Edward Handford Norris
Auckland
Edward Handford Norris born 6 August 1840 [or 6 August 1841] son of Mary and George Thomas Norris, bookbinder, reg. September quarter 1841, Strand vol. 1 page 336, bapt 8 March 1846 St Giles in the Fields, Holburn, London [with brothers Alfred Handford Norris and Thomas Handford Norris], married 1stly St James Parish Church, Westminster, London 4 February 1861 Mary Ann Amelia Gynne daughter of George Gynne, cabinet marker, divorced 1875, married secondly 7 May 1877 All Saint's Parish Church, Gordon Square, London Alice Julia Brooks [or Brookes], daughter of John Brooks [or Brookes], watch finisher, divorced 1887. She married 2ndly New Zealand 13 October 1887, reg. 1887/1162 John Knox Hamilton, died 27 August 1935, reg. 1935/19392, Waipukurau, New Zealand.
1861 - bookbinder
1877 - jeweller, 9 Francis Street, London
Departed London 28 May 1877 on the ship "Sam Mendel", arrived Auckland 16 September 1877 as steerage a passenger with his wife Alice Norris.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4948, 25 September 1877, page 6
[John Knox Hamilton died 26 October 1902 at his residence, Blayney Bank, Oriental Bay, Wellington].
Obituary
Mrs. J. K. Hamilton. The death occurred at Waipukurau to-day of Mrs. Alice Julia Hamilton, relict of the late Mr. John Knox Hamilton, aged 82 years. Mrs. Hamilton was born in England came to New Zealand when young. Her maiden name was Miss Brooks. She was married in Wellington and resided there for many years. Mr. Hamilton died about 30 years ago, and Mrs. Hamilton, for the last 17 years, has resided at Hatuma and Waipukurau. There are three sons and one daughter: Messrs. Andrew Hamilton, Wellington; William Hamilton, Hatuma; and John Hamilton, Argyll East; and Mrs. A. C. Chard, Melbourne.
Mrs. Hamilton had been in ill health for four or five months and about two weeks ago had to enter Sister Anderson’s Private Hospital. She had earned the deep respect and esteem of all with whom she came into contact, and her death will be sincerely regretted. A funeral service will be held at St. Mary’s Church at 2 p.m. to-morrow, after which the cortege will leave for Karori Cemetery, Wellington.
Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 196, 27 August 1935, page 5
After a long illness, Mr. John K. Hamilton, a resident of Wellington for twenty years, died at his residence in Oriental Bay yesterday morning. The deceased gentleman was for many years licensee of the New Zealander Hotel, Manners-street, where he made many friends. He was born in Ireland, and when 18 years of age emigrated to New Zealand, living on the West Coast before coming to Wellington. He was in his fifty-third year, and leaves a widow and a family of four, the youngest a boy of nine. The funeral takes place to-morrow.
Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 102, 27 October 1902, page 4
222 Queen Street
Auckland
from 30 October 1877 to about September 1878
[purchased June 2024]
Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2373, 27 October 1877, page 3
Mr Norris arrived by the Sam Mendel, and brings with him all the most approved and modern appliances of the photographic art, and purposes to make a speciality of the new American process called ferrotype. By this process the portrait is taken on a thin steel plate, covered with an enamel surface, and the photographic chemical is incorporated with this enamel by a heating process, so that it is said the picture becomes indestructible. The ferrotype process was exhibited to us yesterday, and we can speak well for the care of the artist, the quickness of the process, and the accuracy of the pictures taken.
At one sitting Mr Norris takes three pictures by simply shifting the camera slide, and this enables him to multiply the portrait, required to meet demand on the shortest notice. The price of these pictures is also considerably below others, and Mr Norris bids fair to receive that share of public support he solicits.
Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2375, 30 October 1877, page 2
Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2410, 11 December 1877, page 3
[this notice continued in the Auckland Star until 11 January 1878]
Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2484, 11 March 1878, page 1
[this notice continued in the Auckland Star until 19 August 1878]
Lower Grey Street
Auckland
from September 1878 to about January 1879
Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2601, 19 August 1878, page 3
[this notice continued in the Auckland Star until 11 September 1878]
Mr Norris, photographer, has opened his new gallery and studio at the foot of Grey-street, and invites the public to an inspection. The new studio has been built over one of the shops adjoining Mr Hayward's, and is 56 feet long by 12 feet wide, having a half-glass top and side, at the sitting platform.
Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2630, 21 September 1878, page 4
Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2725, 16 January 1879, page 3
The Divorce Court.
(By Telegraph - Own Correspondent.)
Wellington, this day.
A case of some interest to Aucklanders is being heard in the Divorce Court today. The respondent, Edward H. Norris, photographer, Sydney, was at one time living in Auckland, from whom Alice Julia Norris seeks dissolution of marriage on the grounds of desertion, cruelty, and adultery with one Annie Russell, now in Sydney.
The petition has not opposed, but the husband wrote to the Judge stating that he was obliged to leave his wife on account of her ungovernable temper. A rule nisi was granted.
Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 11, 14 January 1887, Page 3.
Norris V. Norris.
This was a petition by Alice Norris for a dissolution of her marriage with Edward Handford Norris, on the grounds of desertion and cruelty.
Mr Gully appeared for the petitioner.
Mrs Norris deposed that her maiden name was Brooks. She was married in London in 1877 to Edward Norris. She remained in London with her husband about five months, and then they came to New Zealand. They lived together for about two years, and then Mr Norris sold off his business as a photographer and went from Auckland to Gisborne, thence to Wellington, and to Sydney, leaving her at Auckland against her wish, and without any means of subsistence.
Soon after they arrived in Auckland her husband began to illtreat her. At times he used to strike her, and to stay out at night drinking. He wrote to her from Gisborne, Napier, and Wellington, asking her for money. He went to Sydney, she believed with a woman named Russell. Witness was not able to take proceedings sooner because she had not the means of doing so. She had been earning her living since he left, and had sent him money three times. Robert Findley Blakie, general dealer, of Wellington, deposed that he lived in Sydney from 1879 up to July last year. Mrs Norris sent him a photograph of her husband and asked him to find out what he was doing. Norris was mechanician at a theatre in Sydney. Witness knew him well. He lived with a woman who was known as his wife. In answer to a question put by witness, Norris said he had been in New Zealand. The woman living with him, witness believed, was a ballet dancer. A decree nisi was granted.
New Zealand Mail, Issue 777, 21 January 1887, page 11
