Name from birth from search of daughter on New Zealand BDM website in April 2021:
1865/14677. Schnell, Wilhelmine Gesine. Mother: Wilhelmine. Father: Carl

No record of marriage could be found on the New Zealand BDM website as at April 2021.

Approximate year of birth of “circa 1842”, place of birth, occupation, naturalisation date, from New Zealand, Naturalisations records found in April 2021:
Name: Carl Schnelle
Birth Date: abt 1842
Age: 45 Yrs
Birth Place: Flotow
Former Nationality: German
Occupation: Farmer
Residence City: Southbridge
Naturalisation Date: 7 Sep 1887
File Number: 1187/3561
Certificate Register: 24
Register Page Number: 156

Year and country of death, from death search on New Zealand BDM website in April 2021:
1918/17390. Schnelle, Carl, died age 78Y [Therefore born circa 1840]

Full date of death of 12 August 1918 from further searching in April 2021 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.

From the death record, year of birth “circa 1840”. Therefore, looking at year of birth in the Naturalisation record further above, Brian of nzolivers will make year of birth “circa 1841”.

Date of death confirmed, place of burial, from headstone transcription for St. Mark’s Anglican Cemetery, Sedgemere, Canterbury, found in April 2021:
Wilimina Schnelle d. 14 June 1896 aged 61;
Also Charles Schnelle, hus. of above d. 12 Aug 1918 aged 79. [Therefore born circa 1839].