Ida Alice Wyser b. 30 Oct 1867 Montevideo, Uruguay d. 16 Feb 1941 On Board S.S. Mariposa at Sea, Between Samoa and Suva, Fiji: Lucies Family History Site

1867 - 1941 (73 years)

Name	Ida Alice Wyser
Nickname	Edith
Birth	30 Oct 1867	Montevideo, Uruguay [1]
Christening	03 Feb 1869	German Evangelical Church, Montevideo, Uruguay [1, 2]
Gender	Female
Immigration	12 Jan 1877	Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia [3]
	Arrived Port Adelaide with her parents and siblings (as Ida Wyser); sailed 1876.
Residence	20 May 1887	Franklyn Place, Glebe, New South Wales, Australia [4]
	Residence at her marriage (written Frankl[yn] Place, Glebe), "living privately".
Travel	2 May 1917	Sydney, New South Wales to San Francisco, California [5]
	Sailed from Sydney on the S.S. Sonoma, arriving San Francisco 21 May 1917, as Edith Boyd, 48, married, "born South America Oct 31st 1868 (Husband Naturalized)".
Residence	21 May 1917	821 20th Street, Oakland, California [5]
	Address in the United States on the S.S. Sonoma list of U.S. citizens.
Travel	18 May 1926	Honolulu, Hawaii to San Francisco, California [6]
	Sailed from Honolulu on the S.S. Sierra, arriving San Francisco 25 May 1926, as Edith Boyd, 57, married, "born San Francisco, Calif. Oct. 31st 1868"; U.S. address c/o Mrs R. Winchester, 137 Holloway Ave., San Francisco. (She was born in Montevideo, 30 Oct 1867.)
Land	Bef 1941	Honolulu, Hawaii [7, 8, 9]
	Real property in her own name at her death (Feb 1941): a parcel in Palolo Valley, 11,490 sq ft, and a portion of Kawailoa Beach Lot No. 12 (North Shore, Oahu), 15,032 sq ft. She died intestate. Estate of Edith Boyd, First Circuit Court Probate No. 11930: Joseph Thompson Boyd petitioned to be administrator (hearing 2 Sep 1941); both parcels sold at administrator's auction by A. H. Rice & Co., 15 Jan 1942; final account and petition for determination of heirs filed Aug 1942 (hearing 28 Sep 1942). How and when she acquired the land is not yet known - see the Bureau of Conveyances indexes and the probate file.
Residence	1941	1554 Palolo Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii [10]
	Home of Joseph and Edith Boyd at her death. Albert Wilkinson remembered staying with "my aunt at Palolo Valley in an old stone house" on 7 Jul 1909, the morning his father died, and staying in Palolo Valley in 1905 "when it was homestead land". Joseph Boyd gave 1552 Palolo Avenue in 1944.
Death	16 Feb 1941	On Board S.S. Mariposa at Sea, Between Samoa and Suva, Fiji [11, 12, 13]
	The information about Ida's death aboard the S.S. Mariposa was found in Helen Wilkinson's diary by Carolyn Wikinson. According to Melliget on the www.shipsnostalgia.com website, who kindly searched the Sydney Morning Herald website for information about the arrival of the S.S. Mariposa in Australia: "Couldn't find a mention of the arrival of Mariposa back in Sydney unfortunately (shipping news may have been restricted by that stage) but did notice the following advertisement in the same issue: SHIPPING MATSON LINE S.S. MARIPOSA, S.S. MONTEREY TO AMERICA, via. Auckland, Suva, Pago Pago, and Honolulu. Regular Monthly sailings. Normal conditions." New South Wales Death Certificate (issued 3 Mar 1941) indicates place of death at sea at Latitude 14° 48" S, Longitude 172° 15" W, late of Honolulu. Death from bronchopneumonia, myocarditis with heart failure, atherosclerosis, hypertension, chronic nephritis, arthritis deformans. Father: Bruno Wyser - Occupation: Tanner Mother: Eliza Schoenholz Informant: Joseph Tom Boyd, widower Married in Oakland, California Married 26 years, no issue Residence: 1554 Palolo Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii Cremated at Northern Suburbs Crematorium
Newspaper Article	28 Feb 1941	Sydney, Australia
	Sydney Morning Herald Friday, 28 February 1941 FUNERALS BOYD. - The Relatives and Friends of Mr. TOM BOYD (Honolulu) are kindly invited to attend a Requiem Mass for the Repose of the Soul of his dearly beloved WIFE, Edith, which will be celebrated at the Sacred Heart Church, Darlinghurst, THIS FRIDAY, at 7 a.m. CHARLES KINSELA, PTY. LTD. A.F.D.A. A.F.D.A. = Australian Funeral Directors Association. Courtesy of Martin (melliget) at the Ships Nostalgia website: http://www.shipsnostalgia.com
Cremation	4 Mar 1941	Northern Suburbs Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia [14, 15]
Biography	26 Jul 2004 [16]
