Born in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Ancestors 
Daughter of Christopher Robinson Hobbs
and Lucy Mary Ann (August) Jamieson
Sister of
Leonard Alexander Hobbs, Christina (Hobbs) Palamountain, Drusilla (Hobbs) Clemens, Oliver Charles Hobbs, Clara Sarah (Hobbs) Goss, Albert George Hobbs, Middleton Hobbs, Alice (Hobbs) Judd, Herbert Hobbs, Lucy Ada Lena (Hobbs) Walters, Ethel (Hobbs) Rogers, Gwendoline (Hobbs) Wigglesworth, Reginald Charles Hobbs and Clarence Christopher Robinson Hobbs
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 63
in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Sep 2014
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Biography
Myrtle, youngest daughter of Christopher Hobbs and Lucy Ann August.
She married in 1915 to Robert Milne Wakefield, Carpenter of Petone.
Myrtle is buried at Taita cemetery, Old section. NEW MON LAWN PLOT 50.
Sources
- "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG6V-TSP4 : 4 January 2018), Myrtle Hobbs, 1897; citing Birth, New Zealand, registration number 1897/1940, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
- "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGX9-GL9B : 4 January 2018), Myrtle Wakefield, 1960; citing Death, New Zealand, registration number 1960/33916, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
- "New Zealand, Cemetery Transcriptions, 1840-1981," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGJ7-BVL8 : 28 June 2018), Myrtle Wakefield, ; citing Death, New Zealand, New Zealand Society of Genealogists, Auckland.
- https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz birth 1897/1940, marriage 1915/4905
- NZ Marriage Folio 7198 (Robert recorded as Robert Milen Milne Wakefield)
- NZ Cemetery Records
- NZ Electoral /Rolls
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Myrtle by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Myrtle:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Myrtle by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Myrtle:
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~12.50%
~25.00%
Bev (Clemens) Hansen 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch UV5293546 [compare], Ancestry member rexandbev22
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~1.56%
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Myrtle is 18 degrees from Maria Mitchell, 32 degrees from Carl Sagan, 22 degrees from Tycho Brahe, 31 degrees from Nicholaus Copernicus, 23 degrees from Eise Eisinga, 19 degrees from Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 17 degrees from Thomas Maclear, 18 degrees from Simon Newcomb, 20 degrees from Isaac Newton, 25 degrees from Pierre Henri Puiseux, 20 degrees from Beatrice Tinsley and 22 degrees from Edith Woodward on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.