CLARK - Marriage Lookups & Possibly Death Lookups

[Tikva]

Like Minnie, I haven't heard of that either.

Just thinking out loud here, and we all think differently, wondering why the name change from Oxley to Mitchell, wonder if there was a reason, could he have been a naughty boy?  Could be any number of reasons why.  That is my thought for today.


Cheers
KHP

Apparently George's father was violent, and his mother with his siblings fled Australia to New Zealand, and that's why the name change.  Although why it was done so many years later I do not know.

[kiwihalfpint]

Apparently George's father was violent, and his mother with his siblings fled Australia to New Zealand, and that's why the name change.  Although why it was done so many years later I do not know.

Here is the answer, to my thoughts, scroll down to Legal Notices:

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19310721.2.95.2?items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=george+alfred+mitchell&snippet=true

Posting for others, I realise you might have seen it.


Cheers
KHP

[Tikva]

I’ve just found the marriage cert on a tree on Ancestry. It is NOT a printout.

Do you have the print out which should have much more information on it.

Ie

Bride and Groom

When and where married
Name and surname of the parties
Ages
Rank or profession
Condition of parties
Bachelor or spinster (or as case may be)
If widow or widower date of death of former wife or husband
Birthplace
Residence: Present, Usual
Parents

Father's name and surname
Father's rank or profession
Mothers name and Maiden surname
Signatures

Bride and groom
Witnesses
Officiating minister (or Registrar)

No, it is not a printout - the birth records for 5 of the children are printouts that I do have.  I have a copy of that certificate.  However, believe me when I say that numerous descendants have tried to find out who Lilian's ancestors were, and no one was able to obtain any useful information from any documents.  I'm pretty sure I also found the church record of their marriage some time ago, and it also offered no helpful information in regards to Lilian.

[Tikva]

I also enquired some time ago as to whether or not an Intention to Marry existed for George and Lilian, but it did not.

[Tikva]

I found the printout of the marriage that was sent to me some time ago by a relative, and the witnesses are George's brother and mother.  Image attached

[minniehaha]

The death of the same George Alfred Mitchell?

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19460408.2.18.1?items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=george+alfred+mitchell&snippet=true

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19460408.2.43?items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=george+alfred+mitchell&snippet=true

Minniehaha.

[Tikva]

The death of the same George Alfred Mitchell?

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19460408.2.18.1?items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=george+alfred+mitchell&snippet=true

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19460408.2.43?items_per_page=10&phrase=2&query=george+alfred+mitchell&snippet=true

Minniehaha.

Yes, I have a lot of information on George - poor man had cancer and decided he'd rather die on how own terms..........

[mckha489]

Well, if her parents were said to be “not known” it does seem very odd, considering that if she really belongs to William and Emma Clark family, it was a large Dunedin/Halfway Bush family with ship antecedents “Hindoustan” .  I cannot believe that people in the area, considering the population at the time, would not have known who she was.


Totals, City of Dunedin and Suburbs   64,237

[minniehaha]

You will have this cemetery link but it may be useful to others still searching:

https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/cemeteries-search?recordid=64664&type=Burial


Headstone photographs included.


Minniehaha.