Notes for George Leslie Norman: George Leslie was born in Albert Town in 1890. When just a boy he took the punt across the Clutha River to bring his brother Henry and cousins across after a rabbiting trip. Mr Howjohn, the puntman, was very annoyed and he came to the river weilding a big poplar stick and hitting Les, the only boy he could catch. The boys dog attacked Mr Howjohn and would have mauled him had it not been called off. Mr Howjohn was so shaken that he did not attempt to stop them leaving the punt. George began his apprenticeship as a blacksmith in Mr Perrow's shop in Pembroke. Later he went to Wishart's Blacksmith shop at Cromwell and from there to Omakau. After completing his apprenticeship he worked on a gold dredge on the Kawarau River and later drove a wagon from Frankton to Clyde and Wanaka. He later bought a blacksmith shop in Pembroke and started business on his own account. In 1914 he married Martha Horn from Bannockburn and in 1922 a Mr William Silvester, who married Elizabeth Thomas from Pembroke, came over on holiday from Australia and persuaded George to take his wife and son to Sydney where he became, in later years the Chief Mechanic for Silvesters Meat Co. During the war he left Silvesters to work as an engineer at Timbrol's Chemical Factory and after the war returned to New Zealand to live. He became an engineer at Hillside Workshops and settled in Mornington, Dunedin. His son Edgar returned to New Zealand after his discharge from the Air Force and lived in Brighton with his wife and three daughters. He started an auto electrical business in Dunedin which still trades under the name G L Norman & Son.
More About George Leslie Norman and Martha Harriet Horn: Marriage: 1914
Children of George Leslie Norman and Martha Harriet Horn are:
George Leslie Norman (b. 03 Jun 1890, d. 09 Jun 1967)
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