NZ Births
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Registration | Family Name | Given Name(s) | Mother's Given Name(s) | Father's Given Name(s) | Still Birth | |
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1876/9406 | Wakelin | Richard | Mary | Thomas | - | Order Product |
1926/7645 | Wakelin | Richard Noel | Stella | Alfred Noel | - | Order Product |
1917/23626 | Wakelin | Richard Arthur | Alice | Richard | - | Order Product |
1898/358 | Wakelin | Richard Newton | Una Agnes | Richard Alfred | - | Order Product |
1904/9589 | Wakelin | Arthur Richard James | Charlotte Nicol | Richard Henry | - | Order Product |
1878/1000 | Wakelin | William Richard | Grace Annie | George Kenrick | - | Order Product |
1856/129 | Wakelin | Richard | Ann | John | - | Order Product |
1875/1530 | Wakelin | Richard Lionel | Mary Ellen | Tom | - | Order Product |
1941/83694 | Wakelin | Alan Richard | Annie Watson | Thomas Gordon | - | Order Product |
1880/16363 | Wakelin | Richard Henry | Alice | Richard | - | Order Product |
1868/19025 | Wakelin | Richard Alfred | Emily | Richard Alfred | - | Order Product |
NZ Marriages (Bride)
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NZ Marriages (Bride, married surname)
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NZ Marriages (Groom)
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Registration | Bride's Given Name(s) | Bride's Family Name | Groom's Given Name(s) | Groom's Family Name | |
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1901/2958 | Annie | Anton | Richard | Wakelin | Order Product |
1949/4877 | Avis Marion | Calder | Richard Noel | Wakelin | Order Product |
1913/902 | Martha Elizabeth | Carton | Richard Lionel | Wakelin | Order Product |
1902/751 | Charlotte Nicole | Duff | Richard Henry | Wakelin | Order Product |
1949/14670 | Yvonne Mary | Kurth | Russell Richard Ferrers | Wakelin | Order Product |
1908/2358 | Ellen | Neely | Richard Alfred | Wakelin | Order Product |
1894/3822 | Una Agnes | Newton | Richard Alfred | Wakelin | Order Product |
1867/6349 | Emily | Noakes | Richard Alfred | Wakelin | Order Product |
NZ Births (Mother)
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NZ Deaths
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Registration | Family Name | Given Name(s) | Born (approx.) | Age at Death (approx.) | |
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1942/22817 | Wakelin | Richard Lionel | 1862 | 80Y | Order Product |
1943/30429 | Wakelin | Richard | 1853 | 90Y | Order Product |
1979/50473 | Wakelin | Richard Arthur | 25 February 1904 🔍NZ | 75 years | Order Product |
1922/1405 | Wakelin | Richard Alfred | 1869 | 53Y | Order Product |
1919/1806 | Wakelin | Richard | 1877 | 42Y | Order Product |
1910/1122 | Wakelin | Richard Alfred | 1846 | 64Y | Order Product |
1904/2117 | Wakelin | Arthur Richard James | 1904 | 3W | Order Product |
1881/5187 | Wakelin | Richard | 1815 | 66Y | Order Product |
1944/26345 | Wakelin | Richard Henry | 1879 | 65Y | Order Product |
1918/49154 | Wakelin | William Richard | 1877 | 41Y | Order Product |
1999/15889 | Wakelin | Richard Noel | 14 April 1926 🔍NZ | 73 years | Order Product |
2007/25285 | Wakelin | Alan Richard | 8 October 1941 🔍NZ | 65 years | Order Product |
Gisborne Photo News (1954-1975, 1993–1996)
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Nelson Photo News (1960-1972)
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Tributes Online (obituaries)
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Whanganui Council Property Rolls
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Te Papa Collections - People
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Otago Nominal Index
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NZ Presbyterian Marriages
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Shadows of Time
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Our Stuff - Denise & Peter's NZ history site
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St Cabinet Maker Wakelin Richard Mulgrave St Government Clerk Wakelin Thomas Molesworth St Builder Waldegrave John Manners St Settler Walden Jon Lambton Qu Storekeeper Walker
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1856Q-Z.htm
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St Cabinet maker Wakelin Richard Mulgrave St Government Clerk Wakelin Thomas Molesworth St Builder Waldegrave John James Wellington Settler Walden John Lambton Quay Storekeeper
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1857Q-Z.htm
Elect1854Q-Z
Willis St Cabinetmaker Wakelin Richard Lambton Qu Coffee House Keeper Wakelin Thomas Molesworth St Builder Wallace James Lambton Quay Storekeeper Wallace John Boulcott St Settler
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1854Q-Z.htm
