Louisa BYNG, Henrietta’s older sister (YouTube link below)
Her sibling Louisa also had multiple marriages. Louisa Byng was born on October 30, 1845, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of Mary and John. She was married three times and had ten sons and four daughters. She died on June 28, 1928, in Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand, at the age of 82, and was buried there. Louisa married James Diggle at Taradale, Victoria on 19 March 1863 when she was 17 years old. Her son James was born in 1864 at Taradale. Her daughter Annie Louisa Diggle/Copley was born on 6 November 1868 in West Coast, New Zealand. Her son Frederick Byng Copley was born 1869 NZ; Ralph Copley was born in 1871 in NZ. When her husband James Diggle was killed in a mining accident on 6 August 1874 in Taradale at the aged of 42 years she was free to marry Godfrey Copley in New Zealand. She was 29 years of age when she married Copley. Joshua Cyril Copley was born in 1874; Samuel 1874 in Ross, New Zealand; Arthur in 1875; William Wallace Copley in 1876; William John Copley 1878; and her daughter Emma Eliza was born October 1880 in Ross, NZ.
In 1881 her sister Henrietta died and on 23 January 1882 this was followed by the death of her husband Godfrey Copley in Otago New Zealand. Their son Godfrey Copley was born in July 1882 after the death of his father.
Louisa then married George Purvis in New Zealand on 19 November 1883 when she was 38 years of age. She then had more children: George Alexander 8 October 1884; Henrietta (Hettie) Elizabeth October 1886; and Margaret Frances 8 August 1890. Her son Arthur passed away in Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand, on September 1890 aged 15 years.
Her sister Emma died on 5 September 1895 in Victoria when Louisa was 49 years old. Her third husband George Purvis passed away on 29 October 1900 at the ag of 70 years. They had been married 16 years.
Louisa Byng died on 28 June 1928 in Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand, when she was 82 years old. She is buried at Wanganui, Rangitikei, New Zealand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK2-n6LK-vE
See Henrietta BYNG
