{"id":2409,"date":"2024-11-22T14:32:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T01:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2409"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:25:20","slug":"margaret-mitchell-carson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/margaret-mitchell-stark\/margaret-mitchell-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret &#8220;Rita&#8221; Mitchell Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"331\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-34.png 331w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-34-140x300.png 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Rita was born on the 12 Aug 1905\u00a0at Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand and was 2 years old when her rather was killed.  She attended Middlemarch, Andersons Bay and High Street, Dunedin schools through her youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rita married John William Aiken on the 12 Dec 1924\u00a0at\u00a0Westport, West Coast, New Zealand and there were 2 children from that 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>Ethel Margaret Aiken<\/td><td>5 Dec 1925<\/td><td>2 Apr 1988<\/td><td>Robert Ian Sutherland<\/td><td>Unknown<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kathleen Mary Aiken<\/td><td>29 Jun 1936<\/td><td>12 May 2016<\/td><td>Morris Muir<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John passed away in 1979 and Rita passed away on the\u00a010 Feb 1988\u00a0at\u00a0Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Margaret-Mitchell-Carson-1024x648.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Margaret-Mitchell-Carson-1024x648.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Margaret-Mitchell-Carson-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Margaret-Mitchell-Carson-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Margaret-Mitchell-Carson-1536x973.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Margaret-Mitchell-Carson-2048x1297.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-33.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-33.png 313w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-33-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Press, 18 October 1979, Page 31<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"332\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-32.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-32.png 332w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-32-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rita was born on the 12 Aug 1905\u00a0at Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand and was 2 years old when her rather was killed. She attended Middlemarch, Andersons Bay and High Street, Dunedin schools through her youth. Rita married John William Aiken on the 12 Dec 1924\u00a0at\u00a0Westport, West Coast, New Zealand and there were 2 children from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/margaret-mitchell-stark\/margaret-mitchell-carson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Margaret &#8220;Rita&#8221; Mitchell 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-2409","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2409","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=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2409\/revisions\/3548"}],"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=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}