New Zealand BMD

Birth
1872/22818 Dennett Frederick William Catharine William Young

plus these siblings

1869/20656 Dennett Emily NR Catherine. I think the NR (not recorded) should be under fathers name.

1870/22107 Dennett Henry Edward Catherine William Young
1876/12823 Dennett Lynda Agnes Kate William Young
1879/13636 Dennett Rose Violet Kate William Young
1883/16699 Dennett Ruby Catherine May Katherine William Young

The marriage for William & Catherine
1866/6187 Catherine Woods William Young Dennett

A POST OFFICE ROBBERY.

(BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Napier, this day. William Frederick Dennett and Henry Dennett alias Thomas Topping, were committed for trial at Hastings yesterday, on a charge of feloniously breaking into the Hastings Post Office. Bail was allowed, each prisoner in his own recognisances of £200,' and two sureties of £100 each.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 242, 10 October 1894, Page 5


Herbert Allandale, Frederick Dennett, and John Hayes were charged with breaking and entering at the Amberley Railway Station on April 9th, and stealing cash, stamps and postal notes, valued at .£2OO. Hayes pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The trial of Dennett and Allandale is proceeding, and it is expected to last till to-morrow evening.
Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11559, 16 May 1905, Page 7

Further court appearances- There are other offences, court appearances and imprisonment to be found on Papers past.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Dennett and Nottingham came up for Sentence for the burglary later. Dennett said his age was 35, and Nottingham 21. Dennett remarked that he had just recently come out of gaol in Auckland, where he served a heavy sentence of seven years. Through good conduct and industry in prison, however, he was granted a remission of twelve months, after petitioning the Minister of Justice. Dennett said that after completing his sentence he found his constitution to be weak. He tried to get employment in Auckland, but was KNOWN AS A DESPERATE CRIMINAL and failed. He came to Christchurch, met a number of old friends, and started drinking. He had no intention to commit crime. He was worse than drunk, he was stupid, and didn't know what he was doing. When he was in Christchurch previously, the nursing home used to be a boarding house, and when he entered he didn't discover his error till too late. Nothing was stolen. If he had intended to commit a crime a man of his

experience would have had house-breaking tools with him. He had respectable, parents, and was not descended from the criminal class. His father had been Mayor of Hastings for some years. It was Dennett's intention to have emigrated out of the country, if he had succeeded in getting work. Mr Justice Denniston said that Dennett must have a very poor opinion of the intelligence of the person to whom he had addressed his remarks, if he expected him to believe the story of a man with a criminal record like that, of the accused. His Honor read out Dennett's little list, the Crown Prosecutor remarking that his record brought him UNDER THE HABITUAL CRIMINAL CLAUSE. Nottingham, when asked if ho had anything to say, observed that he was only a young man, and didn't want to spend his life in gaol. The Crown Prosecutor said that Nottingham was sentenced to three years imprisonment on each of three charges of breaking and entering, sentences to run concurrently. Later he got twelve months for the same offence. Sergt. Johnston, Probation Officer, said he had known Nottingham since the latter's childhood, and the young man was always inclined to thieving. He was before the Court several times as a youth, and was sent to Burnham. He was a native of Rangiora. It seemed to his Honor that they were both of tne class of men that the Legislature had in mind when they introduced this law— men who had made up their minds to be habitual criminals. Both men were sentenced to three years imprisonment and declared habitual criminals.
NZ Truth , Issue 218, 28 August 1909, Page 6

hi corina that intersting about your ggrandfather eh mine the same henry edward dennett i think they the mischeif ones eh lol