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Family of James Raglan Akersten and Catherine Marie Mercer

Husband: James Raglan Akersten

  • Name:

  • James Raglan Akersten

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Francis Errick Akersten (1829-1876)

  • Mother:

  • Elizabeth Martha Cawood (1831- )

  • Note (shared):

  • James Raglan Akersten moved to New Zealand, married a woman named Caroline and settled down as a photographer in Wanganui. Several of his photographs are held in the collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

    (Information from Harry Dutton and from John Sullivan, Curator, Photographic Archive, A: Turnbull Library)

  • Birth:

  • 8 Aug 1855

  • 33 Underwood St, Mile End, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 2 Sep 1855 (age 0)

  • Saint Mary, Haggerston

  • Birth fact:

  • 1855 (age 0)

  • 1855 Sep Qtr, Whitechapel, 1c/323

  • Census:

  • 1861 (age 5-6)

  • Living with parents

  • Death:

  • 1928 (age 72-73)

  • New Zealand

Wife: Catherine Marie Mercer

  • Name:

  • Catherine Marie Mercer

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

Child 1: Ivy Charlotte Akersten

  • Name:

  • Ivy Charlotte Akersten

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 1880

  • New Zealand

Child 2: Leo Hilton Akersten

Child 3: Herbert Sefton Akersten

  • Name:

  • Herbert Sefton Akersten

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Mary Amelia Finlay (1886-1964)

  • Children:

  • Herbert Eric Jasper Akersten (1909-1950)

  •  

  • Jasper Frederick Akersten (1910-1989)

  •  

  • Catherine May Akersten (1913-1990)

  •  

  • Raymond Kent Akersten (1915-1917)

  • Note:

  • AKERSTEN, HERBERT SEFTON

    Rank: Private

    Service No: 18741

    Date of Death: 08/06/1917

    Age: 33

    Regiment/Service: Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 2nd Bn.

    Grave Reference III. C. 188.

    Cemetery: BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

    Additional Information:

    Son of James and Catherine Akersten, of Nelson, New Zealand; husband of Mary A. Akersten, of 17, Grosvenor St., Grey Lynn, Auckland.

  • Birth:

  • 1884

  • Nelson, New Zealand

  • Death:

  • 8 Jun 1917 (age 32-33)

  • Killed in France

Child 4: Eric Francis Akersten

  • Name:

  • Eric Francis Akersten

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Helena Burke (c. 1889-1966)

  • Birth:

  • 1889

  • New Zealand

  • Death:

  • 7 May 1964 (age 74-75)

  • Auckland, New Zealand

Note on Husband: James Raglan Akersten - shared note

James Raglan Akersten moved to New Zealand, married a woman named Caroline and settled down as a photographer in Wanganui. Several of his photographs are held in the collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

(Information from Harry Dutton and from John Sullivan, Curator, Photographic Archive, A: Turnbull Library)

Note on Child 3: Herbert Sefton Akersten

AKERSTEN, HERBERT SEFTON

Rank: Private

Service No: 18741

Date of Death: 08/06/1917

Age: 33

Regiment/Service: Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 2nd Bn.

Grave Reference III. C. 188.

Cemetery: BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

Additional Information:

Son of James and Catherine Akersten, of Nelson, New Zealand; husband of Mary A. Akersten, of 17, Grosvenor St., Grey Lynn, Auckland.