Hi Olwyn Looks like the newspaper in 1916 may have got the deceased's name wrong. She was Mrs Job EARL and not Mrs Joseph EARL. Job and Bridget EARL are buried together in the Geraldine Cemetery and there is a photo of their headstone with names & dates on the Timaru District Council website. Job EARL died on 1 Feb 1920, aged 88 years. There's an interesting obituary in the Press newspaper on 7 Feb 1920, pg 8. It says Job came from County Wexford, Ireland and the couple married in Australia. The obituary also gives the initials (and married surnames) of the 11 children (eight daughters & three sons). The 1881 Electoral Roll says Job was a farmer and owned "Part Section 10854, Kakahu". There's a shorter version of Job EARL's obituary in The Colonist on 11 Feb 1920, pg 5 and again in the same paper on 25 Feb 1920, pg 1. Angela