Love/Luff

Notice of death of Henry Lewis Love, 1888, New Zealand Herald Volume XXV Issue 9183, 12 October 1888 page 2

Alfred William Henty Wentlock Love 1887 - 1970

Harry Love with his mother Ellen McGregor and his three sisters, Ellen, Beatrice and Elizabeth.

Henry Lewis Love in bandmaster's uniform, from background of family photograph

Harry Love’s family of girls, left to right, Marjorie, Helen, Hilda, Eileen and Ellen (nee Stephens)

First of two Pook family trees drawn by EastMeonDescendant

Second family tree of Pook Family

Two descendants of the Love family of East Meon have been in touch from the Antipodes. One, who wished to remain anonymous and has adopted the name ‘Eastmeondescendant’, is an Australian descendant of a Mehetabel Love, baptised in East Meon in 1772.

The other, Denise Burrow, is descended from Henry Love who emigrated to New Zealand in the 1870s. Denise derived much of her information from a second cousin, Tony Gerard. He has done extensive research on his family the McGregors as well as the Love family. Henry Lewis Love, Denise’s great grandfather, married Ellen McGregor. Henry and Ellen are the great great grandparents of Tony’s. Her mother, Eileen Rice, nee Love, and Tony’s grandmother were first cousins.

Both have done research into their forebears, and have been assisted by EMHG member David Hopkins. Copies of their correspondence are attached below, as is David’s record of the genealogy, which is attached as ‘Descendants of John Love. Also attached is the will of Joanne Bulbeck. A PDF of Denise Burrow’s records of her side of the family is attached as a PDF entitled ‘Love Family History’.

The names ‘Love’ and Luff’ have been interchangeable. There is evidence of Luffs in East Meon from the Middle Ages.