{"id":2407,"date":"2024-11-22T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T01:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2407"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:42:19","slug":"william-john-carson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/margaret-mitchell-stark\/william-john-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"William John Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill was born on the 3 April 1904 at\u00a0Otautau, Southland, New Zealand. He was only 3 years old when his father died and only 12 when his mother passed away. His childhood would have been difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He married Eva Theodora Connelly on the 29 Apr 1939 at Martinborough in the Wairarapa. There were no children from the union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 18 Nov 1960 Bill passed away at Wellington, New Zealand and is buried in Karori Cemetery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eva_Connelly_and_Bill_Carson_on_Their_Wedding_Day-1024x792.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eva_Connelly_and_Bill_Carson_on_Their_Wedding_Day-1024x792.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eva_Connelly_and_Bill_Carson_on_Their_Wedding_Day-300x232.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eva_Connelly_and_Bill_Carson_on_Their_Wedding_Day-768x594.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eva_Connelly_and_Bill_Carson_on_Their_Wedding_Day.jpeg 1425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eva_and_Bill_Carson-642x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3531\" style=\"width:674px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eva_and_Bill_Carson-642x1024.jpeg 642w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eva_and_Bill_Carson-188x300.jpeg 188w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Eva_and_Bill_Carson.jpeg 671w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Bill-carson-headstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Bill-carson-headstone.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Bill-carson-headstone-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eva remarried (Mudge) and is buried at Palmerston North.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill was born on the 3 April 1904 at\u00a0Otautau, Southland, New Zealand. He was only 3 years old when his father died and only 12 when his mother passed away. His childhood would have been difficult. He married Eva Theodora Connelly on the 29 Apr 1939 at Martinborough in the Wairarapa. There were no children &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/margaret-mitchell-stark\/william-john-carson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;William John Carson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":905,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2407","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=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2407\/revisions\/3535"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}