More Info →Collinson - Flood Wedding

Wedding group photograph of bride, groom, wedding party and guests. Standing from left; Henry C. Collinson*; Frank H Garner; T.J. Jim Collinson*; the bridegroom – Leopold H Collinson; the Bride - Alice Mary Collinson, nee Flood; Florence E Collinson*; Myrtle Collinson*; Doris Collinson*; Horatio Flood*. Seated from left: Emma* (nee Collinson, Mrs F.M. Garber; with Frank H Garner Jnr in front; the bridegroom’s parents – H.C. Collinson and Mrs H.C. Collinson; the bride’s mother, Mrs H.C. Groube-Flood; and Miss Victorine Flood*. For their honeymoon, the bridal couple departed by train for Stoney Creek (now Whakarongo)and then got Woodfield to meet them there with a horse-drawn vehicle and bring them back to their house in Ferguson street (opposite the present Palmerston North Intermediate School) where they stayed for several days before announcing their arrival back in Palmerston North. (* indicates the bridal couple’s siblings – added by Zeta Robertson, younger daughter of Eric Francis Collinson, the younger son of LH and AM Collinson, 14 April 2012)