Moore - Brickland Family History
Family: Emile Edmond LE PROU / Madeline Azerau GERZEAU (F22)
m. 28 Jan 1862-
Father | Male
Emile Edmond LE PROU
Born 5 Sep 1832 St Samson-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandie, France 
Died 18 Apr 1905 Oparau, NZ Buried 20 Apr 1905 Kawhia Cemetery, Kawhia, NZ Married 28 Jan 1862 [1, 2] Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ [1, 2] Father Jean Louis LEPROU | F183 Group Sheet Mother Marguerite Jeanne Victoire CARDINE | F183 Group Sheet
Mother | Female
Madeline Azerau GERZEAU
Born 26 Sep 1845 Échillais, , Poitou-Charentes, Charente-Maritime, France Died 9 Jan 1881 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Buried 11 Jan 1881 Anglican Cemetery, Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Father INCONNU LAMBERT | F184 Group Sheet Mother Francoise GERZEAU | F184 Group Sheet
Child 1 | Female
+ Selina Josephine LE PROU
Born 31 Oct 1862 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Christened 4 Nov 1862 Died 14 Oct 1947 Ohakune Junction, NZ Buried 15 Oct 1947 Aramoho Cemetery, Wanganui, NZ Spouse John Henry HALL | F185 Married 20 May 1883 Registrars Office, Akaroa, NZ Spouse John Dominic (Jack) BRAVO | F1129 Married 1947 NZ
Child 2 | Female
+ Helenne LE PROU
Born 14 Nov 1863 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Died 3 Jun 1947 Auckland, NZ Buried 5 Jun 1947 Purewa Cemetery & Crematorium, Auckland, NZ Spouse Henry Charles BRICKLAND | F16 Married 4 May 1881 St Peters Church, Akaroa, NZ
Child 3 | Female
+ Mary Esther LE PROU
Born 17 Dec 1864 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Christened Between 11 and 14 Mar 1865 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Died 7 Nov 1928 Taumarunui, NZ Buried 9 Nov 1928 Old Taumaranui Cemetery, NZ Spouse Louis Francois LE VAILLANT | F186 Married 30 Jul 1885 Registrars Office, Akaroa, NZ
Child 4 | Female
+ Lucy Cardine LE PROU
Born 12 Jan 1866 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Christened 10 Jan 1868 Merrys Bay, Akaroa, NZ Died 10 Dec 1945 Kinohaku, NZ Buried Kinohaku Cemetery, Kinohaku, Waikato, NZ Spouse James Edward SCOTT | F187 Married 25 May 1888 Presbyterian Church, Akaroa
Child 5 | Female
+ Sarah Charlotte LE PROU
Born 14 Jun 1867 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Christened 10 Jan 1868 Merrys Bay, Akaroa, NZ Died 14 Nov 1953 Kaiapoi, NZ Buried Spouse David LITTLE | F188 Married
Child 6 | Male
+ Benjamin LE PROU
Born 10 Feb 1869 Tecoe Bay, Akaroa, NZ Christened 21 Feb 1870 Wainui, NZ Died 12 Jun 1949 24 Beresford St, Auckland, NZ Buried 16 Jun 1949 Hamilton East, Hamilton, Waikato, NZ Spouse Elizabeth Hannah CONDER | F189 Married 26 Dec 1891 St Stephens Church, Marton, NZ
Child 7 | Male
+ Emile Edmond LE PROU
Born 18 Jan 1871 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Christened 6 Aug 1871 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Died 22 Jan 1961 Auckland, NZ Cremated 24 Jan 1961 Purewa Cemetery & Crematorium, Auckland, NZ Spouse Annie Tibble GIBSON | F190 Married 3 Nov 1898 Mangatainoka, NZ
Child 8 | Female
+ Agnes Victoire LE PROU
Born 13 Feb 1872 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Christened 13 Oct 1872 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Died 31 Aug 1953 Oamaru, Waitaki District, Otago, NZ Buried 1953 Oamaru Cemetery, Otago, NZ Spouse George Mathewman GAMBLE | F191 Married 22 Mar 1894 Christchurch, Canterbury, NZ
Child 9 | Female
+ Madeline Mary LE PROU
Born 22 Apr 1873 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Died 23 Nov 1963 77 Stamford Park Road, Mt Roskill, Auckland, NZ Buried Mangere Cemetery, NZ Spouse Charles O'REILLY | F609 Married Spouse John Lawrence NEILSON | F192 Married 16 May 1908 Te Awamutu, Waikato, NZ Spouse William Joseph MOLLOY | F608 Married 1950 Auckland, NZ
Child 10 | Female
Amelia Julia (Annie) LE PROU
