BIRTH as Stewart Sergeant NZBDM: 1865/12280
His Mother died when he was very young and he went to live with family friends in Wanganui.
MARRIAGE as Stewart Serjeant NZ BDM 1889/1107
Mentioned in newspaper [1]
Looks like he was very active in the community of Midhirst, Stratford, Taranaki, and that he could sing :)
1899 : Opened a general store in Midhirst. Later sold it to Mr J. R. Parkinson and moved to Tauranga. [2]
DEATH as Serjeant. NZ BDM 1914/872
SERGEANT (SERJEANT)- SHOOTING FATALITY - TE MATAI RESIDENT FOUND DEAD - Much consternation was felt both in Te Puke and Tauranga yesterday when the news was announced that Mr Stewart Serjeant had been found dead in a a paddock on his farm at Te Matai ... [Bay Of Plenty Times, Volume XLII, Issue 6088, 16 March 1914, Page 5] An impressive memoriam service was held in the Mission Hall on Sunday evening, Mr Climie officiating, the solemnity of the occasion being added to by the news of the death of Mr SERGEANT, a devoted adherent of the church and a member of the choir. The preacher delivered a most earnest and eloquent address, emphasising the fact that that there was but a step between life and death, and exhorting his hearers to so live their lives as to be prepared for that great change which might at any moment overtake them. At the conclusion of the service the organist phyed the Dead March, during which the congregation uiiained standing, after which the benediction was pronounced. 1914/872 Serjeant Stewart 48Y[Te Puke Times, Volume II, 17 March 1914, Page 2 and Page 3 [3]
More on his death: evidently an accident. [4]
BURIAL as Serjeant. Te Puke Cemetery. [5]
New Zealand BDM. Taranaki Herald "Midhirst" articles.
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