Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Merton, Agnes Gertrude Stonehewer (Aunt Kit)
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Merton, Agnes Gertrude Stonehewer (Aunt Kit), 1889-1968
Other form(s) of name
- Aunt Kit Merton
- Agnes Gertrude Stonehewer Merton
- Agnes Merton
- Agnes Gertrude Merton
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1889-1968
History
Agnes Gertrude Stonehewer Merton, Thomas Merton's Aunt "Kit", was Owen Merton's sister, and she lived in New Zealand. Thomas Merton met her twice: once coming with her mother Gertrude Hannah Merton to Flushing, New York, in 1919; and once visiting him at Gethsemani in 1961. She suffered a tragic death aboard the ferry «Wahine», which sank between New Zealand's largest islands. (Source: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, p. 293).