Lavinia (West) Phillips (1869 - 1950)

Born 27 Sep 1869 in Little Akaloa, Banks Peninsula District, Canterbury, New Zealand

Ancestors

Wife of James Henry Phillips — married 11 May 1892 in Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Descendants

Died 1950 at about age 80 in Westport, West Coast, New Zealand

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Biography

Lavinia was born in Little Akaloa, a bay on Banks Peninsula, in 1869. She is the daughter of James West (a sawyer) and Sarah (Tayler) Knewstubb (known as Sarah West).

Lavinia's birth was registered, not by her parents, but by the school teacher at Okains Bay School a month after her birth.

She married James Henry Phillips, a butcher, in Wellington in 1892. The wedding was held at the home of Lavinia's father, James Robert West, in York Street, Wellington.

Lavinia and James had five children:

• Lavinia (Phillips) Havill, 1893-1981
• Henry Phillips, 1894-1919, died of Spanish flu during WWI
• Charles Phillips, 1896-?
• Walter Phillips, , 1897-1963
• Helen May (Phillips) Smith, 1912-1997

James died in 1929 in West port. Lavinia died in Westport in 1950 aged 78. Both were buried at Orowaiti.

Sources

• "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-BN8V : 27 November 2017), Lavinia West, 1869; citing Birth, New Zealand, registration number 1869/30107, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 July 2020), memorial page for Lavina Phillips (unknown–1950), Find a Grave Memorial no. 166422346, citing Orowaiti Middle Cemetery, Westport, Buller District, West Coast, New Zealand ; Maintained by Cyndi (contributor 47314338) .
• Possible source - Lavinia West in Lyttelton 1878: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18781221.2.18.2
• Possible source - Lavinia West in Lyttelton 1876: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18761218.2.16
• NZBDM Death: 1950/27886, Phillips, Lavinia, 78Y
• NZBDM Marriage: 1892/1193, Lavinia West, James Kerry Phillips