Nelson Harold HEATH

Date of Birth: 
8 Apr 1867
Date of Death: 
1 Feb 1946

Nelson was born at Nelson. His birth name was Nelson Theodore Middlemiss. He changed it around 1896 (according to the electoral rolls, although he was married as a Heath

He married Mary Ann Hall/Hull (born at Melbourne in 1864) in Auckland in 1893.

They had four sons & four daughters. One son died at 22, another at 13 & a daughter in infancy.

Nelson started a s a Moulder in Wellington, then moved to Rangitikei as a gardener & the Palmerston Nth by 1900 as a driver. He was in Levin by 1911 as a carrier. By 1914 he was back to Wellington as a labourer & then became a watersider for the rest of his working life. He owned property in Kent St from 1914 to 1919.

One daughter married & moved to Levin. Her & her husband & the 13 year old son are all buried at Tro Tiro rd cemetery.

Relatives mentioned in profile: 
Nelson Harold Heath, Peter Middlemiss, Esther Adelaide Savage, Mary Ann Hall/Hull, Harold Nelson Heath, Wilfred Frank Heath, Ernest Walter Heath, Rose Meade, Albert Percy Heath, Ethel Ellen Heath, Albert Thomas Morgan, Ethel May Rutt, Lillian Mary (Lily Heath, Frank Loasby, Emily Clarke, Violet Grace Heath, John Donoghue, Nita Muriel Heath, Nelson Theodore Middlemiss.