	From an interview with Loretta Mary O'Berg (daughter of Gilbert Charles Burns) on 26 Jul 2004 - kindly provided by Cathy Key: "[The Wyser sisters] were Actresses dancing in Australia. Edith [Ida Alice Wyser Boyd - known as Aunt Edie] use to reminisce about their days in Australia. And how they were actresses I believe dancing in Australia. "Uncle Tom [Joseph Thompson Boyd] put her on a ship to Australia and she died in route. They brought her remains back to Hawaii. [Death certificate shows she was cremated in Australia, but ashes could have been returned to Hawaii.] "We lived in a cottage on their estate for about six months. Their house was a mansion. They had 200 dogs - Pekingese - they were all over the house. Aunt Edith had very long hair and she used to let me comb it. "Aunt Ida was very wealthy she had the money before she married Tom Boyd. Tom inherited her money but died shortly after her death. He left everything to the Masonic Order. He was not a nice man, he hated the sisters and didn't want any of the family around. He made the sisters feel very unwelcome and under any circumstance they were not allowed to stay. "Aunt Ida had a room full of beautiful dolls. Uncle Tom would not let me touch the dolls. One day Aunt Edith said go upstairs to the attic and I could chose a doll to have but not to let Uncle Tom know and take it home. "Gilbert [Gilbert Charles Burns] insisted she was trying to smuggle money out to him. Edith and Gilbert were very very close, Tom tried to keep them apart. Daddy wanted to crack the head but my mother wouldn't let him and she undid the stitching but there was no money in the doll."
Notes	THE WAIKIKI LAND (family tradition and research, Oct 2026). Albert Wilkinson, Edith's nephew and Craig Walsh's grandfather, always said that the Boyds owned the land opposite the Moana Hotel. The 1930 census places Joseph and Edith at 2366 Kalakaua Avenue, on the mauka side directly across from the Moana. Family memory (Loretta O'Berg, 2004) adds that Ida "had the money before she married Tom Boyd". INFERENCE (not yet proven): the land opposite the Moana on the Diamond Head side of Kaiulani Avenue was part of Ainahau, the estate of Princess Kaiulani, which was sold off as house lots after Archibald Cleghorn died in 1910; the Princess Kaiulani Hotel stands there now. The International Market Place, on the ewa side, stands on land held for the Queen's Hospital (Queen Emma Land Company) and was leased, not sold. If the Boyds bought an Ainahau lot before the Ala Wai Canal and the Waikiki reclamation of about 1921-1928, the rise in Waikiki land values could explain the wealth that appears in the 1930s. TO CHECK: deeds and owner of record at the Bureau of Conveyances (search by the names Edith Boyd, Ida A. Boyd and Joseph Thompson Boyd); Edith's 1941-42 probate inventory at the Hawaii State Archives. Her NSW death certificate (media 555), informant her widower J. T. Boyd of 1554 Palolo Avenue, gives: age 72; born "Sanpaolo, Uruguay" (TNG keeps Montevideo, from her baptism, media 520); married at Oakland, California, aged 26, to Joseph Tom Boyd; children: "no issue". Cremated at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium, North Ryde, 4 Mar 1941.
Person ID	I26	Walsh - Wilson Family Tree \| Craig
Last Modified	3 Nov 2026

Father	Bruno Albert Wiser, b. 6 Nov 1841, Solothurn, Switzerland d. 7 Dec 1895, San Francisco, California (Age 54 years)
Mother	Elisa Schoenhals, b. 20 Mar 1841, Simmersbach, Germany d. 19 Jul 1910, 573 Jones Street, Oakland, California (Age 69 years)
Marriage	3 Feb 1869	Montevideo, Uruguay [17]
Marriage Witnesses	03 Feb 1869	Montevideo, Uruguay
Marriage Witnesses	Louis Frey and Leo Tugginer
Minister	03 Feb 1869	Montevideo, Uruguay
Minister	Pastor Hoppe
Notes	WHEN BRUNO AND ELISE MARRIED (resolved 2 Nov 2026). The Montevideo church registers (media 1509, 520, 521) are the definitive record: Bruno Wyser and Elise Schoenhals married at the German Evangelical Church, Montevideo, on 3 Feb 1869. Their daughter Ida Alice had been born there on 30 Oct 1867, "unehelich" (out of wedlock), and was baptised on the same day as the wedding, which made her legitimate. Bruno's brother Otto Wyser was one of her godparents, and she shares her name with Bruno's sister Ida Rosalia (INFERENCE that she was named for her). Fifteen years later, in Sydney, Bruno declared on Fanny's birth certificate of 29 Sep 1884 (media 78) that they had married on 16 October 1866 in South America. INFERENCE: a respectable earlier date, which put the wedding before Ida's birth. The same certificate claims 11 earlier children (2 boys and 3 girls living, 3 boys and 3 girls dead). TNG has 9 children before Fanny, 3 of them dead by 1884. The two missing children, if they existed, may have been born and died between Ida (1867) and Maria (Dec 1871) in Uruguay, but nothing has been found. Not changed. Ages: the marriage register gives Bruno as 27 (TNG born 6 Nov 1841, which fits) and Elise as 25 (TNG born 20 Mar 1841, which would make her 27). Not changed. Ida went on to repeat the pattern: her own daughter Amy Winifred "Lena" (born 1887) was illegitimate and was raised as Bruno and Elise's child.
