NZSG Franklin: Suffrage 125 Vol2 2024 amendment

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3898 Surname: USHER Given names: Mary Elizabeth Residence: Pukekohe Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Her signature from her will written in 1947 Mary Elizabeth USHER was born in Rockhampton on 25 February 1866, the eldest child of Thomas Gray USHER and Elizabeth PARROTT. Her parents had come from Wales to Queensland on the ‘Melmerby’, arriving on 11 September 1865. Mary would have moved around quite a lot as a child as her oldest two brothers and two sisters were born in various parts of New South Wales and her youngest brother and sister were born in New Zealand. No doubt Mary was required to help around the home and with looking after her siblings. Not a lot is known about her but from the electoral rolls we find her living in Pukekohe from 1893 to 1919 and in 1928 at 7 East St, Eden, Auckland with her mother and sister Agnes. She is listed as living in Totara Avenue, Pukekohe from 1938 to 1949. Mary Elizabeth Usher died on 18 October 1950, age 84. She was cremated and has no known memorial site. In her will she left her estate in equal shares to the two brothers and three sisters who were still alive. Sources: NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk; Probate – www.familysearch.org; Burial locator – NZSG records Usher Family trees – My Heritage and Ancestry Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3900 Surname: VAUGHAN Given names: Florrie* Residence: Kariotahi Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Florrie was born Florence* Saretta to Thomas VAUGHAN and Elizabeth CHRISP on 7 April 1872. She was the fourth child and had three older sisters and four younger brothers. The family were living in Carleton Road, Parnell and her father was a builder in Auckland. Thomas then purchased land to farm – lot 7 at Kariotahi – and the family moved to Waiuku West. Sadly, in 1893 Florrie’s older sister Emily became very unwell. Her severe cold turned to consumption and Emily passed away on 22 June. With her brother Augustus taking on more of the farm-work, Florrie’s parents made the move back to Auckland, settling at St Helier’s Bay. On 20 January 1904 at Remuera, Florence married Thomas FORDYCE, a grocer, the son of Thomas Fordyce and Isabella INGLIS. There were two children and several moves. Marjorie Serrita was born on 29 January 1906 and they were living at Churton Street, Parnell. A son, George Inglis, was born 5 May 1910. They now were living in Hill Street, New Market. When in 1929 Florence and Thomas celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary they were living at 47 Wheturangi Road, Greenlane. In 1935 they were still in Greenlane. Thomas was a clerk and George a carpenter. Marjorie was married to Rev. George William JACKSON and they lived at 8 Aratonga Ave, Greenlane. George married Melva Joyce THOMSON and they were living at 20 Namata Road, Onehunga. Florence and Thomas continued to live at Wheturangi Road but at number 37. In 1957 Thomas stated his occupation was a warehouseman but six years later he had retired. Florence passed away 24 May 1965, aged 94, and Thomas on 18 May 1969, aged 95. They were both buried at Mangere Cemetery. Sources: www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz Papers past and Census Records Researcher: Penny Prescott Note: Florence’s second name was mostly recorded as Serrita as was her daughter’s second name.

