The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameRayney Trevor Carrel
Birth7 Mar 1915, New Zealand
Death2 Aug 1992, New Zealand
BurialTaruheru Cemetery, Gisborne, New Zealand
MotherMary Pansy Bingham Hartwell (1895-1989)
Misc. Notes
First name and surname, year of birth (1915) from Janet (Jan) Kelly, great-granddaughter of Mary Ann Carroll, Mary being a daughter of John and Talitha (nee Hutchings) Carroll/Carrel.

Second given name of “Trevor”, year and country of birth, from Birth search on New Zealand BDM website in June 2018:
1915/9058. Carrel, Rayney Trevor. Mother: Mary Pansy Bingham. Father: Herbert Charles

Later, in July 2023, full date of birth of 7 March 2015 from further searching in on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.

Year and country of marriage, name of bride, from search on New Zealand BDM website in December 2022:
1942/12222. Bride: Verna Edith Elizabeth Leggoe. Groom: Rayney Trevor Carrel

Full date of marriage of 23 December 1942 from further searching in December 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

Year and country of death, date of birth confirmed, from death search on New Zealand BDM website in December 2023:
1992/44137. Carrel, Rayney Trevor. Date of birth: 7 March 1915

Full date of death of 2 August 1992 from further searching in December 2023 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.

Buried in the Taruheru Lawn Cemetery, Gisborne, Plot 377 as per Headstone Records found in June 2025: “1939-45 412862 A.C.I. R T CARREL RNZAF died 2 August 1992 aged 77 years”.

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Gisborne Composite Roll 1981, found in June 2025:
Carrel, Rayney Trevor, 1 Abbott Street, Gisborne, Rtd Storeman

Second wife on New Zealand Electoral Roll - Eastern Maori Composite Roll 1981, found in June 2025:
Carrel, Matiria Houpara, 1 Abbott Street, Gisborne, Housewife
Spouses
Birth8 Feb 1914
Death17 Feb 1977, New Zealand
Marriage23 Dec 1942, New Zealand
ChildrenTrevor Arthur Herbert (1943-2013)
 Roger Charles Saundry (1945-1997)
Birth15 Feb 1925
Death23 Aug 2011, New Zealand
Marriageca 1979
ChildrenSylvia
Last Modified 30 Jun 2025Created 6 Aug 2025 using Reunion for Macintosh