Birth: July-September 1904 Karamea, Buller, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Marriage: 1929 New Zealand
Wife: Lena Harvey 1908-2002
Death: 1/4 July 1980 Nelson, North Coast, South Island, New Zealand
Buried: Plot 82 Marsden Valley Cemetery, Nelson, New Zealand
Barry Charles Simkin b1946-a1971
Entry in Ancestry New Zealand, Birth Index, 1840-1950 for John Victor Glenie Simkin born in July-September 1904 in Karamea, New Zealand.
Two entries in Ancestry New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981 for John Victor Glennie Simkin a labourer address King Street, Cambridge, Waikato in 1928, other occupant Charles Arnold Stanley Simkin (brother?), and also in 1928 a sawmillhand, address Umere, Motueka, Tasman, other occupant Charles Arnold Stanley Simkin (brother?).
Entry in Ancestry New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937 for John Victor Glennie Simkin and Lena Harvey in 1929.
Two entries in Ancestry New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981 for John Victor Glennie Simkin a sawmillhand and living in Motueka, Tasman in 1935, as was Lena Simkin and some fifteen other Simkins, and a swmill hand address Wakefield, Nelson in 1938, other occupant Lena Simkin (wife?).
Entry in Ancestry New Zealand, World War II Ballot Lists, 1940-1945 for John Victor Glennie Simkin, a lorry driver address Whitby Road, Wakefield, Nelson on 11 November 1942.
Seven entries in Ancestry New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981 for John Victor Glennie Simkin a sawmillh and living in Wakefield, Nelson from 1946 to 1949, other occupant Lena Simkin (wife?), a famer address Tetaho, Westland, West Coast from 1954 to 1957, other occupant Lena Simkin (wife?), retired address 190 St Vincent Street, Nelson in 1969 to 1978, other occupant Lena Simkin (wife?).
Entry in Ancestry New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007 for John Victor Glennie Simkin died 4 July 1980 aged 76 and buried in Plot 82 Marsden Valley, Nelson, Marlborough.
Entry in Find a Grave for John Victor Glennie “Glenn” Simkin born 10 July 1904 in Karamea, Buller,, West Coast, New Zealand, died 1 July 1980 in New Zealand and buried in Block 20A, Plot 087, Marsden Cemetery, Nelson, New Zealand "In Loving Memory of/ A Dear Husband, Father & Grandfather/Gleenn Simkin/Died1 July 1980 Aged 76 Years/ And His Wife/Lena Simkin/ A Dear ? Mother & Nana/Died 31st October 2002 Aged 84 Years". A Patsy Simkin 1942-2000 is also buried in the same cemetery.
John Victor Glennie Simkin was the father of Barry Charles Simkin, husband of Helen Elizabeth Martin, my eleventh cousin.
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