{"id":4139,"date":"2026-09-29T08:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=4139"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:24:13","slug":"sarah-jane-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/sarah-jane-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Jane Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>09 September 1886 at New Brighton, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. She attended Springston Schoool in her youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 9 September 1914, Sarah Jane married Karl Friederick Augustus &#8220;Gus&#8221; Eilken and from that union, 6 children arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Child<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Born<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Married<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Children<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Died<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Comments<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ruby May<\/td><td>7 Nov 1916<\/td><td>13 Sep 1940<\/td><td>2<\/td><td>21 Dec 2006<\/td><td>MacKenzie<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Doreen<\/td><td>Jul 1917<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Jul 1917<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Arthur<\/td><td>7 Sep 1918<\/td><td>1949<\/td><td>3<\/td><td>22 Apr 2008<\/td><td>Hoskin<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Victor Hugo<\/td><td>20 Jan 1921<\/td><td>1949<\/td><td>4<\/td><td>5 Oct 2005<\/td><td>Hayward<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Conrad Ian<\/td><td>24 Oct 1924<\/td><td>1953<\/td><td>4<\/td><td>28 Apr 2025<\/td><td>Caukwell<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Maurice<\/td><td>5 Oct 1926<\/td><td>1951<\/td><td>3<\/td><td>28 May 2016<\/td><td><em>Living<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gus passed away on the 10 July 1928 at Lincoln and is buried in Springston Cemetery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Jane passed away  on the 28 June 1959 at Lincoln, Selwyn, Canterbury, New Zealand and is similarly buried in Springston Cemetery. The are buried together in adjacent graves.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-44.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-44.png 334w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-44-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-45.png 334w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-45-300x117.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SJ-Eilken-Grave-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SJ-Eilken-Grave-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SJ-Eilken-Grave-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SJ-Eilken-Grave.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Karl-Eilken-Grave-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Karl-Eilken-Grave-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Karl-Eilken-Grave-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Karl-Eilken-Grave.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Springston Cemetery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09 September 1886 at New Brighton, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. She attended Springston Schoool in her youth. On the 9 September 1914, Sarah Jane married Karl Friederick Augustus &#8220;Gus&#8221; Eilken and from that union, 6 children arrived. Child Born Married Children Died Comments Ruby May 7 Nov 1916 13 Sep 1940 2 21 Dec 2006 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/sarah-jane-hamilton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sarah Jane Hamilton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4139","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=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4139\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}