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I have searched the NZ BDM records over the past 2-3 years, and also used Papers Past, and I am having problems finding deaths (specifically) that are in the papers, which i cannot locate in the BDM.
 
This may be my inexperience, but an example may help others give me advice.

I found in papers Past, the death of Elizabeth Ann Shackel, wife of Thomas Edmund Shackel, at Okain's Bay on 5 Sep 1882.
Searching for that death, with a date range 1/1/1880 to 1/1/1885, with variations of the surname only, found no persons at all.
The name variations I used were -
shackel
shackels
shackle
shackles
schackel
schackels
schackle
schackles

The newspaper article was as follows (first line only) -

INQUEST.
AKAROA MAIL AND BANKS PENINSULA ADVERTISER, VOLUME VII, ISSUE 642, 8 SEPTEMBER 1882

INQUEST.

An inquest was held yesterday at Mr Thacker's saw mill, Okain's Bay, on the body of a women named Elizabeth Ann Shackel, a resident in the Bay, .....

There may be alternative records for New Zealand BDM that I'm not aware of. I do search Find-A-Grave and Billion Graves, but I'm not familiar with church records; and i have not searched records in nearby cemeteries.

Any suggestions?

This is not the only "missing" record I would like to locate. Mainly, I am looking for LANDELLS and I am used to trying all the spelling variations (there are separate LANDELS families in NZ and Australia, and UK, that are not mis-spellings).

I have found a little information on Harry Podd who died in the Boer war of disease, 21 June 1900 at Johannesburg. He was in the Suffolk Regiment as part of the 1st Mounted Infantry battalion.
Service record 2707

Mentioned in a few places  -
 http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Boer/
 http://www.angloboerwar.com/

I think he was a resident of Whitton. I can't match him with families (parents), and the UK national archives pages say that there isn't a comprehensive list available (from them?).

Where should I look?

I would appreciate some help with records of births, etc in Apia, Samoa.

My direct line is to the reverend  William Burns Landells 1814-1871, who emigrated from Alnwick, Northumberland to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and died in Geelong, Victoria.
One of his  8 children was William George Landells b. 1840 in Sheffield, Yorkshire and d. 1870 in Geelong.
William George Landells married Isabella Baillie in 1863 in Geelong, and he died in 1870 in Geelong.
William James LANDELLS was the second of their 4 sons, and he was born 1866 in Eltham, Victoria (now an outer suburb of Melbourne) and he died in Queensland, Australia in 1954. Parents are named in both records.

Until now, I have negelcted researching this son, and have very poor information to start with.

From various online family trees, mainly MyHeritage and FamilySearch, I have seen William James Landells marriages (3) and children in Apia, Samoa.
Some of these records are totally illogical, in the death of the purported mother before her marriage and before the birth of the child.

These are the 3 marriages I have seen in the online trees -
1898 - in Apia, Upolu, Samoa - to Agnes Phoebe Netzler
1903 - in Apia, Upolu, Samoa - to Henrietta Netzler
1911 - in Apia, Upolu, Samoa - to Marguerite Violet Logan

Agnes Phoebe NETZLER
b. 7 Dec 1879, Samoa 
d.  16 Jul 1901
buried European Cemetery, Apia, Tuamasaga, Samoa

Henrietta NETZLER
b. 1 Feb 1856, Samoa
d. 3 Jan 1875 Maalauli, Western Samoa, Samoa

Marguerite Violet LOGAN
b. 16 Jun 1871 Bagot's Well, South Australia, Australia 
d. 5 Apr 1928, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

For the Australian Births and deaths, I have checked the various registries. But I would appreciate advice on where to get births, deaths, marriages for Samoa.

I should add that there is another Netzler, Henrietta Catherine - born in Samoa much later than the person listed above. And there are 7 children that I have seen connected to LANDELLS or the 3 wives; LOGAN had a marriage to Edward William ROBERTSON and  Agnes Phoebe NETZLER to a KEISEWETTER (no children). Of the 4 children with surname LANDELLS, 3 were born in Samoa and died in Queensland, Australia.

The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition from Melbourne to the northern coastline of Australia in 1860/61 is generally known to Australians, and has a website dedicated to that saga at the State Library of Victoria (SLV).

DIG - The Burke and Wills Research Gateway
http://burkeandwills.slv.vic.gov.au/

I am interested in knowing for sure some accurate information about a some-time member of the expedition who may or may not be related to my Landells lineage - George James LANDELLS.

Specifically: the family particulars (names and details of relatives, his and his father's, uncle's, grandfather's British Army service in the Caribbean and India, and where GJ Landells was born, lived, and also details about his wife Elizabeth Rosa).

George James LANDELLS / LANDELS, who was commissioned to supply camels for the Burke and Wills  Exploring Expedition, was at first second-in-command of the expedition until an argument with Burke after a short time. Landells resigned or was sacked by Burke, and did not proceed beyond the colony of Victoria.

After the disastrous end to that venture, Landells' reputation was (in my opinion) besmirched by certain agencies, but vigorously defended by one of his sisters living in Bendigo. It makes interesting reading.
In contrast, Burke's inept leadership and skills have been glossed over and he is some sort of latter-day "celebrity" for whom a prominent commemorative statue exists in Melbourne CBD (recently moved while new underground rail works are constructed).

The vital information that I have for LANDELLS comes from the SLV and from some newspaper articles from the time (NLA scans, at "Trove").

About GJ Landells, the bare information that I have collected - not well verified -

George James Landells, b. 5 Feb 1825, Barbados, West Indies; d. 4 Dec 1871, Rawal Pindi, Bengal, India

His wife was Elizabeth Rosa (no surname, dates or place of birth or death, and no marriage date for them).

I have searched the usual places, and I cannot verify any of that information. I am entirely reliant on the information at the SLV - but hope that some experienced researcher at RootsChat can unearth corroborative data and new clues.

Under a similar Topic, I have gained valuable insights about some of GJ LANDELLS' siblings and their families - but so far, none about the (controversial) man himself.

I would like some help on using the New Zealand BDM index, which I have used before but have a situation where I am lacking the family name.

I want to get the reg # for the marriage of William George Shackel b. 1879 in New Zealand, with Gertrude Sophia (I don't know her last name or any other info).
Is it possible to do that search? There are children of that couple recorded from  1906 to 1916 in the index.