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Stanislas Olivier MALAQUIN
1900-1946
Stan was the last born child of Waldemar and Elizabeth nee ELLIS, he was the youngest of the four boys and two girls. Elizabeth and the children were baptised at The Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Barbadoes Street, Christchurch.
Between 1907 and 1915 Stan attended Central New Brighton School along with at least two of his brothers and his sister Noemi. Prior to this they had attended Marist Brothers School, which is now Catholic Cathedral School.
Stan married Gwendoline Beatrice WILLIAMS (Gwen) on 20 February 1924 at the Christchurch Registrars Office. Gwen’s mother Mary Jane and Waldemar witnessed the marriage.
Stan was a farm labourer,
working on various farms in the Lincoln area.
Memories of Stan by Tony Malaquin.(Stan & Gwen's 3rd born child)
Stanislas (Stan) Malaquin
Married our Mum in a registry office in 1924 because of financial difficulties and possible dislike of the catholic religion. He came from a catholic family. Waldemar being quite a staunch catholic, but Stan and his family never practised the faith.
He became a farm labourer and worked at Montalto (between Peel Forest and Mount Somers) as a married couple for a farmer Mr Morrow. No idea of the length of this employment. But he then went to work for a farmer in Lincoln, Mr Jack Henley who was a drunkard and terrible man to work for.
During this time Uncle Hayton (Mum's brother) came and stayed with us and there was a plague of sparrows, and he and Dad collected three 20 Litre buckets of sparrows eggs.
From there he worked for Murphys on the Springston-Rolleston road.
Then to Carpenters at Prebbleton where he worked with a team of beautiful Clydesdale horses, names-- Duke, Captain, Major, Lofty, Nigger, & Bloss,short for Blossom
He then became ill with Emphysema, which eventually took his life, as a very young man of 49 years.
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