NameEdgar Otway Heaps 

Birth15 Oct 1870, New Zealand
Misc. Notes
Name, photo of Edgar, from Sarah Kay in an email dated 8 January 2024.
Sarah goes on to write, "Edgar Otway Heaps was one of the children of Wilson Heaps, custom's officer of Nelson. Edgar Otway Heaps was a sheep farmer when he went away to fight in WWI, and then became an accountant".
Sarah Kay is the x2 great-granddaughter of Mary Jane Heaps, brother of Wilson Heaps to emigrated to New Zealand. Wilson Heaps' son, Walter, married Aileen Dodson, who is the second cousin to Brian of nzoliver's grandmother, Kathleen McCaul.
Year of registration and country of birth from search on New Zealand BDM website in January 2024:
Registered 1880/1156. Heaps, Edgar Otway. Mother: Julia Gertrude Isabel. Father: Wilson
Full date of birth of 15 October 1870 from further searching in January 2024 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.