Maker: Karen Simcox

Panel number: 162

Petition Sheet Number: 201

Person honouring: Annie Mosley

Relationship to makers: Great-grandmother Annie 

Annie Taylor Hibbert was born to William Hibbert and Ellen Nee Taylor on the 10th August 1862 at Southbank of the Rakaia. 

At the age of 24, Annie Taylor Hibbert married Montague Mosley, age 50, on 18th September 1886 in St Johns Church. The year before marrying her husband, a divorcee, her first child, Annie Augusta, was born in 1885.

Annie and Montague went on to have five boys including my grandfather, Effroc Ashton Mosley.

Annie and her husband, Montague moved around Christchurch where he worked as a journalist and she is listed on the electoral role as household duties. By her father’s will, in 1896, Annie was left 14 and a half perches at Richmond Terrace, for her sake and separate use at all time freed from the debts, control or engagement of her husband. 

They moved to Wellington in 1922 and lived at 99 Hill Street. Montague died aged 86 in 1923 and Annie died on the 18th September, 1927. She is buried in a plot at Karori cemetery paid for by her sister, Ellen Gibson.

Panel materials: Wool, patchwork fabric and tatting