Annie Beatrice STYLES [3247]

  General Notes:

1885/10662 NZ Birth Styles Annie Beatrice, Charlotte, George Stafford (14 Jun 1885)
1907/809 NZ Marriage Annie Beatrice Styles Halvor Emil Meining
1957/33029 NZ Death Meining Annie Beatrice 72Y

Hastings Cemetery: Section M Row 2 - (OR Block O Plot 571)
3566a Annie Beatrice Meining d. 31 Jul 1957 72y & 3566b Halvor Emil Meining son of above d. 5 Apr 1977 69y

Evening Post 15 November 1917
Petitions for divorce and the grounds alleged for the petition are set down as follow:—
. . . Annie Beatrice Meinung v. Halvor Emil Meinung; desertion. . . .

Evening Post, 24 November 1917
DIVORCE PETITION
Sitting in divorce this morning, his Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) granted a decree nisi, with costs against the respondent, in the petition of Annie Beatrice Meinung v. Halvor Emil Meinung on the ground of desertion. Petitioner, who was represented by Mr. H. F. O'Leary, said that she was married in January of 1907, and in May of 1911 her husband left her. Since then she had not lived with him. He was now at Mohaka, Hawkes Bay, and she was still cooking at a hotel at Fernhill, near Hastings, supporting herself and her boy, the only child of the marriage.

Dominion 26 November 1917
SUPREME COURT
IN DIVORCE
His Honour held a short sitting in divorce. Annie Beatrice Meinung sought a divorce from Halvor Emil Meinung on the ground of desertion. Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared in support of the petition. The petitioner stated that she married the respondent in January, 1907. There was one child of the marriage. She had not lived with her husband for over six years, as he had left her in 1911. She alleged that he was drunken and cruel. Since the desertion, the petitioner had supported herself and her child. His Honour, granted a decree nisi, with interim custody of the child to the petitioner.

Civil Actions - Annie Beatrice Meinung v. John Powell (R10766038)1930 - no date
Item IDAgencySeriesRecord groupBox / Item Record no.Record type
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NZSG Indexed Probates
Name: MEINUNG Annie Beatrice
Place: Norsewood
Occupation: Widow
Court: Napier
Agency: AAOW
Accession: W3846
Probate Number: 8653/57
Filed Date: 16 Sep 1957
Type: Will
Further enquiries to: Archives NZ - Wellington

  Other Records

• NZ Electoral Rolls 1853-1981: married, 1911, Takapau.

• NZ Electoral Rolls 1853-1981: married, 1914, Fernhill.

• Divorce: decree nisi, 24 Nov 1917, Hastings, New Zealand.
Married January 1907, husband deserted May 1911, supporting herself and boy working at Fernhill Hotel nr Hastings.

• NZ Electoral Rolls 1853-1981: married, 1928, Waipukerau, New Zealand.

• Annie Beatrice Meinung: Writ Meinung v Powell 01, 1930, Napier Registry.
(courtesy Wellington Archives)

• Meinung Annie Beatrice: Writ: Meinung v Powell 02, 1930, Napier Registry.
(courtesy Wellington Archives)

• NZ Electoral Rolls 1853-1981: married, 1938, 26 Burns st, Dannevirke.

• NZ Electoral Rolls 1853-1981: married, 1946, Otawhao, Norswood.

• NZ Electoral Rolls 1853-1981: married, 1949, Otawhao, Norswood.

Annie married Halvor Emil MEINUNG [3254] [MRIN: 1062], son of Halvor MEINUNG [7235] and Unknown, on 11 Jan 1907 in Wellington, New Zealand. The marriage ended in divorced 1917. (Halvor Emil MEINUNG [3254] was born on 12 May 1874 in Denmark, died on 31 Aug 1949 in New Zealand and was buried on 2 Sep 1949 in Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland, NZ.)