Silas George LEWIS aged 21 yrs, Miner, Bachelor, bp Blackball, Victoria, (incorrect - b Italian Gully, nr Scarsdale) Residence: Waiuta, s/o Thomas LEWIS, Miner and Phoebe Elizabeth Myrtle LEWIS ms SPARKS m 23 Jan 1924 Anglican Church Blackball Sth Is. NZ, Myrtle Thelma NUTTALL aged 18 yrs, Domestic, Spinster bp Barrytown, NZ, Residence: Present Waiuta, Usual Blackball d/o John Henry NUTTALL, Mine Deputy, and Elizabeth Ann NUTTALL ms McLEOD. Denomination Church of England. Witnesses: C(larence) LEWIS, Waiuta, Miner and L NUTTALL, Domestic, Blackball. Registered at Ahaura [NZ 2040]
Blackball is located up the valley of the Grey River from Greymouth on the road to Reefton. Ahaura is located in Akaroa County, Grey District, mid-way between Greymouth on the West Coast and Reefton to the north. New Zealand Maps

Myrtle Thelma NUTTALL b abt 1906 Barrytown, Sth Is, NZ, d/o John Henry NUTTALL, Mine Deputy, and Elizabeth Ann McLEOD [NZ marr cert 2040]
Myrtle LEWIS lived at 7 Conference Street, Christchurch, NZ.
Myrtle Thelma LEWIS, Widow, birthplace Greymouth, NZ, died 14 Jun 1971 aged 65 yrs, bur 17 Jun 1971 Memorial Park Cemetery Block 5, Plot 115 [Christchurch City Council Cemeteries Database]

Children of Silas George Membra Baden Viscount LEWIS and Myrtle Thelma NUTTALL: (in order of birth)

1. Daphne LEWIS b 1 Nov 1924 NZ, d 2 Jan 1926 aged 14 mos, the same day that her cousin was born, Joan Lavinia LEWIS d/o Albert Lawson HARDEN TUNSTALL and Doris Daphne LEWIS. (Joan Rudman)

2. Silas John Thomas LEWIS b 9 Jun --
Married with one child. In 1973 Silas LEWIS lived at 7 Conference Street, Christchurch, NZ, moved to Australia in late 1950s or early 1960s and last had contact with the family in 1976.

3. Edward William Colquohoun LEWIS b 28 Feb 1928 Blackball, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand
Edward William Colquohoun LEWIS d 4 Feb 1999 aged 70 yrs Domett, Cheviot, NZ, bur 10 Feb 1999 Waipara Cemetery, Canterbury, NZ.
Edward William Colquohoun LEWIS m1. Kathleen Dawn GRAY (known as Dawn) b 1927, d 1985 aged abt 58 yrs Waipara, bur Waipara Cemetery, Canterbury, NZ. (Div, 3 chn) (Daphne Lewis-Mannix)
Edward William Colquohoun LEWIS m2. Nov 1973 Ashburton Registry Office (living) (3 chn, 2 deceased)

4. Clarence George LEWIS b 16 Feb 1929 New Zealand, d 14 Jul 1988 aged 59 yrs New Zealand, m Ann (4 chn)

6. Fay Eileen LEWIS b abt 1930, m aft 1991 Terrence LANGLEY (no chn)

7. Lyall Robert LEWIS b 23 Nov 1936 Kaikoura, m 15 Feb 1957 Church of the Resurrection, Cobden, Nanette June BURDETT b 11 Jul 1939 Auckland, NZ. (2 chn, div 1980)

8. Raymond LEWIS b abt 1938 (5 chn) Christchurch.

NZ information from Carolyn LEWIS 1991, Terry Clark 2007, Nanette 2009