Families related by marriage to John Waters' family

Eleanor Catherine Waters (2 December 1886 - 1972) married George Phillip Osborne in 1928.  George's family were as follows:

William Osborne and his wife Elizabeth Ellen Osborne (1842 - 1923) had the following children:
1. Jane Elizabeth Osborne (1875 - 1948) married Samuel McKibbin (1860 - 1943) in 1895
   1.1 Samuel McKibbin (1898)
   1.2 Thomas McKibbin (1899 - 1967)
   1.3 Bertha McKibbin (22 August 1901 - 1982) married George Arthur Hardwick (18 December 1896 - 1978) in 1925
   1.4 Hugh McKibbin (23 September 1903 - 1974)
   1.5 Mary McKibbin (13 October 1904 - 1976) married Donald Semple (1901 - 1971) in 1925
   1.6 George McKibbin (1906 - 1909) died aged just three years
   1.7 Hazel McKibbin (7 October 1907 - 1974) married Robert Alfred Andrews (1905 - 1975) in 1928
   1.8 Nellie McKibbin (1909) 
   1.9 Jane Elizabeth McKibbin (1910)
   1.10 John McKibbin (11 September 1911 - 1978)
2. James Osborne (1878)
3. George Phillip Osborne (1881 - 1942) married Eleanor Catherine Waters (2 December 1886 - 1972) in 1928
4. Alice Lavinia Osborne (1883 - 1961)
5. Thomas Osborne (1883)
6. John Charles Osborne (1885 - 1948) married Rhoda Angelina McVicar (widow of Daniel Hugh McVicar, nee Howard) (1873 - 1940) in 1906.  Rhoda had one daughter from her first marriage, Jennie 

Janet Fordyce Waters (1889 - 1942) married Alan Charles Ferguson in 1913.  Alan's family were as follows:

Charles Ferguson and his wife Agnes Eliza Ferguson (1846 - 1940) had the following children:
   1. Ella Agnes Gertrude Ferguson (1880 - 1966) married Victor Lionel Powell (1877 - 1957) on 26 April 1905 at the Church of the Nativity in Blenheim.
   2. Alan Charles Ferguson (17 June 1888 - 1981) married Janet Fordyce Waters (1889 - 1942) in 1913.

Marion Stanley Waters (1893 - 1953) married Leonard Foster McDonald in 1915.  Leonard's family were as follows:

Alexander McDonald married Susan Matilda Kayes in 1890.  Prior to her marriage, Susan had had a daughter: 
1. Bertha Annie Kayes (1889 - 1967).  Bertha married Charles Gillard in 1911.  Charles seems to have worked as a taxi cab driver during the 1930s.    

Together, Alexander and Susan had the following children:
2. Alexander Henry McDonald (1890 - 1899) died aged just eight years.
3. Alfred Lewis McDonald (1892 - 1964) married Florence Rachel Morris (1893 - 1956) in 1915.
4. Leonard Foster McDonald (1 May 1894 - 1974) married Marion Stanley Waters (1893 - 1953) in 1915.
5. Percy McDonald (1895 - 1971) married Myrtle Irene Durney (24 December 1903 - 1988) in 1925
6. George William McDonald (1897 - 1965) married Minnie Drucella Granger (1905) in 1925

Jessie Tutchen Waters (1903 - 22 July 1936) married Arthur Sharpe Lyford (18 April 1903 - 1975) in 1927.  Arthur's family were as follows:

Aldophus William Lyford (1857 - 1912) married Alice Anne Sharpe (1868 - 1956) in 1890.  They had the following children:
1. Florence Alice Lyford (5 May 1891 - 1980) married Henry Mountain Patterson (1886 - 1938) in 1919.  The following account of their wedding appeared in the 31 March edition of the Evening Post:

The wedding was solemnised in the Presbyterian Church, Kilbirnie, recently of Miss Florence Alice Lyford, Rata road, Hataitai, and Lieutenant Henry Mountain Patterson, of Christchurch, when the Rev. Hugh Beggs officiated. Lieutenant Patterson left New Zealand with the 5th Reinforcements, took part in operations on Gallipoli and later in France, and returned last Christmas after three and a half years' service. The bride was given away by her mother, and wore a charming gown of cream gabardine, a pale pink georgette blouse, and a black hat with touches of pink, while her shower bouquet was of white asters, pink jessamine, and maidenhair fern. The bridesmaid, Miss Ruth Creed*, wore a pale pink georgette frock, and black hat relieved with pink, and carried a bouquet of pale pink asters and maidenhair fern. Tho best man was Lieutenant A. Stunnel, who saw similar active service as the bridegroom, and also returned last Christmas Day. The church was prettily decorated by girl friends of the bride. The bride wore a travelling costume of grey cloth, and a black hat relieved with saxe blue. Lieutenant and Mrs. Patterson left for Auckland, where they intend making their future home.

2. Frank Adolphus Lyford (1896 - 1963) married Dorothy Louise Sinclair (1899 - 1932) in 1923
3. Arthur Sharpe Lyford (18 April 1903 - 1975) married Jessie Tutchen Waters in 1927

Frederick Ernest Waters (1905 - 1965) married Ruby Beulah Phyllis Nicholson in 1929.  Ruby's family were as follows:

Lewis Nicholson (1877 - 1944) married Martha Lunmer (1872 - 1930) in 1901.  They had the following children:
1. Ruby Beulah Phyllis Nicholson (7 September 1902 - 1996) married Frederick Ernest Waters (1905 - 1965)
2. Trevor Lewis Nicholson (6 March 1905 - 2004) 

*Ruth Creed was Florence Alice Lyford's bridesmaid.  Here's what I can find about her family:

William Richard Creed (1852 - 1928) married Marion Hill Hamilton (1857 - 1896) in 1876.  Poor Marion had twelve children in nineteen years and then died, aged just 39 years.  They had the following children:
1. Helen Fanny Constant Creed (1876) married Herbert John Penwell in 1900.
2. Alexander Amos Creed (1878 - 1910)
3. Phoebe Marion Sophy Creed (1879) married William Valentine Mockett in 1905
4. William Hubert Percival Creed (1882 - 1944)
5. Albert George Creed (1882 - 1959)
6. Thomas Richard Creed (1884 - 1918)
7. Beatrice Ethel Creed (1886) married Lawrence Stove in 1907
8. Amy Bell Creed (1887)
9. Rose Ivy Creed (1889) married George James Powis in 1909
10. Annie Edith Creed (1891 - 1910).  Died aged just 19 years.
11. Claude Hamilton Creed (1893 - 1963)
12. Ruth Agnes Creed (1895 - 1957).  She never married.