Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Grace Brook was born about 1855 in Australia, she came to New Zealand and, in 1878, married Dusenius Frühstüch from Denmark.
They had a daughter, Violet Ethel in 1879. Dusenius worked as a gardener and they lived in Kaikorai then later in Melbourne St, Brunswick St and Reid Rd in South Dunedin. Dusenius worked for many years as a gardener for T K Sidey – MP and Mayor of Caversham. He suffered from lung trouble and while going to Middlemarch for his health was thrown from the buggy, a wheel running over him.
He died in 1911, Grace died on 4 August 1939. They are buried together in the Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Sources
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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