Documents » Slide Show		Bruno Wyser's Obituary - December 8 1895
		Marriage of Bruno Wyser and Elise Schönhals - German Evangelical Church [Lutheran] - Montevideo, Uruguay First name/family name of groom: Bruno Wyser, Solothurn, Switzerland Occupation and address of father of the groom: Armoury Manager; Solothurn, Switzerland Age of groom: 27 years First name/family name of bride: Elise Schönhals, Simmersbach, Grand Duchy of Hessen [Germany] Name, address and occupation of father of the bride: Johannes Schönhals, Pastor, Simmersbach Age of bride: 25 years Date of ceremony: 3 Feb 1869 Name of pastor who performed the marriage ceremony: Pastor Hoppe Witnesses: Louis Frey and Leo Tugginer German-English translation by Ingeborg Gowans. [2 Nov 2026: names corrected against the full register pages in media 1509: Hoppe, Frey, Tugginer, Funke.]
		Arrival of the Wyser Family in Adelaide, South Australia - 23 Jan 1877 This passenger manifest, from the collection of State Records of South Australia, shows the arrival in Adeliade on 23 Jan 1877 of: Bruno Wyser (age 35), Elisa (age 32), Ida (9), Marie [?] (4), Emilie (3), Adolph (2), and Otto (3/4). According to the Palmer List of Merchant Vessels: "The British ship EDITH BYRNE (Official No. 16216) was built by the Canada Works, Birkenhead, in 1856 (first registered, Liverpool 9 June 1857). 729.44 tons register; 165.4 x 30.2 x 19.7 ft (length x beam x depth of hold); 2 decks. "In March 1865, the EDITH BYRNE was purchased from Byrne, of Liverpool, for £8,250 by the Hamburg shipowner, Robert Miles Sloman, who renamed her HERSCHEL, after an earlier vessel that he had sold in Indonesia in 1859. Measurements (Hamburg): 333 Commerzlasten /787 tons; 50,3 x 9,1 x 5,79 meters (length x beam x depth of hold)." The master from 1875-1878 was J. J. Kammann. The vessel's voyages in the 1870's: 1871/73 - Brisbane/intermediate ports/Amsterdam/Cuxhaven 1873/74 - Queensland/intermediate ports/Cardiff 1874/75 - Brisbane/intermediate ports/Greenock 1875/76 - Wellington/Peru 1876/78 - Adelaide/intermediate ports/Huanillos 1878/80 - Queensland/intermediate ports/Corinto, Nicaragua According to the South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society, Inc. fact sheet, this voyage of the Herschel originated in Hamburg. Sequence 77/6 -- see http://www.saghs.org.au/ships/shipsH.htm On On 1 June 1891 the HERSCHEL was sold to Hartvigsen, of Arendal, Norway. There is no record of her final fate. Please see: http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius/com-ed.htm#edithbyrne1856 GRG35/48 – Assisted Passage – Consignment/Sub-series 1, Unit 22; Volume 22 1877 – Adolph Wyser through Elsie Wyser. FROM THE MANIFEST ITSELF (re-read Oct 2026): Bruno Wyser 35 (married), Elise 32, Ida 9, Marie 4, Emilie 3, Adolph 2 and Otto under 1 (3/4). Summary of the voyage: 218 adults, children 1-12 and 16 infants embarked, 305 souls in all; 4 births and 5 deaths of children on the voyage; 304 landed alive. The immigration agent's certificate is dated 29 Jan 1877. DATES: embarked Hamburg 26 Sep 1876; anchored Port Adelaide 12 Jan 1877; immigrants landed 23 Jan 1877. The voyage, the passengers' petition against Captain Kammann (Bruno Wyser was the eighth signatory) and the commission of enquiry are told in "Rich Man, Poor Man" (media 1377).
		Birth record for Bertha Fanny Wyser (15 Mar 1880) and Bruno Wyser (11 Apr 1882) Birth records published by the South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, 1997, page 3377. Bertha Fanny Wyser = book 234, page 456; Bruno Wyser = book 278, page 217.
