some STALLWORTHY marriages 1873 - 1927


the STALLWORTHY GROOMS

Arthur John Stallworthy (1877-1954)
- son of John STALLWORTHY (1854-1923) of Samoa & Hannah/Annie Jane KEAT (1849-1940) of England
- Arthur was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal & United Party and a Cabinet minister. He represented the Eden electorate from 1928 to 1935, when he was deselected by the United/Reform Coalition. He stood in the 1935 as a Democrat losing to the Labour candidate. He was Minister of Health from 1928 to 1931
- married Jessie Christina FRENCH (1977-1959) in 1900
- a son, Professor Sir John Arthur Stallworthy (1906-1993), was Nuffield Professor of Ostetrics and Gynaecology, President, Royal Society of Medicine, Chairman, BMA Working Party on the Medical Effects of Nuclear War who married Margaret HOWIE in 1934 and they had a son, Jon Stallworthy who is the biographer, literary critic and Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, started writing poems at age 7

Ernest David Stallworthy (1883-1967)
- son of John STALLWORTHY & Hannah/Annie Jane KEAT
- married Florence Margaret GRICE (1885-1964) in 1905

George Stallworthy (1887-1962)
- son of John STALLWORTHY & Hannah/Annie Jane KEAT
- married Elsie Elizabeth LITTIN (1888-1919) in 1915
- married Jane McKAY (1893-1945) in 1921

Herbert Stanley Stallworthy (1885-1961)
- son of John STALLWORTHY & Hannah/Annie Jane KEATS
- married Alice WORDSWORTH (1884-1971) in 1910
- daughter of William & Hannah WORDSWORTH

John Stallworthy (1854-1923)
- was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (Kaipara Electorate)
- married Annie Jane KEATS (1849-1940) in 1873




the STALLWORTHY BRIDES

Alice Blanche Stallworthy (1881-1961)
- born in Aratapu, Auckland
- daughter of John STALLWORTHY & Hannah/Annie Jane KEAT
- married Andrew WORDSWORTH (1875-1957) in 1901

Annie Cynthia Stallworthy (1879-1913)
- daughter of John STALLWORTHY & Hannah/Annie Jane KEAT
- married Roland WORDSWORTH (1876-1947) in 1900

Elizabeth Marion Stallworthy (1874-1939)
- married Alfred SOWTER (1865-1916) in 1896
- they had at least 9 children
Eva Marion Stallworthy (1904-1988)
- daughter of Arthur John STALLWORTHY & Jessie Christina FRENCH
- married William Thomas BLIGHT in 1927

Mary Gertrude Stallworthy
- daughter of John STALLWORTHY & Hannah/Annie Jane KEAT
- married Thomas Corlett FRENCH in 1895

Rebecca Ruby Stallworthy
- daughter of John STALLWORTHY & Hannah/Annie Jane KEAT
- married Percy Goldsmith LEWIS in 1910






Arthur John Stallworthy on the steps of the Lyall Bay Baptist Church on Resolution Street in 1930. He was attending the opening of the new Sunday School building which had been erected at the back of the church. Taken by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post