Robert John Galway, 1862–

Name
Robert John /Galway/
Birth
about 1862
Marriage
about 1887 (aged 25 years)
Note: New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937

New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937

Name: Mary Close
Gender: Female
Marriage Year: 1887
Marriage Place: New Zealand
Relation: Bride (Wife)
Folio Number: 2129

New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937

Name: Robert John Galway
Gender: Male
Marriage Year: 1887
Marriage Place: New Zealand
Relation: Bridegroom
Folio Number: 2129

Occupation
New Zealand, Bankruptcy Notices, 1893-1904

Name: Robert John Galway
Residence Date: 15 Apr 1893
Residence Place: Feilding, New Zealand
Event Date: 25 Apr 1893
Event Place: Palmerston North, New Zealand
Occupation: Watchmaker
25 April 1893
Disappeared
after 1904
Note: Not sure what happened to him after that. Mary Jane remarried in 1902, so he may have died while serving his 5 year sentence for Breaking and Entering.
Death of a wife
Note: New Zealand, Death Index, 1848-1966

New Zealand, Death Index, 1848-1966

Name: Mary Jane Lyford
Death Date: 1928 Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration Place: Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand
Folio Number: 3776

Burial of a wife
Family with Mary Jane Close
himself
1862–
Birth: about 1862 — Ireland
wife
NZ Cemetery Record
1865–1928
Birth: about 1865 — New Zealand
Death: 18 October 1928 — Motueka, Nelson Province, New Zealand
Marriage Marriage — about 1887 — New Zealand
Frederick Robert Lyford + Mary Jane Close
wife’s husband
1865–1946
Birth: about 1865 — New Zealand
Death: 14 March 1946 — Kaikoura, Marlborough Province, New Zealand
wife
NZ Cemetery Record
1865–1928
Birth: about 1865 — New Zealand
Death: 18 October 1928 — Motueka, Nelson Province, New Zealand
Marriage Marriage — about 1902 — New Zealand
Name
Marriage

New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937

Name: Mary Close
Gender: Female
Marriage Year: 1887
Marriage Place: New Zealand
Relation: Bride (Wife)
Folio Number: 2129

New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937

Name: Robert John Galway
Gender: Male
Marriage Year: 1887
Marriage Place: New Zealand
Relation: Bridegroom
Folio Number: 2129

Disappeared

Not sure what happened to him after that. Mary Jane remarried in 1902, so he may have died while serving his 5 year sentence for Breaking and Entering.