some of the STENSNESS marriages in New Zealand 1899 - 1923:

Eileen Ruby Stensness
- married Arthur Ngakuru PENE in 1926

Elias Jorginius Stensness
- originally named Elias PETERSON from Norway
- married Emily Sophia BELCHER in 1899
their children:
1900 - George Harold Hoff Stensness
1903 - Albert Edward Aldworth Stensness
1906 - Ilene Ruby Pane Stensness
1908 - Eric Soren Jhalmar Stensness
???? - unknown 5th child
Elias died in 1944 aged 78

George Harold Hoff Stensness (1900=1989)
- married Sarah JOB in 1923


some of the STENSNESS deaths in New Zealand 1975 - 2008:

Albert Edward Aldworth Stensness
- born 3 February 1903
- died 1985

Elias Jorginess Sorenson Stensness
- born Elias Peterson in 1866
- changed his name to Stensness after the district where he'd once lived in Norway. (See his older brother below)
- Elias was a Carpenter
- died 27 May 1944 of stomach cancer
- buried ANGLICAN DIVISION L Row 5, Plot 115 at Waikumete


Eliza Jean Stensness
- born 20 June 1921
- died 1995

Elsie Stensness
- born 28 May 1908
- died 1995

Eric Soren Jhalmar Stensness
- born 19 March 1908
- died 1991
- (his father's original surname was []bSorensen)

Frances Elsie Josephine Stensness
- born 19 January 1916
- died 1975

George Harold Hoff Stensness
- born 21 March 1900
- died 1989

George Henry Lawrence Stensness
- born 27 March 1912
- died 1982

Harold Richard Gordon Stensness
- born 16 August 1926
- died 1977

Margaret May Stensness
- born 29 December 1910
- died 2008

Sarah Margaret Stensness
- born 3 April 1903
- died 1979

Victor Elias Stensness
- born 2 August 1924
- died 1981

NOTES
Henry Peterson
- born 1857 in Norway as Soren Magnus Sorensen
- joined the Danish navy during his youth
- jumped ship and fled to Sydney, Australia before coming to New Zealand under a new name
- changed his name to Peterson
- older brother of Elias Stensness above