The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameMaurice Harper Richardson
Birth20 Jul 1894, New Zealand
Death15 Sep 1916, Battle of the Somme
FatherJames (Jim) Charles Richardson (ca1861-1940)
Misc. Notes
Name, year if birth (1894), year of death (1915) from Jenny Smith (nee Bryce) whose late husband, John Monro Menzies, was the grandson of Telitha Carrel (b. 1885), sister of Maud Oliver (nee Carrel).

Day and month and country of death (15 September) from Janet (Jan) Kelly, great-granddaughter of Mary Ann Carroll, Mary being a daughter of John and Talitha (nee Hutchings) Carroll/Carrel.

Year and country of birth confirmed from search on New Zealand BDM website in September 2018:
1894/9288. Richardson, Maurice Harper. Mother: Zephlinda Edith. Father: James Charles

Full date of birth of 20 July 1894 from further searching in September 2018 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.

Registration of death, from search on New Zealand BDM website in September 2018:
1918/55331. Richardson, Maurice Harper, died age 24Y

Full date of death of 15 September 1916 (not 1915 as earlier listed) from further searching in September 2018 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.

Date of death confirmed as 15 September 1916 from:
http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C13016
Died Battle of the Somme.
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