The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameSamuel (Sam) Carrel 
Birth25 Jul 1857, St. Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands
Death3 Mar 1943, Everslea Private Hospital, Hastings, New Zealand
Burial5 Mar 1943, Hastings, New Zealand
OccupationFarmer, Orchardist
FatherJohn Carroll (1830-1878)
MotherTalitha Cumi Hutchings (1830-1910)
Misc. Notes
From Muriel Leo’s (nee Oliver, 1917-1998) Family Tree.
Additional information from Rachel Frances Oliver born 31 August 1940.
Dates and places of birth and death, and year of marriage from Jenny Smith whose late husband, John Monro Menzies, was the grandson of Telitha Carrel (b. 1885), sister of Maud Oliver (nee Carrel).
Jenny says Samuel arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, with his parents on the "Soukar" on 2 December 1874. Samuel would of been 17 years of age. At the time of the 1861 Census at aged 4, he was living at St Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands. At the time of the 1871 Census at aged 14, he was living at St Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands.
Baptised in the Roman Catholic Chapel, St Heliers, Jersey, from handwritten note from Brian Carrell, grandson of George Robert Carrel, George being a son of John and Talitha (nee Hutchings) Carroll/Carrel.
Known as Grandpa to Brian’s (of nzolivers.com) father (Maurice Oliver b.1921).
Death Certificate says cause of death was “Senile Myocarditis”
Preferred name of Sam from Joy Nixon (nee Oliver) b. 1925
Results from Marriage search on New Zealand BDM website in June 2018:
1882/2054. Bride: Mary Jane Woolford. Groom: Samuel Carrel
Full date of marriage from further searching in August 2018 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage. Brian of nzolivers has determined date of marriage as 19 August 1882.
Result from Death search on New Zealand BDM website in June 2018:
1943/16567. Carrel, Samuel, died age 86Y
Full date of death of 3 March 1943 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.
Entry in Hastings burial records showing date of internment, found in March 2022:
CARREL, Samuel 5 Mar 1943
CARREL, Mary Jane 4 Apr 1944
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui Electoral Roll 1882-1884, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, residential, Tay-street, labourer
[Note: Woman did not receive the vote in New Zealand until the 1893 Election. Therefore, wife Mary Jane would not be on the Roll, even though they were married in 1882].
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui Electoral Roll 1885-1886, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Qualification: residential; Residence: Tay-street; Occupation: labourer
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui Roll 1890, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Tay-street, labourer
Note: Woman did not receive the vote in New Zealand until the 1893 Election.
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui Roll 1900, found in August 2018:
Carrell, Samuel, No. 2 Line, farmer, residential [Is this Samuel here? Two Ls? No Mary Jane?]
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Rangitikei Roll 1903, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Fordell, farmer
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Rangitikei Roll 1905-1906, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Fordell, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Fordell, wife
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Rangitikei Roll 1908, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Fordell, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Fordell, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Waimarino Roll 1911, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Fordell, farmer
Mary Jane, Fordell, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Waimarino General Roll 1914, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Fordell, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Fordell, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Waimarino Roll 1919, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Dixon’s Road, Bunnythorpe, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Dixon’s Road, Bunnythorpe, married
[NOTE: Bunnythorpe is in the Manawatū - Wanganui region, about 6 miles (10 km) north of, Palmerston North. And, Dixons Road is called Dixons Line today and runs North-East from Bunnythorpe town centre].