		Bruno Wyser and Elise Schoenhals - marriage, and Ida Alice Wyser - baptism - German Evangelical Church, Montevideo, 3 Feb 1869 (full register pages, with the Estudio Batres Franzese cover letter of 6 Nov 2008) Seven pages, obtained for Craig by Arq. Maria Gabriela Batres, Estudio Batres Franzese, Buenos Aires (cover letter 6 Nov 2008), from the registers of the Congregacion Evangelica Alemana (German Evangelical Church), Montevideo. MARRIAGE REGISTER 1869 ("Aufgebotene und Getraute", pp. 105-106), entry 3: Bruno Wyser of Solothurn, Switzerland, Catholic; father Zeughausverwalter (arsenal administrator) in Solothurn; aged 27; parents' consent given by letter. Bride Elise Schoenhals of Simmersbach, Grand Duchy of Hesse; father Johannes Schoenhals, Pfarrer (pastor) in Simmersbach; aged 25. Married on the third of February 1869 (3.2.1869) by Pastor Hoppe. Witnesses: 1. Louis Frey, 2. Leo Tugginer. BAPTISM REGISTER ("Geborene und Getaufte", entries for 1868-69), no. 51/3: Ida Alice, born 30 Oct 1867 at 6 in the evening, UNEHELICH (born out of wedlock); father Bruno Wyser, Landwirth (farmer), of Solothurn, Switzerland; mother Elise, born Schoenhals, of Simmersbach, Grand Duchy of Hesse; parents living in Montevideo; baptised 3 February [1869] by Pastor Hoppe. Godparents: 1. Eugen Funke (in Vertretung Louis Frey), 2. Otto Wyser (in Vertretung Leo Tugginer), 3. Alice Cartier (in Vertretung Elise Wyser, born Schoenhals). The cover letter dates the marriage 4 Feb 1869, but the register itself says 3 February, the same day as Ida's baptism. Readings corrected 2 Nov 2026 against the earlier translation on media 520-521: the pastor was Hoppe (not Hopper), the witnesses Louis Frey (not Freyo) and Leo Tugginer (not Fugginer; Tugginer is an old Solothurn family name).
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Family ID	F11	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Albert Widmer, b. CIRCA 1862, Switzerland d. 15 Nov 1910, Sacramento, California (Age 48 years)
Marriage	20 May 1887	Glebe, Australia [18]
	Married in District Registrar's Office, Glebe
Record ID Number	MH:F71
Documents		Marriage Certificate - Ida Wyser and Albert Widmer 20 May 1887 in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia New South Wales marriage certificate 1887/002587. Married 20 May 1887 at the District Registrar's Office, Glebe. Albert Widmer, bachelor, waiter, 25, of King Street, Sydney; father Bonafentura Widmer, tanner; mother Babett F[ischer?]. Ida Wyser, spinster, "living privately", 20, of Frankl[yn] Place, Glebe; father Bruno Wyser, carpenter; mother Eliza Schonholz. Margin: "with the consent of Bruno Wyser, father of the bride, she being a minor". Witnesses and officiant only partly legible.
Family ID	F70	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	3 Oct 2008

Family 2	Joseph Thompson Boyd, b. 24 Dec 1868, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia d. 26 Nov 1944, Honolulu, Hawaii (Age 75 years)
Marriage	23 Dec 1894	Alameda County, California, USA [19, 20]
Documents » Slide Show		1930 Census - Joseph T. Boyd and wife Ida Wiser Boyd The 1930 census shows Joseph T. Boyd (age 61, Australian, father from Northern Ireland, mother from New Zealand) living with wife Edith (age 61, born in California, father from Switzerland mother from Frankfurt, Germany). Joseph is a mechanist - garage, and time of immigration into the United States is 1902. Living at 2366 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii, which is right across the street from the Moana Hotel. Roll: 2633; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 15; Image: 558.0
		1900 United States Census - Joseph T. Boyd, wife Ida Wiser, and Lena The 1900 census shows Joseph T. Boyd (born in Australia in Dec 1869, father born in England, mother in Australia) living with wife Edith (born in Brazil Oct 1869, father born in Switzerland, mother born in Germany). With them is Lena, Boyd's step-daugher (born Mar 1887, father born in Australia, mother - presumably Edith - born in Brazil). The family is living at 55 Minna Street, San Francisco. Father naturalised in 1888, and is an engineer (maritime). Edith and Lena came to the States in 1891. Roll T263_100; Page 1B; Enumeration District: 8
		1910 United States Census - Joseph T. and Edith Boyd - Pukele Homesteads, 5th Avenue, Palolo, Honolulu, Hawaii The 1910 census shows Joseph T. Boyd (age 41, emigrated to the US from Australia in 1889, his father Irish, mother Australian) living with wife Edith (age 41, emigrated to US in 1891, born in Brazil, father Swiss, mother German). Joseph is a machinist in a foundry. They have a 28 year old live-in Japanese servant, Isuburo Horii. Roll: T624_1753; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 17; Image 602.
