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Charles Christopher Dunford was the fifth son of Henry (Harry) and Margaret Jane (née Cotton). Henry had arrived with his family at Lyttleton in 1851 on the "Cressy" and married Irish-born Margaret Jane in 1866 at Christchurch. Charles married Catherine Elizabeth Enright (Kate) on 9 January 1907 at Timaru. Kate's parents, Daniel and Mary Enright, were hotelkeepers at Temuka from about 1905 for some twenty years. Charles and Kate had three children - Monica Marie Anastasia Dunford (Mona) born on 25 February 1908 at Dunedin, Inez Irene Dunford born 14 July 1909 at Dunedin and Bertrand Charles Dunford born on 1 June 1912 at Invercargill. Charles' wife, Catherine Elizabeth Dunford, died on 9 July 1912 at Dunedin and is buried in the Southern Cemetery there, leaving three little children motherless. Next-of-kin for Charles is believed to be Mary Agnes Enright who was a school teacher at Seaward Downs and who may well have taken responsibility for some of or all the chilrdren. Mary married John McGlinchey in 1920 at Temuka. Charles Christopher Dunford married secondly Clara North in 1921. Charles and Clara had a son, Desmond Alfred Dunford, who died young, and a daughter Deirdre Dunford born on 21 October 1923 at Dunedin. Kate's brother, Michael Francis Enright, served with the Australian Forces in World War I and lost his life in World War II. Edward Samuel Dunford, a brother of Charles, served in World War I, as did two cousins - Alfred Dunford and Donald Joseph Dunford, and three nephews - Albert William Fisher, George Duncan Fisher and James McNicol Fisher. Charles' son, Bertrand, who served in the Second World War, came home safely after being a prisoner of war.

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [20 July 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [20 July 2019]; Temuka Leader, 20 & 30 December 1890, 4 July 1891, 16 June 1894, 23 August 1894, 30 September 1899, 3 March 1900 [x 2], 17 March 1900, 10 & 21 April 1900, 12 May 1900, 14 August 1900, 4 & 29 September 1900, 15 December 1900, 21 March 1901, 9 April 1901, 4 & 6 March 1902, 22 April 190215 & 20 May 1902, 17 & 30 May 1903, 16 June 1903, 4 July 1903, 12 November 1903, 12 December 1903, 14 January 1904, 18 & 27 February 1904, 26 May 1904, 28 June 1904, 2 & 30 July 1904, 6 October 1904, 7 October 1905, 30 November 1905, 19 March 1907, 13 January 1925, 11 September 1926, Otago Daily Times, 1 June 1914, 2 June 1921, 10 January 1925, 11 September 1926, Evening Star, 17 May 1916, 1 November 1919, Press, 12 April 1917, 8 January 1935, 18 May 1945, , Evening Post, 28 April 1917, 26 July 1917, Dominion, 5 June 1917, New Zealand Times, 29 July 1919, Sun, 2 December 1919, NZ Tablet, 20 January 1921, Auckland Star, 1 August 1929, 3 September 1932, 30 January 1935, 27 July 1935, 19 September 1940, 19 June 1941, 26 September 1941, 3 August 1943, 25 September 1943, Northern Advocate, 19 July 1935, New Zealand Herald, 26 July 1935, 4 September 1937 (Papers Past) [20 & 21 July 2019]; Hillsborough Cemetery record (Auckland Council) [21 July 2019]; Hillsborough Cemetery headstone transcription (personal family info) [many years ago]

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