Description

Typed family tree document covering the Wills family (Frank Fabian Wills line) and their connection to the Exley family through the marriage of Lillian Louise Wills to Albert Errington Exley in 1904. Also covers the descendants of Lionel Edward Exley and Brenda Winifred Wills.

Key Data Extracted

Wills Family

  • Frank Fabian Wills (b. 20 June 1853, d. 12 July 1933, m. 1877 Wellington, Louisa Sanderson b. 26 April, Bombay, India, d. 1924)
    • Frank Fabian Wills (b. 11 March 1879, d. 16 Feb 1938 Hamilton, m. 30 June 1906 Wellington, Winifred May Parsons b. 22 Nov 1882, d. 13 July 1960 Lower Hutt)
    • Ellen Marianne Wills (b. 29 July 1879, d. 1961, m. 1906 Alexander Robert Kennedy)
    • Edith Violet Wills (b. 20 May 1881, d. Aug 1909, m. 1905 Ernest Henry Dodd d. 11 Aug 1918)
    • Major Stanley Wills (b. 28 July 1883, d. 6 Sept 1979, m. 1913 Elsie Mabel N117)
    • Lillian Louise Wills (b. 3 May 1885 Wellington, d. 12 Aug 1971 Eastbourne, m. 1904 Albert Errington Exley (1881-1956))
    • Earl Clifford Wills (b. 12 Oct 1892, d. 30 Sept 1947, m. 1922 Stella Mans Chapman b. 1899)
    • Elliot Ramoa Wills (b. 12 Feb 1898, d. 12 Jan 1982, m. 1926 Eileen Roma Alice McCarthy b. 5 Sept 1903, d. 17 Dec 1959)

Frank Fabian Wills Jr’s children

  • Samuel Fabian Wills (b. 8 Aug 1907, d. 1939, accident tree felling, no issue)
  • Mary Byatt Wills (b. 2 April 1909, m. 1937 Donald Buller)
  • Brenda Winifred Wills (b. 10 Aug 1910, d. 23 Jan 1997, m. 1933 Lionel Edward Exley (1906-1995))
  • Elizabeth Edna Wills (b. 3 July 1912, m. 1932 William Wakeling)
  • Margaret May Wills (b. 7 May 1913, m. 27 June 1936 James Hamilton Wilson b. 9 Aug 1905)
  • John Fabian Wills (b. 26 Dec 1914, m. 5 April 1939 Vetsa Thomas)
  • Patricia Barbara Wills (b. 15 Feb 1918, m. 17 Feb 1943 Claude Kelly)

Albert Errington Exley’s children (with dates from RTF)

  • Jack Errington Exley (b. 1905, d. 5 June 1962, m. Belle Robertson)
  • Lionel Edward Exley (1906-1995) (b. 23 April 1906, d. 1995 Wellington, m. 1933 Brenda Winifred Wills)
  • Joan Miriam Exley (b. 3 Nov 1910, d. 8 June 1977, m. Horace Maxwell b. 1 June 1902, d. 6 June 1980)
  • Dorothy Mary Lillian Exley (b. 23 Oct 1917, m. Ivo Blair Lissaman)
  • Elizabeth Noeline Exley (b. 2 July 1920, m. Stephen Arthur Symon, d. 1998)
  • Beatrice Elaine Exley (b. 19 April 1922, m. 1944 Basil Ignatius Didsbury, d. 1998)
  • Shirley Margaret Exley (b. 6 April 1922 [note: tree says 1926, RTF says 1922 — likely 1930 per error corrections])

Lionel Edward Exley’s children

  • Robert Ross Exley (b. 22 Sept 1937, m. 1962, d. June 2003, m. Judith Kathleen Salmon)
    • Brenda Jane Exley (b. 10 Jan 1964, m. Tim Costello)
    • Timothy Robert Exley (b. 19 Oct 1966)
    • Jonathan Exley (b. 10 April 1968)
    • Miriam Louise Exley (b. 18 April 1971)
  • Patricia Louise Exley (b. 21 Sept 1938, d. 26 April 1958 Waipukurau, car accident)
  • Meryll Anne Exley (b. 29 Oct 1941, m. 27 Jan 1962 Noel Geoffrey Evans b. 1 Nov 1928, d. 19 March 2022)
    • Nicholas Jon Evans (b. 25 July 1962, m. 1992 Natthalie Pelliard)
    • Jeremy David Evans (b. 3 Aug 1964, m. 6 March 1993 Barbara Joy Webster)
    • Benjaman Alexander Evans (b. 19 June 1973)
  • John Edward Exley (b.1945) (b. 18 Feb 1945, m. 1968 Katherine Davidson)