Johann Joachim Heinrich Hintz (abt. 1819 - 1881)

Born about 1819 in Germany

Husband of Maria Elizabeth Magdalena (Boeckmann) Harwood — married 3 Jan 1862 in Waimea, Nelson, New Zealand

Died 24 Sep 1881 at about age 62 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Biography

Lived at Mount Fyffe, Kaikoura, New Zealand. Occupation: Farmer.

Religion Lutheran.

His age on marriage certificate given as 36 years (b. 1826) but he was probably much older in his 40s.

He has to mark his will with an X in place of a signature so have to presume he was illiterate.

Died in Christchurch hospital on 24 September 1881. Age given in death certificate as 62 years (b. 1819). This would have made him 43 when he married his 17 year old wife. (The age difference was not uncommon in German Lutheran community).

Kaikoura Museum hold a record of Kaikoura County Council correspondence making arrangements for John Hintz to be sent to Christchurch Hospital for medical treatment in March 1880. Buried Addington Cemetery, Christchurch in 1881.

It would seem that Elizabeth left John Hintz to take up with John Harwood as her son William died in Little River, Banks Peninsula August 1881 one month before John Hintz died in Kaikoura.

Daughter Mary Ann’s death registration recorded with surname “Hines” but birth certificate states John Harwood as father. William’s death registration states his surname as Harwood.

In his 1883 probate record he names son "Johann Heinrich Hans Hintz" as sole benefactor.

How did he come to meet his wife? Was he living in the Nelson area when he met Maria Elisabeth Bockmann or did he come up to Nelson to marry a young German wife by arrangement and take her back to Kaikoura? He appears to have a German name - where did he come from originally? Was he from Mecklenburg or Lubeck (Schleswig-Holstein)?

Bockmann-Hintz Timeline

• 1862 Maria Elizabeth Bockmann marries John Hintz on 3 January (alias Hines? Or King?). She is aged 17 years. He states age as 36 years but he is 43 years.
• 1865 Birth of child 21 January - John Henry Hintz [Registered as "Hantz"]
• 1867 Birth of child 17 January - William Joseph Hines at Kaikoura
• 1868 Birth of child 14 September - Mary Ann Harwood at Kaikoura [John Harwood is named as father on birth certificate]
• 1881 Death 8 August of son William Joseph aged 14 years [registered as Harwood instead of Hintz]
• 1881 John Hintz dies 24 September at Christchurch Hospital

Research notes

• Physically visited Addington Cemetery in 2022 to locate grave. There is no headstone for John Hintz. Instead, there were headstones for the Earwaker family in the same location. Checked with Christchurch City Council Cemetery Support service and they confirmed that according to the heritage advisor: "they would have resold the plots, so it would be likely that a stranger would be interred on top of another. He said they would have triple burials. So John Hintz and the Earwaker family would likely be in the same grave(s)." According to the cemetery database it is John Hintz (buried 1881) and Charles Henry Earwaker (buried 1895) who share the same plot number 973C.
• There is a German birth record for a father bearing practically the same name: Johann Joachim Heinrich Hinz. The wife's name is Maria Catharina Friederica Tarnau and the child's name is Elisabeth Maria Margaretha Hinz. The child's birth data and place is 18 Nov 1858, Lübeck, Deutschland [Germany]. "Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NDG4-HMR : 25 March 2020), Johann Joachim Heinrich Hinz in entry for Elisabeth Maria Margaretha Hinz, 1858.
• 1838 Citizenship record lists some with same (though abbreviated) name Joh Jochim Hinr Hintz living in Lübeck. It also lists a Hans Joch Hartwig Böckmann. Is this the connection with the Böckmann family prior to emigration to New Zealand https://www.ancestrylibrary.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1563/images/31234_182517-00402?pId=122803