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St Cabinet maker Wakelin Richard Mulgrave St Clerk Wakelin Thomas Molesworth St Builder Waldegrave John Manners St Settler Walden John Lambton Qu Storekeeper Walker James Herbert
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1855Q-Z.htm
EssexBarque
George 9 New Plymouth Wakelin Richard 33 Gardener Nelson Mary 38 Nelson Elizabeth 8 Nelson Tom 6 Nelson Richard A 4 Nelson Mary L 2 Nelson Copyright Denise & Peter 2000 National
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Eden.htm
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St Cabinet maker Wakelin Richard Mulgrave St Government clerk Waldegrave John James Wellington Settler Walden John Lambton Quay Storekeeper Waldin thomas Murphy St Boat builder
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1858Q-Z.htm
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Morrison's bush Freehold Wakelin Richard Moroa Freehold Walker James Masterton Freehold White Henry Three Mile Bush Freehold Williams Benjamin Tauherenikau Freehold Williams
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/ElectoralWairarapa1865.htm
Sooty NZ (NZ history and genealogical information)
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Auckland RICE, Harry Auckland WAKELIN, Richard Newton Wellington LANDRETH, Robert Faulks Dunedin BROWN, Vincent Reginald Wellington SMITH, Lincoln John Richard Garfield Rotorua
https://sooty.nz/publicserviceexams1916.html
NZ Genealogy Research Made Easy
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Wakelin nee EDWARDS dairyman witness: Richard Wakelin farmer, Duvauchelles, Thomas Wakelin, ... Louise Newberry nee WILLIS sponsor Richard Wakelin, Governers Bay. Barbara Anne, b
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~babznz/genealogy/wakelin.html
Transcriptions NZ
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July 1923 age 70 hus. ... July 1938 age 65 hus. ... April 1930 age 85 & dau. ... Mabel (formerly BERKETT) d. ... Lawrence (1/NZEF) d. ... June 1943 age 85 & hus. ... Robert (1/NZEF
https://www.transcriptions.nz/Gravestone.Photos/Bromley.Cemetery.html
Alexander Turnbull Library
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A H & A W Reed: Photographs of eminent New Zealand men used in publications | PAColl-6538. A H & A W Reed: Photographs of eminent New Zealand men used in publications. ca 1860s - 1900s. [Collection] | |
Wakelin family: World War One papers | MS-Papers-11236. Wakelin family: World War One papers. 1918-1919. [Item] | |
Wakelin, William Richard, 1878-1919 : Certificate of reception into Free Masons | MS-Papers-3584. Wakelin, William Richard, 1878-1919 : Certificate of reception into Free Masons. 10 May 1909. [Item] | |
New Zealand Advertiser : Prospectus | MS-Papers-2553. New Zealand Advertiser : Prospectus. 1860-1860. [Item] | |
Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921 :Sketchbook 1835-1878. | E-005-q. Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921 :Sketchbook 1835-1878.. [Item] | |
To workingmen. Fellow workmen - If you wish to have cheap land and small farms, cheap food and fair wages, few taxes and plenty to do ... you will vote for Wakelin, the poor man's friend. Rush to the poll on Tuesday next!!! [ca 1853]. | Eph-C-POLITICS-1853-02. To workingmen. Fellow workmen - If you wish to have cheap land and small farms, cheap food and fair wages, few taxes and plenty to do ... you will vote for Wakelin, the poor man's friend. Rush to the poll on Tuesday next!!! [ca 1853].. [Item] |
DigitalNZ
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Wakelin, Richard: Photograph | Studio portrait of Richard Wakelin. | Picture Wairarapa / Wairarapa Archive | |
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R.A. Wakelin | Shows a studio portrait of Greytown Mayor in 1889-92, Richard Wakelin. | Picture Wairarapa / Wairarapa Archive | |
History and politics. Containing the political recollections and leaves from the writings of a New Zealand journalist, 1851-1861-1862-1877 By Richard Wakelin | Physical Description: 100 p. 8vo. Published: Wellington, Lyon & Blair, 1877. | Wakelin, Richard. | HathiTrust Digital Library / HathiTrust | |
To workingmen. Fellow workmen - If you wish to have cheap land and small farms, cheap food and fair wages, few taxes and plenty to do ... you will vote for Wakelin, the poor man's friend. Rush to the poll on Tuesday next!!! [ca 1853]. | Promises "public schools and fewer policemen, an inspector of weights ands measures, a public wharf and market house, prosperity for yourselves, and an independence for your children". Declares that the reader should not vote for "importers of Chinese slaves, for land sharks, absentee agents, or flour monopolists". Likely to refer to Richard Wakelin, the editor of the "Independent" in 1853. Said (by historian Susan Butterworth ca 1996) to have been written by Joseph Masters (1802-1873). Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress print, 295 x 384 mm. | Not specified | TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library | |
