The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameRobert Barnett Brunner Cooper 
Birth14 Feb 1893, Dobson, Grey River, New Zealand
Death16 Aug 1963, Tauranga Hospital, New Zealand
BurialPresbyterian Cemetery, 18th Avenue, Tauranga, NZ
OccupationCoal Miner
FatherFrederick (Fred) Felix Paul Cooper (1869-1952)
MotherAnnie Ewart Barnett
Misc. Notes
Name, year and country of birth, from Birth search on New Zealand BDM website in August 2018:
1893/3609. Cooper, Robert Barnett Brunner. Mother: Annie Ewart. Father: Frederick Felix Paul
Year and country of death, from Death search on New Zealand BDM website in August 2018:
1963/26995. Cooper, Robert Barnett Brunner, died age 70Y
Full date and place of birth and death, occupation, date and place of marriage, from:
http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/remembering_war/topics...repaired-in-tauranga
“One headstone was broken and the soldier's details missing. It belonged to World War I Canterbury Mounted Rifles Trooper Robert Barnett Brunner Cooper. He was born in Dobson, a small town on the banks of the Grey River in the South Island, on 14 February 1893 (reg. 1893/3609). His parents were Frederick Felix Paul and Annie Ewart Cooper (nee Barnett) who married on 12 October 1892 (reg. 1892/3348)”.
“Robert worked underground as a coal miner. He enlisted in the Canterbury Regiment and served during World War I, embarking on 17 April 1915. His personnel file records his religion as 'free thinker'. Robert seems to have suffered a hernia before being discharged in 1916 on 'account of illness contracted on active service'. On 14 December 1919 in Wellington he married Myrtle McKay (reg. 1919/8357). The couple raised two children. Robert died in at Tauranga Public Hospital, aged 70, on 16 August 1963 (reg. 1963/26995). He was buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery on 18th Avenue (Section L, Row 33, Plot 60)”.
1893/3609. Cooper, Robert Barnett Brunner. Mother: Annie Ewart. Father: Frederick Felix Paul
Year and country of death, from Death search on New Zealand BDM website in August 2018:
1963/26995. Cooper, Robert Barnett Brunner, died age 70Y
Full date and place of birth and death, occupation, date and place of marriage, from:
http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/remembering_war/topics...repaired-in-tauranga
“One headstone was broken and the soldier's details missing. It belonged to World War I Canterbury Mounted Rifles Trooper Robert Barnett Brunner Cooper. He was born in Dobson, a small town on the banks of the Grey River in the South Island, on 14 February 1893 (reg. 1893/3609). His parents were Frederick Felix Paul and Annie Ewart Cooper (nee Barnett) who married on 12 October 1892 (reg. 1892/3348)”.
“Robert worked underground as a coal miner. He enlisted in the Canterbury Regiment and served during World War I, embarking on 17 April 1915. His personnel file records his religion as 'free thinker'. Robert seems to have suffered a hernia before being discharged in 1916 on 'account of illness contracted on active service'. On 14 December 1919 in Wellington he married Myrtle McKay (reg. 1919/8357). The couple raised two children. Robert died in at Tauranga Public Hospital, aged 70, on 16 August 1963 (reg. 1963/26995). He was buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery on 18th Avenue (Section L, Row 33, Plot 60)”.