Birth not on NZ Index.
NZ Death Index 1925/1287 CHATFIELD, Amelia Frances 76Y
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DEATHS
CHATFIELD - At her late residence, 14 Gladwin Road, Onehunga, Amelia Frances, relict of the late Robert Thomas Chatfield in her 77th year.
Funeral 2.30 pm today (Thursda), 19th from residence, to Purewa Cemetery. Private interment.
New Zealand Herald 19 March 1925.
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BURIAL & CREMATION DETAILS
Surname CHATFIELD
First Names Amelia Francis
Age 76 Years
Gender Female
Date of Death 18 Mar 1925
Religion
Serial No 8693
Date of Service and/or Interment 19 Mar 1925
Funeral Director Sibuns Funeral Advisors, 582 Remuera Road, Remuera, AUCKLAND
What Buried? Body
Casket Size
Casket Depth
Cemetery Purewa Cemetery
Location Block A Row 2 Plot 31A
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Find A Grave Memorial# 142397201
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OLD RESIDENT'S DEATH.
Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 68, 21 March 1925, Page 7
BORN 77 YEARS AGO AT BAY OF ISLANDS
The death of Mrs Amelia Frances Chatfield in her 77th year removes a link with the early days in the north of New Zealand. She was a daughter of the late Mr William Cains, and was born at "The Pa," Opua, Bay of Islands, where she lived until she reached the age of 23 years. Her father had a store, and was provider to the British troops, whose barracks were close to their home. Mrs Chatfield was one of a family of 21 children, of whom she is survived by only one sister. At the age of 23 she was married to Mr R T CHATFIELD, one of New Zealand's earliest commercial travelers. Mrs Chatfield remembered the principal events of the Maori wars, including the sack of Korarareka (Russell) when shells fired by the British man-of-war at the Maoris passed over the homestead. Her father and mother were greatly esteemed by the Maoris who resided near them. The natives built a stockade around their home, and guarded it night and day. These were, however, troublesome times, for the Europeans resident at the Bay of Islands, and Mrs Chatfield was wont to relate how on three occasions her father was taken out to be shot by rebel natives, but was saved by the intervention of friendly chiefs. Two of her elder sisters were hidden for over a week in a room approached by a secret staircase to prevent them being abducted by the rebel Maoris. At the time of the sacking of Russell Mrs Chatfield's father prevented the natives from destroying the sacred emblems of the Catholic Church by buying them from them and restoring them later on to the priests, who repaid him by many kind attentions during his long illness prior to his death.
Mrs Chatfield spent the whole of her life in New Zealand, with the exception of ten years when she was living at Samoa. These were also troublesome times, as war was on between the rival chiefs. One big battle was fought around the house in which Mrs Chatfield was living, the building was at Apia during the great hurricane, when German and American warships were sunk and many seamen drowned. She watched the H.M.S. Calliope steaming out to sea in the teeth of the hurricane. Deceased is survived by four sons and two daughters.
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Travelled from Samoa to Auckland arriving 4 Dec 1896.
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