History and politics : containing the political recollections and leaves from the writings of a New Zealand journalist, 1851-1861-1862-1877 | Photoreprint of the 1877 ed. published by Lyon and Blair, George W. Dutton, Wellington. | Wakelin, Richard, 1816-1881 | Howick Historical Village NZMuseums / Howick Historical Village | |
Pilot programme now permanent | The success of a leadership pilot programme for sheep and beef farmers means it will become a permanent fixture. | Radio New Zealand / Radio New Zealand | ||
Research aims to reduce calving problems | Meat and Wool New Zealand says breeding beef calves that lighter at birth could reduce complications for younger heifers. | Radio New Zealand / Radio New Zealand | ||
Goat levy money to be distributed | Beef + Lamb New Zealand is to distribute $114,000 left over from levies collected from farmers who had goats processed at meat plants. | Radio New Zealand / Radio New Zealand | ||
Warning over rising facial eczema spore counts | Farmers are being warned to keep a close eye on their stock as facial eczema spore counts rise around the country. | Radio New Zealand / Radio New Zealand | ||
Unspent goat levies allocated to five projects | Five projects to control internal parasites, or worms in goats will receive the lion's share of unspent goat levy money that Beef + Lamb New Zealand is distributing. | Radio New Zealand / Radio New Zealand | ||
Forestry conversion agreement to reduce pollution | Foresters are enthusiastic about a ground-breaking agreement to pay a Taupo farmer to convert a livestock farm into forestry, to reduce the amount of nitrogen seeping into the lake. | Radio New Zealand / Radio New Zealand | ||
Wairarapa standard. | National Library of New Zealand Catalogue / National Library of New Zealand | |||
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Draft biographies for DNZB | Draft material for NZ Dictionary of Biography, Wairarapa people or with Wairarapa connections. | Picture Wairarapa / Wairarapa Archive |



Legacy.com NZ Obituaries
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Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph
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William Richard Wakelin
Richard Arthur Wakelin
16819 World War II, 1939-1945 Single/WWII Mr. A.S. Wakelin, 8 Picton Ave., Riccarton, Christchurch (b) Christchurch/Canterbury/New Zealand Labourer/Civilian Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force Infantry Reinforcements Private War Medal 1939-1945 New Zealand War Service MedalTe Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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Find A Grave (NZ cemeteries)
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Name | Born | Died | Cemetery | Cemetery location | Region |
Richard Wakelin | 12 Feb 1876 🔍 | 15 Jan 1919 🔍 📰 | Duvauchelle Cemetery | Duvauchelle, Christchurch City | Canterbury |
Richard Alfred Wakelin | 1846 🔍 | 19 Feb 1910 🔍 📰 | Karori Cemetery and Crematorium | Wellington, Wellington City | Wellington |
Richard Alfred Wakelin | 1868 🔍 | 28 Jan 1922 🔍 📰 | Karori Cemetery and Crematorium | Wellington, Wellington City | Wellington |
Richard Alfred Wakelin | 22 Dec 1815 🔍 | 2 Dec 1881 🔍 📰 | Greytown Cemetery | Greytown, South Wairarapa District | Wellington |
Richard Beck Wakelin | 30 Mar 1856 🔍 | 22 Apr 1943 🔍 📰 | Bromley Cemetery | Bromley, Christchurch City | Canterbury |
Richard Henry Wakelin | Canterbury Memorial Gardens and Crematorium | Bromley, Christchurch City | Canterbury | ||
Richard Henry Wakelin | 15 Aug 1880 🔍 | 18 Jul 1944 🔍 📰 | Woolston Cemetery | Woolston, Christchurch City | Canterbury |
Richard Lionel Wakelin | 1875 🔍 | 11 May 1942 🔍 📰 | Hastings Cemetery and Crematorium | Camberley, Hastings District | Hawke's Bay |
Kura Heritage Collections (Auckland)
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Upper Hutt City Libraries Heritage Collections
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NZ Electronic Text Centre
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Archives NZ
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Justice Department > Inwards letters and registered files
Department of Internal Affairs, Head Office > Central filing system
Dunedin High Court > Dunedin probate and Letters of Administration files (II)
Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
WAKELIN Richard Arthur - Dunedin - Retired Machinist | 1980 | Dunedin | Open |
