hi pixie,
you don't say if that is Marjorie's maiden or married name nor an approx year
but I have this info on A Marjorie Duncan, however could not find any Marshall connections

If this is not the family you are looking for please give more clues
- * approx dates and * town or district they may have lived


Peter DUNCAN (1832-1907) was born in Scotstoun, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- he married Isabella MURRISON (1839-1919), born Peterhead, Scotland
- Peter & Isabella died in Whakatane, New Zealand

some of their children were born in USA, not known when they arrived in NZ:
1862 - Christina Nicol Duncan
1864 - Isabella Duncan
1866 - William George Duncan
1869 - Agnes Duncan
1872 - Annie Duncan
* 1876 - 1944 Oswald Peter Murrison Duncan
1879 - 1947 Oscar Charles Duncan
- Oscar married Sarah Florence MACKRELL in 1905 in NZ


* Oswald Peter Murrison DUNCAN
- married Elizabeth Mary VANAMA? (1876-1967) in 1899

their children were:
1900 - 1973 Hugh Peter Duncan
- Hugh married Ruihi Bessie SMITH in 1927
1901 - Marjorie Duncan
1903 - Esther Murrison Duncan
- Esther married Elias DUNNING in 1925
1904 - Isabel Mary Duncan
1906 - 1968 Oswald Colin Duncan
1908 - 1987 Hilda Constance Duncan
- possibly married Alexander Rennie PORTEOUS in 1929

Thanks so much, Meantime I have further minor details.
Fristly, my Mother is an only illegitimate child of Marjorie,born 1927. and mum is not able to provide much information. However we may have other sources.

Meantime Marjories parents were (Known as) Charles Oscar Duncan And Florence Duncan.

Should they be Oscar Charles and Sarah Florence MACKRELL it will be interesting.
The Florence I am aware of had a sister Daisy, and Brother Bert... possibly another sister.
The surname Mackrell is in the family, but not unless Daisy never married.... and I believe she did. We knew her as Daisy Mackrell,It could have been the use of her maiden name. I am checking with relatives that I don't know, because of Majories pregnancy there was no contact.

Any further help or comments would be great.
This is new to me, so stumbling along.

Suggestions of how or what to do would be great.

so far I have the chidren of Oscar Charles DUNCAN & Sarah Florence MACKRELL as:

1905 - Marjory Iris Duncan
1908 - Peter Duncaan
1911 - Martha Isabella Duncan

maybe others can provide more children after this date ...

Florence Sarah (or Sarah Florence) Mackrell's parents were:
John William (1857-1942) & Martha (1859-1935) MACKRELL
- their known (NZ born children) were:

1880 - 1941 Florence Sarah Mackrell
- Florence married Oscar Charles DUNCAN in 1905

1883 - 1959 Violet May Mackrell
- Violet married Edward Sydney AUSTIN in 1908

1885 - 1885 John Henry Mackrell
- John died aged 6 weeks

1887 - 1976 William Mackrell
- spouse not found

1888 - 1888 James Mackrell (twin)
- James died aged 11 days

1888 - 1888 John Mackrell (twin)
- John died aged 2 days

1889 - 1981 Daisy Mackrell
- born 28 December 1889
- Daisy married Duncan Sydney MORRISON in 1915

1896 - 1951 Bert 'Bertie' Craven Maxwell Mackrell
- spouse not found

1899 - 1900 Reginald King Mackrell
- Reginald died aged 4 months

I don't know who you are, or where your own tie to this is, but consider yourself hugged.

I am now wanting to dig backwards from John and Martha.

Meantime, I have dug up that there was a Violet.... so we have the right family

I am excited, but seems you are doing the work.
I haven't a clue what to do. Keep it up, or advise.

Thanks Den

I am not connected to the family, just a researcher of (and for) folk in New Zealand

Could not find a marriage for John & Martha in NZ but only spent a little time on it. I'm presuming they were from the UK or their parents were very early pioneers/settlers of NZ

the internet is a great tool for finding ancestors, hopefully someone else has info on this couple so search the internet ...

look at shipping lists for their arrival.
This can be a long a tedious task unless you have an approx year and the place of arrival

Check through New Zealand Birth, Death, Marriage

Read all the old newspapers on Paperspast

There are many cemetery databases on line (and many that aren't) that can be very helpful in finding out snippets of info on their lives as their occupation etc is sometimes listed and some have headstone photos which adds even more

go to the many, many, genealogy sites and search the family trees and post queries as you did here. Eventually you will find all the info you want.

Start your own tree and save what info and photos you have to keep it all in one place. Tribal Pages is a good site (and free for the basic site) but there are many out there