Discover your links to Benno Zander and Helen Chalmers Urquhart
This site provides information on Benno and Helen for their family members. (Image from family reunion 1980)
What you can find here
Generations tree
See how you fit into the grand tapestry of the Zander and Urquhart family. (Image from the 1980 family reunion).
Family photo album
Browse through images of our family from over the decades.
Ancestral stories
Who are Helen and Benno's ancestor's - read more (image Helen with Allan).
Helen Chalmers Urquhart (b. 11.02.1905) married Johannes Benno Zander (b. 17.05.1905)
Helen was born in Clackforbie, New Blyth in Scotland and emigrated at the tender age of 20 to be a cook for the Wilson's in Bulls, New Zealand. Helen met Benno Zander and married him 11 February 1926 at the Lutheran Church in Marton. The church played a significant role in the Zander family.
Together Benno and Helen had nine children. Read about their lives and family history.
Connecting generations, one story at a time
All content and images have been sourced from Helen Zander's photo album, letters, ancestry sites and narrations with Marion Soutar (nee Zander). For information or to contact please email me here.
Image below, Helen and Benno's house in Bulls, New Zealand.
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This website has been prepared by Angie Cairncross from collected family documents.