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Title: Death in New Zealand
Post by: Stuart_McDonald on Monday 24 March 25 02:28 GMT (UK)
Hi everyone
I am trying to locate a date (and possibly a place) of death in New Zealand.  And possibly a burial/cremation location.  I can find a year of death via the online New Zealand BMD.  His name was Edward Rohrs and he died in 1992 aged 97 years.
Can anyone assist?  I'd be very grateful of any directions.
Kind regards
Stuart McDonald, Western Australia.
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: mckha489 on Monday 24 March 25 02:44 GMT (UK)
You can work out dates on NZ BDM by altering the between dates, until you have narrowed it down.
His date of death is 4th January 1992
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: mckha489 on Monday 24 March 25 02:56 GMT (UK)
Is he the service car driver who lived Taupō and then Napier?


Amended

Here. Havelock North

https://hastingsdc.discovereverafter.com/search-results?_token=SrMgLxuGPD4eJOlDeiADTGhRhG4k1Dz2mWCq0oEs&screenWidth=1024&search_first=&search_last=Rohrs&dateFrom=&dateTo=&ageFrom=&ageTo=&search_plot=&yod=&site=hastingsdc&cemetery=
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: Stuart_McDonald on Monday 24 March 25 02:57 GMT (UK)
You can work out dates on NZ BDM by altering the between dates
Thanks for that, much appreciated.
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: Stuart_McDonald on Monday 24 March 25 03:01 GMT (UK)
Is he the service car driver who lived Taupō and then Napier?
It's early days tracking him, I'm only up when he left Tasmania in 1934!   It was a quantum leap getting to New Zealand as he went via the USA.  He was a hotelier and ex-farmer in Australia. ;D
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: mckha489 on Monday 24 March 25 03:02 GMT (UK)
Amended earlier post with this link

https://hastingsdc.discovereverafter.com/search-results?_token=SrMgLxuGPD4eJOlDeiADTGhRhG4k1Dz2mWCq0oEs&screenWidth=1024&search_first=&search_last=Rohrs&dateFrom=&dateTo=&ageFrom=&ageTo=&search_plot=&yod=&site=hastingsdc&cemetery=
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: Stuart_McDonald on Monday 24 March 25 03:11 GMT (UK)
Amended earlier post with this link

Thank you so very much, I had started searching individual online cemetery registers, but had given up.  I really appreciate your assistance, gratefully accepted.
Best regards
Stuart
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: mckha489 on Monday 24 March 25 03:21 GMT (UK)
I can’t tell so far if those other Rohrs are connected. Josephus John has a naturalisation entry. Dutch.
That & admin for Anthony John 1988 is on Archway (NZ Archives)  and includes his death certificate.

https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE58269421

He also has a small Wikipedia entry
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: Stuart_McDonald on Monday 24 March 25 03:29 GMT (UK)
I can’t tell so far if those other Rohrs are connected.
I am also unsure of any connection, but if there is, it might be lost in time.  The Rohrs I am tracking were via Jersey in the Channel Islands, but appeared very Anglicized, they were from England and migrated to Australia in 1906 and hence to elsewhere and have left few descendants!
Cheers
Stuart
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: mckha489 on Monday 24 March 25 03:37 GMT (UK)
One of the names on the grave stone has a tree on ancestry. No sign of Edward on it, so I would say coincidental they are in same cemetery.
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: Stuart_McDonald on Monday 24 March 25 03:42 GMT (UK)
I would say coincidental they are in same cemetery.
I concur, Edward was one of 4 sons and 1 daughter, one son died as a child, one as a young adult and another married with one daughter, but thank you for your continued searches.  Much appreciated!
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: minniehaha on Monday 24 March 25 04:59 GMT (UK)
Could this be your man?

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1067721/large/5375223.JPG

Minniehaha.
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: Stuart_McDonald on Monday 24 March 25 05:22 GMT (UK)
Could this be your man?
Minniehaha.
Indeed it is!  He and his brother John served in WWI.
Title: Re: Death in New Zealand
Post by: minniehaha on Sunday 30 March 25 07:26 BST (UK)
PM sent.....

Minniehaha.