Alena Jessie MCKENZIE

1871 - 1933  (62 years)

• Name	Alena Jessie MCKENZIE
  Birth	3 Feb 1871	, Mitta Mitta, New South Wales, Australia
  Gender	Female
  _FSFTID	KJZG-8Z8
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KJZG-8Z8
  Death	11 Dec 1933	Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  Burial	12 Dec 1933	Botany Presbyterian Cemetery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  Person ID	I24	FHC027 - Berry Tree
  Last Modified	28 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Hector MCKENZIE,   b. Dec 1834, , Gairloch, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland d. 12 Jan 1903, , Young, New South Wales, Australia (Age ~ 68 years)
  Relationship	biological
  Mother	Margaret PATON,   b. 1844, Stair Hill, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia d. 24 Jul 1924, Islington, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	biological
  Marriage	22 Nov 1860	Stair Hill, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
  _MARRIED	N
  Family ID	F21	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	John HOWARD,   b. 3 Dec 1871, Wallsend, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia d. 15 Nov 1895, , Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia (Age 23 years)
  Marriage	2 May 1893	, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
  _MARRIED	N
  Children	1. John Alexander HOWARD,   b. 15 Aug 1893, , Araluen, New South Wales, Australia d. 10 May 1916, , , Nord, France (Age 22 years)  [biological]   2. Margaret Ethel HOWARD,   b. 19 Feb 1895, , Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia d. 27 Mar 1955, Tighes Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (Age 60 years)  [biological]   3. Elizabeth Eileen HOWARD,   b. 26 May 1896, , Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia d. 3 Jan 1960, Tighes Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (Age 63 years)  [biological]
  Family ID	F3	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Arthur Vernon BEGBIE,   b. 20 Jul 1868, , Manning River, New South Wales, Australia d. 29 Mar 1955, Tighes Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	10 May 1897	St Andrews, Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia
  _MARRIED	N
  Family ID	F20	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2021

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 3 Feb 1871 - , Mitta Mitta, New South Wales, Australia Marriage - 2 May 1893 - , Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia Marriage - 10 May 1897 - St Andrews, Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia Death - 11 Dec 1933 - Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Burial - 12 Dec 1933 - Botany Presbyterian Cemetery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Information recorded by Joyce Ethel Gordon 17 April 1977 Alena Jessie Howard supported herself as a seamstress after her husband's death. Times must have been most difficult for her as she was pregnant at the time of his death and would not have received any income from his service because of the stigma of his trial and subsequent death. She later married Arthur Vernon Begbie who had been sent to replace her husband by the Police Force. It is interesting to note that she was pregnant each time she was married to both John Howard and later to A V Begbie. Times were hard in those days in such cases and she must had a very difficult time of it. My memories: I remember her as a tall austere lady dressed in black with a hard pained look to her face. I remember a house with a side entrance with pretty tiles and glass front door (leadlight half way) and her room being immediately on your left as you came in. Her bed was a single one and the room small, the bed was straight up from the door. She had risen or was rising from it, she had been ill I think. There was a wardrobe next to the bed along the wall opposite the door and a dressing table under the window, she was dressed in black. I remember my mother telling me she sewed beautifully by hand an pin ticked and worked clothes beautifully. I think she may have made the dress she wore in fact but can't be sure of that. Her hair was long and pulled back in a bun and her dress was almost to her ankles. Her skin seemed to me, I feel, very fair. I can't remember her touching me or smiling. I also believe she wore gold ear rings through pierced ears. I must have been very young at the time for in telling my mother of this memory she was surprised for she felt I would have been much to young to remember but declared that I had described her room as it was. Note: from Joyce Ethel Gordon There was a sister who lived for many years in South Africa and we cared for her at our home when I was young. She had been married but not sure if husband divorced or dead? Lived for some time with Jessie Begbie? There is a sister to Alena that for many years lived in South Africa, she never had any children and on her return to Australia we cared for her as she was ill it seems. I can remember she used my mother's room and she was very demanding, I do believe she drank but can't be sure. I remember her talking of the Zulus and their rick-shaws that they pulled people around in and she even had a photo of one all decked out in ceremonial clothes with her in the carriage. I remember how large he seemed, his clothing was very decorative. I believe she might have been divorced but can't be sure. Her name escapes me for the present, she lived with Jessie Begbie for some time and then I think went into a home. I remember she had lovely clothes, jewelery and perfumes and that she seemed to receive money regularly from somewhere, I believe it was South Africa. I must have been six or even older in fact I could have been nearer nine. I can't recall her dying but I do believe we heard of it many years later. I think she was somewhere in Sydney at the time. (Possibly her half sister who married Greneger)