Wellington High Court > Wellington probate files (first sequence)
Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
WAKELIN, Richard | 1881 | Wellington | Open | |
WAKELIN Richard Alfred | 1922 | Wellington | Open | |
WAKELIN, William Richard | 1919 | Wellington | Open | |
WAKELIN, Richard Alfred | 1910 | Wellington | Open |
High Court Auckland, Department of Justice > Land valuation files
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Application for consent to sale - Bruce Harold Wakelin to Malcolm Richard Gavin | 1949 | Auckland | Open |
Rotorua High Court > Rotorua Probate Files
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WAKELIN Russell Richard Ferrers - Tauranga - Inventor | 1983 | Auckland | Open |
High Court Auckland, Department of Justice > Auckland miscellaneous files
Christchurch High Court > Christchurch Probate files
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WAKELIN Alice - Heathcote Valley - wife of Richard | 1939 | Christchurch | Open | |
WAKELIN Richard - Barry's Bay - Farmer | 1919 | Christchurch | Open |
Legislative Department > Women's Suffrage Petition 1892 [Digitised Sheets]
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Digitised 1892 Women Suffrage Petition Roll - Sheet 212 - Region: Ashburton, Hinds, Tinwald, Wakanui [Digital Copy] | 1892 | Digital | Open |
Land Titles Office, Auckland > Auckland land district discharged mortgages and surrender of leases - Deeds system
Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington District Office > Commissioner of Crown Lands registered files
Hamilton High Court > Hamilton civil proceedings files - annual sequence
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Margaret Adeline Wakelin of Palmerston North, Secretary v Kenneth Richard Smith of Hamilton, Company Director | 1982 ‑ 1983 | Auckland | Restricted |
New Zealand Defence Force, Personnel Archives > Military Personnel Files
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WAKELIN, William Richard - WW1 6/2891 - Army [Original Paper Personnel File] | 1914 ‑ 1918 | Wellington | Open | |
WAKELIN, William Richard - WW1 6/2891 - Army | 1914 ‑ 1918 | Wellington | Open |
Wellington Province Government > General Inwards Correspondence, Inward Letters from Commissioner of Crown Lands & the General Government
Hamilton High Court > Hamilton action files
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Russell Richard Ferrers Wakelin of Tauranga, contractor v The Attorney-General | 1956 | Auckland | Open |
Hamilton High Court > Hamilton Land Sales / Land Valuation Proceedings Files
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Russell Richard Ferrers Wakelin - Henry George Spence | 1963 | Auckland | Open |
Waihi District Court > Waihi Mining Registrations
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Mineral License at Otanewainuku to Russell Richard Ferrers Wakelin and Robbins Machinery Co Ltd | 1962 | Auckland | Open |
Mineral License at Otanewainuku to Russell Richard Ferrers Wakelin and Robbins Machinery Co Ltd | 1962 | Auckland | Open |
Assignment of Interest in and under Mineral Licenses Russell Richard Ferrers Wakelin of Tauranga Agent to Robbins Machinery Company Limited | 1970 | Auckland | Open |
Tinui History
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Masterton Anglican History
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Tasman Heritage
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West Coast NZ History
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Archives Central (Manawatū-Whanganui)
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Canterbury Museum Collections - People
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Lower Hutt MyRecollect
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Dictionary of NZ Biography (Scholefield, 1940)
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Source: A Dictionary of NZ Biography, by Scholefield (1940), from NZ History / CC BY-NC 3.0 NZ
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Richard Wakelin | WAKELIN, RICHARD (1816-81) was born at Barnacle Hall, Warwickshire, and educated in the county. As a young man he tried several occupations, and with an elder brother bought land in Canada. Finding the life unsatisfactory they sold out and travelled widely in the United States. Wakelin was now a pronounced democrat, and he also at an early age became a devout advocate of temperance. On his return he settled down to journalism in his native county, and after another visit to the United States (1839) opened a bookseller's shop in Coventry. For some time also he edited the Temperance Gazette at Birmingham. He threw himself with vigor into the Chartist movement and started a paper on radical lines, The