The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameJess Kiri (Kiri) Oliver
Birth11 Jul 1917, Taihape, NZ.
Death21 Aug 2003
Misc. Notes
Name and date of birth of 11 Jul 1917 from Muriel Leo’s (nee Oliver, 1917-1998) Family Tree.

Year of birth changed from 1917 to 1916 and date of death, from funeral service programme for Kiri held by Rachel Oliver b. 1940.

Dax Eric Clayton Lloyd, (great-grandson of Jessie Bertha Oliver b.1876) later writes:

“Her birth date. You have 11 Jul 1916.
Her death Registration;
Registration Number: 2003/18934
Family Name: Hancock
Given Name(s): Jess Kiri
Date of Birth/Age at Death: 11 July 1917”

“Her cremation/burial record has
Surname: HANCOCK
First name: JESS KIRI
Age at death: 87
Date of death/burial: 21/8/2003
Cemetery: Cremation
Address: VOGUE R/H
District: CLIVE
Occupation:
Block name:
Plot number: 0
Site: D26_M
Purchaser:
Funeral director: TLS
Reference: C24246
She has a plaque underneath her father and mother. It has her birth date of 11 Jul 1917”.

Brian of nzolivers.com has left the year of birth at 1916 for now, the age at death agrees with the burial records.

In a subsequent email, Dax writes, “had a quick look through David’s [Dax’s father] Albums and found Kiri's wedding to Ted - 11 July 1981 in a place ending in NUI. Currently you have just the year 1981 as the date.

Result from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in July 2020:
1917/22364. Oliver, Jess Kiri. Mother: Olive Nector Eleanor. Father: James Alexander

Full date of birth of 11 July 1917 from further searching in July 2020 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.
[Note: Brian of nzolivers has changed the year of birth to “1917”]

Born private hospital in Taihape, came to Hastings when two-years old and lived there for six months and in 1919 moved to Haumoana, school at Haumoana then Co-Ed Boys and Girls High School in Hastings, nursing training in Napier, 1936-1940 worked Napier night nursing, relieving in Hastings for two years, pickicking aprocots during the day, worked at Central Supply Office in Hastings Hospital for twn years full time, place of first and second marriages, from images of notes written by Ivor James Clark Oliver and emailed by Katia, wife of Tim Grant Oliver, on 1 February 2021. Tim is the grandson of Ivor James Clark Oliver 1907-1989.

A second image in the same email reads, “each woman assigned a nurse, one patient, one nurse. The first nurse to be taken in to do her training, a maori woman, her name was Kiri, so Aunty Kiri was named after her”.
Spouses
Birth15 Mar 1918, Auckland, New Zealand
Death20 Jun 1944, New Caledonia
BurialNew Caledonia
Marriage26 May 1941, Wesley Methodist Church, Hastings, New Zealand
ChildrenPatricia Robin (Robin) (1942-2003)
Birth16 Sep 1907
Death5 May 1988
Burial6 May 1988, Hastings
Marriage11 Jul 1981, Methodist Church, Havelock North, New Zealand
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