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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| 1894/4177 | Emma Jane | Dixon | John Fletcher | Best | 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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| 1925/1301 | Best | John Fletcher | 1870 | 55Y | Order Product |
Tributes Online (obituaries)
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://www.tributes.co.nz/Webform1.aspx/GetTributes
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Whanganui Council Property Rolls
Best, John Fletcher 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://wdc.whanganui.govt.nz/propertyrolls/data.aspx?id=search
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Te Papa Collections - People
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://data.tepapa.govt.nz/collection/search?q=type:Person+AND+title:(John+AND+Fletcher+AND+Best)
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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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Sooty NZ (NZ history and genealogical information)
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NZ Genealogy Research Made Easy
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Transcriptions NZ
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Best, John Fletcher 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/imu/request.php
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Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://api.aucklandmuseum.com/search/cenotaph/_search
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Intention to Marry Project
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://itm.howison.co.nz/search/John+Fletcher+Best
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Kura Heritage Collections (Auckland)
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Source: Copyright Auckland Council Libraries Heritage Collections / non-commercial personal use
| Title | Date | Record type |
| Five of the best for Coast. | 2009-07-07 | Auckland People and Events |
The Treasury (Coromandel-Hauraki)
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://thetreasury.catalogaccess.com/api/search/advanced
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Archives NZ
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://archway.howison.co.nz/ajax/simple.php?search=%22john+fletcher%22+best&simple_view=1
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New Zealand Defence Force, Personnel Archives > R9988505 (unknown)
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Territorial Force - John Fletcher Best - Lieutenant, New Zealand Forces Motor Service Corps, Motor-car Section, Canterbury | 1913 ‑ 1918 | Wellington | Open |
Land Information New Zealand, National Office > R9984708 (unknown)
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Ebenezer Smith, William Henry ... Wootten, Aaron Best, Leslie John Fletcher, ... | 1935 ‑ 1981 | Auckland | Restricted |
Wellington High Court > Wellington probate files (first sequence)
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| BEST John Fletcher | 1925 | Wellington | Open |
Tinui History
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Masterton Anglican History
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Archives Central (Manawatū-Whanganui)
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Whakatere Heritage Collections (Ashburton)
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Dictionary of NZ Biography (Scholefield, 1940)
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://dict-bio.howison.co.nz/ash_search/?s=John+Fletcher+Best
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NZ War Graves
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Masterton Library Wairarapa Archive
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BillionGraves (NZ cemeteries)
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://billiongraves.com/api/1.3/search
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New Zealand Gazette Index
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://gazette.howison.co.nz/search?name=John+Fletcher+Best
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Source: 1840-2017 New Zealand Gazette (and related periodicals) indexed from various public sources, including VUW, NZLII, gazette.govt.nz, WCC Libraries and Papers Past. Usage/copyright varies: Public domain / Crown copyright / fair use / CC-BY 3.0 NZ
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NZSG Kiwi Collection (non-member records)
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSource: Kiwi Collection copyright The New Zealand Society of Genealogists / with the kind permission of the NZSG
| Name | Date | Record Type |
|---|---|---|
| BEST, John Fletcher 🔍 | 13 May 1925 | NZ Probates |
Discover EverAfter (NZ Cemeteries)
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Discover EverAfter manages burial records for several cemeteries around New Zealand
Source: Copyright Plotbox Inc / limited search results excerpts for "personal, non-commercial use"
| Name | Date of Death | Age at Death | Cemetery | Plot Location | Section | Row | Plot No. | Funeral Type |
| John Fletcher BEST | 11 Mar 1925 📰 | Unknown | Purewa Cemetery, Auckland Region | Block D/11/139 | Block D | 11 | 139 | Burial |
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FamilySearchGENiGeneanetNZ Intention to Marry Index (1882-1899)
John Fletcher Best 🔍 ASHSource: Intention to Marry Indexes, by Archives NZ / CC BY
| Bride | Groom | Marriage District | Year | Volume | Page | Entry |
| 🌳 Emma Dixon | 🌳 John Fletcher Best | Christchurch | 1894 | 39 | 690 | 139 |