Individual Notes

Note for: Caroline Maude De Ridder, ABT 1878 - 27 JUN 1930 Index

Burial:
     Date:   28 JUN 1930
     Place:   Kelvin Grove Cemetery, Palmerston North

Individual Note:
     Name from A Mexted

*1st Marriage Details Date: 1900, Folio No: 3228, Names: John Cosgrove Hayes and Caroline Maude De Ridder*

*2nd Marriage Details Date: 1922, Folio No: 6467, Names: Robert Joseph Sorensen and Caroline Maude Hayes*

Palmerston North City Council Cemetery Records show Caroline Maude Sorenson (sic), Occupation: Married, Address: 50 Bryant Street, Age at Death: 60 years, Date of Death: 27/06/1938, Date of Interment: 28/06/1938, Cemetery: Kelvin Grove Cemetery, Denomination: Meth, Area in Cemetery: C, Block: 007, Plot: 32, Plot Purchaser: Caroline M Sorenson (sic) Funeral Director: W Kells

Individual Notes

Note for: Herbert John Jillett, ABT 1879 - ABT 1919 Index

Individual Note:
     *Birth Details Date: 1879, Registration No: 1879/1384, Name: Herbert John Gillett (sic), Father: William, Mother: Mary Jane*

The Evening Post 31st August 1904
    The Chief Justice was occupied this morning with a case stated between, on the one hand, Mary Jane Jillett, of Porirua, widow, and Herbert John Jillett, of Ohau. farmer (executors of the will of the late William Jillett, of Porirua, sheepfarmer), and, on the other side, the Commissioner of Stamps. Testator was a half-caste, and his children are by a white woman, his wife; part of, his estate in native land. The difficulty arose in deciding whether the beneficiaries are native or European; on their status and that of the land hinges the question of what duty is payable. The sum of £241 had already been paid on the whole estate, including the native land, under the Deceased Persons' Estates Duties Act 1881; the Commissioner claimed a further 10 per cent., on the value of the native land, under section 17 of the Stamp Duty Amendment Act 1885. The question for the Court was whether duty was payable under the last-mentioned Act. Mr. Beere, for the executors, contended that the devise under the will was not a "devise in fee" under the section; and he made the further submission that where the language of the statute was doubtful, it should be liberally construed in favour of the subject as compared with the Crown. He detailed the several Acts dealing with stamp duty and deceased persons' estates, and showed that under one of them a child of deceased would be a native, under another a European, and so on. Mr. Myers, for the Commissioner, replied on the points of law. The Court reserved judgment.

Hawera & Normanby Star 16/9/1904
    Judgment was given by his Honor the Chief Justice on Wednesday morning in the appeal Mary Jane Jillett and Herbert John Jillett v. the Commissioner of Stamps. Plaintiffs are the wife (European) and son of the late Wm. Jillett (half-caste), and under deceased's will are trustees to convert his land and divide the proceeds among deceased's wife and children, as provided in the will. Section 17 of the Stamp Act, 1882, Amendment Act, 1885, provided that an additional duty of 10 per cent. be levied on every "conveyance on sale or devise in fee" of native land, "whereby the right to such land shall first vest in a person other than a native." His Honor said that deceased, being a half-caste, was a "native" under the Act mentioned, and that there is a "devise in fee" to persons (the trustees) who are not "natives" under the Act, but that it is not a "devise in fee whereby the right to the land vests" in the said trustees. The "right" to the land did not vest in the trustees. They could not have given a title to a purchaser without obtaining probate of the will from the Native Land Court. The transaction therefore did not come within the terms of the section. The appeal must be allowed with £10 10s costs. In the course of his judgment, his Honor remarked that the Court is concerned only with the interpretation of the statute, not with the possible harshness of a provision that if a native leaves his property to his children, and the mother is a European, the children have to pay, in addition to the ordinary duties payable by Europeans, a 10 per cent, duty beyond.

*Death Details Date: 1919, Registration No: 1919/1623, Aged: 39 years, Name: Herbert John Gillett*

Individual Notes

Note for: Dina Maud McIlvride, - 8 APR 1945 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Te Henui Cemetery, New Plymouth

Individual Note:
     *Marriage Details Date: 1901, Registration No: 1901/276, Names: John Robert Jillett and Dina Maud McIlvride*

New Plymouth District Council Cemetery Records
Surname: JILLETT
Forenames: Dinah Maud
Gender:
Last Address: New Plymouth-153 St Aubyn St. (Married)
Age at Death: Not recorded
Date of Death: 8 Apr 1945
Category: Burial
Funeral Director: W Abraham Ltd., PO Box 4016, NEW PLYMOUTH 4340
Date of Burial: 11 Apr 1945
Cemetery: TE HENUI
Location in Cemetery: 1942 Extension - Row 2 Lot 11 Plot 2