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3901 Surname: VAUGHAN Given names: Lizzie Residence: Kariotahi Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Lizzie was born Elizabeth CHRISP on 25 March 1845 in Blyth, Northumberland, England, to James Chrisp and Elizabeth SHIPLEY. She was the fifth of eight children. Elizabeth married Thomas VAUGHAN on 2 April 1866 at St Mary’s in Parnell, Auckland, by the Venerable Archdeacon Lloyd. Thomas was born to George Vaughan and Caroline Honor SMITH on 2 September 1827 at Islington, London, England. He was the fourth child of five. They had eight children: Emily (1867), Kate (1868 Mrs C.J. West), Mabel Caroline (1869 Mrs A. Holmes), Florence Saretta (1872 Mrs T. Fordyce), Thornton Dudley (1873), Augustus Selwyn (1876), Thomas Walter (1880) and Frederick Louie (1882). Thomas had a freehold property in Carleton Road with a dwelling on it – Lot 40 – Parnell area in 1875 but by 1880 he had Lot 39 and 40, of 4, section 3. He was earning his living as a builder and must have been able to provide well for his family, for by 1890 they were farming on freehold land – Lot 7, Waiuku West – consisting of 142 acres. During 1893 there was much sickness around New Zealand with the measles epidemic but for Elizabeth the concern was her eldest daughter Emily. Emily had caught a severe cold during 1892 and unfortunately it turned to consumption and she passed away 22 June. There was a service at the Holy Trinity Church in Waiuku with a large cortege in recognition of both Emily and her parents. Elizabeth and Thomas continued to farm at ‘Hollybank’, Karioitahi, and their son Augustus Selwyn joined them working the farm. When Elizabeth and Thomas eased away from the farm work Augustus continued to farm the property. When Elizabeth and Thomas eventually retired, late 1900’s, they headed back to somewhere familiar and settled in the beautiful beach area of St Helier’s Bay. Some of the family were living nearby in the Remuera/One Tree Hill/Newmarket regions of Auckland. Sadly, Thomas passed away on 9 July 1916, aged 89, at the residence of his daughter, Florence, who was living in Newmarket at the time. He was buried in Waiuku Cemetery. Later Elizabeth moved to a smaller home in Green Lane. Elizabeth passed away on 23 June 1928, aged 83, and was buried with her husband, and eldest daughter Emily. Sources: NZ BDM Historical Records, Cemetery Records, Electoral Rolls PapersPast MARRIAGES Daily Southern Cross, 28 Apr 1866 and DEATHS Auckland Star, 15 July 1916 Researcher: Penny Prescott

Electoral Roll: Waipa 3580 Surname: VINCE Given names: Jane Residence: Bombay Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Among the passengers on the ship Bombay when it docked in Auckland on 18 March 1865 were William VINCE aged 31 and Jane PRIOR aged 24. William was a widower and Jane was unmarried. They were the only passengers of those surnames on board. They may have struck up a friendship during the voyage for just over a year later they were married on 3 April 1866 by Rev Thomas Hamer of the Congregational Church in Albert Street, Auckland. Jane was born on 18 December 1841 at Rogate, Sussex, England. William was born on 15 March 1833 at Kings Somborne, Hampshire, England. Jane and William had eight children, born over 20 years: William John, Sarah Jane, Harriet Elizabeth, Caroline, Charles Henry, George, Ernest Edward and Lily Helena. In the 1893 Electoral Roll, Jane and William were recorded living in Bombay, farming and owning freehold Lots 134 and 147. Jane’s husband was at the forefront of horticulture in the district. A keen gardener, a skill he initially learned in the home country, William was well known for his intensive orchard, successfully growing peaches, plums, apples, grapes, gooseberries etc, most of which he propagated himself. He also put in crops such as wheat, oats, barley, maize and pumpkins. Jane’s eldest daughter, Sarah Jane, died in 1891 at the age of 23 leaving her husband Henry BILLING a widower with two children, the youngest just a month old. The two boys were raised by Jane and William. The following year, 1892, Jane’s eldest son William John died. In 1916 Jane and William celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary. A notice appeared in the New Zealand Herald of 22 April 1916 stating they were living on Parlmoutt Road (possibly Portsmouth Road), Bombay. William died in 1917 at the aged of 85. Jane spent the last period of her life living with her daughter Caroline and son-in-law James Rothery in Stratford. The Stratford Evening Post of 26 March 1925 reported Jane’s passing and she was buried at St Peter’s in the Forest, Bombay. No headstone exists. She had been a widow for about eight years. Sources: Papers Past, Franklin Pioneer Register, NZ Historical bdm. Researched by Lynda Muir.

