Update: This has now been solved. Thanks.

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I am seeking information on Bob Godfrey who was a sign writer and artist living and working mostly in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of NZ.

I am currently writing a story on Peter Pan Frozen Foods and the Denne family, hopefully to be published as a small book for the upcoming reunion. Bob worked for the company during the 1960s for a number of years and did many of their posters and wrappers in quite a unique style. I have been on this story for a couple of years now and have found a lot of his work, but very little information on him and the rest of his career.

Recently just a small amount of further information came to light, but I have now come to a dead end again.
This is what I now know: He was living in Waipukurau married to Maureen between 1969-1978. Previous to that the couple had been living in Hastings around the early-mid 1960s. In 1978 the couple moved to Rotorua where he continued to work in the same industry until at least 1981. It's unknown whether they had any children, but unlikely.

Bob Godfrey does not appear in the records earlier than 1963 excepting one reference to a Robert Frank Godfrey at Nelson Creek in 1957 working as a bushman (unlikely to be him - and yet, there was nobody else by the same name in any records).

BDM had no results for birth, marriage, or death of Bob or Maureen, or children of the couple. The government has no records whatsoever. It is hard to say whether he was an immigrant but I am speculating he was born in New Zealand, and maybe born between 1939-1945. It is quite possible he is still alive.

I have previously sent letters out to Godfreys living in the region, and have had no results.