Dora Gertrude Pike (1907 - 1993)

Born 7 Jun 1907 in Gladstone, Wairarapa, Wellington, New Zealand

Ancestors

Wife of Arthur William Pike — married about 1925 in New Zealand

Died 17 Oct 1993 at age 86 in New Zealand

Biography

This profile is part of the Pike Name Study.

Dora Pike was born on 7 June 1907^[1] at Gladstone, Wairarapa, New Zealand, and her birth was registered in the third quarter of 1907 at Carterton^[2]. She was the last daughter and eighth child of Isaac Pike and Amy Ansley Buckeridge^[3].

She married Arthur William Pike on 22 April 1925^[4][5] at her mother's house at Hurunuiorangi Flat, Gisborne^[6]. She was given away by her oldest brother, Herbert, and her sister Alice was her bridesmaid. Her brother George was the best man. They had five children.

Her husband Arthur died on 20 September 1944 from injuries suffered in a motor-car accident the previous day^[7]. She claimed for "£5000 general damages and £30 4s 3d funeral expenses" in the Supreme Court against his employer, Evan Critchley Brenkley, Contractor of Masterton. It was alleged that "the defendant so negligently drove his car, in which [Arthur] was a passenger, that it left the roadway and collided with a bridge". The jury at the Supreme Court awarded her £3200 general damages and the funeral expenses requested^[8]. She was given £1500 of the general damages, the rest to be paid "to the Public Trustee, for him to furnish a report on the respective merits of the five children".

Dora died on 17 October 1993^[9] at Masterton. She was buried at Archer Street Cemetery (Plan II, Row 27), Masterton, Masterton District, Wellington, New Zealand, with her husband Arthur^[10]. Their gravestone reads:

In Loving Memory of

ARTHUR WILLIAM

Dearly Beloved Husband of

DORA PIKE

DIED SEPT.20.1944

Result of Accident

AGED 42

EVER REMEMBERED

In Loving Memory of

DORA GERTRUDE

Dearly Beloved Wife of

ARTHUR PIKE

DIED OCT. 17. 1993

AGED 88

EVER REMEMBERED

Research Notes

Her date of birth is given correctly in her birth registration in two sources, but her death registration has an incorrect year of birth, and her grave gives an incorrect age. She was 86 when she died. (Dickson-4413 00:56, 2 September 2023 (UTC))

Sources

1. ↑ New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (Digital Database), Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua Birth Registration. Accessed 2 Sep 2023

   1907/15894 Pike, Dora Mother=Amy Ansley Father=Isaac DOB=07/06/1907

2. ↑ Ancestry.com. New Zealand, Birth Index, 1840-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: New Zealand, Birth Index, 1840–1950. Microfiche. Accessed 2 Sep 2023
   • View Ancestry Record 8949 #2392753

   Dora Pike birth registered in Jul-Aug-Sep 1907 in Carterton, Wellington, New Zealand.

3. ↑ "Births, Deaths & Marriages Online", [digital index], New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz), Birth Registration of Dora Pike, child of Isaac and Amy Ansley; citing Birth Certificate 1907/15894.
4. ↑ New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (Digital Database), Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua Marriage Registration. Accessed 2 Sep 2023

   1925/4823 Bride=Dora Pike Groom=Arthur William Pike DOM=22/04/1925

5. ↑ "Births, Deaths & Marriages Online", [digital index], New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz), Marriage Registration of Arthur William Pike and Dora Pike ; citing Marriage Certificate 1925/4823.
6. ↑ Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa Accessed 2 Sep 2023

   PERSONAL ITEMS. Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 April 1925, Page 4

7. ↑ Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa Accessed 2 Sep 2023

   DEATH OF HUSBAND. Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 131, 5 June 1945, Page 6

8. ↑ Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa Accessed 2 Sep 2023

   JURY AWARD £3200. FATALITY IN WAIRARAPA. Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 133, 7 June 1945, Page 9

9. ↑ New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (Digital Database), Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua Death Registration. Accessed 2 Sep 2023

   1993/52409 Pike, Dora Gertrude DOB=7 June 1905 [Incorrect] DOD=17/10/1993

10. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122606491/dora-gertrude-pike: accessed 02 September 2023), memorial page for Dora Gertrude Pike Pike (1905–17 Oct 1993), Find A Grave: Memorial #122606491, citing Archer Street Cemetery, Masterton, Masterton District, Wellington, New Zealand; Maintained by Bigbird Jo_NZ (contributor 47676831).

Acknowledgements

• Information from research undertaken by Jean Dickson
• Biography written by her second cousin once removed Margaret Bailey Allison