Tombstone Tuesday - the Ehrenfried family

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Mike Coleman was recently in the Auckland City Harbour News. His ancestors headstones were one of the 20 recently vandalised in the Jewish section of Symonds Street Cemetery.

In the article, Mr. Coleman mentioned that the Ehrenfried’s were early Auckland settlers and related to him in a direct line on his father’s side.

I thought it would be an interesting little to task to see what we have immediately accessible through our website on this family.

Searching our Symonds Street Cemetery database I found references to Elizabeth Davis Ehrenfried, Louis Ehrenfried, and Bernhard Ehrenfried. We have a photograph of their headstone at the library.
  
Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries


Our Auckland Area Passenger Arrivals database has a C. Ehrenfried and a J. Ehrenfried from the Addresses to Sir George Grey, stating they arrived in Auckland in 1862.

Louis Ehrenfried/ Ehrehfried is on the 1881 Electoral Roll with properties in the Waikato, Newton, and Thames (note the different surname spellings, I find it pays to search with browse if it’s an option).

There are mentions in Papers Past to the family, notably a business, Compbelle Ehrenfriede Co. Ltd., but also the attempted rape of Louis’s wife.

A search in our indexes, Index Auckland and the New Zealand Card Index, revealed a wealth of information on the family. These are abstracts to resources we have here in the Central Auckland Research Centre and can be accessed for free by coming in or requested online.

And this is just the very beginning...

Bridget

Military Monday: World War One memorials in Symonds St Cemetery

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Although Symonds Street Cemetery was closed to new burial plots in 1886, people continued to be buried there if they had family already there right up until 1950s - from the end of 1909, they had the added requirement of needing to also be over 50 years of age.
  
Private William Parker, Heritage Images: Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 31-P2442
Full length portrait of Private William Parker, Reg No 38740,
of the Auckland Infantry Regiment,
22nd Reinforcements, - E Company.
Killed in action in France on 4th October 1917
at the Battle of Passchendaele.

Heritage Images: 'Sir George Grey Special Collections,
Auckland Libraries, 31-P2442'  
 

However, there are 11 names associated with World War One noted in the Cemetery. Memorials were erected for soldiers lost in action. These are:
  • Sapper Walter Edwin Clarke (4/516) who was killed in action on Gallipoli on 7 August 1915.
  • Sapper Alfred Ernest Drummond (12/2687) who was killed in action in France on 4 October 1917.
  • Private Walter Drummond (12/3307) who was killed in action in France on 26 September 1916.
  • Private Thomas William Hobson (12/3681) who was killed in action in France on 7 July 1916.
  • Corporal Leonard Ivy Joseph McCarthy (24663) who was killed in action in France on 17 February 1918.
  • Private Ernest Wieland Monk of the Royal Fusiliers who died in France on 12 March 1916.
  • Lance Corporal Charles Stanley Nicholson (23/535) who was killed in action in France on 15 September 1916.
  • Corporal Edward John Parker (2/2896) who was killed in action in France on 26 September 1918.
  • Private William Parker (38740) who was killed in action in France on 4 October 1917.
  • Rifleman Stanley William Rowe (26690) who was killed in action in France on 12 June 1917.
  • Wesley Neal Spragg, Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in action in Egypt on 1 January 1918.

David Verran

PS - Don't forget you can contribute
your ANZAC story to our
Trans-Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge

2013 Trans Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge

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Easter Weekend brings with it the beginning of April, which also means that ANZAC Day is drawing ever nearer.

 This is the day, that is a national day of remembrance for Australian and New Zealanders who died during armed conflict.

Do you have a story to share about an ANZAC? We'd like to hear about not only their sacrifice, but the way it shaped their family history. Maybe you want to blog from the perspective of those that were left behind?

Your story doesn't have to involve a serviceperson who lost their lives - during times of war, all sorts of loss unfortunately are experienced. 

 And you can write about those who served in other wars.

To participate:
  • Write a blog post about an Australian or New Zealander serviceman or woman's family, and the impact war had on their family history
  • Post a comment with the URL to your blog on the comments section of this page. Or if you don't have a blog then email us your story at kintalk@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
  • Publish your post by 25 April 2013.
After ANZAC Day, all submissions will be listed in a summary posting on Auckland Libraries' Kintalk blog.

Just to get you started, recommended resources for New Zealand and Australian research, see the Auckland Libraries Digital Resources. 

Access great online resources: 
Coming Home virtual exhibition 
The virtual exhibition consists of "albums" containing photos/images and documents. Virtual albums entitled "Gallipoli", "Lest We Forget", "New Zealand Maori Battalion", "Peace", "Postcards" and "Returned Services Association". Also has a portal for searching content nationwide from organizations such as libraries, archives, museums and galleries, including Auckland Libraries. Courtesy DigitalNZ. 
Index Auckland and New Zealand Card Index 
For references to articles and other resources regarding WWI and WWII. 
Manuscripts Online 
For diaries, letters, postcards and albums
And Papers Past 

Within the library catalogue: Auckland Libraries, search using World War, 1914-1918 or World War, 1939-1945 to find suitable resources. 

Searching using WWI or WWII etc will return you wonderful results of holdings throughout the whole of Auckland Libraries, which you can narrow down by location by using the "select location" dropdown menu on the right of screen. For example, available in all four Research Centres:- Central, South (Manukau) and West (Waitakere) and North (Takapuna) are gems such as:

and you'll also find Australian resources in the Central Auckland Research Centre; for example:
For other sites, try looking at:
Helen Vail's blog 100 NZ WW1 Memorials 1914-2014 is a mine of information about WW1 memorials, and individuals that she has researched. Helen's goal is to personally visit and collate information from 100 New Zealand World War One Memorials throughout New Zealand by August 2014 to commemorate the 100 year Anniversary of the start of World War One and to honour those who paid the ultimate price.
Here's last year's contributions and 2011's summary and blog responses to get you started!
Hopefully this will inspire you and provide you with some assistance in writing your blog!

The centenary of the First World War - 2014-2018
While thinking about your blog, remember that 2014 marks the centenary of the beginning of the First World War. 
The Ministry of Culture and Heritage is developing projects to assist with commemorations for next year, WW100 is providing a portal for New Zealanders who want to be involved in the commemorations, and NZ History Online provides a place for our school children to go to for homework and study assistance.
You may already have read about the launch of New Zealand's WW100 on our sister blog Heritage et AL .
Its worth considering how else you might want to contribute to commemorating, and ensuring that your stories are collected.

Each country will have its own WW100 commemorations, so if your ancestor was involved serving for another country, see what you can find out that country is doing.


FindMyPastAU and Inside History magazine have a joint initiative to create an ANZAC Memory Bank  and invite people to register to be notified of when the site goes live.

Blog away
Seonaid

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