Look Up Request Wellington National Library

[minniehaha]

https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/dataCollected/death

For your information, the above gives details of data collected at a death registration. Of course this is only as accurate as the knowledge of the person providing the information.

If applying for such a document, the cheaper option is a printout. It may contain more information than a certificate and can be emailed to you.

Death   
1932/11090   Hill   Ellen   73Y

Minniehaha.

[tablecloth]

Thank you ! All of that is very helpful. That gives me the name of the father and an approximate year of birth. I also see a lot of useful data is collected at death, which is also very helpful. Thank you again.

[minniehaha]

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-69C7-LBH?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AFSB9-6PP&action=view


Hello again,

Do you know if Ellen nee O'Shea had a sister,  Bridget? The above appears to be the two girls on their way to Canterbury, New Zealand in 1874.

Minniehaha.

[tablecloth]

Hi,

I am not sure the dates work for that, if she was born in 1859. I applied for the death details and unfortunately there are no parental details and the place of birth is simply county Kerry, however it does state she had been in New Zealand for 55 years. In which case there is an entry for an Ellen Shea on an 1877 sailing that just about works.

I am pinning my hopes on the `Hills of Herbertī

[minniehaha]

Of course you are correct about those dates. Another senior moment....

[spades]

Hi Tablecloth,

Just to provide a timeframe for my next visit to National Library, it will be next week.

Regards,

Spades

[tablecloth]

Hi, a quick update. I wasn`t sure what was happening so I contacted one of the universities directly in New Zealand and they have kindly scanned and emailed the relevant pages of `The Hills of Herbert `to me.

[spades]

Understood, thank you.

Spades

[minniehaha]

Hi tablecloth,

Interested to know if the scanned pages contain the information you have been seeking?

Minniehaha.