Pearl and Daisy part 2

Nana's mother Margaret Williams who was also known as Margaret Hamilton died in 1934 she was 65 years old. Accorning to Nana the Hamilton connection was not one that had happy memories, when Daisy named Anthony Hamilton Harris Pearl told her in no uncertain terms that she and her mother had had no time for him. Documentation that Robyn Taylor has she was known as Margaret Williams. So now we have 3 surnames attached to Pearl, Williams, Hamilton and Nagel. Remember in those early days people changed their names and remarried at will. Written records were not always accurate. Pearl was a resourceful woman and I am thinking that she turned her hand to Floral art and Millinary after her mother's death. I recall a Milliners block sitting on the dressing table in the main bedroom. James would have returned to his family after the depression had ended I have a memory of someone recalling that he had been a baggage handler at Wellington airport. When Daisy was 14 her words to me they cut her hair short and sent her off to work at Evans drapery in Cuba St. Money was still short. The Evans's were Lyall Bay people so posssibly Pearl used her wiles to get her daughter a job. This is where Fay met up with Mick Evans and probably this is where their liason started. I am not sure love was involved or whether it was a contiual thing or just opportunistic. This we cannot be sure of. Pat,Diana and Tom would have been sent to work as soon as possible. This snippet i missed from the 1st post Daisy at some stage during the depression won an elocution competition but was unable to take advantage of the prize as I guess there was no extra money for bus fares. But it she always spoke well. Pearl also was carefulwithspeech. I recall that when son Tom boughthome Aunty Mary she was critisised for saying ongion instead of onion. Remnants of Pearls Convent education perhaps. So now they are jogging on towards World War 11 and recovering as best they can from the depression.