Individual Notes
Note for: Alfred John Shout McMullin, 1917 -
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Burial: Date: 16 MAY 1969
Place: Purewa Lawn Cemetery
Individual Note: 1st Name from Charles James McMullin's Death Notice
2nd and 3rd Names from Purewa Cemetery Record
*Birth Details Date: 1917, Folio No: 54, Area: Auckland, March quarter*
Purewa Cemetery Record shows Alfred John Shout McMullin, Date of Burial: 16/5/1969, Aged: 52, Plot Location: H/009/0050, Residence: Kingseat Hospital
Probate Record shows Alfred John Shout McMullin, Place: Auckland, Occ: Retired, Court: Hamilton, Archives Reference: BCDG 4421 698/69, Probate No: 698/69, Type: Intestate (Letters of Administration), Date Filed: 1/9/1969, Archives NZ, Auckland
Individual Notes
Note for: Bernard McGovern, ABT 1839 - 13 SEP 1884
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Burial: Date: 15 SEP 1884
Place: St Joseph's Church Cemetery, Pauatahanui
Individual Note: Year of Death from John Richard Shout and Agnes Mary McGovern nee Kelly's Marriage Certificate
50th Regiment New Zealand Medals
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50th Queen's Own Regiment
Claim to New Zealand Medals under General Order 17 of 1869
Devonport July 1869
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Rank: ?, Name: Bernard McGovern, Regt No. & Rank at the period the medal was earned: 3487, Private, Statement of the action or the date of service in the field on which the claim is founded: Waikato and W. C. Campaign (W. C. = West Coast), 15 Nov 1863 to 16 Jan 1866, Remarks: Discharged 16 Jan 1866 in New Zealand
Military Land Claims shows
Wellington District
B McGovern, Corps: Private H M, 50th Regiment, Value of Certificate: 30 pounds, Issued: 12/8/1893
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Page 309 in Military Land Claims Book kept at National Archives in Wellington
Intention to Marry Record shows
Register Return for the District of Wellington during the quarter ending the 31st of Dec 1873.
No 127, Date: 13/10/1873, Place: Roman Catholic Cathedral, Hill Street, Groom: Bernard McGovern, Bachelor, Occ: Labourer, Aged: 34, Dwelling Place: Wellington, Length of Residence: 7 days, Bride: Agnes Mary Kelly, Spinster, Occ: d (assuming this means daughter) of Charles Kelly, Wanganui, Labourer, Aged: 17, Dwelling Place: Wellington, Length of Residence: 6 weeks, Name & Relation of Person giving consent in case of a minor: Charles Kelly, Father, Date of Certificate: 18/10/1873, Minister: Rev M Cummins?
Wanganui Herald 27th March 1884
Petition
The following petition is to be presented next session. This is the correct thing to do, for only by persistency will the attention of Parliament be drawn to claims:-
To the Honourable Gentlemen, Members of the House of Representatives of New Zealand.
We, the undersigned old soldiers of Her Majesty's Imperial Forces, residing in New Zealand, request that the Hon. Members of the House of Representatives will grant us our sixty acres of land, according to the law under which we were discharged. That we ask no favour, but merely our own, according to the letter of the law. Asking the Hon. Members now assembled to accede to our request, and your petitioners will ever pray.
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40th Regt.:
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Bernard McGovern
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1881 Wanganui Electoral Roll shows Bernard McGovern, Residential, Wanganui, Clerk
*Death Details Date: 1884, Folio No: 1173, Area: Wellington, September quarter*
Death Certificate shows When and Where Died 13/9/1884, Pauahatanui, Bernard McGovern, Aged: 52, Cause of Death: Heart Disease, Medical Attendant: C L Bennett, When last saw deceased: 13/9/1884, Parents: Nothing Listed, When and Where Buried: 15/9/1884, Pauahatanui, Minister: Rev J McNamara, Roman Catholic, Where Born: Nothing Listed, Marriage Details: Nothing Listed, Issues: Nothing Listed, Informant: W F Taitous?, Undertaker, Wellington, Registrar: W T? Wyatt, Deputy Registrar, Date Registered: 19/9/1884
Location of Plot at St Joseph's Catholic Church Cemetery is Row 9, No 47
Headstone Reads
Barney McGovern
Late 65th Regt. of Foot
Died 1885
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Headstone Erected by
City of Porirua Cadet Corps
1990
Individual Notes
Note for: Hans Peter Sorensen, 11 MAR 1838 - 9 AUG 1913
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Burial: Date: 11 AUG 1913
Place: Wakapuaka Cemetery, Nelson
Individual Note: Some details from A Dunn
Hans and Maren Sorenson and 1 child arrived on the "Humboldt". It sailed from Hamburg, 10/10/1874 and arrived in Wellington 28/1/1875.
Hans was admitted to the New Plymouth Asylum on 9 Oct 1875 where he stayed until he was transferred to Nelson Braemer Lunatic Asylum, he was admitted there on the 23 Aug 1879. He remained there until he died on the 9 Aug 1913. He was there for 38 years. According to the Braemer records he was a short stooped man with downcast eyes and occasionally attacked the nurses but never spoke. Most probably didn't know English. He is buried in Nelson's Wakapuaka Cemetery. His death certificate has family, issue ages etc unknown, details from A Dunn
Information as appears in the register of patients for Nelson Asylum from the Nelson Provincial Museum, Archives ref: AG 143
Hans Peter Sorenson
Admitted: 23 August 1879
Age: 37
Occupation: Labourer
Previous place of abode: Asylum, New Plymouth
By whose authority sent: W Gisborne , Acting Colonial Secretary
Form of mental disorder: Softening of brain
Bodily condition: Strong
Duration of existing attack: 3 months
Nelson City Council Records show Hans Peter Sorenson, Date of Interment: 11/8/1913, Aged: 80, Cemetery: Wakapuaka, Denomination: Baptist, Area: Baptist, Block: 5, Plot: 39, Funeral Director: A Shone & Co
Could not locate a death notice for Hans Sorensen in the Nelson Evening Mail