Family ID	F505778160	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	19 Oct 2026

Family 3

Children

+	1. Amy Winifred Wyser, b. 02 May 1887, 239 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, Australia d. 08 Apr 1963, Ukiah, Mendocino County, California (Age 75 years)

Family ID F505778288 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 3 Oct 2008

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	Birth - 30 Oct 1867 - Montevideo, Uruguay
	Land - Real property in her own name at her death (Feb 1941): a parcel in Palolo Valley, 11,490 sq ft, and a portion of Kawailoa Beach Lot No. 12 (North Shore, Oahu), 15,032 sq ft. She died intestate. Estate of Edith Boyd, First Circuit Court Probate No. 11930: Joseph Thompson Boyd petitioned to be administrator (hearing 2 Sep 1941); both parcels sold at administrator's auction by A. H. Rice & Co., 15 Jan 1942; final account and petition for determination of heirs filed Aug 1942 (hearing 28 Sep 1942). How and when she acquired the land is not yet known - see the Bureau of Conveyances indexes and the probate file. - Bef 1941 - Honolulu, Hawaii
	Residence - Home of Joseph and Edith Boyd at her death. Albert Wilkinson remembered staying with "my aunt at Palolo Valley in an old stone house" on 7 Jul 1909, the morning his father died, and staying in Palolo Valley in 1905 "when it was homestead land". Joseph Boyd gave 1552 Palolo Avenue in 1944. - 1941 - 1554 Palolo Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii

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Photos » Slide Show		Ida Alice "Edith" Wyser Boyd
		Dorothy [Mann] Cress and Ida Alice [Wyser] Boyd Honolulu, Hawaii - date not known. Aloha Tower in the background.
		Gilbert Charles Burns (in centre) with Ida [Wyser] Boyd and Emilia [Wyser] Wilkinson Photographed in Hawaii (judging from the lei) - date not known.
		Ida Wyser

Documents » Slide Show		Ida Wyser Baptism Certificate from German Evangelical Church [Lutheran] in Montevideo, Uruguay Christian name of child: Ida Alice Day/hour of birth: 30 Oct 1867 Born in wedlock/out of wedlock: Out of wedlock First name/family name of father/occupation: Bruno Wyser, farmer, from Solothurn, Switzerland First name/family name of mother: Elise Wyser, née Schönhals, from Simmersbach, Grand Dutchy of Hessen [Germany] Residence of parents: Montevideo Date of baptism: 3 February Name of pastor who administered baptism: Pastor Hoppe Name of witnesses at baptism: 1. Eugen Funke (representing Louis Frey) 2. Otto Wyser (representing Leo Tugginer) 3. Alice Cartier (representing Elise Wyser, née Schönhals) German-English translation by Ingeborg Gowans [2 Nov 2026: names corrected against the full register pages in media 1509: Hoppe, Frey, Tugginer, Funke.]
		Ida [Edith] Wyser Boyd Death Certificate - Died at sea 16 Feb 1941 New South Wales [Australia] death certificate for Ida [Edith] Wyser Boyd, showing her death at sea on 16 Feb 1941. Father shown as Bruno Wyser, tanner, and mother as Elisa Schoenholz. Informant is husband Joseph Tom Boyd from 1554 Palolo Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii. Married at age 26 [circa 1893?], marriage in Oakland, California. Death certificate from New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages - Registration 1941/000335.
		Joseph T. Boyd Obituary - Honolulu Advertiser 30 Nov 1944 "With the Rev. E. Tanner Brown, rector of St. Clement's Episcopal church, officiating, and under the auspices of Hawaiian Lodge No. 21, F. & A.M., services will be held at 4:30 this afternoon at Williams' Mortuary for Joseph T. Boyd, 1552 Palolo Avenue, president and manager of Williams Mortuary, who died at his home early Sunday evening [26 Nov 1944]. The ashes will be sent to Australia to be buried alongside those of his wife, the late Mrs. Edith Boyd, who died at sea in 1941. Mr. Boyd was born in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 24, 1868, and was nearly 76 years old."
		Edith Wyser – Register of Admissions to the Destitute Asylum This document, from the collection of the State Records of South Australia, shows Edith Wyser, "native born," age 14 1/2 years, sentenced to the reformatory school in Magill "until she shall attain the age of 18 years as an uncontrollable girl." It appears that her father arranged for her admission, and that they lived at the time on Grenfell Street, Adelaide. The "recommendation" column reads "Magistrates Mandate" - she was admitted on a magistrate's order. (This was read in 2009 as a magistrate named "Masedale"; a closer reading in Oct 2026 shows it is the word "Mandate", not a name.) Her religion is entered as "Ch. Engd" (Church of England). Admission was on 27 Nov 1882. The "time of leaving" column reads "Dec 23/82" and the "where goes to" column reads "Released on petition" (the word Cathy Bushby could not read in 2009) - so after less than a month someone, presumably her family, petitioned successfully for her release. GRG28/5 – Register of Admissions to the Destitute Asylum – Consignment/sub-series 0, Unit 2. Edith Wyser – Admission number 388/1882 – Age 14
		Mrs. Edith Boyd Dies on Mariposa - Honolulu Star-Bulletin - 18 Feb 1941 - Page 3 "Mrs. Edith Boyd, wife of Joseph T. Boyd, president and manager of Williams mortuary, died Monday morning on the Mariposa en route to Australia, according to word received here. Mrs. Boyd, who was about 73 years old, had been in ill health for some time and was making the trip to Australia because of her health. The Mariposa left here on February 10. Funeral services are expected to be held in Sydney, Australia, where Mrs. Boyd had lived for many years. She was born in Brazil. Surviving are the widower, who accompanied her on the trip; a daughter, Mrs. Amy L. Roberts of Honolulu; three sisters, Mrs. Faye Jurgensen and Mrs. Lily Wilkinson of Honolulu and Mrs. Mary Burns of Oakland; a brother, Bruno Wyser, of Oakland; three nephews in Honolulu and a niece in Oakland." Note: "born in Brazil" - her baptism record is from Montevideo, Uruguay. The daughter "Mrs. Amy L. Roberts" is Amy Winifred (Lena), raised by Bruno and Elisa as their own. The Advertiser death notice of 19 Feb 1941, p. 14, gives the address as 1554 Palolo Ave. Newspapers.com image 258429977.
		Determination Of Heir in Boyd Estate Sought - Honolulu Star-Bulletin - 9 Jun 1948 - Page 20 "Whether a Masonic school in Sydney, Australia, is entitled to the bulk of the estate of the late Joseph Thompson Boyd of Honolulu will be determined at hearings scheduled to begin June 26 before Circuit Judge Willson C. Moore ... He left an estate of $135,000 here and property worth $15,000 in Australia. An official of the Hawaiian Trust Co. estimated that total assets have increased to nearly $200,000. Mr. Boyd's will provides that after the death of other heirs, the estate goes to trustees of the Edith Boyd memorial trust fund in care of the N.S.W. Masonic school in Sydney. However, in a petition filed in circuit court, the Hawaiian Trust Co. asserts 'a substantial doubt exists as to whether ... the Edith Boyd memorial trust fund was ever created.' ... Pratt, Tavares & Cassidy, attorneys for 13 Australians who claim to be trustees of the fund, submitted photostatic copies of 35 letters written by them and Mr. Boyd in an effort to prove the existence of the fund." Newspapers.com image 269561944.
		Sydney Schools To Inherit Local Man's Estate - Honolulu Star-Bulletin - 14 Mar 1953 - Page 3 "The NSW Masonic Schools in Sydney, Australia, through the Edith Boyd Memorial Trust Fund will inherit the bulk of the estate of Joseph Thompson Boyd, late Honolulu resident. The Territorial Supreme Court so ruled in a decision filed late yesterday afternoon. Mr. Boyd left assets here valued at about $140,000 ... The Supreme Court upheld a ruling by former Circuit Judge Willson C. Moore that it was Mr. Boyd's intention as disclosed in a series of letters he wrote to officials of the Masonic Schools, to leave most of his estate to the trust fund. The contribution is designated as a memorial to Edith Boyd, Mr. Boyd's wife who died at sea while the couple were en route to Australia for a visit in 1941. A provision in Mr. Boyd's will setting up the trust fund was contested by three of his first cousins living in Lawton [Lawson?], NSW. Their contention that Mr. Boyd did not create a charitable trust cannot be upheld, the Supreme Court ruled." Newspapers.com image 269301538.
		Administrator's Sale - Estate of Edith Boyd - Honolulu Star-Bulletin - 9 Jan 1942 - Page 2 "A. H. Rice & Co., Ltd., call attention to Administrator's sale at public auction of one parcel of real property in Palolo Valley, area 11,490 sq. ft., and a portion of Kawailoa Beach Lot No. 12, area 15,032 sq. ft. by Joseph Thompson Boyd, Administrator of the Estate of Edith Boyd, deceased. This sale was continued from December 11, 1941, until January 15, 1942, at 12:00 o'clock noon. Said sale will take place at their offices at 227 So. King St., Honolulu, T. H." Both parcels were in Edith's own name. Family memory (Loretta O'Berg interview, 2004) says Ida "had the money before she married Tom Boyd"; where it came from is not yet known. Kawailoa Beach is on the North Shore of Oahu, near Haleiwa. Newspapers.com image 275203349.
		List of U.S. Citizens - S.S. Sierra - Honolulu to San Francisco, 18-25 May 1926 - Edith Boyd List of United States Citizens, S.S. Sierra, sailing from Honolulu, T.H., 18 May 1926, arriving San Francisco 25 May 1926. Line 1: Boyd, Edith, 57, F, married, born "San Francisco, Calif. Oct. 31st 1868"; address in the United States c/o Mrs R. Winchester, 137 Holloway Ave., San Francisco. Edith (Ida Alice Wyser) was in fact born in Montevideo on 30 Oct 1867 (baptism, media 520), so both birthplace and year are misstated.
