NG Members of the Coe Community

Many of the descendants of Jonas M. Coe, once United States Agent in Samoa, now are residents of New Guinea. They are the grand-children of the brothers and sisters of the famous Emma Coe (Forsayth) who went to New Guinea to live with her before Germany annexed the archipelago in 1884.

In this picture are two of the grandsons of Mrs. Phoebe Parkinson (Emma’s sister), and their wives and numerous progeny—each has four sons and one daughter. They are, on the left. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. P. Uechtritz and. on the right, Mr. and Mrs. R. Diercke. it Mrs. Parkinson (whose husband, a scientist and author, wrote the famous ‘Thirty Years in the South Seas”), was a very highly-esteemed old lady, who died in New Ireland during the Japanese occupation. Mr. Uechtritz is a son of the late Dollie Parkinson, by her first husband, and Mr. Rudy Diercke is a son of the eldest Parkinson daughter, Louise.

The photograph was taken at the residence near Rabaul of Mrs. Ursula Harris, well-known “Before”, whose daughter, Mary Louise, married Mr.

Uechtritz. Mrs. Harris is in the back row, third from the right.