This is the information we can piece together on Rose: she was born Rosina Hazelwood in 1868 in Islington, London. She came to New Zealand with her family on the ship “Otago” in 1874.
Rose was aged 16 when she was married to Uriah James Williams, aged 42 in 1884. Uriah and Rosina’s daughter, Mabel Hannah, was born on 20th July 1884 at Lyttelton. It can’t have been an easy life for Rose, she was only 20 when her husband was sentenced to two years’ hard labor for indecent assault. It wasn’t the first time he’d been in trouble with the law.
Rose died aged 24 in 1892 and as the Cemetery opened in 1891, she is one of the early burials at Karori.
On the 1896 Electoral Roll, Uriah is recorded as living in the Benevolent Home, a laborer. He died aged 59 in 1901 and is buried in a separate plot.
Mabel married Hart Samuel Bennett in 1909 and died in 1910.Some of this information has been taken from the following website: http://www.lynly.gen.nz/HVFHazelwoodBaker.pdf
