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Leonard
George
Newberry
Born in Blenheim, New Zealand
Ancestors 
Son of William Newberry
and Susannah Eliza (Foster) Newberry
Brother of
William James Newberry, Emily Rose Newberry, Charles Edward Newberry, Frank Newberry, Phillis Constance Newberry, Roderick Newberry, Roland Newberry and Frederick Newberry
[children unknown]
Died
at age 35
in Cashmere Sanitorium, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Apr 2015
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Biography
Leonard was born in 1893. He is the son of William Newberry and Eliza Foster. [1]
Before WW1, Leonard was a clerk at the Kaiapoi Woollen Company. He signed up to serve in the Canterbury Infantry Battalion in 1914 and was on active service in Egypt, Gallipoli and Western Europe. During his war service, he contracted tuberculosis and this was his eventual cause of death.[2]
He died in 1929 aged 36.[3]
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Sources
- Footnotes and citations:
- ↑ "Births, Deaths & Marriages Online", [digital index], New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (http://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz) Birth record 1893/18032
- ↑ Archives New Zealand Archives New Zealand: R21379991
- ↑ "Births, Deaths & Marriages Online", [digital index], New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (http://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz) Death record 1929/3645
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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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~3.12%
~12.50%
Jill (Ager) Stuthridge 
:
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Caden McCune :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Preussencaps
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~0.78%
Jo (Sunnex) Hall :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch GJ2916629 [compare]
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