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Oroua General Roll 1919, 1922, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Dixon’s Road, Bunnythorpe, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Dixon’s Road, Bunnythorpe, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier Supplementary Roll No. 1 1922, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1922, 1925, 1928, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1928, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1931, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1935, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1938, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1941, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
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Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1898-1899 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory
Taylorville, Wellington:
Carrell, Samuel
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1900, 1901 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory
Taylorville (including Durietown, Okoia, Sedgebrook, Putiki, and Longacre), Wellington:
Carrell, Samuel
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1913 found in March 2022:
Wanganui Streets Directory, Warrengate Line, From No 1 Line to No 2:
Carrel, Saml, farmer
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1913 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Fordell, Wellington, 13 m S by rail fr Wanganui:
Carrel, Saml, farmer
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1910, 1916 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Fordell, Wellington, 13 m S by rail fr Wanganui:
Carrol, Saml, farmer
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1920 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Bunnythorpe, Wellington, 94 m N by rail fr Well and 59 fr Wanganui:
Carrel, Saml, farmer
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1923, 1926, 1930, 1933, 1936 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Pakowhai, Hawke’s Bay 8 m S W fr Napier:
Carrell, Saml, fmr
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1938, found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Pakowhai, Hawkes Bay 8 m S W fr Nap by mtr:
Carrell, Saml, fmr
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1940, 1942, found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Pakowhai, Hawkes Bay 8 m S W fr Napier:
Carrell, Saml, fmr
Transfer of rates to Samuel as per the Feilding Star, 10 February 1917 and found in Papers Past in August 2022:
The Oroua County Council met today...
RATE ROLL. The following alterations were authorised to he made in the Rate Roll: ....J. Keat lo S. Carrel....
Sale of stock in Bunnythorpe as per the Manawatu Times 13 August 1920 and found in Papers Past in August 2022:
AUCTION SALES
UNRESERVED DAIRY SALE.
DIXON'S ROAD
BUNNYTHORPE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1920
DALGETY AND CO., LTD., instructed by MR S. CARREL, who has sold his property, will sell at the farm as above, at 12.30 o'clock sharp:
11 JERSEY CROSS DAIRY COWS
5 2-year springing heifers
2 3-year springing heifers
1 Holstein bull, 2 years
1 yearling Jersey bull
1 Massey Harris mower, 1 s.f. plough, 2-horse discs, 2-leaf harrows, 1 dray (s.r.), 3 20-gal. cans, fowls and sundries.
LIGHT LUNCHEON PROVIDED.
Report of sale in Bunnythorpe as per the Manawatu Standard 21 August 1920 and found in Papers Past in August 2022:
Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., Palmerston North, report having held a dairy sale on account of Mr S. Carrel at his homestead, Bunnythorpe, on Thursday. 19th inst. There was a good attendance of buyers, and the vendor expressed himself highly pleased with prices realised. Quotations:- Backward dairy cows £10; fair cows £l8, £l8 10s to £l9 6s; good cows £22, £22 10s, to £27; backward dairy heifers £5. £5 10s, £7 17s 6d, £11; yearling heifers £5 15s to £6 weariers £3; young bull £5; s.f. plough £l2; dray £13 10s, A quantity of sundries sold at highest market rates.
Transfer of rates from Samuel as as per the Manawatu Standard 9 September 1920 and found in Papers Past in August 2022:
OROUA COUNTY COUNCIL.
BUSINESS 'AT -YESTERDAY’S MEETING.
RATE ROLL. The following alterations were made to the rate roll:- ....S. Carrel to J. D. Forno...
Marriage notice from the Wanganui Chronicle 21 August 1882 and found in Papers Past in August 2022:
MARRIAGE.
CARREL - WOOLFORD. - At Christ Church, Wanganui, on the 19th instant, by the Rev. T. L. Tudor, Samuel, second son of the late John Carrel, to Mary, eldest daughter of A. Woolford, Brunswick, Wanganui.
Carroll/Carrell/Carrel Book
John and Talitha Carroll - From Jersey to Wanganui
This book, written by Anthony Carrell, was first published in September 2019. Sadly, Anthony passed away less than three years later.
Due to demand, the book became out of print. Brian Oliver of nzolivers, in September 2024, republished it, with the support of Anthony's wife, forwarding working material, research, some digital files, and original papers.
To find out more about the book and ordering information, please see here:
https://nzolivers.com/carrollbook.html
Additional information from Rachel Frances Oliver born 31 August 1940.
