Georgina's age on her NZ Death Cert. may not have been correct. She died in Sunnyside Psychiatric Hospital, Christchurch following a number of epileptic seizures in 1890. I have written to the Canterbury Health Bd to see how I can access her medical record.
I'm a great-great-grandson of Georgina's, descended from her son John Henry Smith (1868 - 1937).
I know this is an old thread now, but I was wondering if you did manage to get hold of Georgina's medical record? As Smith is a very common name, it would be good to be able to verify that the Georgina Smith who died in Sunnyside is in fact the one I'm descended from. I wondered if her medical records might have anything useful (date/place of birth, names of family etc.) to identify her positively.
I came across a news article (
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18710726.2.10 - scroll down to "Inquest") from 1871 indicating that (again assuming this is the same Georgina Smith) she may have had another child at that time, which was unfortunately suffocated in bed while she was having a fit.
There is also some discussion at
http://www.wanlessweb.org/TNG/getperson.php?personID=I119&tree=49 proposing that Georgina may have her puerperal fever following childbirth around 1860, which might have brought on the epilepsy.
