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Griffiths Beck Photos.

Ann and John Griffiths and their family at Cambrian Central Otago. 1

The watch that John Griffiths gave to Ann on their wedding day in 1871 1

Annie Evans nee Griffiths sitting beside her Grandparents Eliza and James Beck's headstone in the Naseby Cemetry. Buried in the same block is their son William (Whiskers Bill) and three children of another son Charlie and Alice nee Byford. Arthur aged 2 months, Margaret 2 months and Jessie 7 weeks. 1

Tom Griffiths and Maggie McCarthy. Tom is David Griffiths brother. 1

David Griffiths 1

Margaret Griffiths daughter of Eliza and James Beck 1

Rex and Lavinia two of Margaret and David Griffiths children born at Naseby. 1

Annie Evans nee Griffiths 1

Annie standing beside the cottage where her sister Lavinia and brothers Arthur and Rex children of Margaret and David Griffiths was born in Naseby 1

Margaret and David Griffiths with their children. Arthur, Rex, Lavinia, Tom and Annie on her Dads knee. 1

Annie Griffiths youngest of Margaret and David. 1

Margaret and David with their family, Tom, Lavinia, Rex, Arthur and Annie at their Golden Wedding. Inset is Annie on her 70th birthday. 1

Margaret and David Griffiths. 1

Clifford Griffiths son of Rex. 1

Cliff Griffiths. Cliff was Rex's son adopted by Margaret and David. Here he is at their house in Wedderburn Central Otago 1

Margaret and Davids little house at Wedderburn Central Otago 1

Griffths boxing school. Coach David Griffiths right end second row. Australiasian champion Tommy Griffiths 4th in second row. Rex 1st in second row. Arthur 2nd in third row. Mascots Cliff Griffiths and Ray Griffiths in front. 1 1

A party at Thomas Burn Street Dunedin. Margaret and David Griffith's house. 1

Rex Griffiths gold mining at Naseby with a man Brown. 1

Tommy Griffiths Australian boxing champion.Third son of Margaret and David born in Alexandra when David was working on the railway line. 1

Margaret and David Griffiths, 1

Margaret Griffiths and her daughter Lavinia. 1 1

Annie and Owen Evans and Alice and Arthur Griffith's children maybe at the Naseby swimming dam. 1

Margaret Griffiths and her eldest daughter Lavinia at Thomas Burn Street Dunedin. 1

Cousins Trevor Beck ( Lavinia beck nee Griffiths) and Carol Dougherty (Evans - Griffiths) 1

Margaret Griffiths grave at Andersons Bat cemetry after her fineral in 1861. 1

Mirriam daughter of Arthur Griffiths and Carol daughter of Annie Evans nee Griffiths. Granddaughters of Margaret and David Griffiths. 1

Mirriam Griffiths, Carol Evans, Margaret Griffiths, Neville Griffiths, Rena Evans, Wendy Evans, Joy Griffiths, Tony Griffiths and Ross Griffiths. The children are grandchildren of Margaret and David. Taken at Matai Street Ravensbourne. 1

Bill Beck and mother in law Margaret Griffiths daughter of Eliza and James Beck makind mud bricks for Bill's house at Idaburn 1

Annie Griffiths in the Otago womens cricket team. 1

Annie nee Griffiths and Owen Evasn's baby boy who only lived 3 days. Morris David Evans. He is buried in the Southern cemetry in the Evans grave. 1

Cliff Griffiths buried at Okura on the West Coast. 1

Cliff Griffiths funeral. 1

Lavinia 6. Tom 7 1/2 month.s and Rex. 4 1/2. Griffiths. 1

Lavinia nee Griffiths and Bill Beck. Rex Griffiths is a groomsmen and Anne Griffiths a flower girl. Flo Burdon is bridesmaid. They had a double wedding with Tot and Bob Deaker at First Church Dunedin. 1

Lavinia Beck nee Griffiths and Annie Evans nee Griffiths with their Mother Margaret Griffiths nee Beck (daughter of Eliza and James Beck). 1

Enterprise Hill Naseby with the bridge approx where it was over the Enterprise Gully Creek when David Griffiths proposed to Margaret Beck in 1900. His Maggie!! 1

This photo of of the Beck Family at Idaburn. Teanie, Georgina Marshall, Jack, Bill (Trevors Father) Joe in front. FRONT: Jessie, Tot, Charles holding Robert. Charles Ford Beck married Maragret Proctor in Richhill Armagh Ireland. They had the following children: Thomas Beck born in 1837 in Richhill, Armagh, Ireland. He married Ellen Irwin. James Beck was born in 1845. He died on 10 Oct 1902. He married Eliza Nisbett in Richhill Armagh Ireland. (My Great Grandparents.) Charles Beck was born in 1850. He died on 15 May 1901 he married Margaret Drysdale. Charles (my great Uncle) and his family are in the above photo. Charles married Margaret Drysdale and was a ploughman at Maniototo Station before he came with his wife and the first of his 18 children to live at this the Idaburn Hotel. It was a stopover for Cobb and Co Royal mail coaches. Accomodation 1st Class. Charles bought a coalpit at the Idaburn and later surrounding land for a small farm. . For a few years it was opened as a restaurant and bar and called Whiskery Bills... Margarets Mother, Margaret Drysdale was the local midwife at Rough ridge and Post Mistress for 23 years. 1

Alice nee Byford Charles Beck ? David Griffiths with his wife Margaret nee Beck & Annie Evans nee Griffiths and Bill Beck. Charles, Margaret and William, children of Eliza and James Beck. 1

