{"id":2909,"date":"2025-03-19T07:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2909"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:08:37","slug":"florence-louisa-chambers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/chambers\/florence-louisa-chambers\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Louisa Chambers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flo Chambers was born at Stafford, on the 3 March 1877. Similar to her sister, she remained  on the West Coast and married a local man, John Thompson Kinsella in 1901.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-Les-William-Bill-John-Thompson-Phyllis-Maisie-Kinsella-c.1915-b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-Les-William-Bill-John-Thompson-Phyllis-Maisie-Kinsella-c.1915-b-1024x706.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-Les-William-Bill-John-Thompson-Phyllis-Maisie-Kinsella-c.1915-b-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-Les-William-Bill-John-Thompson-Phyllis-Maisie-Kinsella-c.1915-b-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-Les-William-Bill-John-Thompson-Phyllis-Maisie-Kinsella-c.1915-b-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-Les-William-Bill-John-Thompson-Phyllis-Maisie-Kinsella-c.1915-b.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Florence, Les, William (Bill), John Thompson, Phyllis &amp; Maisie Kinsella c.1915. From West Coast NZ History site.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Florence-Louise-Chambers-Kinsella.scan-003.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Florence-Louise-Chambers-Kinsella.scan-003-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Florence-Louise-Chambers-Kinsella.scan-003-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Florence-Louise-Chambers-Kinsella.scan-003-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Florence-Louise-Chambers-Kinsella.scan-003-768x1157.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Florence-Louise-Chambers-Kinsella.scan-003.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flo&#8217; around her wedding day. Photo Mark Marinan.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Child<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Born<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Married<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Children<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Died<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>William George<\/td><td>5 Feb 1902<\/td><td>1941 McVicar<\/td><td>2<\/td><td>19 Apr 1981<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>George Herbert<\/td><td>19 Mar 1903<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><td>20 Jun 1903<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Leslie John<\/td><td>24 Jun 1906<\/td><td>1936 Williams<\/td><td>2<\/td><td>27 Feb 1983<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Maisie Constance<\/td><td>\u00a023 Mar 1908<\/td><td>1935 Marinan<br>&#8211; Dudley<\/td><td>3<\/td><td>\u00a030 Sep 2006<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Phyllis Muriel<\/td><td>\u00a025 Mar 1914<\/td><td>1932 Meikle<\/td><td>3<\/td><td>17 Mar 1997\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-nee-Chambers.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-nee-Chambers-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-nee-Chambers-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-nee-Chambers-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-nee-Chambers-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-nee-Chambers-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-nee-Chambers-1357x2048.jpg 1357w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-nee-Chambers.jpg 1542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Florence Kinsella nee Chambers.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/John-Thompson-Florence-Louise-Kinsella-Greymouth-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/John-Thompson-Florence-Louise-Kinsella-Greymouth-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/John-Thompson-Florence-Louise-Kinsella-Greymouth-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/John-Thompson-Florence-Louise-Kinsella-Greymouth-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/John-Thompson-Florence-Louise-Kinsella-Greymouth-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/John-Thompson-Florence-Louise-Kinsella-Greymouth-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/John-Thompson-Florence-Louise-Kinsella-Greymouth-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blackball Cemetery<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flo Chambers was born at Stafford, on the 3 March 1877. Similar to her sister, she remained on the West Coast and married a local man, John Thompson Kinsella in 1901. Child Born Married Children Died William George 5 Feb 1902 1941 McVicar 2 19 Apr 1981 George Herbert 19 Mar 1903 &#8211; &#8211; 20 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/chambers\/florence-louisa-chambers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Florence Louisa Chambers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2909","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2909","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=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2909\/revisions\/3272"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}