Harriet Evelyn DYKES (nee Kitchener) - the cemetery database has her name as KYKES - was born 9 April 1889 in Christchurch, the 3rd of 11 children of Charles William Kitchener (1863-1915) & Fanny Burridge (1865-1929)
. her siblings .
1885 - 1885 Fanny Elina Kitchener (6 weeks)
1887 - 1950 Fanny Elizabeth Kitchener (+Dobbs)
1889 - 1922 Harriet Evelyn Kitchener (+Dykes)
1891 - 1898 Charles Alfred (age 7)
1894 - 1978 Sarah Beatrice Kitchener (+Batley)
1896 - 1903 Albert Leslie (age 7)
1898 - 1917 Mary Hannah Kitchener (age 18)
1900 - 1901 Alice Ileen Kitchener (age 12 months)
1903 - 1974 William John Leslie Kitchener (+Bradshaw)
1908 - 1995 Bonita Annie 'Nita' Kitchener (+Inkster)
1911 - 1930 Marin Gladys Ivy Kitchener (age 18)
. Marin was killed in an accident between a mortorbike & a car. She was a pillion on the bike driven by her brother-in-law James Inkster

Harriet married Gavin Dykes (1883-1944) in Sydenham, Christchurch on 29 Dec 1914. Gavin was born in Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
their children
1915 - 1993 Charles Ian Dykes
. married Barbara Joan Denholm in 1945
1918 - 1984 Gavin Douglas Dykes
. married Florence Eileen May Loveridge in 1940
1922 - 2014 Betty Evelyn Dykes
. married Reginald Ernest Kitson in 1947

Harriet died on 9 Sep 1922 aged 33, when baby Betty was 7 months old. She is buried in Plot 69, Block New Sur at Clareville Cemetery
* Gavin remarried in Masterton on 11 Jan 1926 to Jeanie Bowman McNEE (1895-1973). Gavin died in Napier, Jeanie in Tauranga.