William Stringer was a teacher from Lancashire. He moved to Guernsey where he met and married Eda Le Messurier. In Guernsey he was headmaster of a boys school, and Eda was headmistress of a nearby girls school. He came from Ashton under Lyne. They had two children, Margot and Desirée. Margot was born in 1914. […]
Category: Stringer – Marguerite 1914-2010
Kauri kitchen table
When we arrived in NZ in 1949 we stayed with Auntie Heath and the nurse who had looked after Lucy Spencer at home. She had died not long before, and Auntie Heath had decided to continue with her company. The family had been looking out for a house for us, and had found one […]
Letter 1940 June (2) Evacuation of Guernsey – Eda Le Messurier – Margot Stringer
Monday Dear Margot Here is a link to the wikipedia article about the Guernsey evacuation. The latest news is that 2000 Germans (two thousand) landed in Guernsey alone. This comes from the Waymouths. Father was away during the whole of Sunday – 9 am to 7 pm – dealing with the children. Someone, he forgets […]
Letter 1940 June Evacuation of Guernsey – Eda Le Messurier – Margot Stringer
Note at top of letter: You know the two big posts at the gate, with the ramblers. Father pruned them severely this year, & they are perfectly gorgeous, huge clusters of blooms as big as your head – the clusters, not the blooms. Saturday. Dear Margot Here is a link to the wikipedia article about […]
Letters to Margot Stringer in NZ from father William in Exeter
16/12/53 My dear Margot, Here is a line to wish you all a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Your mother is in normal form. The Le Messuriers are a long living family and though she is now 70 68 years of age her hair is just as it was when you last […]
Margot reminiscences by Donald Lang
Margot (Marguerite Stringer) was Donald Lang’s mother-in-law, and he wrote this about her. The first time my path came close to Margot – and vice versa – neither of us saw the other in the crowd. She was in Sargood Private Hospital with a new baby. O’Rorke Hall just happened to be next door. When […]
Memories of Margot from her granddaughter
Grandparents can have a special relationship with their grandchildren. They don’t have the responsibility of molding and correcting children that parents do, so they can get on with the unconditional love part of the relationship. Of my four grandparents, I knew my Granny, Margot, the best. We used to visit her every two years and […]
Stringer – Marguerite 1914-2010
Margot (as she was always known) was born in St Peter Port, Guernsey. Her mother Eda Aline LeMessurier was a member of the family known as the Post Office LeMessuriers. The first postmaster – Nicolas – was her great great grandfather. His grandfather Nicolas seems to be the first to put two S’s in the […]
That act of kindness and generosity shaped my whole life…
This essay from Ulu Aiono talks of his memories of Margot and Arthur Spencer, and their impact on his life. It was originally published on March 17, 2019 on LinkedIn and is reproduced with permission. A personal essay against the hate which killed & injured my Muslim Kiwi brothers & sisters destroying New Zealand’s faith […]