Picton, New Zealand
Robert Jones Staveley was born in Bristol, England in 1857, the son of Robert Staveley and Catherine Ann Staveley of Cork, Ireland. In 1881, Robert Jones Staveley, a solicitor, emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand. During the trip he met Helen Schabner HAMMOND from London, and later married her on September 16, 1884 in Picton, NZ. Robert and Helen had the following children:
| Helen Catherine Staveley | b. March 29, 1886 | New Zealand |
| Mabel Anne Staveley | b. March 17, 1887 | New Zealand |
| Robert George Staveley | b. June 26, 1888 | New Zealand |
| Bertram Staveley | b. September 25, 1889 | New Zealand |
| Marguerite Staveley | b. March 19, 1892 | New Zealand |
| Mollie Staveley | b. September 1902 | Otaki, New Zealand |
| Eileen Staveley | b. February 7, 1904 | Otaki, New Zealand |
| Phyllis Staveley | b. April 9, 1906 | Otaki, New Zealand |
Robert's eldest son, Robert George, married Nora Elizabeth Revell, and settled in Wellington. He became a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Entrenching Battalion in April 1917 but was killed a year later, a prisoner of war, in France, on April 23, 1918. He is commemorated on the Messines Ridge Memorial.