He married Katie Selby on the 5 September 1894. [1]
He died in the Waihi Hospital on the 27 May 1911. [2] His wife Kate was living in Nelson, and put a death notice in the Nelson Evening Mail:
BENNETTS —On 27th May, at Waihi, William Frederick, the beloved husband of Kate Bennetts, of Nelson. (Otago and West Coast papers please copy.)[3]
He was buried in the Waihi Cemetery. His grave is in the Methodist/Wesleyan Area, Plot 177. [4][5]
Sources
↑ New Zealand Births Deaths and Marriages, https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, accessed 3 January 2021, Marriage registration 1894/2653 for Katie Selby and William Frederick Bennetts
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 03 January 2021), memorial page for William Frederick Bennetts (1870–27 May 1911), Find A Grave: Memorial #210675943, citing Waihi Cemetery, Waihi, Hauraki District, Waikato, New Zealand ; Maintained by GillyR (contributor 48886083). There isn't a picture of the headstone
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