{"id":2209,"date":"2024-11-17T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T05:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2209"},"modified":"2024-11-21T09:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:10:55","slug":"arthur-stark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/elizabeth-steel-stark\/arthur-stark\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Stark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arthur was born on the\u00a023 Jul 1894\u00a0at\u00a0Gore, Southland, New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, there is little detail on Arthur&#8217;s life. His birth certificate does not contain a father&#8217;s name, but we can assume that his mother and her parents looked after him. Arthur&#8217;s grandfather handled the details around the funeral and so on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arthur&#8217;s mother married John McKinnell in 1995. However, Arthur attended Gore Main School alongside his Stark family, and James Stark, his grandfather, is shown as guardian in school records and not McKinnell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2317\" width=\"403\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-4.png 385w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-4-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2318\" width=\"401\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-5.png 349w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-5-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><figcaption>Mataura Ensign, Issue 1241, 29 September 1903, Page 6<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, Arthur passed away on the 3 Oct 1904 at\u00a0Gore, Southland, New Zealand. I am uncertain of the cause of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arthur is buried at Mataura Cemetery in an unmarked grave alongside his Uncle John Thompson Stark (died 1887) in the following plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><th>Block<\/th><td>D<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Plot<\/th><td>16<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Plot Id<\/th><td>8739<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption>Gore District Council cemetery records<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2305\" width=\"571\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1.png 333w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><figcaption>Mataura Ensign, Issue 1394, 6 October 1904, Page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-2.png 632w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-2-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><figcaption>Mataura Ensign, Issue 1394, 6 October 1904, Page 5<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mataura-Cemetery-John-Thompson-and-Arthur-Stark-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2310\" width=\"960\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mataura-Cemetery-John-Thompson-and-Arthur-Stark-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mataura-Cemetery-John-Thompson-and-Arthur-Stark-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mataura-Cemetery-John-Thompson-and-Arthur-Stark-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mataura-Cemetery-John-Thompson-and-Arthur-Stark-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mataura-Cemetery-John-Thompson-and-Arthur-Stark-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Mataura Cemetery, Block D, Plot 16<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-3.png 682w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-3-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur was born on the\u00a023 Jul 1894\u00a0at\u00a0Gore, Southland, New Zealand. Sadly, there is little detail on Arthur&#8217;s life. His birth certificate does not contain a father&#8217;s name, but we can assume that his mother and her parents looked after him. Arthur&#8217;s grandfather handled the details around the funeral and so on. Arthur&#8217;s mother married John &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/elizabeth-steel-stark\/arthur-stark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arthur Stark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":895,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2209\/revisions\/2321"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}