Thank you very much for the help & interest.
Otara, NZ is where Shaun was living at the time of his death.
He appears on the NZ Electoral Rolls there in the late 1950s.
I haven't found any other sign of his life. He must have rented a flat, not owned one.
Very low-profile.
In NZ there is a free website
www.BDMHistoricalRecords.DIA.Govt.nz/search where a restricted range of BDM = BirthsDeathsMarriages info is available to anyone.
Shaun's death [miss-spelled as Shuan] shows up there for 1984, with a birth date of 12th MAY 1923 [ note the discrepancy to the headstone, where it is given as 22nd MAY 1923].
But not any other GUINNANE BDMs.
And the only other genuine GUINNANE in NZ history was a visiting priest who signed the Te Aroha goldfields Hot Spa Visitors' Book in 1884, and the local newspaper duly reported it (twice).
www.PapersPast.NatLib.Govt.nz is our free digitised, searchable newspaper & magazine resource, for anyone interested.
I am a bit spoiled, here in NZ, with my "GINNANE" extended-family. There were ever only two or three dozen people at a time with the related group of surname spellings --- and I know most of them, --- except this Shaun / Sean / Shuan.
So it bugs me, a bit. Quite a big bit, actually.
So there are no other appearances of Guinnane in NZ history.
The undertaker at Shaun's funeral collected the information that he came to NZ about mid-1950s.
I am very keen to follow this up, if you can lead me to pastures greener & foreign fields?!?
Again, many thanks from me & from everyone else too, I'm sure.
If these records survive for a hundred years, maybe the info will be of use to someone?
--- Murray Michael Ginnane. Born 1950 and still in Hamilton, N.Z. Feb 13th 2011