Sources

• Lübeck, Germany, Citizenship Register, 1591-1919 (ancestry.com). Name: Joh Jochim Hinr Hintz, Citizenship Date: 26 Aug 1838, Citizenship Place: Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland. [Not sure if this is him but name matches].
• BDM NZ Marriage Registration Number: 1862/4114, Bride's Given Name(s): Magdalena Cathrine Dorothea, Bride's Family Name: Lange, Groom's Given Name(s): John Joachim Harry, Groom's Family Name: Hintz. [Details on document: Marriage Date: 3 Jan 1862, Lutheran Church, Waimea East. Names: John Joachim Harry Hintz age 36 Labourer / Bachelor and Magdalena Cathrine Dorothea Lange age 17 Spinster. Minister John William Christopher Heine. Witness John Sigglekow Farmer.] www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
• BDM NZ Death Registration Number: 1881/3897, Family Name: Hintz, Given Name(s): John, Age at Death: 62Y. www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
• Canterbury Museum Christchurch Hospital Death Register Index 1881-1911, Publisher NZSG Canterbury and Canterbury Museum Library (1985), from the Museum Archives. "HARWOOD John (M), 6 Mar 1899, 60, labourer, Bromley, C of E, English | HEINTZ [HINTZ] John, 24 Sep 1881, labourer, Kaikoura, Lutheran, German."
• Christchurch Turanga Library Index Cards. John [Hine?] Hintz, Buried 28 Sep 1881, Age 62 years, Plot 973C, Register AC.1 20159. [AC = Addington Cemetery].
• CCC Addington Cemetery plan. Historical plan of Addington cemetery showing cemetery layout and plot numbers. https://canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/ccl-cs-12572
• New Zealand, The New Zealand Gazette, 1860-1894 (ancestry.com). Name: John Hintz, Time of Deceased’s Death: 24 Sep 1881, Residence Place: Kaikoura, Publication Date: 8 Mar 1883. “Particulars of the Estates of the Deceased Persons which have been placed under the charge of the Public Trustee for management using the month of February 1883.”
• "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9V-KY3S : 8 May 2019), John Hintz, 1883; citing , Wellington Probate Files [First Sequence], 1843-1939, record number 1934, Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office; FamilySearch digital folder 100436971. "The Will of John Hintz of Mount Fyffe, Marborough, Farmer". [He bequeaths entire "personal estate" to son "Johann Heinrich Hans Hintz."] https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9VP-4FM?i=132&cc=1865481
• Kaikoura Museum Archives: Correspondence from the Kaikoura County Council letter book dated 1 March 1880, "To the Manager of The Christchurch Hospital. Please to admit the bearer, John Hintz into the hospital as a poverty patient for medical treatment as per existing arrangements. Most obedient Servant William Smith Chairman (Kaikoura CC)." [No mention of what is meant by 'existing arrangements'; what the medical treatment was; or for how long John was in Hospital. As at May-2019 Museum in process of indexing old Council Minute Book records - more details may be contained there.] https://kaikoura-museum.co.nz
• Paperspast website. LYTTELTON TIMES, VOLUME LIV, ISSUE 6168, 2 DECEMBER 1880, Page 6. "KAIKOURA. [...] John Hintz applied for relief, and enclosed a certificate from Dr Fussell that he was incapacitated from earning a living. It was resolved — "That as the applicant has property, the request cannot be complied with"." https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18801202.2.38
• Paperspast website. MARLBOROUGH EXPRESS, VOLUME IX, ISSUE 582, 25 FEBRUARY 1874, PAGE 3. Page 3 Advertisements Column 4. "To Walter Gibson, Esq., Waipapa. SIR, — We the undersigned Electors of the Clarence District, request you to represent us in the Provincial Council of Marlborough. We consider our wants are identical with your own, and feel assured you will do your utmost for the benefit of the District :— [...] John Hintz..." https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MEX18740225.2.6.4
• Paperspast website. KAIKOURA STAR, VOLUME LIII, ISSUE 56, 20 JULY 1933, PAGE 4. "OLD KAIKOURA. A COMMUNITY SING OF SIXTY YEARS AGO. (Copy right.) [...] John Burrel, Gilling, Gill, McLeod, Galbraith and Doddymede, John Hintz, John Paap, of Wheatlands proud..." https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/KAIST19330720.2.14

See also:

• [Hintz name not listed in Booklet at Nelson Research Facility “Arrival of German Settlers in Nelson” Compiled by A Heine - page with list of names of German families and the Ships they arrived on.]
• Mt. Fyffe Survey District Map 1879. http://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3655321
• Paperspast website. NELSON EXAMINER AND NEW ZEALAND CHRONICLE, VOLUME XVIII, ISSUE 34, 27 APRIL 1859. "Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. April 23, ship Mariner, 683, Frazer, from London..." [There is a HEINRICH HEINTZ in the Assisted Passenger section with other German arrivals - could be this JOHN HINTZ? Later down the same page is listed a "JOHANN HEINTZ".] https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NENZC18590427.2.3 | https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NENZC18590420.2.8.2
• Lutheranism was founded by Martin Luther, a 16th-century German monk and reformer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism