Ida Alice Wyser

1867 - 1941  (73 years)

• Name	Ida Alice Wyser
  Nickname	Edith
  Birth	30 Oct 1867	Montevideo, Uruguay   [1]
  Christening	03 Feb 1868	Montevideo, Uruguay   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	16 Feb 1941	On Board S.S. Mariposa at Sea, Between Samoa and Suva, Fiji   [2]
  	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
  Biography	26 Jul 2004  [3]
  	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."
  Person ID	I26	Walsh - Wilson Family Tree | Craig
  Last Modified	12 Mar 2019

  
  

  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
  Marriage Witnesses	03 Feb 1869	Montevideo, Uruguay
  	Louis Freyo and Leo Fugginer
  Minister	03 Feb 1869	Montevideo, Uruguay
  	Pastor Hopper
  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 Hopper Witnesses: Louis Freyo and Leo Fugginer German-English translation by Ingeborg Gowans.
  		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.
  		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.
  Histories		S.S. Arawa - Built for Shaw, Saville & Albion in 1884
  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   [4]
  	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
  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)
  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	20 Sep 2008

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Amy Winifred,   b. 02 May 1887, Sydney, Australia d. 08 Apr 1963, Mendocono, California (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F505778288	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2008

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 30 Oct 1867 - Montevideo, Uruguay Christening - 03 Feb 1868 - Montevideo, Uruguay  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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 Hopper Name of witnesses at baptism: 1. Eugen Funk (representing Louis Freyo) 2. Otto Wyser (representing Leo Fugginer) 3. Alice Cartier (representing Elise Wyser, née Schönhals) German-English translation by Ingeborg Gowans
  		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. Reasons for admission are stated as "recommendation" by Magistrate Masedale. Admission was on 27 Nov 1882, and she was released on 23 Dec 1882. GRG28/5 – Register of Admissions to the Destitute Asylum – Consignment/sub-series 0, Unit 2. Edith Wyser – Admission number 388/1882 – Age 14

  
  

• Sources

  [S4968] Arq. Maria Gabriela Batres, Estudio Batres Franzese (Reliability: 3). [S4900] New South Wales Registry of BDM, 03 Mar 1941, 1941/000335 (Reliability: 3). [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. [S4900] New South Wales Registry of BDM, Registration 1887/002587 (Reliability: 3).