Harold Edward Lyng was born 13 June 1900, to Edward and Laura Lyng, and was the oldest of their five children. He lived at 6 Swan St with his parents until 1931.

Margaret Annie (Peg) Burk was born 30 September 1909, and was the third child in a family of four children to James and Catherine Burk.  She attended Sacred Heart Primary School and also St Dominic’s College for a short time.

Sadly when she was nine years old her mother died suddenly.  Two years later her father remarried, so Peg had a stepmother (Lucy) and two stepsisters (Iris and Gwen).

Harold worked for Phoenix Co. making boiled sweets and other confectionary, and Peg worked as a tailoress at John McCrae’s, where she made men’s suits.

They married at the Sacred Heart Church in North East Valley on 3 June 1931 and moved into a new house at 29 Somerville St in Andersons Bay.  The house is still standing.

Unfortunately Harold had an expensive brush with the law at the end of 1931. Probably the first and last time he ever did that!

Their first two children were born – Margaret Laura (1932) and Kathleen Patricia (1935), and below is three generations of Lyng – Edward, Harold and Margaret.

In 1937 the recession forced the family to move to Invercargill to find work, and they lived at 60 MacMaster St.  Harold and Peg posed with Margaret and Pat in the photo below.  It is there that their third child Edward (Ted) Anthony (1938) was born.

They returned to Dunedin shortly afterwards, lived at 19 Pentland St in N.E.V. and added to their family with Eileen Monica (1941).  In approximately 1946 they shifted to 22 Moreau St, and their family was completed with the arrival of Anne Marie (1948).

For several years from the late 1940’s they also operated the Boereboom Store, a grocery/dairy shop, and the family lived in the house attached to the business.  Eventually they moved across the road to 11 Moreau St.

Throughout some of this time Harold was working as a storeman and driver for the Otago Brush Co. and did so for approximately 20 years until he retired in the early 1960’s.  Peg also worked part time at Wolfenden and Russell’s clothing store in South Dunedin.

In their retirement they downsized and eventually shifted into the Victoria Road Council Flats.  In 1981 they celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary with family and also received an Apostolic Blessing from Pope JohnPaul II.

In their final years they found it more and more difficult to keep their independence in the council flat and they eventually moved into the home of their youngest daughter, Anne and her family.

There Harold passed away on 14 June 1998, the day after his 98th birthday, and Peg passed away five years later on 22 July 2003 at St Luke’s Hospital.  They are buried with Peg’s parents in the Burk family grave at Andersons Bay Cemetery.