Leonard
Alexander
Hobbs
Born in Wellington, New Zealand
Ancestors 
Brother of
Christina (Hobbs) Palamountain, Drusilla (Hobbs) Clemens, Oliver Charles Hobbs, Clara Sarah (Hobbs) Goss, Albert George Hobbs, Middleton Hobbs, Alice (Hobbs) Judd, Herbert Hobbs, Lucy Ada Lena (Hobbs) Walters, Ethel (Hobbs) Rogers, Gwendoline (Hobbs) Wigglesworth, Reginald Charles Hobbs, Myrtle (Hobbs) Wakefield and Clarence Christopher Robinson Hobbs
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 61
in Wellington, New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Sep 2014
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Biography
Leonard Alexander eldest son of Lucy August and Christopher Hobbs.
He married in 1896 to Christina Hansen at Wellington.
Christina passed away in 1900 aged 30 and Leonard remarried in 1912 to Cecilia Davis.
The marriage didn't last and they filed for divorce in 1918.
Leonard settled at Lower Hutt and worked as a Labourer.
Leonard died in 1934 aged 62 and is said to be buried in Taita cemetery although he isn't recorded on the Hutt or Akatarawa cemetery databases.
Sources
- "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-3785 : 27 November 2017), Leonard Alexander Hobbs, 1873; citing Birth, New Zealand, registration number 1873/141, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
- "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG6K-XZDY : 4 January 2018), Leonard Hobbs, 1934; citing Death, New Zealand, registration number 1934/7591, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
- Birth folio 611, Marriage folio 4515 (1896) Marriage folio 103 (1912),
- NZ Electoral Rolls
- https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Evening Post - 10/8/1918 - Divorce cases
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Leonard by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Leonard:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Leonard by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Leonard:
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~12.50%
~25.00%
Bev (Clemens) Hansen 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch UV5293546 [compare], Ancestry member rexandbev22
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~1.56%
Sandra Tofa :
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