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Obituary: William Wilson William Wilson died on 30 th May 1906 at his home on Pitone Rd, after a 2-year illness. According to the registration certificate he was 71 years of age. Name of father and mother: “Not known.” Rank or Profession of Father: “Weaver” Some months prior to his death he had made a will, (see appendix) leaving his worldly goods to be divided equally among his children, named in the document, with a provision that should any pre-decease him, the share that would have been left to that deceased son or daughter would instead benefit the heirs of that son/daughter. A month or two later it must have occurred to him that his daughter, Frances, who had died three years previously, was not named in the will, so that provision may not benefit her children in the way intended. Accordingly, he made a codicil, to ensure the she (or rather, her children) would be included on the same terms as the others. Taranaki Herald 31 st May 1906 Jane Wilson (nee Hawke) passed away on 27 June 1911. She was 73.
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Obituary: William Wilson
William Wilson died on 30th May 1906 at his home on Pitone Rd, after a 2-year illness.
According to the registration certificate he was 71 years of age.
Name of father and mother: “Not known.” Rank or Profession of Father: “Weaver”
Some months prior to his death he had made a will, (see appendix) leaving his worldly goods
to be divided equally among his children, named in the document, with a provision that
should any pre-decease him, the share that would have been left to that deceased son or
daughter would instead benefit the heirs of that son/daughter.
A month or two later it must have occurred to him that his daughter, Frances, who had died
three years previously, was not named in the will, so that provision may not benefit her
children in the way intended. Accordingly, he made a codicil, to ensure the she (or rather, her
children) would be included on the same terms as the others.
Taranaki Herald 31st May 1906
Jane Wilson (nee Hawke) passed away on 27 June 1911. She was 73.
After the funeral, the following obituary appeared in the Taranaki Herald
9 June 1906
Tataraimaka Cemetery
Close by and approximately parallel to Pitone Rd is Timaru Rd. Like Pitone Rd., it too is
now bisected by South Road into “Upper” and “Lower” Timaru Rd.
The Tataraimaka Cemetery appears, almost as a surprise, on the side of Lower Timaru Rd. It
is on land originally owned by James Pearce. The first burial there was that of his wife Grace.
The land was formally transferred to the Crown in 1902.
Six months after William Wilson was buried there, and on the occasion of the funeral of Mrs.
Priske, a Taranaki Herald reporter had some blunt words to say about the state of the
Tataraimaka Cemetery.
Taranaki Herald 14th Dec 1906
In 1969 the local council cleared and tidied the area, replaced headstones in straight lines, and
re-grassed it into the neat and tidy little roadside cemetery it is today.
Extracts from the Will of William Wilson
“Mary Anne” (in the original hand-written will) has been mis-transcribed here as “Mary
Jane”.
Comment
William Wilson treated each of his sons and daughters equally. He made allowance for the
possibility of any of them pre-deceasing him, though he omitted Frances who had already
died. Subsequently he added a codicil to include the children of Frances.
