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Harrison Nutter (Bob) SPENCER was born in New Zealand on 18 August 1895.^2,3

He married Winifred Ellen WAITE in Tarata on 6 February 1924.^1,4,5

Harrison died on 1 November 1974 in Auckland at age 79.^1,6,7 He was buried on 5 November 1974 at the Purewa Cemetery.⁷

Hugh McCutcheon (Peter) SPENCER was born in New Zealand on 10 June 1905. He was named after his father's best friend McCutcheon, but known as Peter due to his mother referring to him as her 'little Peterkins.^2,3'

He finished his primary school education at King's College Lower School in 1917 and went on to Auckland Grammar School until 1923.⁴

After studying at the University of Auckland he practised as a public accountant (APANZ) in Queen Street and in 1945 established a branch in Otahuhu. An enthusiastic sportsman, he played club cricket, hockey and tennis, and is thought to have been a founding member of one of the Auckland alpine or tramping clubs. He was also on the committee of the Waitemata Motorcycle Club and secretary of the Auckland Chess Club. During the Second World War he assisted with the accounts of the Patriotic Appeal, was involved with first aid (St John Ambulance) and served as district commander of the Home Guard's One Tree Hill Unit.

In 1945 Wairoa solicitor and bryologist George Osborne King SAINSBURY (1880–1957) described a new moss that he had collected at Waihohonu on the southern slopes of Ruapehu on 24 February 1942. He named it Dicranoweisia spenceri, the species "after my friend Mr H M Spencer, a companion on many collecting expeditions". In a 2019 taxonomic revision it was transferred to the genus Kiaeria, but the epithet spenceri was retained.⁴

He married Joyce CONNETT in New Zealand in 1948.⁵

Hugh died on 5 July 1981 in Remuera, Auckland, at age 76.^2,6,7 He was cremated on 8 July 1981 at the Purewa Cemetery.⁷

Ivy's birth was registered circa 1881 in New Zealand.¹

Ivy Minnie SPENCER was born in New Zealand on 19 April 1915.²

Ivy's death was registered circa 2002 in New Zealand.³

John Harrison SPENCER was born in New Zealand on 25 June 1925.^1,2

He married Nesta Harrie Barbara JERRAM in New Zealand on 14 April 1951.^1,3

John was divorced from Nesta Harrie Barbara JERRAM at Auckland in 1965. Note that this may not have become absolute until 1969.⁴

John died on 27 December 2016 in Taupo at age 91.^5,6,7 His ashes were buried on 5 January 2017 at Purewa Cemetery.⁷

John's birth was registered between October 1846 and December 1846 in Oakham, Leicestershire.¹ and was baptised on 24 March 1847.²

John died in February 1848 in Knossington, Leicestershire. He was buried on 21 February 1848 at the St Peter in Knossington.^2,3

John Stockdale SPENCER was born at Vane Cottage in Otahuhu, Auckland, on 10 May 1863.^1,2

Joshua SPENCER was born in 1834 in Knossington, Leicestershire,² and was baptised on 11 June 1835 in Knossington.^1,3
The siblings William, Thomas, Harrison, Joshua, Mary, George and Albert were listed in the 1841 census at Knossington village in Knossington, Leicestershire, with their parents, Thomas SPENCER and Catherine HARRISON.⁴
The siblings Thomas, Joshua and Albert were listed in the 1851 census at Oakham Rd in Knossington, Leicestershire, with their parents, Thomas SPENCER and Catherine HARRISON.²

He married Emily Fanny WISE in Funtington, Sussex, on 18 May 1858.^3,5

He was listed in the 1861 census as Head of Family in Knossington, Leicestershire, with his wife Emily; he was a farmer of 180 acres, employing four labourers and a boy, with two house servants. Their children Marion and Harrison were listed as living with them.⁶

Joshua died on 1 May 1864 in Funtington, Sussex.^3,7

Judith Stanley Heath SPENCER was born on 17 October 1921.¹

She married Carl Otto Emil Hans Peter BRINKMAN in New Zealand in 1947.²

Judith died on 27 September 2013 in New Zealand at age 91.^3,4

She was baptised on 15 September 1857 in Knossington.¹

Lucy SPENCER, Charles SPENCER, George SPENCER, Percy SPENCER and Kate (Kitty) SPENCER arrived at Auckland, on 11 June 1861 in the company of Thomas SPENCER and Elizabeth BERRIDGE.²