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Others have already searched, as have I - maybe, hopefully, someone here can find her? And if not, then maybe in the future someone that knows of her will come across this and say yes, I know her 
Margaret McCusker, eldest child of Francis and Annie, was born in Norwich, Norfolk 1887. Her parents, Francis McCusker and Annie Batram, married in Suffolk 28 October 1885.
In 1891 she was age 3, with her parents and her brother Herbert, at 8 Winefred Place, Finchley, East Finchley, and in 1901 she was age 13 at her aunt and uncle's home, Margaret (b Broom, Suffolk) and Joseph West, 5, Great Northern Cottages, Hitchin.
Margaret had one brother and three sisters and I have traced all of them.
Margaret's father died in 1916.
She married Allan Edward Dale in 1906, St Mary's, Finchley.
In 1911 Margaret, her husband and their young son were with his parents in Beckenham, Kent.
Margaret's husband Allan died in the S.S. Abosso on 24 April 1917. In the CWGC site is:
In Memory of
Assistant Steward ALLAN EDWARD DALE
S.S. "Abosso" (London), Mercantile Marine
who died age 39
on 24 April 1917
Son of Edward Henry and Emma Jane Dale, of 27, Welham Rd., Streatham, London; husband of Margaret Dale, of New Zealand. Born at Faversham, Kent.
Remembered with honour
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
I can find nothing about her being in New Zealand.
I have found his father's death registration in 1919 and his mother's, too.
It looks as if Margaret and Allan's son, Paul Carey Dale, married an Ida B Walker in 1935, I have found him in electoral registers with his grandmother Annie McCusker (strangely calling herself Mary Ann and Mary Annie at times!) in Finchley prior to his marriage. After his marriage he and his wife Ida Bessie are in Whetstone in the electoral registers up to 1936.
There is a death registration for Paul Carey Dale, registered July 1993, Bridport registration district, age 86, birth date given as 11 January 1907, so I feel sure that this is him; such an unusual name. His birth registration is March qr 1907 Fulham registration district. There is a death registration for Ida age 93 in 1997 Honiton district.
I cannot find Margaret Dale in passenger lists (nor could I see the son in them either) - as her husband was an assistant steward, could they have travelled with him without being on passenger lists?
There is a death registration for a Margaret Dale, born about 1886, Greenwich district in 1919. I had hoped it might appear in the London parish registers in ancestry but it doesn't seem to be there. She is not a direct relative but I would really like to know what became of her
Margaret McCusker, eldest child of Francis and Annie, was born in Norwich, Norfolk 1887. Her parents, Francis McCusker and Annie Batram, married in Suffolk 28 October 1885.
In 1891 she was age 3, with her parents and her brother Herbert, at 8 Winefred Place, Finchley, East Finchley, and in 1901 she was age 13 at her aunt and uncle's home, Margaret (b Broom, Suffolk) and Joseph West, 5, Great Northern Cottages, Hitchin.
Margaret had one brother and three sisters and I have traced all of them.
Margaret's father died in 1916.
She married Allan Edward Dale in 1906, St Mary's, Finchley.
In 1911 Margaret, her husband and their young son were with his parents in Beckenham, Kent.
Margaret's husband Allan died in the S.S. Abosso on 24 April 1917. In the CWGC site is:
In Memory of
Assistant Steward ALLAN EDWARD DALE
S.S. "Abosso" (London), Mercantile Marine
who died age 39
on 24 April 1917
Son of Edward Henry and Emma Jane Dale, of 27, Welham Rd., Streatham, London; husband of Margaret Dale, of New Zealand. Born at Faversham, Kent.
Remembered with honour
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
I can find nothing about her being in New Zealand.
I have found his father's death registration in 1919 and his mother's, too.
It looks as if Margaret and Allan's son, Paul Carey Dale, married an Ida B Walker in 1935, I have found him in electoral registers with his grandmother Annie McCusker (strangely calling herself Mary Ann and Mary Annie at times!) in Finchley prior to his marriage. After his marriage he and his wife Ida Bessie are in Whetstone in the electoral registers up to 1936.
There is a death registration for Paul Carey Dale, registered July 1993, Bridport registration district, age 86, birth date given as 11 January 1907, so I feel sure that this is him; such an unusual name. His birth registration is March qr 1907 Fulham registration district. There is a death registration for Ida age 93 in 1997 Honiton district.
I cannot find Margaret Dale in passenger lists (nor could I see the son in them either) - as her husband was an assistant steward, could they have travelled with him without being on passenger lists?
There is a death registration for a Margaret Dale, born about 1886, Greenwich district in 1919. I had hoped it might appear in the London parish registers in ancestry but it doesn't seem to be there. She is not a direct relative but I would really like to know what became of her
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