New Zealand Swindell death certificate

Another certificate Ruth Ward sent me from the NZSC collection was the death certificate for Honoria Williams, nee Swindell. It is the entry in the death register and, as Ruth says, contains rather more information than an United Kingdom death certificate

Honoria Williams née Swindells death certificate 1887

According to the New Zealand government website the information in the register is:-

After 1875 - Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1875 (dated 12 October 1875)

• Local number

Deceased

• When and where died
• Name and surname
• Rank or profession or occupation
• Sex and Age

Details of Death

• Cause of death
• Duration of last illness
• Medical attendant who certified the cause of death and when they last saw the deceased

Parents

• Name and Surname of father
• Name and if known maiden surname of mother
• Rank or profession or occupation of father

Burial Details

• When and where buried
• Name and Religion of Minister or name of witness of burial

Birth Details

• Where born
• How long in New Zealand

Marriage Details

• Where married
• At what age married
• Children
• If living issue, the number, age and sex
• To whom married

Informant

• Signature, description and residence of informant
• If the entry is a correction of a former entry signature of witnesses
• Who witnessed the correction.

Registrar

• Signature of registrar
• Date of registration
•  

Transcribing the certificate:

34 (Entry number)
1887 22 October [Wa....iate] (date and place of death)
Honoria Williams  Married
F 48 years
Cancer of Womb 7 months [pro] J. Wait  11 July 1887

Edward Swindell  Marcella Swindell formerly Summers Gentleman (Parents)

24 October 1887 Cemetery Oamaru (Burial)
Thomas Chute, Alfred Atyes householders (Witnesses to burial)
Kerry        Killiney
Ireland      Ireland
13 years    22 years (at what age married)
in New      William Joseph
Zealand     Williams
5 boys: 14 years, 15 years, 22 years, 23 years, 25 years   3 girls: 8 years, 16 years, 19 years

William Chute Agent duly authorized in writing by husband Wainiate
[Signature] Registrar 1887 19 November

The death notice in the North Otago Times read
North Otago Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6480, 24 October 1887, Page 2
At her residence, Waitaki North, after a very long illness, in the 48th year of her age, Honoria, beloved wife of W.J.Williams and niece to the late Worshipful and Rev. Richard F. Swindell, Chancellor of Ardfert and Ardhoe, Ireland.
The Funeral will leave her late residence for the Oamaru Cemetery on Monday, October 24.

Waitaki North is now known as Glenavy.

The lower Waitaki river

Hanorah or Honoria Swindell was the daughter of Edward Fitzgerald Swindell who had married Marcella Summers (or Somers) and was a farmer at Tullaree in the Dingle peninsula in south-west Ireland. She had married William J. Williams on the 16th of February 1860 at Killiney in the diocese of Kerry just a couple of miles from where her father farmed. The death certificate lists 8 children alive at the time of her death, on of whom, a daughter, would have been born in New Zealand.

As mentioned in the death notice, her uncle was Richard Fitzgerald Swindell, Chancellor of Ardfert Docese from 1851 till his death in 1866.

I can trace this family back one further generation to John Swindell born about 1750 but would very much like further information.

More about the Swindell Surname