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Help: Benjamin Sydney Evans and Ruth Ida Evans
« on: Friday 10 July 15 04:22 BST (UK) »
Searching for the ancestors of both Benjamin Sydney Evans 1885-1960 and Ruth Ida Evans 1898-1975
Son: Sydney Valentine Evans - married Joan Isabel Evans (born Cleal)
Cleal, Evans, Webster, Michael, Pardington, Aitken, Armstrong, Stuart, Kershaw, Hendriksen, Muller, Butterworth, Barron, Stuart

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Re: Help: Benjamin Sydney Evans and Ruth Ida Evans
« Reply #1 on: Friday 10 July 15 05:16 BST (UK) »
Deaths
1960/31084   Evans    Benjamin Sydney       76Y
1975/26321   Evans    Ruth Ida    born 4/6/1897   77Y

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Re: Help: Benjamin Sydney Evans and Ruth Ida Evans
« Reply #2 on: Friday 10 July 15 05:20 BST (UK) »
They both first appear in the 1928 electoral roll and I don't see a marriage for them in NZ

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Re: Help: Benjamin Sydney Evans and Ruth Ida Evans
« Reply #3 on: Friday 10 July 15 05:30 BST (UK) »
It appears Benjamin was born in England
Benjamin Sydney Evans
Baptism date    29 Dec 1884
Residence    Kidderminster, Worcester, England
Country    England
Parents were    Benjamin George and Mary Evans


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Re: Help: Benjamin Sydney Evans and Ruth Ida Evans
« Reply #4 on: Friday 10 July 15 05:34 BST (UK) »
http://www.purewa.co.nz/search.asp

Surname     EVANS
First Names     Benjamin Sydney
Age:    76 Years
Gender:  Male
Date of Death:     25 Dec 1960
Religion:     Anglican
Serial No :    21747
Date of Service and/or Interment: 16 Mar 1961
Funeral Director :  W H Tongue & Son's, P O Box 8510, Symonds Street, AUCKLAND
What Buried? :     Ashes
Casket Depth :     Ashes Burial
Cemetery: Purewa Cemetery
Location:     Block Z Row 7 Plot 28

Surname:     EVANS
First Names: Ruth Ida
Age:     77 Years
Gender : Female
Date of Death:     01 Mar 1975
Religion: Anglican
Serial No :    30682
Date of Service and/or Interment :  11 Mar 1975
Funeral Director:  Sibuns Funeral Advisors, 582 Remuera Road, Remuera, AUCKLAND
What Buried?:  Ashes
Casket Depth:  Ashes Burial
Cemetery:    Purewa Cemetery
Location:     Block Z Row 7 Plot 28

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Re: Help: Benjamin Sydney Evans and Ruth Ida Evans
« Reply #5 on: Friday 10 July 15 05:47 BST (UK) »
They arrived in NZ on the Corinthic which left Southampton 10/08/1922

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F39C-CJQ

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Re: Help: Benjamin Sydney Evans and Ruth Ida Evans
« Reply #6 on: Friday 10 July 15 05:51 BST (UK) »
The son's death

2012/21349   Evans    Sydney Valentine    born 2/7/1924   88Y

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Re: Help: Benjamin Sydney Evans and Ruth Ida Evans
« Reply #7 on: Friday 10 July 15 05:56 BST (UK) »
Purewa
Surname     EVANS
First Names     Joan Isabel
Age     79 Years
Gender     Female
Date of Death     28 Jan 2008
Religion     Presbyterian
Serial No     80499
Date of Service and/or Interment     01 Feb 2008
Type Of Service     None
Funeral Director     Davis Funeral Services, P O Box 56013, AUCKLAND
Ashes Disposal     Returned
Book Of Remembrance     No

Surname     EVANS
First Names     Sydney Valentine
Age     88 Years
Gender     Male
Date of Death     17 Aug 2012
Religion     Not Listed
Serial No     86149
Date of Service and/or Interment     23 Aug 2012
Type Of Service     Full
Funeral Director     Davis Funeral Services, P O Box 56013, AUCKLAND
Ashes Disposal     Returned
Book Of Remembrance     No

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Re: Help: Benjamin Sydney Evans and Ruth Ida Evans
« Reply #8 on: Friday 10 July 15 05:58 BST (UK) »
Death
2008/3023   Evans    Joan Isabel    born 22/10/1928   79Y

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