Year and place of birth and death provided by Sarah Ferguson (nee Churton b.1970) in April 2009.
Married at the residence of Charles McGregor in Canada Street Auckland, New Zealand

From Birth search on New Zealand BDM website in June 2018:
1882/1742. McGregor, Grace. Mother: Kate. Father: Charles

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Auckland Central General Roll for 1935, found in June 2018:
Jones, Grace, 2 Canada Street. married
Jones, John, 2 Canada Street. waterside worker
Jones, John Thomas Harold, 2 Canada Street. marble polisher [Son]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Auckland Central General Roll for 1938, found in June 2018:
Jones, Grace, 2 Canada Street, C.2. married
Jones, John Thomas Harold, 2 Canada Street, C.2. marble polisher [Son]
Jones, Jean Elizabeth, 2 Canada Street, C.2. married [Son’s wife]

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Arch Hill Auckland General Roll for 1946, found in June 2018:
Jones, Grace, 2 Canada Street. married
Jones, John, 2 Canada Street. watersider
Jones, Dreda Joyce Shirley, 2 Canada Street. married [Daughter]

Full date of birth from further searching in August 2018 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth, Brian of nzolivers has determined date of birth as 10 January 1882.

Full date of death from searching in August 2018 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death, Brian of nzolivers has determined date of death as 3 May 1947.

Full date of marriage from searching in August 2018 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for marriage, Brian of nzolivers has determined date of marriage as 10 April 1907.

Date of marriage confirmed, place of marriage “In house of Father of the Bride [Charles McGregor] Canada Street Auckland”, place of birth, from Marriage Certificate found in October 2018.

Result from marriage search on New Zealand BDM website in October 2024:
1907/2217. Bride: Grace McGregor. Groom: John Jones

Full date of marriage of 10 April 1907 confirmed from further searching in October 2024 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

Place of burial, Waikaraka Cemetery, from grandson Fred Jones in a telephone conversation in September 2024 with Brian Oliver of nzolivers.

Burial record found on the “Auckland Council” website in September 2024:
Record for Grace Jones
Date of birth: Unknown
Date of death: 3 May 1947
Age at death: 65 years
Gender: Female
Region: Central and Hauraki Gulf Islands
Cemetery name: Waikaraka Cemetery
Plot location: Waikaraka Cemetery, Area 2, Block O, Plot 019B
Remains type: Body
Date of burial: 3 May 1947

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A Family Plot at Waikaraka Cemetery
The above Plot 019 at Waikaraka Cemetery, Onehunga, Auckland, is the right-hand side of a family plot consisting of Plots No. 13 and 19. (The Plot numbering system in the row is rather strange, each plot number incrementally going up by 6).

John Jones, the husband of this Grace Jone (nee McGregor), is buried with Grace in the same Plot 019 It was a mystery as to whom is buried in the left-hand side of this family plot, no. 13?

Extensive research in May 2025 by Brian of nzolivers, has found that “Elizabeth Jane Lennard (née Bartlett)”, is in that Plot 13. Elizabeth was born a “Bartlett”, being the daughter of George Henry Bartlett and Mary Jane McDowell. Elizabeth is a first cousin of our Grace Jones (nee McGregor), each sharing the same grandparents of George Bartlett and Frances Elizabeth Bartlett (nee Lawrence).

Elizabeth’s father and this Grace’s mother, Catherine Jane McGregor (nee Bartlett) were brother and sister.

Proposition:
How did Grace become buried here?

Elizabeth Jane Lennard (née Bartlett) died young in 1906, aged 27. According to Auckland Council records, her half-brother, Frederick Bartlett at age 32, purchased the two adjacent plots (013 and 019) at Waikaraka Cemetery. The second plot (019) probably intended for Elizabeth's husband, Charles Thaxter Lennard.

Interesting that her husband 'Charles Thaxter Lennard' did not make the purchase. Perhaps he was too devastated at the time and half-brother, Frederick was executor of her affairs, and handled the transaction?

However, Charles was never to be buried with Elizabeth. He later remarried, to Lily Trembath. And, when he passed away in 1936, Charles was instead buried at Māngere Lawn Cemetery, Auckland. A couple of years later Lily married John Hunter. Upon Lily's death in 1957, she was buried at Waikumete Cemetery. Her husband died many years later, in 1971, and although also buried in Waikumete Cemetery, was interned in the 'Service Persons Ash Burial Area K'.

So, with Elizabeth's husband John being buried elsewhere in 1936, Plot 019 was remaining empty!

Then, 11 years later, comes the death of cousin Grace Jones (nee McGregor and daughter of Catherine Jane Bartlett). Frederick Bartlett was still alive and along with other Bartlett family members, must have allowed Grace to be buried there. Eight years on, Grace’s husband, John Jones, passed away and was buried with her in Plot 019.

Later, in 1973, Elizabeth's son, Charles Thaxter LENNARD (same name as father) was buried in nearby Plot 008.

Of note, Frederick Bartlett is also buried nearby Plot 002, along with his wife and two of his children.

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New Zealand Electoral Roll - Auckland Central Roll 1919, found in June 2025:
Jones, John, 1 Canada Street, labourer
Jones, Grace 2 Canada street, married
Jones, William Henry, 2 Canada street, railway worker
Up the road:
Jones, Thomas, 11 Canada Street, sawyer [Thomas died in 1917 so obviously Roll not updated correctly].
Jones, Anna, 11 Canada Street, married [Is this Hannah? However, she died in 1818]
Jones, Bertie Melville, 11 Canada Street, labourer

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Auckland Central General Roll 1928, found in June 2025:
Jones, Grace, 2 Canada Street, married
Jones, John, 2 Canada Street, waterside worker