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3006 Surname: WALKER Given names: Bertha Jane Residence: Tuakau Occupation: dressmaker Qualification: residential Her signature from her will dated 1941 Bertha Jane WALKER was the third daughter of Emily Caroline WIDGERY (1840-1901) and Thomas WALKER (1840-1906). She was born on 25 April 1869 and had seven sisters and one brother born between 1864 and 1883. In 1897 in Victoria, Australia, Bertha married Frederick Reginald JONES (1867-1941). Frederick had been born in Sydney but between 1893 and 1896 he had been a farmer at Buckland, New Zealand. He had mining interests in Australia and had discovered the famed Mayflower gold mine. In 1901 Bertha and Frederick returned to New Zealand and took up land at Orere Point. They also farmed in the Waikato and North Auckland before retiring to Auckland. On the 1928 electoral roll, they were recorded as living in Frankton where Frederick was a hotel proprietor. The family had many moves within Auckland before Bertha settled in Sanders Ave, Takapuna after Frederick’s death. Bertha and Frederick had two children; Edna Clarice Hamlin born 1904 and Frederick Reginald born 1909. Frederick died on 14 July 1941 while living at Landscape Road, Mt Eden and was cremated, and Bertha died while on holiday in Hamilton on 13 December 1954. She was also cremated at Waikumete cemetery, Auckland – cemetery record below. Sources: bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz; NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk; cemetery records – ancestry.co.uk Newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; Widgery/ Walker/ Oldham Family Tree – ancestry.co.uk Google - Lady sewing clip art Researcher: Mary Mercer

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3007 Surname: WALKER Given names: Emily Caroline Residence: Tuakau Occupation: shopkeeper Qualification: residential Emily Caroline WALKER born in Bristol, England was the daughter of Caroline and Thomas WIDGERY. Emily must have met Thomas Walker in Bristol as she followed him to New Zealand in 1863. Thomas had arrived in Otago the year before and had worked as a carpenter in Queenstown and Invercargill. They were married in St John’s Anglican Church, Invercargill on 3 January 1864. Not long after their wedding Thomas took up 130 acres at Tuakau. He was one of the earliest to start flax-milling in the district. Mr. Walker was also the principal storekeeper in Tuakau for about twenty years. He disposed of his business in 1895 and returned to farming, a holding of some 510 acres. Emily and Thomas raised a family of nine, eight girls and one son, Alfred born in 1879. Emily’s parents Caroline and Thomas WIDGERY joined their daughter in Tuakau in 1878. The New Zealand Herald reports several passings of old settlers on 25 July 1901 one of which was Emily. Sources. Cyclopaedia of New Zealand- Auckland Province Findmypast Paperpast NZ NZBDM Waikato Districts Cemetery Database. Researcher: Mary Mercer

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3003 Surname: WALKER Given names: Martha Jane Residence: Pukekohe East Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential The 1893 Electoral Roll for Franklin lists four members of this family at Pukekohe East: WALKER, Robert, Pukekohe, settler, freehold, part lot 11, Pukekohe; Walker, Martha Jane, Pukekohe East, domestic duties, residential; Walker, James, Pukekohe East, labourer, residential; Walker, Robert Henry, Pukekohe East, contractor, residential. Martha Jane and her husband Robert had 10 children. Unfortunately Martha Jane Walker died intestate in September of 1915. However legal documents revealed she had been married only once, and at the time of her death had eight living children. The documents very helpfully gave the name and age of each of her children then living along with the surname of her married daughters and the occupation of her sons and sons-in-law. The family confirmed “That since the death of the said deceased we have had access to her papers and repositories and that we have searched diligently therein for any will or testamentary writing made or signed by the said deceased and that we have been unable to find any such will or testamentary writing.” The document was signed by each of her children. There were two other sons: James who had died at the age of 34 in 1901 and David William who had died tragically two years later at the age of 26. The children of Martha and Robert Walker were: • John, Whakapirau, farmer born 1866 • David William born 1867 died 1903 • James born 1868, died 1901 • Martha Jane born 1870, married Robert David MATCHETT, settler • Robert Henry born 1873, Kaukapapa Railway employee • Angelina born 1875, married William John McGOUGH, settler • Edward born 1878, farmer • Adeline born 1880, married Robert James Shepherd Walker, iron founder • Caroline born 1884, married Allan LOCKYER, Takapuna Gas Company employee, and • Christina born 1887 spinster. Martha Jane and her husband Robert are both buried at the Pukekohe East Presbyterian Church Cemetery along with their two sons, James and David. Sources: Papers Past, NZSG Cemetery Records, Archives NZ. Compiled by Christine Madsen and Lynda Muir.

