Biography

WILLIAM BEST

Burial register ID: 15546
Surname: BEST
First name: WILLIAM
Middle names:
Gender: Male
Age: 65 Years
Cause of death: Unknown
Burial type:
Date of death: 10-Mar-1936
Date of burial: 12-Mar-1936

Block: 191
Plot: 107
Inscription:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

CAPT. W. BEST

LOST S.S. KAKANUI JAN. 1891

AND HIS WIFE EVE DIED 6 MAY 1894

ALSO MARY GORDON

DAUGHTER OF ABOVE DIED 8 JULY 1921

AND CAPT. H. GORDON

HER HUSBAND DIED 28 OCT. 1927

AND EVE (POSS)

THEIR DAUGHTER DIED 27 FEB. 1931

ALSO WILLIAM

LOVED HUSBAND OF MARGARET BEST

DIED 10th MARCH 1936

ALSO MARGARET

WIFE OF ANDREW MARTIN

AND DAUGHTER OF THE LATE CAPT. W. BEST

DIED 16th SEPT. 1943

THY WILL BE DONE

Bio contributor:

Son of William who was the captain of the Kakanui. Iron steamship, 83/57 tons. # 75223. Built at Dunedin , NZ, 1879; reg. Dunedin 11/1879. Lbd 97.5 x 14.5 x 7.5 ft. Captain William Best. Left Lusitania Bay, Macquarie Island, for New Zealand, on 3 January 1891 but was never seen or heard from again. She had been sent to the island on a rescue mission, to find a party of sealers, which they were successful in so doing. Eighteen lives lost. The Kakanui was to be the first of a number of vessels lost while supporting the seal and penguin oil operations at Macquarie Island established by Joseph Hatch of Invercargill, N.Z. [#TS1]
For a full account of the circumstances of the rescue, see Broxam and Nash, TS1.
Loney lists:
Kakanui. Steamship. Visited Macquarie Island to relieve the sealers taken there on the Awarau. After making contact, a fiece storm resulted in the disappearance of the Awarau, January 1891. [LI]

There are 6 Interments in this grave:

Surname First names Age Date of death Date of burial
BEST EVE 59 Years 11-May-1894 13-May-1894
BEST MARGARET 83 Years 17-Mar-1953 19-Mar-1953
BEST WILLIAM 65 Years 10-Mar-1936 12-Mar-1936
GORDON EVE LILEY 40 Years 26-Feb-1931 28-Feb-1931
GORDON HORATIO 73 Years 26-Oct-1927 28-Oct-1927
GORDON MARY ELISABETH 65 Years 08-Jul-1921 11-Jul-1921