Update

I have been scanning in the material on Sir Henry Brown Hayes and John Burnett, as well as doing further internet searches on these two men.

The next step will be to scan the material on the Rev Dr John Lillie, DD (1806-1866) - I rather fancy he has been confused with another Rev Dr John Lillie, who was born in Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland, in 1812 and died Kingston, NY, USA, in 1867 [http://www.famousamericans.net/johnlillie/].

Update

The personal situation seems to be settling down, and, already, I have completed scanning the general material on Canterbury and Christchurch, and am ready to begin work on what I have about Ursula's father, Richard Bethell.

Update

My personal life is getting in the way of proceeding with this work at the moment.  However, I do hope to return to it once some of the more immediate issues have been resolved.

Update

Somewhere along the line, I managed to "lose" some of the material I had transferred from paper copy on to disc, preparatory to editing and having more readily available for reference purposes, so I am currently scanning documents and saving the files as OpenOffice documents on a flash drive.

So far, I have done the Bethell forebears stuff, and am now having a look at the Canterbury stuff - geography, agricultural history, etc.

The files I didn't lose contain material relating to the charitable works Ursula was involved in, from the time of the Boys' Gordon Hall in the 1890s, through to the House of Sacred Learning in the 1930s and 1940s.