<p class="MsoNormal">Email from Julie Sherburd to Phil Tapper 4.7.14</p>s="MsoNormal">I know where you would have found a list of the Montague Tappers—in a later page in the Tapper bible.</p> “Weeny” personally in that family. She was certainly tiny and a cousin known to the Purcell Tappers when they were all in their late teenage and early twenties. She would have known your Dad, Griff. She had had an operation for goitre, probably coming up from Chch for it at that time in the mid ‘30’s. It went wrong and she had to breath through a hole in her front neck therefore when she talked she would put her thumb or two fingers over the hole and talk. I guess she had to relearn all this. She married a quarry man and I stayed with them at Poronui when she was doing the cooking for the camp men. This was just out of Taupo.</p>
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Ada Montague (Weeny) Hardy (born Tapper)<br>Gender: Female<br>Alias name: Weeny Hardy, Weeny Tapper<br>Birth: Aug 22 1907 - Christchurch, New Zealand<br>Death: Dec 9 1976 - New Zealand<br>Father: Robert Alfred Tapper<br>Mother: Millie Anne Tapper (born Montague)<br>Husband:Hardy <br>Children: Monty Hardy,Hardy <br>Siblings: Geoffrey Montague Tapper, Ethel Montague Paterson (born Tapper), Howard Montague Tapper, Olive Montague Bull (born Tapper), Freda Montague McClymont (born Tapper), Albert Montague Tapper, Kathleen Montague McLeod (born Tapper), Mildred Montague Adair (born Tapper), <;a>Peter Montague Tapper, Elizabeth Tapper
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