New Zealand BMDs General Enquiry

[Pennines]

Thank you so much KHP -- that is really helpful -- but how do you know that please?

If I can just get a handle on the NZ records I wouldn't need to keep troubling you. The BDM site doesn't supply that information.

I will look at a map to see where these places are in relation to one another before possibly discounting 2 of them.

Very helpful - thank you again.

Pennines
(I am going out now -- so you will all have some peace!)

[kiwihalfpint]

Thank you so much KHP -- that is really helpful -- but how do you know that please?

Pennines
(I am going out now -- so you will all have some peace!)

They were on Ancestry .... but not all birth indexes have the Registration Place, you struck it lucky

Cheers
KHP

[Pennines]

Thank you KHP -- another New Zealand lesson learnt! Check both the BDM site AND Ancestry!

I'm coming on!

Pennines

[Elan]

Whom are you looking for?  We do have resources to investigate.

[Janette]

Janette -- thank you --- you are indeed a helpful friendly bunch.

Smudwhisk (wonder where that user name came from!)

I did try the Family Search link you gave me, thank you --- unfortunately the Will I was looking for -- Edward Fielder Butler, 1914, wasn't included yet. At least I couldn't see it. I was amazed that Family Search had those records on their site.

I have tried all the links I have been given actually -- the Newspaper one is really good -- more user-friendly than the UK one.

xx

Whom are you looking for?  We do have resources to investigate.

The family of the chap above

Cheers Janette

[Pennines]

Hello Elan,

I was trying to identify the siblings of Mary McLaren Palmer -- child of Jessie McLaren and William Palmer.

Thanks to help received from friendly and helpful Roots Chatters I now know that the children registered in East Taieri (Mary McLaren Palmer was registered there) and the children registered in Otepopo are likely siblings (one of the latter children was buried with the parents).

For those of you who were following this (and thank-you) - it means that the child oddly named Albertina Decima Madeline - was the couple's 10th child -- hence the name Decima!!

So there were at least 14 children!
It is therefore sorted out, Elan, but many thanks for your interest.

Regards
Pennines

[Pennines]

Janette -- you are right. The 'General Enquiry' was initially about BDMs. The site wasn't working properly (crikey that seems ages ago now - but isn't). I was indeed looking for descendents of Edward Fielder Butler.

I then found them - and started on a wife of his son.

The 'General Enquiry' then moved on to identifying Registration Districts -- suspect Elan may have only seen the beginning of the thread.

Sorry for the confusion -- but they were 'General Enquiries' to start with.

Regards

Pennines

[SignalHill]

Registration Place : Hampden, Canterbury
1909/8624         Palmer    Claribel Margory Hazel    Jessie   William

Cheers
KHP

What is the source for Hampden Canterbury ?

The Hampden I know is south of the Waitaki and south of Oamaru ie North Otago.
From memory it is part of the Otepopo Presbyterian Parish - the Area surrounding Herbert and Hampden.   Otepopo is the original name for Herbert. (Though apparently not known to A W Reed or Peter Dowling Place Names of NZ (2010), it must have been known to A H Reed.)   Otepopo remains as the name for the Cemetery and the Otepopo School was only closed by Anne Tolley in 2010 - Article in ODT Sat, 25 Sep 2010 - http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/128124/otepopo-school-closes-after-146-years

Signal

[SignalHill]

Hope this helps, the Registration Place.
Registration Place : East Taieri
1884/16198   Palmer    Ellen Jane            Jessie   William   
1886/4236    Palmer    William Robert    Jessie   William   
1888/4257           Palmer    Herbert Edwin    Jessie   William   
1889/16194   Palmer    Mabel Bernice    Jessie   William   
1891/6511    Palmer    Clement Charles    Jessie   William   
1892/17222   Palmer    Mary McLaren    Jessie   William   
1896/18152   Palmer    Jessie Evelyn    Jessie   William   

Registration Place : Rangitikei
1886/15725   Palmer    Jessie Victoria    Jessie   William 
 
Registration Place : Otepopo, Otago
1898/13128   Palmer    Una Coralie    Jessie   William   
1899/11830   Palmer    Henry Victor    Jessie   William   
1901/6275           Palmer    Albertina Decima Madeline    Jessie   William   
1902/12120   Palmer    Rosalie Silvia May    Jessie   William   
1903/7084           Palmer    Norman Leslie    Jessie   William   
1905/1502           Palmer    Ida Constance Mildred    Jessie   William   
1906/23920   Palmer    Emmeline Enid Diana    Jessie   William   

Registration Place : Hampden, Canterbury
1909/8624         Palmer    Claribel Margory Hazel    Jessie   William
Cheers
KHP

I think Jessie is not part of this family.   If she were, then Albertina would be eleven ( that's beyond my fading Latin memory)   She would also have been born the same year as William and in a brief sojurn of her mother to the North Island.

Signal