Wilfred King, 18811890 (aged 8 years)

Name
Wilfred /King/
Surname
King
Given names
Wilfred
Birth
6 June 1881 33 26
Birth of a sister
Note: Month of December is a best guess - the cursive and abbreviated handwritten record of mother Clara Jane is very difficult in this case - see source
Birth of a sister
Birth of a brother
Death of a sister
Birth of a brother
Birth of a brother
Birth of a sister
Death
Note: 22 NOV 1889 is recorded in Clara Janes Register, noted probably 13-15 years after the fact.

22 NOV 1889 is recorded in Clara Janes Register, noted probably 13-15 years after the fact.
Cemetary records made at the time record 03 JAN 1890, and this is assumed most likely to be correct.
As Registrar at the time, it is very likey father Joshua King's own record with Births Deaths & Marriages would clarify.

Burial
Cemetery: Manaia Burial Old Lawn
Note: Clara Jane's family register shows Wilfred as having died on 22 November 1889, while the South Taraanaki online cemetary registry listing shows death on 03 Jan 1890, interrement on 05 Jan 1890.

Clara Jane's family register shows Wilfred as having died on 22 November 1889, while the South Taraanaki online cemetary registry listing shows death on 03 Jan 1890, interrement on 05 Jan 1890.

Email from June Wallace, Library Plus Officer, Manaia, South Taranaki District Council (27/09/06): "I have checked our burial register and the only information that we hold is what is showing on our Cemetery records. The burial register book showsthat Wilfred King died at Manaia on the 3rd January 1890, no burial date, no age at time of death. The burial was paid for by Joshua King on the 3rd January 1890.

The information has been taken from both the headstone at the cemetery and the written record from the burial register.

Sorry I can not give you any further information but it may be possible for you to obtain further information from Death, Birth and marriage records."

Paul King (27/09/06) comment: Ironically, Joshua would have been the local Registrar at the time, so would have had to record his own son's death.

Joshua must also have needed a great level of self control to have arranged and paid for his own sons burial on the very day he died - perhaps just better to get it over with?

Will meanwhile assume the Cemetary register record, having been taken at the time, is more likely to be accurate than Clara Janes record written after the fact (likely at between 13 to 15 yeas later, judging by handwritten entries).

Birth Deaths & Marriages records should be consulted to verify

Gravestone is located in the "Old Lawn", new Plot ID 797, Block V

Family with parents
father
Tapanui General Post Office circa 1905
18471928
Birth: 17 June 1847 28 32 Woburn, Bedfordshire
Death: 3 June 1928
mother
Snippet from Clara Jane's Diary
18541935
Birth: 3 November 1854 30 31 Westminster, Middlesex
Death: 26 August 1935
Religious marriage Religious marriage28 August 1879Wellington, New Zealand
11 months
elder sister
10 months
himself
18811890
Birth: 6 June 1881 33 26
Death: 3 January 1890Manaia, Taranaki
18 months
younger sister
18821913
Birth: 9 December 1882 35 28
Death: 18 July 1913Dunedin
3 months
younger sister
18831886
Birth: 22 March 1883 35 28
Death: 25 October 1886
23 months
younger brother
18851965
Birth: 3 February 1885 37 30
Death: 1965
2 years
younger brother
18871954
Birth: 11 February 1887 39 32
Death: July 1954
13 months
younger brother
13 months
younger sister
18891959
Birth: 1 April 1889 41 34 Manaia, Taranaki
Death: 18 December 1959Wellington, NewZealand
2 years
younger brother
Treaty Of Waitangi
18911983
Birth: 15 May 1891 43 36 Manaia, New Zealand
Death: 22 August 1983Levin, New Zealand
23 months
younger brother
10 months
younger brother
1914-1915 Star with supplied ribbon
18941915
Birth: 18 January 1894 46 39 Manaia, Taranaki
Death: 17 August 1915Egypt
3 years
younger brother
18961981
Birth: 13 August 1896 49 41
Death: 8 June 1981
Birth
Death
Burial
Death

22 NOV 1889 is recorded in Clara Janes Register, noted probably 13-15 years after the fact.
Cemetary records made at the time record 03 JAN 1890, and this is assumed most likely to be correct.
As Registrar at the time, it is very likey father Joshua King's own record with Births Deaths & Marriages would clarify.

Burial

Clara Jane's family register shows Wilfred as having died on 22 November 1889, while the South Taraanaki online cemetary registry listing shows death on 03 Jan 1890, interrement on 05 Jan 1890.

Email from June Wallace, Library Plus Officer, Manaia, South Taranaki District Council (27/09/06): "I have checked our burial register and the only information that we hold is what is showing on our Cemetery records. The burial register book showsthat Wilfred King died at Manaia on the 3rd January 1890, no burial date, no age at time of death. The burial was paid for by Joshua King on the 3rd January 1890.

The information has been taken from both the headstone at the cemetery and the written record from the burial register.

Sorry I can not give you any further information but it may be possible for you to obtain further information from Death, Birth and marriage records."

Paul King (27/09/06) comment: Ironically, Joshua would have been the local Registrar at the time, so would have had to record his own son's death.

Joshua must also have needed a great level of self control to have arranged and paid for his own sons burial on the very day he died - perhaps just better to get it over with?

Will meanwhile assume the Cemetary register record, having been taken at the time, is more likely to be accurate than Clara Janes record written after the fact (likely at between 13 to 15 yeas later, judging by handwritten entries).

Birth Deaths & Marriages records should be consulted to verify

Gravestone is located in the "Old Lawn", new Plot ID 797, Block V