Early NZ? birth help please Cooke/Cook

[Mk2_Zephyr]

You are SURE of the first connection, can't believe someone called Charlie could be a Robert.

Otherwise the whole Aner tree is someone elses, 

[mare]

Hi

Little sidetrack for Christine  I have a small connection with NZ Clayton Otautau

Mare

[mare]

Hi Mk2_Zephyr

I think Charlie was just a preferred nick-name I'm thinking, perhaps he just wasn't keen on Bill or Bob

William Robert Martin Cooke on marriage and everything else on certs works out.

Mother-in-law did talk of him a bit but said he was known as Charlie??

What doesn't check out well is his actual age as he and his wife both aged ten years over just six years!! but I guess it was a tough 6 years.His wife Emma was actually the older age.  The birthplace is another to get verified.

Thanks
Mare

[mare]

Hi Lu

I'm still working on the homework but lots of other homework to do too, will get on to census lookups first see if Wee Willie     is with his dad in the home country.

Tried to look at the cemeteries site you highlighted, but that didn't want to open for me

FreeBMD went there but didn't enter any of my details for closer look.
Took note of the contact may go there.

OH had already been given the task of following up Napier prison, visits Napier at least once a year . Will get him to see what lockups there were in New Plymouth, as visits there at least once a year too. Will see it all with new interest. Have friends and family both places may be able to enlist some help.

Thanks all for ploughing through my scrambled and lengthy information and getting some results.

Mare

[Lucy2]

 Hmmm ...  not sure what's up with that cemeteries link  ... I've just tried it and got an "error page"   

Perhaps "google" for Napier City Council website ?

Lu

[Infobunny]

Hi there,

Napier City Coucncil records are not yet online.  They can be telephoned or visited in person, probably even emailed.  They do have records but not all as some were destroyed in the 1931 earthquake.

Cheers
Bunny

[cmclayton]

Hi Mare

I hope you have better luck finding your Cooke/Cook family then I have with James Henry Clayton, but would be interested in what names that you have. 

I am looking for a James Henry Clayton born approx 1851 England involved with newspapers arrived New Zealand approx 1870 married 1874 to Caroline Waymouth, second marriage 1875 to Emma Hester.  They lived Dunedin, Christchurch, then Dannevirke, New Plymouth, Raglan and Tauranga, where ever James could start a newspaper the family followed.

Regarding cemtery listings try this

http://fhr.kiwicelts.com/Cemeteries/NZ_Cem.html

Thanks heaps Christine

[Lucy2]

Further to Bunny's info   ...

    http://www.napier.govt.nz/

re:  Napier cemeteries ... there is an e-mail link on this site which caters for "genealogical enquiries"  ... and a further link to Napier Library.

Lu

[Lucy2]

Hi Christine

Are you actively seeking info for James Henry CLAYTON ?

Is there a query posted ... OR ... a thread running somewhere on RootsChat or other  ?

I have a few snippets of information about him.

Lu