Robert Blackmore, b. Coromandel 26.10.1884, son of Philip and Margaret. An active leader in Coromandel Methodism he became a Home Missionary in 1907, serving at Huntly and Featherston. He was accepted for training for the ministry and in 1911-1912 was appointed to Otaki. In 1912 he married Phyllis Wirth (of the notable circus family) and then disappears altogether. When Phyllis was seeking money from her father's estate in 1938 (per Trove), reference was made to her marriage, and the judge recorded there was absolutely no evidence for Robert being alive beyond 1918. However, the death notice for Robert's sister, Margaret, in 1936 refers to him as her brother with no use of the word 'late'. The Blackmore family were prominent in the Coromandel area from about 1880 until 1940 or so. Does anyone have any light to throw on this missing person. He does not appear in the Cenotaph records, by the way, and the only paperspast records are pre-1st World War.