		List of U.S. Citizens - S.S. Sonoma - Sydney to San Francisco, 2-21 May 1917 - Edith Boyd List of United States Citizens, S.S. Sonoma, sailing from Sydney, N.S.W., 2 May 1917, arriving San Francisco 21 May 1917. Line 2: Boyd, Edith, 48, F, married, born "South America Oct 31st 1868 (Husband Naturalized)"; address 821 20th St, Oakland, Cal.
		Marriage Certificate - Ida Wyser and Albert Widmer 20 May 1887 in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia New South Wales marriage certificate 1887/002587. Married 20 May 1887 at the District Registrar's Office, Glebe. Albert Widmer, bachelor, waiter, 25, of King Street, Sydney; father Bonafentura Widmer, tanner; mother Babett F[ischer?]. Ida Wyser, spinster, "living privately", 20, of Frankl[yn] Place, Glebe; father Bruno Wyser, carpenter; mother Eliza Schonholz. Margin: "with the consent of Bruno Wyser, father of the bride, she being a minor". Witnesses and officiant only partly legible.
		Bruno Wyser and Elise Schoenhals - marriage, and Ida Alice Wyser - baptism - German Evangelical Church, Montevideo, 3 Feb 1869 (full register pages, with the Estudio Batres Franzese cover letter of 6 Nov 2008) Seven pages, obtained for Craig by Arq. Maria Gabriela Batres, Estudio Batres Franzese, Buenos Aires (cover letter 6 Nov 2008), from the registers of the Congregacion Evangelica Alemana (German Evangelical Church), Montevideo. MARRIAGE REGISTER 1869 ("Aufgebotene und Getraute", pp. 105-106), entry 3: Bruno Wyser of Solothurn, Switzerland, Catholic; father Zeughausverwalter (arsenal administrator) in Solothurn; aged 27; parents' consent given by letter. Bride Elise Schoenhals of Simmersbach, Grand Duchy of Hesse; father Johannes Schoenhals, Pfarrer (pastor) in Simmersbach; aged 25. Married on the third of February 1869 (3.2.1869) by Pastor Hoppe. Witnesses: 1. Louis Frey, 2. Leo Tugginer. BAPTISM REGISTER ("Geborene und Getaufte", entries for 1868-69), no. 51/3: Ida Alice, born 30 Oct 1867 at 6 in the evening, UNEHELICH (born out of wedlock); father Bruno Wyser, Landwirth (farmer), of Solothurn, Switzerland; mother Elise, born Schoenhals, of Simmersbach, Grand Duchy of Hesse; parents living in Montevideo; baptised 3 February [1869] by Pastor Hoppe. Godparents: 1. Eugen Funke (in Vertretung Louis Frey), 2. Otto Wyser (in Vertretung Leo Tugginer), 3. Alice Cartier (in Vertretung Elise Wyser, born Schoenhals). The cover letter dates the marriage 4 Feb 1869, but the register itself says 3 February, the same day as Ida's baptism. Readings corrected 2 Nov 2026 against the earlier translation on media 520-521: the pastor was Hoppe (not Hopper), the witnesses Louis Frey (not Freyo) and Leo Tugginer (not Fugginer; Tugginer is an old Solothurn family name).

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[S4968] Arq. Maria Gabriela Batres, Estudio Batres Franzese (Reliability: 3).
[S4968] Arq. Maria Gabriela Batres, Estudio Batres Franzese, Baptism register, German Evangelical Church, Montevideo, no. 51/3 (media 1509) (Reliability: 3).
[S5004] Ancestry.com, 12 Jan 1877, South Australia, Australia, Incoming and Outgoing Passenger Lists, 1845-1940 (Reliability: 2).
Ida Wyser, born about 1868, arrived Port Adelaide 12 Jan 1877 with parents and siblings.
[S4900] New South Wales Registry of BDM, Certificates junk drawer, scan p. 45 (media 85) (Reliability: 3).
[S90932] San Francisco passenger lists, (National Archives and Records Administration), Certificates junk drawer, scan p. 51 (media 1483) (Reliability: 3), Copies in the family papers.
[S90932] San Francisco passenger lists, (National Archives and Records Administration), Certificates junk drawer, scan p. 50 (media 1482) (Reliability: 3), Copies in the family papers.
[S4980] Honolulu Advertiser, 5 Aug 1941, Honolulu Advertiser, Tue 5 Aug 1941, p. 13, Legal Notices, First Circuit Court (Newspapers.com image 258802937) (Reliability: 3).
"Estate EDITH BOYD, Deceased. - P. No. 11930. Filed Petition of JOSEPH THOMPSON BOYD, alleging intestacy of said decedent, showing property within the jurisdiction of this court and asking that he, JOSEPH THOMPSON BOYD be appointed Administrator of said estate ... Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1941 at 2 o'clock P. M."
