Misc. Notes
Name from birth search of son on New Zealand BDM website in May 2020:
1873/15566. Oliver, Charles. Mother: Sarah. Father:
William AlfredAlthough this ‘William Alfred Oliver’ is not blood related to Brian of nzolivers that he can establish, Brian is connected by marriages on both his mother’s side and on his father’s side:
1. This William’s grandson Robert Thomas Oliver, (William Alfred Oliver > Charles Oliver > Robert Thomas Oliver) had a wife called, Alberta Lilian Gates. Both Alberta and Brian of nzolivers (through his mother’s side) are both descendant from Joseph Dodson born 1780:
https://nzolivers.com/tree/wc10/wc10_080.html2. The above Robert Thomas Oliver and Alberta Lilian Gates, had a son called Ian George Oliver, who married Isobel Chatterton. Isobel’s father was Keith Walter Chatterton and his father, Walter Chatterton, married Edith Minnie Oliver. Edith’s father was Francis Oliver (
https://nzolivers.com/tree/wc01/wc01_125.html). Francis is the brother of my great-grandfather, Samuel Oliver!
Approximate year of birth, date and place of marriage, from marriage record found in May 2020:
Name: William Alfred Oliver
Gender: Male
Marriage Age: 21
Record Type: Marriage
Birth Date: abt 1844
Marriage Date: 16 Apr 1865
Marriage Place: St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, England
Father: James Oliver
Spouse: Sarah Miller
Register Type: Parish Register
Date of birth and date and place of baptism from Church of England Baptism records found in May 2020:
Name: William Alfred Oliver
Gender: Male
Record Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 1 Oct 1843
Baptism Place: St George in the East, Tower Hamlets, England
Date of Birth: 11 Sep 1843
Father: James Oliver, Carpenter
Mother: Selina Oliver
Register Type: Parish Registers
Place of birth registration from England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index for 1843, and found in May 2020:
Name: William Alfred Oliver
Registration Year: 1843
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district: St George in the East
Inferred County: London
Volume: 2
Page: 87
Great granddaughter, Helen Oliver, writes in an online family history written found in February 2021 at:
https://wordpress70995.wordpress.com “William Alfred Oliver and wife Sarah (1844-1923 b. Sarah Miller, in England) came to New Zealand in 1865 on the “Wild Duck”. William went missing from his family in about 1874 - 1875 - it seems he was incarcerated (for ‘religious extremism’, with his brother Thomas) in a mental institution in Wellington, and later in Hokitika, where he eventually died”.
No record of death could be found on the New Zealand BDM website as at February 2021.