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3009 Surname: WALKER Given names: Mary Ann Residence: Mauku Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Her signature from Joseph’s probate records 1913 Mary was born Mary Ann(e) Jane KERR, daughter of Robert and Mary Kerr who, at the ages of fifty and forty years respectively, had made the decision to bring their family to New Zealand from Northern Ireland. They arrived in Auckland, as part of the Waikato Immigration Scheme in 1865 on the Dauntless with their five children – one son and four daughters. Mary Ann, the eldest daughter, was seventeen when she arrived and after some time in Auckland the family moved to their allotment at Patumahoe. They had not been there very long when tragedy struck, and the family lost their house and all their possessions to a fire, while they were all out on the farm working. The girls were washing flax in the creek and had their oldest clothes on – the only items that they saved. Luckily the people of the district rallied around and gave them clothes and household goods. Mary Ann helped at home and also worked in service until her marriage to Joseph WALKER in 1870. Joseph and Mary were fully involved in the community with Joseph serving on the School Committee, Roads Board, Mauku Racing Club, People’s Warden at St Bride’s Church and clerk and collector of rates for the Roads Board in 1893 as well as farming. They had five children – two sons and three daughters. The girls all remained single. On retiring from farming about 1900, Joseph and Mary took up a general store in Mt Albert which they ran until Joseph’s death on 24 June 1913. Mary Ann Jane Walker died on 2 May 1925 and despite being survived by all five of her children, she left her estate to her three single daughters. She is buried with Joseph at Waikaraka cemetery, Auckland. Sources: Old newspapers - paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; Probate records – www.familysearch.org; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz; NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk. Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3908 Surname: WALKER Given names: Mary Hannah Residence: Tuakau Occupation: housekeeper Qualification: residential Mary Hannah WALKER was the eldest daughter of William Walker of Tuakau. No mention is made of her mother in any record of Mary’s marriage. In a newspaper report of Mary’s marriage to George Samuel WHITESIDE in 1894 it says she was attended by her sisters Violet and Ruth. Ruth and Violet’s mother was Sarah and their father William. There is no record of Mary’s birth in New Zealand. Mary and George lived for a time at Onewhero where George was an engineer for the Raglan County Council. Later they can be found in Whakatane where Mary died 4 April 1931. Mary bore nine children between 1896 and 1913 which must have kept her busy as nothing can be found of any community or church activities. Sources Paper Past. bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz Researcher. Mary Mercer

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3910 Surname: WALKER Given names: Sarah Residence: Tuakau Occupation: farmer Qualification: residential Sarah, according to her obituary, came to New Zealand at an early age from Yorkshire but no record of this or her marriage to William WALKER has been found. Sarah and William had at least three daughters – Mary Hannah, Violet Sarah Nickyeson and Ruth, and two sons James and Samuel Mitchell, born between 1870 and 1882. Sarah called herself a ‘farmer of Tuakau’ on the 1893 electoral roll, while William gave his occupation as ‘labourer from Harrisville’, but on later rolls Sarah’s occupation was described as domestic duties. By 1911 they were both living at Buckland where Sarah lived until her death. After marrying Alfred GILL in 1898, daughter Violet died in 1917, leaving three young children, thus Sarah was survived by two daughters and two sons. Sarah died on 7 June 1924 and William died at his daughter’s place in Palmerston North on 10 May 1931. They are both buried in Pukekohe cemetery. Sources: Newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz; NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk; Probate records – familysearch.org; Headstone photo – NZ Society of Genealogists Franklin Branch Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3005 Surname: WALKER Given names: Susan Residence: Pukekohe East Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Susan was born in County Carlow, Ireland in 1833. Five years after her marriage