{"id":4450,"date":"2026-10-06T13:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=4450"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:31:17","slug":"bertha-metta-bruhn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/chambers\/georgina-mary-chambers\/bertha-metta-bruhn\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertha Metta Bruhn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bertha was born at Greymouth on the 30 June 1907\u00a0and she attended Greymouth School in her youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 21 August 1941 at New Brighton in Christchurch, she married Henry &#8220;Harry&#8221; Dobson Harpur. Harry had been married earlier and there was one child from that marriage. The child would have been around 16 when Harry married Bertha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After initially living at Greymouth, the couple moved to Hamilton in 1946 then, Te Awamutu and finally back to Hamilton. Harry acted as a warehouse storeman and supervisor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no children from the union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bertha passed away at Hamilton on the 21 October 1982 and her remains are to be found in Hamilton Park Cemetery, Hamilton.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Bertha-Harpur-777x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Bertha-Harpur-777x1024.jpeg 777w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Bertha-Harpur-228x300.jpeg 228w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Bertha-Harpur-768x1012.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Bertha-Harpur.jpeg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Henry passed away 10 years later on the 10 December 1992 and his remains are buried in the same cemetery as his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Harry-Harpur-1024x718.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Harry-Harpur-1024x718.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Harry-Harpur-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Harry-Harpur-768x538.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Harry-Harpur.jpeg 1036w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/user\/profile\/49126276\">Robyn Heyne<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bertha was born at Greymouth on the 30 June 1907\u00a0and she attended Greymouth School in her youth. On the 21 August 1941 at New Brighton in Christchurch, she married Henry &#8220;Harry&#8221; Dobson Harpur. Harry had been married earlier and there was one child from that marriage. The child would have been around 16 when Harry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/chambers\/georgina-mary-chambers\/bertha-metta-bruhn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bertha Metta Bruhn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2911,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4450","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=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4450\/revisions\/4460"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}