Desperately seeking Enid: Dying siblings' plea to NZ from other side of the world

Charlotte Tucker and her 80-year-old grandfather William Mcmonagle are making a public plea to find his long-lost sister Enid. Photo / Supplied

Two terminally ill British siblings are hoping to find their long-lost sister in New Zealand before it's too late.

William Mcmonagle, 80, and his older sister Muriel are desperate to find out what happened to their estranged sister Enid, who travelled thousand of kilometres from home to live in New Zealand after a falling out in the mid 1950s.

William's granddaughter Charlotte Tucker, a carer in a nursing home, wants to honour the siblings' shared "dying wish" and is on a mission to put the brother and sisters back in touch.

It would mean the "absolute world" if the dying pair could hear from Enid one last time, she said.

"Neither want to leave this world not knowing anything about their sister.

"They want to know that she had a good life and was happy."

A family photo of Enid White taken on her wedding day more than 50 years ago. Photo / Supplied

William suffers from Alzheimer's and both bowel and lung cancer.

Tucker said that neither William nor Muriel had "a lot left in them to carry on".

More than half a century ago, Mcmonagle siblings Muriel, Enid and their late brother Arthur had a falling out over their mother's funeral.

It's hard for youngest sibling William to recall all the details now - at just 15 years of age he was often "away at sea" far from his childhood home on Partington Avenue in Liverpool.

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It was believed Enid moved to Auckland in the mid 1950s with her new husband using the £10 immigration passage.

But the Mcmonagle family have no idea what happened next.

Tucker said the entire family would love to find out more about Enid's life.