[S59] Honolulu Star Bulletin, 9 Jan 1942, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Fri 9 Jan 1942, p. 2, A. H. Rice & Co. notice (Reliability: 3).
"A. H. Rice & Co., Ltd., call attention to Administrator's sale at public auction of one parcel of real property in Palolo Valley, area 11,490 sq. ft., and a portion of Kawailoa Beach Lot No. 12, area 15,032 sq. ft. by Joseph Thompson Boyd, Administrator of the Estate of Edith Boyd, deceased. This sale was continued from December 11, 1941, until January 15, 1942, at 12:00 o'clock noon. Said sale will take place at their offices at 227 So. King St., Honolulu, T. H."
[S4980] Honolulu Advertiser, 27 Aug 1942, Honolulu Advertiser, Thu 27 Aug 1942, p. 10, Legal Notices, First Circuit Court (Newspapers.com image 259260207) (Reliability: 3).
"Estate of EDITH BOYD, Deceased. P. No. 11930. Final Account of Joseph Thompson Boyd, administrator, and Petition for allowance of same, determination of heirs entitled to real estate and distribution of the estate having been filed ... Monday, Sept. 28, 1942, at 2 o'clock p.m."
[S4980] Honolulu Advertiser, 19 Feb 1941, Honolulu Advertiser, Wed 19 Feb 1941, p. 14, death notice (Reliability: 3).
"Mrs. Edith Boyd, wife of Joseph T. Boyd, 1554 Palolo ave."
[S4900] New South Wales Registry of BDM, 03 Mar 1941, 1941/000335 (Reliability: 3).
[S59] Honolulu Star Bulletin, 18 Feb 1941, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Tue 18 Feb 1941, p. 3, "Mrs. Edith Boyd Dies on Mariposa" (Reliability: 3).
"Mrs. Edith Boyd, wife of Joseph T. Boyd, president and manager of Williams mortuary, died Monday morning on the Mariposa en route to Australia, according to word received here. Mrs. Boyd, who was about 73 years old, had been in ill health for some time and was making the trip to Australia because of her health. The Mariposa left here on February 10. Funeral services are expected to be held in Sydney, Australia, where Mrs. Boyd had lived for many years. She was born in Brazil. Surviving are the widower, who accompanied her on the trip; a daughter, Mrs. Amy L. Roberts of Honolulu; three sisters, Mrs. Faye Jurgensen and Mrs. Lily Wilkinson of Honolulu and Mrs. Mary Burns of Oakland; a brother, Bruno Wyser, of Oakland; three nephews in Honolulu and a niece in Oakland."
[S4980] Honolulu Advertiser, 19 Feb 1941, Honolulu Advertiser, Wed 19 Feb 1941, p. 14, death notice (Reliability: 3).
"Boyd - Aboard S. S. Mariposa en route to Australia, Feb. 17, Mrs. Edith Boyd, wife of Joseph T. Boyd, 1554 Palolo ave., native of Brazil, 73 years old."
[S5004] Ancestry.com, Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current (Reliability: 2).
Ida Alice Boyd, born 30 Oct 1867 Montevideo, died 16 Feb 1941 at sea; Find a Grave burial location North Ryde, NSW [may be a memorial: she died at sea].
[S4900] New South Wales Registry of BDM, 1941/000335; Certificates junk drawer, scan p. 104 (media 555) (Reliability: 3).
Delivered 3 Mar 1941 to the Northern Suburbs Crematorium by Russell V. H. Kinsela of Charles Kinsela Pty Ltd; cremated 4 Mar 1941 (Bruce H. John, superintendent). Minister J. R. Le Huray, Church of England.
[S1] Cathy Key, Cathy Key, 26 Jul 2004 (Reliability: 3).
Transcript of interview sent to me by Cathy Key on 4 Apr 2009. Used with kind permission.
[S4968] Arq. Maria Gabriela Batres, Estudio Batres Franzese, Marriage register 1869, German Evangelical Church, Montevideo, pp. 105-106, entry 3 (media 1509) (Reliability: 3).
[S4900] New South Wales Registry of BDM, Registration 1887/002587 (Reliability: 3).
[S4946] California Marriage Index, 23 Dec 1894, Ancestry, California, U.S., Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1850-1941 (collection 8797, record 157179); original at California State Archives (Reliability: 3).
Index to Marriage Licenses and Certificates: Joseph T Boyd, spouse J A Widmer [sic - I. A., Ida Alice, then using her first husband's surname Widmer], married 23 Dec 1894, Alameda, California.
[S54] 1900 United States Federal Census, 1900, 1900 U.S. census, San Francisco, California, roll 100, ED 0008, sheet 1, dwelling 8, family 12 (Reliability: 3).
Jos T Boyd, 31, head, married, years married 7 [the marriage record gives Dec 1894, about 5 1/2 years before the census], marine engineer, immigrated 1888, naturalized; wife Edith 30; Lena Boyd 13, step daughter. 55 Minna Street, San Francisco.