Jane Ann (Powell) Overend (1861 - 1926)

Born 12 Oct 1861 in Stoke Lacey Herefordshire England

Wife of James Smith Overend — married 17 Feb 1880 in New Zealand

Descendants

Died 2 Apr 1926 at age 64 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Biography

Birth Jane was born in UK 1861.

Emigration - Even though she must have emigrated before Feb 1880 (to have married James), she was still apparently counted in a census in 1881 in Stanford Bishop Hereford England.

Jane Annie Powell married James Overend on 17/Feb/1880.

She died in Christchurch on 2 Apr-1926 and was buried on 5 Apr 1926 in the Bromley cemetery, Christchurch.

It is worth noting that her given name changes on various records. Family records indicate she lived for a period at 156 Hills road, and at 120 Hasting St Sydenham Ch-Ch.

Item of Interest... After she came to NZ she offered T.J Edmonds (Edmonds "sure to rise") the recipe for the baking powder used on the William East farm, in return for her son Rupert to be given a job in the factory. Soon after Rupert was asked if he had any gardening knowledge, and moved to become the Gardner. He set out the well known grounds of the factory and maintained them for a number of years.

Ann was born probably about 1861(according to Bromley Cemetery records). She married James Smith Overend in 1880 in New Zealand.^[1]

Ann (Powell) Overend died 2 April 1926 at Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand and was buried in the Bromley Cemetery.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-VQKH : 4 October 2016), James Overend and Annie Powell, 1880; citing Marriage, New Zealand, registration number 1880/1206, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
2. ↑ New Zealand Cemetery Records 1800-2007, published by Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT 2014. Ann Overend. Birth date: abt 1861; Death age: 65; Death date: 2 Apr 1926; Burial place: Canterbury, North Central New Zealand; Cemetery: Bromley; Spouse: James Overend; Spouse's death date: 22 Nov 1939. Ann Overend discovered in New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007 - https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/18597820?h=737223

https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

• marriage 1880/1206 Annie Powell James Overend
• Death 1926/4783 Jane Ann (Annie) Overend.

• Memorial: "Find a Grave," database with images, (Find A Grave: Memorial #157107485 : accessed 22 December 2023), Memorial page for Ann Overend (1861-2 Apr 1926), citing Bromley Cemetery, Bromley, Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand (plot: Block 39. Plot 120); Maintained by JjH (contributor 48491654).