Johanna Rosalie (Moeller) Hunte (1853 - 1916)

Born 1853 in Nelson, New Zealand

Wife of Solomon Maurice Spiers — married 1869 (to 1886) in West Coast, New Zealand

Wife of Stephen Darlington Oxnam — married 25 Sep 1888 in Auckland, New Zealand

Wife of Digby Dennett Hunt — married 1895 in West Coast, New Zealand

Descendants

Died 19 Mar 1916 at about age 63 in Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Denise Hunt [send private message] and Roger Inwood [send private message]

Biography

Johanna Roseline Sanders was born about 1853 in Nelson, New /Zealand ^{[citation needed]}. her mother's name was mary Moeller.

Marriages

• At age 17, in 1869, she married Solomon Maurice Spiers in Ross, New Zealand but her name on the marriage certificate was Johanna Rosalie Moeller^[1][2]

Their first child was Alexander Barnett Spiers born 1872^[3]. On this birth certificate, her name is Annie. Alexander is the sole recipient of his father's will in 1907. She was 24 years old when their daughter Charlotte May Spiers was born in 1876 and died either at birth or during her first year^[4]. They then had four sons - Victor Phineas born 1878, Bertrand Frederick born 1881, Edgar born 1883 and Sidney Morris born 1885. She was 32 years old. She divorced Solomon in 1886 in Hokitika, Westland^[5] the Supreme court proceedings do not paint Johanna in a good light.

• She married Stephen Darlington Oxnam in 1888 in Auckland, New Zealand^[6].

They had two children; son, Noel and a daughter, Roseline Elizabeth Darlington Oxnam in 1890 in Murchison, Tasman^[7]. Four years later, Stephen died on 22 May 1894 aged 44.

• The following year, Johanna married again in 1895, to Digby Dennet Hunt (also known as Digby Frederick Sylvester Dennet Hunte). He was a hotel keeper in Nelson until, at least 1906.

The local newspaper read: Marriages Hunte & Oxnam. On the 20th April, 1895, at Nelson, by the Rev. Mr McKenzie, Digby Hunte, late of Buller to Rosina Oxnam, Fern Flat, Buller. Around 1906, Digby Hunt left and went to Wellington where he was assumed to have commited suicide in the bush In 1911, Johanna was living with her daughter, Roseline and her husband, in Palmerston North. She was 58 years old. By 1916, she had moved to 12 Paradise Rd, Napier, where she died at 63 years^[8]. ^[9]. ^[10]. Her headstone reads: IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR MOTHER Roselin Hunte Died March 19 1916 aged 63 years. At Rest

Woman of Mystery

Johanna changed her name so many times that it has been hard to find a birth certificate for her but her name on her first marriage to solomon was Johanna Rosalie Moeller.

Sources

1. ↑ New Zealand General Register Records, Historical Records, database, (https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz), 1869/7131
2. ↑ "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, (FamilySearch Record: MB8V-W23): 11 February 2020), Entry for David Gourley, 1749: accessed 6 August 2022.
3. ↑ New Zealand General Register Records, Historical Records, database, (https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz), 1872/26618
4. ↑ New Zealand General Register Records, Historical Records, database, (https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz), 1876/4881
5. ↑ Past Newspapers, database, (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/KUMAT18880322.2.9?end_date=22-04-1888&items_per_page=10&query=%22William+Barnett%2c+chemist%22&snippet=true&start_date=22-02-1888).
6. ↑ New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966, database, Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24K-C4ZZ), 1888/2003
7. ↑ New Zealand General Register Records, Historical Records, database, (https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz), 1890/2895
8. ↑ New Zealand, Historical Records, database, (https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz), 1916/1181
9. ↑ (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPH2-3G27)
10. ↑ FindaGrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189104400/johanna-rosalie-hunte)