Dates and places of birth and death, and year of marriage from Jenny Smith whose late husband, John Monro Menzies, was the grandson of Telitha Carrel (b. 1885), sister of Maud Oliver (nee Carrel).
Jenny says Samuel arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, with his parents on the "Soukar" on 2 December 1874. Samuel would of been 17 years of age. At the time of the 1861 Census at aged 4, he was living at St Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands. At the time of the 1871 Census at aged 14, he was living at St Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands.
Baptised in the Roman Catholic Chapel, St Heliers, Jersey, from handwritten note from Brian Carrell, grandson of George Robert Carrel, George being a son of John and Talitha (nee Hutchings) Carroll/Carrel.
Known as Grandpa to Brian’s (of nzolivers.com) father (Maurice Oliver b.1921).
Death Certificate says cause of death was “Senile Myocarditis”
Preferred name of Sam from Joy Nixon (nee Oliver) b. 1925
Results from Marriage search on New Zealand BDM website in June 2018:
1882/2054. Bride: Mary Jane Woolford. Groom: Samuel Carrel
Full date of marriage from further searching in August 2018 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage. Brian of nzolivers has determined date of marriage as 19 August 1882.
Result from Death search on New Zealand BDM website in June 2018:
1943/16567. Carrel, Samuel, died age 86Y
Full date of death of 3 March 1943 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.
Entry in Hastings burial records showing date of internment, found in March 2022:
CARREL, Samuel 5 Mar 1943
CARREL, Mary Jane 4 Apr 1944
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui Electoral Roll 1882-1884, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, residential, Tay-street, labourer
[Note: Woman did not receive the vote in New Zealand until the 1893 Election. Therefore, wife Mary Jane would not be on the Roll, even though they were married in 1882].
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui Electoral Roll 1885-1886, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Qualification: residential; Residence: Tay-street; Occupation: labourer
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui Roll 1890, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Tay-street, labourer
Note: Woman did not receive the vote in New Zealand until the 1893 Election.
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui Roll 1900, found in August 2018:
Carrell, Samuel, No. 2 Line, farmer, residential [Is this Samuel here? Two Ls? No Mary Jane?]
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Rangitikei Roll 1903, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Fordell, farmer
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Rangitikei Roll 1905-1906, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Fordell, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Fordell, wife
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Rangitikei Roll 1908, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Fordell, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Fordell, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Waimarino Roll 1911, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Fordell, farmer
Mary Jane, Fordell, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Waimarino General Roll 1914, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Fordell, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Fordell, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Waimarino Roll 1919, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Dixon’s Road, Bunnythorpe, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Dixon’s Road, Bunnythorpe, married
[NOTE: Bunnythorpe is in the Manawatū - Wanganui region, about 6 miles (10 km) north of, Palmerston North. And, Dixons Road is called Dixons Line today and runs North-East from Bunnythorpe town centre].
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Oroua General Roll 1919, 1922, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Dixon’s Road, Bunnythorpe, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Dixon’s Road, Bunnythorpe, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier Supplementary Roll No. 1 1922, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1922, 1925, 1928, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1928, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1931, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1935, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1938, found in August 2018:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Napier General Roll 1941, found in March 2022:
Carrel, Samuel, Pakowhai, farmer
Carrel, Mary Jane, Pakowhai, married
- -
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1898-1899 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory
Taylorville, Wellington:
Carrell, Samuel
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1900, 1901 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory
Taylorville (including Durietown, Okoia, Sedgebrook, Putiki, and Longacre), Wellington:
Carrell, Samuel
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1913 found in March 2022:
Wanganui Streets Directory, Warrengate Line, From No 1 Line to No 2:
Carrel, Saml, farmer
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1913 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Fordell, Wellington, 13 m S by rail fr Wanganui:
Carrel, Saml, farmer
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1910, 1916 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Fordell, Wellington, 13 m S by rail fr Wanganui:
Carrol, Saml, farmer
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1920 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Bunnythorpe, Wellington, 94 m N by rail fr Well and 59 fr Wanganui:
Carrel, Saml, farmer
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1923, 1926, 1930, 1933, 1936 found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Pakowhai, Hawke’s Bay 8 m S W fr Napier:
Carrell, Saml, fmr
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1938, found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Pakowhai, Hawkes Bay 8 m S W fr Nap by mtr:
Carrell, Saml, fmr
Wise’s New Zealand Post Office Directory 1940, 1942, found in March 2022:
New Zealand Towns Directory, Pakowhai, Hawkes Bay 8 m S W fr Napier:
Carrell, Saml, fmr
Transfer of rates to Samuel as per the Feilding Star, 10 February 1917 and found in Papers Past in August 2022:
The Oroua County Council met today...
