I've been going through assorted information and looking up the deaths in the NZ online indexes to make sure I have all the references, but I am very puzzled by one or two where I have convincing evidence of a death date but can't find a record in the index.
For example, Helen Roy, born 20 July 1851 in Geelong, Australia, wife of William Murray, died at Invercargill on 26 September 1932 and was buried in the Eastern Cemetery, Invercargill, on 28 September according to the burial records. There's also a gravestone. But no listing of a Helen Murray in 1932 in the deaths index.
Or Kenneth James Stirling, who according to newspaper reports was killed in an accident in Kopuku Coal mine on 12 October 1972, aged 43 so presumably born about 1929, and whose ashes were buried in Huntly Old Lawn Cemetery according to the burial records. But no listing of a death of Kenneth James Stirling in 1972 in the deaths index.
There are others but these will do to be going on with. I find it very frustrating that I can't search using wildcards in case the name has been misspelled in the index, and that I can't get round this by searching without a surname.
Does anyone have any search tips that I could use to hunt out these and other death references that are proving hard to find?
