The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameHannah (Annie) Jones
Birth8 Mar 1869, Idless, Kenwyn, Truro, Cornwall, England
Death1 May 1923, Auckland, New Zealand
Burial2 May 1923, Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland, NZ
FatherThomas Jones (1839-1917)
MotherAnna (Hannah) Sammels (1846-1918)
Misc. Notes
Name, year and place of birth, provided by Sarah Ferguson (nee Churton). Sarah is the x2 great-granddaughter of Thomas Jones 1839-1917 through his son John Jones (1874-1955).

Entry in the 1871 England Census taken on the night of 2 April 1871 for the Kenwyn Parish, Cornwall, found in June 2025:
Thomas Jones, Head, Married, age 30, Sawyer, Born Kenwyn, Cornwall, England [circa 1841]
Hannah Jones, Wife, age 25, Born St Cleer, Cornwall, England [circa 1846]
Elizabeth Jones, Daughter, age 4, Scholar, Born St Clement, Cornwall, England [circa 1867]
Emma Jones, Daughter, age 3, Scholar, Born St Clement, Cornwall, England [circa 1868]
Hannah Jones, Daughter, age 2, Born Kenwyn, Cornwall, England [circa 1869]
Elizabeth L Sammels, Lodger, Widow, age 60, Born St Cleer, Cornwall, England [circa 1811]

Entry in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth records found in June 2025. Is this our Hannah Jones?:
Name: Hannah Jones
Registration Quarter: Q1 Jan-Feb-Mar 1869
Registration Place: Truro, Cornwall, England
Volume: 5c, Page: 185

Entry in the 'General Register Office (GRO) for England and Wales' found in June 2025:
Name: JONES, HANNAH
Mother's Maiden Surname: SAMMALS
GRO Reference: 1869 M Quarter in TRURO Volume 05C Page 185

Full date of birth of Hannah Jones from Birth Record received from the 'General Register Office (GRO) for England and Wales' in June 2025. Please see PDF for copy.
Name: Hannah
When Born: 8 March 1869 at Idless, Kenwyn
Sex: Girl
Name of Father: Thomas Jones
Name and Maiden Surname of Mother: Hannah Jones formerly Sammals
Rank or Profession of Father: Sawyer. Journeyman.
Informant: Hannah Jones Mother, Idless, Kenwyn

Jones Family Arrive in New Zealand
In June 2025 it was found that three-year-old Hannah, with her parents Thomas and Hannah, and siblings Elizabeth, Hannah and Thomas, arrived in Auckland on 3 September 1872 on board the ship "The City of Auckland". It had left Gravesend, about 21 miles east-southeast of London on 31st of May 1872. The passenger lists shows:
Jones: Thomas 30, Hannah 26, Eliza 6, Emma 4, Hannah 3, Thomas 1.
A full account of the journey was published in the New Zealand Herald of the 4 September 1872:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18720904.2.17
A transcription of that newspaper reports is posted on Hannah's media page as a PDF.

Preferred given name of “Annie”, married name, from Memorial Death Notice to Hannah Jones (nee Sammels) 1946-1918 inserted by “A and H. Wharton

Year and country of marriage from search on New Zealand BDM website in June 2025:
1895/3423. Bride: Annie Jones. Groom: Henry Wharton

Full date of marriage of 23 May 1895 from further searching in June 2025 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Thames Roll 1899, found in June 2025:
Wharton, Annie, Driving Creek, domestic duties, residential
Wharton, Henry, Coromandel, miner, residential

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Thames Roll 1902, found in June 2025:
Wharton, Annie, Coromandel, household duties
Wharton, Henry, Coromandel, miner

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Thames Roll 1903, found in June 2025:
Wharton, Annie, Coromandel, domestic duties
Wharton, Henry, Coromandel, miner

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Thames Roll 1905/6, found in June 2025:
Wharton, Annie, Coromandel, domestic duties
Wharton, Henry, Coromandel, miner

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Thames Roll 1908, found in June 2025:
Wharton, Annie, Coromandel, domestic duties
Wharton, Henry, Coromandel, miner

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Thames Roll 1911, found in June 2025:
Wharton, Annie, Coromandel, domestic duties
Wharton, Henry, Coromandel, miner

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Grey Lynn General Roll 1919, found in June 2025:
Wharton, Annie, 1 Buchanan Street, Glenmore, married

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Eden General Roll 1919, found in June 2025:
Wharton, Henry, 1 Glenmore Road, Mt Albert, quarryman

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Auckland Central Supplementary Roll 1919, found in June 2025:
Wharton, Annie, 75 Virginia avenue, married
Wharton, Henry, 75 Virginia avenue, quarryman

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Auckland Central General Roll 1922, found in June 2025:
Wharton, Annie, 75 Virginia Avenue, married
Wharton, Henry, 75 Virginia Avenue, quarryman

NOTE: Annie is not on the 1928 Auckland Central General Roll, only husband Henry.

Date and place of burial from New Zealand Cemetery Records for Waikumete Cemetery found in June 2025:
WHARTON, Annie - buried 2.5.1923. Plot 74/76
WHARTON, Henry - buried 11.12.1940. Plot 74/76

Also, on the same record is Annie's parents, Thomas and Hannah. And Annie and Henry’s daughter, "Lillie Annie":
JONES Thomas 12.1.1917 Plot 76
JONES Hanna 26.4.1918 Plot 74
RAYNER Lillie Annie 2.3.1999 Plot 74

Date of death, place of burial, found from Auckland Council cemetery search in June 2025:
Name: Annie Wharton
Date of birth: Unknown
Date of death: 1 May 1923
Age at death: 53 years
Gender: Female
Region: West
Cemetery name: Waikumete Cemetery
Plot location: Waikumete Cemetery, Anglican Division D, Row 7, Plot 74
Remains type: Body
Date of burial: 2 May 1923

Went by the name “Annie” still, place of death of “Auckland”, confirms born in “Truro Cornwall”, husband Henry born at Coromandel, from the Affidavit of husband Henry Wharton in the Will/Probates documents of Annie found on Archives New Zealand Collections found online in July 2025.
Spouses
Birthca 1865, Coromandel, New Zealand
Death9 Dec 1940
Burial11 Dec 1940, Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland, NZ
OccupationMiner in Cormandel, quarryman in Auckland.
Marriage23 May 1895, New Zealand
ChildrenMabel Dorothy (1896-1988)
 Henry Victor Thomas (1897-1898)
 Lillie Annie (1902-1999)
 Cecil Albert (1907-1908)
 Ruby May (1909-2001)
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