Annie Evans nee Griffiths and her Mothers brother William Beck(whiskers Bill). 1

Carol Anne Evans at Oturehua somewhere? 1

David and Margaret Griffiths outside their Melbourne Street Flat in Dunedin. 1

Carol Evans and Kenny Griffiths son of Arthur. 1

Carol. Rena and Wendy daughters of Annie nee Griffiths and Owen Evans. 1

Cambrian School where most of John and Ann Griffith's children went to school. 1

Margaret Griffiths nee Beck 1

Christmas at Idaburn at Lavena and Bill Becks. Margaret Griffiths sitting to the right. 1

Picnis at the Naseby swimming da. late 1940's. Carol Rena and Wendy Evans, David Griffiths, Eddie Ryan. Bryan Griffiths and Owen Evans. 1

Lil and Tom Griffiths, David and Margaret Griffiths and their daughter Annie Margaret. 1

Bill Beck holding Mirriam Griffiths daughter of Alice and Arthur Griffiths, Annie Griffiths her Mother Margaret Griffiths, Lavina Beck nee Griffiths, her son Arthur Beck. In Front. Vina Beck, Doreen Beck and Ken Griffiths son of Arthur Becl. 1

Ray Beck, Doreen Beck, Annie Griffiths, Bill Beck. In Front: Trevor Beck, Carol turned her head and Rena Evans on Annie's knee. 1

David Grffiths. Owen Evans. Ronnie Beck. Tommy Griffiths, Cliff Griffiths. Ray Beck. Lavinia Beck nee Griffiths. Ray Griffiths. Stan Beck. In Front: Ken Griffiths. Carol Evans. Rena Evans. Trevor Beck. Doreen Beck and Bill Beck. 1

Skating at Idaburn. Owen Evans, Arthur Beck, Stan Beck, Ray Beck,Cliff Groffiths, Annie Evans nee Griffiths, Vina Beck and Doreen Beck. 1

Cliff Griffiths. Cliff was the son of Rex and adopted by Margaret and David the day he was born. 1

Eileen and Rex Griffiths. 1

Jessie and Mag Charles Beck daughters. Charles was brother of James. 1

Tommy Griffiths as he appeaed on the publicans calendar. 1

William Beck (Whiskers Bill) hut to the left of the Idaburn Hotel on the main highway from Ranfurly to Alexandra. 1

Annie (nee Griffiths) and Owen Evans lived here with their three little girls when they first moved to the Country. This mudbrick house was over the main road from Pearl and Jim Beck house. McDairmids have built a house in front 1

The Blackstone Hill school where David Edward Griffiths attended when he worked for a Mr. Anderson in Blackstone Hill when he was 12 years old. This after his family in Cambrians split up after his Mother died. 1

The Old Idaburn Hotel where Charles and Margaret lived with their 15 children. This was turned into Restaraunt and Bar called "Whiskery Bills" in 2007 but closed after 4 years. Whiskers Bill nephew of Charles lived in a big hut to the left of the hotel. 1

Annie Adams Griffiths 1

Annie, Hannah and Lizzie Griffiths. Sisters of David Edward my Grandfather. 1

Rear: Rex Griffiths, Bill Beck Tom Griffiths. Front: two unknown girls Charles Beck and another Beck. 1

Two Beck boys, Bill Beck their father, David Griffiths eating an icecream.. Vina Beck, Doreen Beck, Lavina Beck and her Mother Margaret Griffiths 1

Charles Beck with his team of horses. 1

Charles Beck (Irish) brother of James. 1 1

The Beck coalpit at Idaburn Otago New Zealand. 1

Eliza Jane Nisbett wife of James Beck. Photo taken in Belfast Ireland. My Great Grandmother. 1

Tommy Griffiths son of Margaret and David. 1

The Beck coalpit at Idaburn. Right is William Bill (Whiskers Bill) and next to him is Charles ( county Charlie). Probably other Becks with the workers. 1

Granny Beck and her chooks. Wife of Charles Beck Margaret Drysdale. 1

Hannah Griffiths daughter og John and Ann Griffiths Cambrians. 1

Lavinia, Tom, Rex and Arthur Griffiths. Children of Margaret and David Grandchildren of John & Ann Griffiths and Eliza and James Beck. 1

Margaret Griffiths husband of David Edward daughter of Eliza and James Beck, Nana aged 54. 1

Ronnie Beck son of Lavina and Bill Beck. Grandson of Charles Beck Idaburn. 1

Thomas son of John and Ann Griffiths and Maggie nee McCarthy. 1

John and Ann Griffiths with son Thomas John and Ann's daughter Ann Louise Adams. From her first marraige to Exuperius Adams. 1

Forground: The remains of the compound that was around Eliza and James Becks house on Enterprise Hill in the 1870's. Looking down towards turn off to coalpit road. 1

X marks the spot where the Beck house stood on Enterprise hill Naseby N.Z. 1

On top of Enterprise Hill you will see Eliza and James Becks High fence round there house. A few trees stand beside. 1

Hannah Collins nee Griffiths. Daughter of Ann and John Griffiths Cambrian. Hannah married Albert Sanderson Collins. 1

Plough Hotel about the time Thomas Griffiths and his wife Maggie McCarthy were licencees from 1928-1931. 1

Robert Owen Griffiths in the Anderson Bay cemetery. He is the son of John and Ann Griffiths Cambrians. He was a butcher in Dunedin .. 1

Amy Lavinia Jones was visiting the Cambrian school in November 2018 sat at a desk lifted the lid and found a book belonging to Lavinia Griffiths a pupil of the Cambrian school as a little girl. She is Amy's great great great Aunt. 1

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