Cause of the People. To evade press restrictions it was produced in Isle of Man, but the law was hastily amended, and as he could not find the surety of £500 required under the act the publication had to cease. Wakelin came to New Zealand with his family in the Eden (1850) and spent some months visiting New Plymouth and Nelson, eventually reaching Wellington in the schooner Mary (Dec). He opened a school at Te Aro, but finding a rival school next door, he wrote letters on education to the Independent in the hope of diverting attention to his school. One result was to attract the attention of T. W. McKenzie and the Governor (Grey), who took steps which led to the opening of the Church of England school at Thorndon. In June 1851 Wakelin was engaged to report the Legislative Council proceedings for the Independent. After the session he became a member of the staff, and on the retirement of Featherston he became editor (May 1852). He was a strong supporter of Grey against the activities of the Constitutional Association, and afterwards of Featherston, with whom he was on terms of close confidence during the political controversies with E. J. Wakefield. About 1859 he became editor of the New Zealand Advertiser, and about 1866 he went to Greytown and started the Wairarapa Journal. After running this for a short time he became associated with the Mercury. In 1870 he established the New Zealand Mail for T. W. McKenzie, editing it for some time from his home at Moroa. On the death of A. K. Arnot, Wakelin purchased the Mercury, the name of which he changed in 1872 to the Wairarapa Standard. This paper he edited until his death, having Joseph Payton as partner for a few years. Wakelin in 1877 published at Wellington his History of Politics, containing the Political Recollections and Leaves from the Writings of a New Zealand Journalist, a modest booklet which contains authoritative narratives of certain interesting phases of early Wellington history. He died on 2 Dec 1881. Cycl. N.Z., i (p); Wakelin, op. cit; N.Z. Times, 12 Dec 1881 | Volume 2, page 229 |
WAKELIN, RICHARD (1816-81) was born at Barnacle Hall, Warwickshire, and educated in the county. As a young man he tried several occupations, and with an elder brother bought land in Canada. Finding the life unsatisfactory they sold out and travelled widely in the United States. Wakelin was now a pronounced democrat, and he also at an early age became a devout advocate of temperance. On his return he settled down to journalism in his native county, and after another visit to the United States (1839) opened a bookseller's shop in Coventry. For some time also he edited the Temperance Gazette at Birmingham. He threw himself with vigor into the Chartist movement and started a paper on radical lines, The Cause of the People. To evade press restrictions it was produced in Isle of Man, but the law was hastily amended, and as he could not find the surety of £500 required under the act the publication had to cease.
Wakelin came to New Zealand with his family in the Eden (1850) and spent some months visiting New Plymouth and Nelson, eventually reaching Wellington in the schooner Mary (Dec). He opened a school at Te Aro, but finding a rival school next door, he wrote letters on education to the Independent in the hope of diverting attention to his school. One result was to attract the attention of T. W. McKenzie and the Governor (Grey), who took steps which led to the opening of the Church of England school at Thorndon. In June 1851 Wakelin was engaged to report the Legislative Council proceedings for the Independent. After the session he became a member of the staff, and on the retirement of Featherston he became editor (May 1852). He was a strong supporter of Grey against the activities of the Constitutional Association, and afterwards of Featherston, with whom he was on terms of close confidence during the political controversies with E. J. Wakefield. About 1859 he became editor of the New Zealand Advertiser, and about 1866 he went to Greytown and started the Wairarapa Journal. After running this for a short time he became associated with the Mercury. In 1870 he established the New Zealand Mail for T. W. McKenzie, editing it for some time from his home at Moroa. On the death of A. K. Arnot, Wakelin purchased the Mercury, the name of which he changed in 1872 to the Wairarapa Standard. This paper he edited until his death, having Joseph Payton as partner for a few years. Wakelin in 1877 published at Wellington his History of Politics, containing the Political Recollections and Leaves from the Writings of a New Zealand Journalist, a modest booklet which contains authoritative narratives of certain interesting phases of early Wellington history. He died on 2 Dec 1881.