RATE ROLL. The following alterations were authorised to he made in the Rate Roll: ....J. Keat lo S. Carrel....
Sale of stock in Bunnythorpe as per the Manawatu Times 13 August 1920 and found in Papers Past in August 2022:
AUCTION SALES
UNRESERVED DAIRY SALE.
DIXON'S ROAD
BUNNYTHORPE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1920
DALGETY AND CO., LTD., instructed by MR S. CARREL, who has sold his property, will sell at the farm as above, at 12.30 o'clock sharp:
11 JERSEY CROSS DAIRY COWS
5 2-year springing heifers
2 3-year springing heifers
1 Holstein bull, 2 years
1 yearling Jersey bull
1 Massey Harris mower, 1 s.f. plough, 2-horse discs, 2-leaf harrows, 1 dray (s.r.), 3 20-gal. cans, fowls and sundries.
LIGHT LUNCHEON PROVIDED.
Report of sale in Bunnythorpe as per the Manawatu Standard 21 August 1920 and found in Papers Past in August 2022:
Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., Palmerston North, report having held a dairy sale on account of Mr S. Carrel at his homestead, Bunnythorpe, on Thursday. 19th inst. There was a good attendance of buyers, and the vendor expressed himself highly pleased with prices realised. Quotations:- Backward dairy cows £10; fair cows £l8, £l8 10s to £l9 6s; good cows £22, £22 10s, to £27; backward dairy heifers £5. £5 10s, £7 17s 6d, £11; yearling heifers £5 15s to £6 weariers £3; young bull £5; s.f. plough £l2; dray £13 10s, A quantity of sundries sold at highest market rates.
Transfer of rates from Samuel as as per the Manawatu Standard 9 September 1920 and found in Papers Past in August 2022:
OROUA COUNTY COUNCIL.
BUSINESS 'AT -YESTERDAY’S MEETING.
RATE ROLL. The following alterations were made to the rate roll:- ....S. Carrel to J. D. Forno...
Marriage notice from the Wanganui Chronicle 21 August 1882 and found in Papers Past in August 2022:
MARRIAGE.
CARREL - WOOLFORD. - At Christ Church, Wanganui, on the 19th instant, by the Rev. T. L. Tudor, Samuel, second son of the late John Carrel, to Mary, eldest daughter of A. Woolford, Brunswick, Wanganui.
Carroll/Carrell/Carrel Book
John and Talitha Carroll - From Jersey to Wanganui
This book, written by Anthony Carrell, was first published in September 2019. Sadly, Anthony passed away less than three years later.
Due to demand, the book became out of print. Brian Oliver of nzolivers, in September 2024, republished it, with the support of Anthony's wife, forwarding working material, research, some digital files, and original papers.
To find out more about the book and ordering information, please see here:
https://nzolivers.com/carrollbook.html
Spouses
Birth28 Oct 1860, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England
Death2 Apr 1944, Eversley Private Hospital, Hastings, New Zealand
Burial4 Apr 1944, Hastings Cemetery, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
FatherAmbrose Woolford (1841-1922)
MotherMartha Ann Fisher (1842-1931)
Marriage19 Aug 1882, New Zealand
ChildrenMaud (1883-1956)
Telitha Mary (1885-1963)
Hilda Blanche (1886-1964)
Thelma Grace (1902-1977)