Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Notes for Helen Scott Johnstone
My mother had written that his wife was Margaret but on the passenger list for their 1960 voyage to New Zealand, she is down as Helen S, so I’ve changed to that.  I do not know her surname: their marriage will not be in FreeBMD for a couple of years yet (written in 2008).

The Times comes to the rescue: on 7th Oct 1953, it carried a notice of her and Peter’s engagement which gives her name as Helen Scott Johnstone, only dau. of Mr & Mrs J S Johnstone of Marlborough, New Zealand.  The Times did not carry a marriage notice, so I do not know the date let alone the location of that; further it will need a search in New Zealand records, not FreeBMD, to find this.  I strongly suspect the notice was put in The Times by Peter’s mother who was, apparently, still alive then.
Last Modified 22 Aug 2008Created 14 May 2022 by Tim Powys-Lybbe
Re-created by Tim Powys-Lybbe on 14 May 20220