w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-29-300x243.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Press, 4 February 1987, Page 71<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on the 14 November 1902\u00a0at\u00a0Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand, Mary was the second child and second daughter. She attended High Street Dunedin, Middlemarch, South Town Belt Christchurch and East Christchurch Schools. Mary married Cyrus Edmondson Mitton in 1922 and there were 6 children from the union. Child Born Died Married Children Lester William Edmondson Mitton &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/margaret-mitchell-stark\/mary-osborne-carson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mary Osborne Carson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":905,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2405","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=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2405\/revisions\/3530"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}