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• John Edwin Sharp
• Isabella Mary Ann Hann

Generation 2 - Children of John Bentley Sharp

• Eileen Sharp
• Joan Sharp
• Doreen Sharp
• Denis Sharp
• John Sharp
• Desmond Sharp
• Norrie Sharp

John Bentley Sharp 1885-1964

John Bentley Sharp was born on 11 September 1885 at Maclaggan Street, Dunedin. His birth certificate states that his father was John Sharp, a storeman aged 43 from London and Isabella Mary Ann Sharp (formerly Hann) aged 28 from London and that they were married on 11 May 1875 in London.

He married Margaret Healy in St Joseph's Church, Dunedin on 1 January 1913. Margaret was born on 30 June 1887 in Kyeburn. They had seven children (known as Generation 2). His occupation was hotelkeeper.

By the mid 1950s, John Bentley was the sole surviving child of John and Isabella Sharp.

John and Margaret split up in the 1950s, going their separate ways. By this time, all their children had grown up and left home.

More details about the life and times of John Bentley Sharp are told by his son Desmond.

Death

John Bentley Sharp died on 26 June 1964 aged 79 years at 37 Greenhill Avenue, Dunedin. He was buried on 27 June in Block 251, Plot 49, at Andersons Bay Cemetery. When Margaret died 16 years later in 1980, she was also buried in this plot.

His Death Notice read:

Sharp, on June 26, 1964, at Dunedin, John Bently (Jack), husband of Margaret Sharp, loved father of Eileen (Mrs E Baker, Pine Hill), Joan (Mrs J L T Braithwaite, Mornington), Doreen (Mrs D Morrison, Wakari), Dennis (Sydney), John (Motueka), Desmond (Wellington), and Norrie (Dannevirke), and loved grandfather of all his grandchildren, aged 79 years. The funeral will leave our chapel, 78 St Andrew St, today (Saturday) June 27 after a service commencing at 1 pm for the Andersons Bay Cemetery. Messages to 32 Elgin Road, Mornington. No flowers by request. Hope and Sons Ltd, funeral directors.

Headstone - John Bentley and Margaret Sharp

Desmond Sharp and his family at the grave of John Bentley Sharp in January 1976.

The headstone inscription reads: In Loving memory of John Bently Sharp, died 26th June 1964, aged 78 years, and his beloved wife Margaret, died 28 September 1980, aged 93 years.