Cycl. N.Z., i (p); Wakelin, op. cit; N.Z. Times, 12 Dec 1881
Volume 2, page 229NZ War Graves
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Wellington City Council Archives
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Masterton Library Wairarapa Archive
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Name | Born | Died | Cemetery | Region |
Richard Wakelin | 18 Feb 1876 🔍 | 15 Jan 1919 🔍 📰 | Duvauchelle Cemetery | Canterbury |
Richard Wakelin | 1815 🔍 | 2 Dec 1881 🔍 📰 | Greytown Cemetery | Wellington |
Richard Alfred Wakelin | 22 Dec 1815 🔍 | 2 Dec 1881 🔍 📰 | Greytown Cemetery | Wellington |
Richard Beck Wakelin | 22 Apr 1943 🔍 📰 | Bromley Cemetery | Canterbury | |
Richard H Wakelin | 18 Jul 1944 🔍 📰 | Woodlawn Memorial Gardens | Canterbury | |
Richard Lionel Wakelin | 9 May 1942 🔍 📰 | Hastings Cemetery and Crematorium | Hawke's Bay | |
William Richard Wakelin | 1878 🔍 | 13 Feb 1919 🔍 📰 | Omaka Cemetery | Marlborough |
NZSG Kiwi Collection (non-member records)
Richard Wakelin 🔍 ASHWith the kind permission of the NZSG
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WAKELIN, Alan Richard 🔍 | 11 Oct 2007 | NZ Herald Deaths |
WAKELIN, Karl Richard 🔍 | 08 Feb 2006 | NZ Herald Deaths |
WAKELIN, Karl Richard 🔍 | 09 Feb 2006 | NZ Herald Deaths |
WAKELIN, Richard 🔍 | 1881 | NZ Probates |
WAKELIN, Richard 🔍 | 10 Dec 1881 | NZ Probates |
WAKELIN, Richard 🔍 | 21 Feb 1919 | NZ Probates |
WAKELIN, Richard 🔍 | Jun 2020 | NZ Genealogist |
WAKELIN, Richard 🔍 | Jun 2020 | NZ Genealogist |
WAKELIN, Richard Alfred 🔍 | 1910 | NZ Probates |
WAKELIN, Richard Alfred 🔍 | 27 Jun 1910 | NZ Probates |
WAKELIN, Richard Alfred 🔍 | 13 Feb 1922 | NZ Probates |
WAKELIN, Richard Arthur 🔍 | Auckland War Memorial Museum - Cenotaph | |
WAKELIN, Richard Arthur 🔍 | 05 Feb 1980 | NZ Probates |
WAKELIN, Russell Richard Ferrers 🔍 | 1983 | NZ Probates |
WAKELIN, William Richard 🔍 | 05 Feb 1919 | Auckland War Memorial Museum - Cenotaph |
WAKELIN, William Richard 🔍 | 1919 | NZ Probates |
WAKELIN, William Richard 🔍 | 03 Dec 1919 | NZ Probates |
Puke Ariki Collections - People
Richard Wakelin 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://collection.pukeariki.com/persons?query=name_first_last%3ARichard+AND+Wakelin
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Hocken Digital Collections
Richard Wakelin 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/search?keywords=Richard+Wakelin&type=all&viewtype=grid
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Discover EverAfter (NZ Cemeteries)
Richard Wakelin 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://discovereverafter.com/
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Name | Born (approx.) | Died | Age | Type | Buried/Cremated | Plot | Cemetery | Region |
Richard Alfred Wakelin | 64 | Burial | 21 Feb 1910 📰 | *Ch Eng/A/96 | Karori Cemetery | Wellington Region | ||
Richard Alfred Wakelin | 52 | Burial | 28 Jan 1922 📰 | *Ch Eng 2/G/22 | Karori Cemetery | Wellington Region | ||
Richard Lionel Wakelin | 11 May 1942 🔍 📰 | Burial | M/#/328 | Hastings Cemetery | Hawke's Bay Region | |||
Richard Wakelin | 1815 | 2 Dec 1881 🔍 📰 | 66 | Burial | Block 10/#/41 | Greytown Cemetery | Wellington Region |
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Richard Wakelin 🔍 ASHSource: Intention to Marry Indexes, by Archives NZ / CC BY
Bride | Groom | Marriage District | Year | Volume | Page | Entry |
🌳 Una Agnes Newton | 🌳 Richard Alfred Wakelin | Nelson | 1894 | 39 | 1527 | 60 |
Nominal rolls: Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Richard Wakelin 🔍 ASHEmbarkation nominal rolls of Army troops who served overseas in WWII. They are not exhaustive and generally do not include Navy and Air Force servicemembers.
Source: Auckland Museum / CC BY 4.0
Name | Army No. | Vol. | Rank | Unit | Single? | Enlisted at | Occupation | Last NZ Address | Next of Kin |
🌳 Richard Arthur Wakelin | 16819 | 4 | Private | Infantry Reinforcements | Single | Christchurch | Labourer | Station Rd., Heathcote, Christchurch | Mr. A.S. Wakelin, 8 Picton Ave., Riccarton, Christchurch (b) |