See also
| Husband: | David BLAKE (1893-1959) | |
| Wife: | Marguerit FARRELL (1909-1996) | |
| Children: | Lesley Irene BLAKE (1931-2003) | |
| Status: | Divorced | |
| Marriage | 1932 | |
| Annulment | 1936 | |
| Daisy left her husband David and two small daughters in 1936. She took her daughter Lesley and went with Bill Hart a seaman, whom she married some 10 years later | ||
David BLAKE, David Blake
| Name: | David BLAKE | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | David Austin BLAKE (1859-1937) | |
| Mother: | ELIZABETH HYLAND (1867-1945) | |
| Note: | https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/78283740/person/30382776740/facts | |
| Birth | 1893 | New Zealand |
| Occupation | btw 1914 and 1918 (age 20-25) | BLACKSMITH/FARRIER |
| a DRIVER. Army number 13/2161 | ||
| Death | 16 Sep 1959 (age 65-66) | New Zealand |
Marguerit FARRELL
| Name: | Marguerit FARRELL | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Nickname: | Daisy | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 3 May 1909 | Tolega Bay, East Cape, New Zealand |
| Death | 31 Mar 1996 (age 86) | Taita, Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Name: | Lesley Irene BLAKE | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Note: | https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/78283740/person/420068365174/facts | |
| Birth | 9 Feb 1931 | Tolega Bay, East Cape, New Zealand |
| Death | 19 Apr 2003 (age 72) | Taradale, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand |
Posted 17 Mar 2015 by merilyn1946
Marguerite and David had a brief marriage. In 1936, when their two daughters (Mavis known as May, and Joan) were 4 and 2 years old, Marguerite, known as Daisy left David and their girls, taking her daughter Lesley. She left to live with charles Albert Hart (Bill) whom she married 10 years later.
David, who was a Blacksmith/Farrier, had no one to care for the girls, so he took May to his mother in Pukekohe and Joan was cared for by a childless couple (named Goodess) in Auckland. David's sister Dorothy lived across the road from this couple. David was employed by Herbert Svensden, an inlaw relation. Herbert had a dairy farm and a Milk Run, and employed David as the Milkman, though he also did farm work. While May and David were living with his parents, his father David Austin died. After his death, Elizabeth went to live with daughter Dorothy and May went to join her sister Joan. David went north to look for work, and began at Portland Cement looking after their locomotives. He was given a little house in Portland, bought the girls to be with him and employed a Housekeeper named Peggy. She was a cruel woman and was secretly violent to the girls, who were too scared of her to tell their father.
He did however eventually find out and she was dismissed on the spot. Following this, grandmother Elizabeth Blake came to care for the girls for a short time until another housekeeper was employed. This woman was much kinder.
May describes her father as a wonderful kind man, whom they loved dearly. All she remembered of her mother that has remained, is that Daisy liked to read a great deal.
May and Joan never heard from or saw their mother again until the death of their father David was published in the NZ Herald. Daisy read the notice and contacted May. Some time later they did meet, but too much time had gone by to form any kind of close relationship, and after the death of Bill Hart in 1964, Daisy cut off all contact. May and Joan never met Lesley again. She was their half sister, born from a previous relationship Daisy had. Shortly after the marriage (Daisy/David), Lesley's surname was changed from Farrell to Blake by deed poll.
https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/78283740/person/30382776740/facts
https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/78283740/person/420068365174/facts