Born Abt 1876 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Christened 31 Aug 1887 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Died 12 Mar 1892 East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Buried 15 Mar 1892 Melbourne General Cemetery, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Child 11 | Female
+ Julia Maud LE PROU
Born 23 Sep 1878 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Died 23 Jun 1953 Devonport, Auckland, NZ Buried 25 Jun 1953 O'Neills Point Cemetery, Bayswater, Auckland, NZ Spouse Charles Herbert AVERY | F193 Married 29 Apr 1898 Pahiatua, NZ
Child 12 | Female
Victoria LE PROU
Born 9 Jan 1881 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Died 9 Jan 1881 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ Buried 1881 Akaroa, Canterbury, NZ
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Notes Married:
- Extract from Lyttelton Times, Wednesday February 5th, 1862, P.4 (Courtesy of Mavis Donnelly)
also published : Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 14, 12th February 1862, Page 2
(Courtesy of Papers Past)
Elopement -
The quietness of Akaroa was somewhat disturbed by the elopement of a young couple on Wednesday the 22nd January last.
It appears that the young lady, who has suffered for a length of time from the harsh conduct of an uncle, who is her guardian, had formed an attachment, which ended in an elopement with a young man of her acquaintance, her guardian of course disapproving of the match.
They left Akaroa in the middle of the night, and arrived at Pigeon Bay early in the morning, covered with mud from the dirty state of the roads. Having been hospitably treated there by a gentleman famous for his liberality, they prepared to take their departure by the mail boat. In the meantime however an unlooked for difficulty in the shape of the old uncle appeared, accompanied by a young gentleman who had aspired to the fair one's hand with his consent. These latter searched about for the missing ones and at length discovered them hiding among some trees.
Then commenced an altercation in French, interspersed with imprecations on each other's head.
The old man took the girl by one arm and the gay lothario by the other, but the muscular arm of the blacksmith (for he was a blacksmith) prevailed, and he carried his intended on his back through the sea to the boat, and then shoved off, amidst cheers and hurrahs from a number of spectators on shore. The discomfited party followed up to his middle in water and reached the boat, a feat which only procured him a ducking for his pains.
After some altercation they all got into the boat and proceeded to Lyttelton, the young couple to see a clergyman, and the others to appeal to the Resident Magistrate.
It seems however that before they reached Lyttelton all differences were settled and they have proceeded back to Akaroa to be joined together with the consent of all parties concerned at the Hymeneal Alter.
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Marriage Certificate states:
Jan 28th 1862 at the Office of the Registrar, Akaroa
Edmond Emile, 29 yo Blacksmith (Bachelor)
Madeline Gerzan, 21 yo Servant (Spinster)
Officiating Registrar was Daniel Watkins
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Information from Mavis Donnelly:
In the Register (Vol 1 No 64) of the Station of the Assumption at Akaroa it is recorded :
Le 30 du mois d'avril 1862 j'ai béni a Akaroa le mariage de Edmond Emile Leprou et Magdeleine Gerzau, célibré dans le même ville le 28 janvier de la même année devant le Registrar.
(Signed by Chervier)
[ On the 30th April 1862, I blessed at Akaroa the marriage of Edmond Emile Leprou and Magdeleine Gerzau, celebrated in the same town on the 28th January the same year before the Registrar]
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- Extract from Lyttelton Times, Wednesday February 5th, 1862, P.4 (Courtesy of Mavis Donnelly)
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