Major Robert CARPENTER + Louisa Catherena Gabrielena VAN BLERK
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Children  ‎(9 children)‎
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Margaretha Matilda CARPENTER
Birth about 1878 27 28
Death 23 March 1952 ‏(Age 74)‏ Age: 75 -- New Zealand
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Archibald Robert CARPENTER
Birth 1879 28 29
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Ronquest William CARPENTER
Birth 1881 30 31
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Amelia Eliza CARPENTER
Birth 1884 33 34 -- Hounslow, London, England
Death 14 December 1959 ‏(Age 75)‏ -- Papatoetoe, Auckland, New Zealand
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Beatrice CARPENTER
Birth about 1886 35 36
Death Yes
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Corporal George Goodwin CARPENTER
Birth 4 May 1888 38 38 -- Hounslow, Middlesex, England
Death 28 June 1964 ‏(Age 76)‏ -- Hamilton, New Zealand
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Albert Edward CARPENTER
Birth 13 July 1889 39 39 -- London, England
Death 19 September 1940 ‏(Age 51)‏ Age: 50 -- Auckland, New Zealand
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Ernest Edmond CARPENTER
Birth 1891 40 41
Death 1951 ‏(Age 60)‏ Age: 59 -- New Zealand
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Second Lieutenant David Reid CARPENTER
Birth 23 January 1893 43 43 -- Hounslow, Middlesex, England
Death between 6 May 1915 and 10 May 1915 ‏(Age 22)‏ -- Act of war
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Major Robert CARPENTER
Birth 12 January 1850 30 29 -- St Marks, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Death 12 February 1932 ‏(Age 82)‏ -- Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand
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Robert CARPENTER
Birth 21 June 1819 -- Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Death 18 October 1888 ‏(Age 69)‏ -- Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
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Eliza POICK
Birth 3 January 1821 -- St Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Death Yes

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Louisa Catherena Gabrielena VAN BLERK
Birth 24 October 1849 26 -- Simon's Town, Cape Dis aka Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Death 28 July 1934 ‏(Age 84)‏ -- Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand
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Simon Petrus VAN BLERK
Birth 17 November 1822 26 -- Simon's Town, Cape Dis aka Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Death Yes
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Matilda Amelia ALLSOP
Birth Yes
Death Yes

Family Group Information
Marriage 17 April 1876 Simon's Town, Cape Dis aka Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa


Show Details Note: Cape Dis is Cape Town today ‏(2009)‏

Simon's Town ‏(also widely but incorrectly referred to as Simonstown)‏ and, in Afrikaans, Simonstad), is a village and a naval base in South Africa, near Cape Town. It is located on the shores of False Bay, on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. For more than two centuries it has been an important naval base and harbour ‏(first for the Royal Navy and now the South African Navy)‏.

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Last Change 10 February 2011 - 16:23:47 - by: Twiggy

Shared Note 		This couple immigrated to NZ on the SS Ruapehu in 1895, from Hounslow, England, where Carpenter was in the Imperial Army, coming to NZ as "Drill Instructor" to the NZ Government.



Note 		Looks like family could have been back in England prior to 1881 census.

Note 		Mt Smart Road
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