in 1855 to John WALKER in Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland, Susan and her husband immigrated to the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. They lived there for four years before immigrating once again, this time to New Zealand. Mrs Nona MORRIS writes in “Early Days in Franklin” of emigration from Cape Town at the time: “While arrangements were being made in Britain for the selection of suitable immigrants, W Bert, the agent in Cape Town, was proceeding with his plans. The New Zealand government had sent him instructions to send 1,000 “statute” adults and passage money up to £10 for each adult would be allowed. (In most cases the passage money from England was £16.) On 17 August 1864, he wrote, “these instructions could not have arrived at a better time, trade being very dull here, excepting the Breakwater no public works going on, and in consequence a great number of good skilled mechanics and labourers out of employ. On one single advertisement I had more than one thousand applicants, and so great was the rush that the windows in my store were broken, and I was obliged to send for the police to disperse the crowd. Of the applicants made, I have at present selected about eight hundred, and I feel satisfied that you will in every respect approve of my selections…” Susan and John Walker were among these passengers seeking a better life in New Zealand. Among the five ships that carried these government immigrants from South Africa was the Maori, on which the Walkers sailed, under the command of Captain ASHBY. She sailed from Table Bay on 8 November 1864 and arrived in Auckland Harbour on 23 December, two days before Christmas. Initially the settlers from the Maori were dispatched to the Onehunga Barracks. On 13 February they were sent on to Drury and for a time the men were engaged in road building. Eventually Susan and John were among those who were settled at Tuhimata and it was here they spent the rest of their days. Eight years after their arrival a paid advertisement endeavouring to make contact with the family appeared in the Daily Southern Cross of 11 April 1872: These must have been anxious years for the family back in Ireland. They would also have been difficult years for the Walker family in New Zealand working out a living from the land at Tuhimata with their family of eight sons and five daughters. An obituary appeared in the New Zealand Herald of 31 May 1916: Both Susan and her husband are buried at the Pukekohe East Presbyterian Church Cemetery, but no headstone exists. An obituary in the Auckland Weekly News of 26 May 1916, the day she died, wrote of Mrs Walker’s Christian character as a loving mother and a good neighbour. Sources: Electoral Rolls, Archives NZ, Papers Past, NZSG Cemetery Fiche, Early Days in Franklin by Nona Morris. Researched by Nancy Hawks and collated by Christine Madsen and Lynda Muir

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3039 Surname: WALLER Given names: Elizabeth Residence: Puni Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Elizabeth was born in Opotiki, New Zealand about 1850. She was one of nine children, three sons and six daughters of James Alexander McGREGOR (1819-1866) and Hohipaia (Sophia) NGAPUHI (1830-1880). Her father was a shipwright and then a timber merchant. Elizabeth married Thomas WALLER in Auckland in 1870. Thomas had come to New Zealand in 1865 on the Dauntless, aged 20 and appeared to be travelling alone. He was a bootmaker at Coromandel but failing eyesight compelled him to look for a new occupation and the Wallers moved to Puni where they farmed and Thomas was a millhand. NZ Herald 24 Aug 1870 Elizabeth and Thomas had eleven children – six daughters and five sons and times must have been tough when Thomas eventually went blind. In his obituary it was said, “that he held a most optimistic outlook on life and was well liked in the district”. A daughter in law had the intruiging name of Ailie Victoria Diamond Jubilee IRWIN. Following Elizabeth’s death on 7 May 1919 an auction was held to dispose of the livestock and implements. The advertisment stated on account of the estate of Mrs Elizabeth Waller which would have been unusual at that time especially as she died intestate. A report in the paper on her sudden death described Elizabeth as a well known and highly esteemed resident of Puni. Thomas died in 1923 and they are buried together at Pukekohe cemetery. Sources: Family Tree & photo: My Heritage – Gerald Healey BDM – www.dia.govt.nz; Probate record- www.familysearch.org; Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Researcher: Judith Batt Compiler: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3040 Surname: WALLIS Given names: Sarah Residence: Tuakau Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Sarah WALLIS nee COULDREY, born in 1863 in Abingdon, Berkshire and daughter of Robert and Emily Couldrey, arrived in New Zealand with her parents aboard the Warwick in 1873. In the 1871 census her father Robert is listed as a shoemaker, a trade he worked at all his life until a few months before his death. It was claimed that at age of 94 he was probably the oldest shoemaker in the world. In 1873 when the family arrived at Auckland the province was experiencing a slight depression, the aftermath of the Maori War. Unable to find work, her father became a letter carrier in Auckland. In 1880 the family moved to Clevedon and opened a bootmaker’s shop. Sarah married Thomas James Wallis (newspaper records the name WALLACE) on 21 July 1886 at All Souls’ Church, Wairoa South (Clevedon). Sarah and Thomas farmed at Harrisville where Thomas took an active part in the community. Sarah no doubt was busy with their six children, all girls: • Bessie Mildred b.1887 married Andrew ALEXANDER 1909 • Gladys Vera b. 1888 married John SHAW 1912 • Ethel Ledderiud b.1890 married Edward Harold JOHNS 1911 • Ella Isabel b.1891 never married • Freda Emily b. 1892 married Edward Morrison WILSON 1928, and • Lillie Alma b. 1893 married Robert John ALEXANDER 1923. Thomas suffered with an illness for several years before he died aged 42 in 1901 and he is buried at Tuakau. Sarah moved back to Clevedon where she lived in a small cottage until her death in 1941 aged 78. Sources: NZBDM www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz Papers Past. www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers Billion Graves Findmypast. Researcher: Mary Mercer

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3902 Surname: WALTER Given names: Elizabeth Grace Residence: Mauku Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Elizabeth Grace WALTER was born at Papakura on 30 January 1857 to parents Margaret (nee MUNRO) and George Gould WALTER who married on 31 March 1856 in New Zealand and were early settlers to the Papakura district. At the time of her birth her father George was publican of the Papakura Hotel (Walter’s Inn). In 1858 George bought land from Major James Speedy a military man who retired to New Zealand and owned land at Lower Mauku. George then built a single-storey hotel, Mauku Inn, on this land at the upper end of the Taihiki Estuary. This area was a busy port for the district and in 1860 a provisional Publican’s Bush License was granted for the Mauku Inn. Unhappy times lay ahead for little Elizabeth Grace and her younger sister Harriett (b.1860). Their baby brother, named for his father George Gould, died at Mauku on 21 September 1962 aged 3 months, and the following February their mother Margaret died suddenly after a very short period (48 hours) of illness. Margaret was only 24. In 1868 when Elizabeth was 11, her father married a widow, Mrs Sarah Ann MIDDLEMAS of Drury whose husband Joseph Middlemas had died tragically in a fatal road accident in 1862. Sarah’s children and George’s daughters were soon joined by a half-sister Helen Jane Walter, born in 1869. The 1893 electoral roll states Elizabeth Grace Walter and her stepmother Sarah Ann Walter as residential at Mauku and occupations as household duties. For her father George that he is a farmer at Mauku, owning freehold land (known as “The Grange”) plus commercial interest in the Globe Hotel at Papakura. George died at his residence The Grange on 25 June 1898 aged 70 and is buried at Papakura Cemetery with his first wife Margaret. George’s three daughters all became romantically involved with three brothers, sons of Robert WILLIS, storekeeper of Papakura. Harriett married Robert John Willis in 1883 and Helen, known as Nellie, married Alfred Willis in 1899. Elizabeth was engaged to a third brother William Papakura Willis who unfortunately died suddenly on 21 November 1894 aged 36. His obituary says he was a very kind, hospitable man, well liked in the district. Again, a very sad loss for Elizabeth. Elizabeth remained a spinster, living in both Mauku and Papakura districts for the duration of her long life of 90 years. After her step mother Sarah died in 1904, she moved to Papakura, living at 8 Wellington Street. She died on 6 June 1947 and is buried at Papakura Cemetery with her sister Harriett Willis and family. Researcher: Madeleine Judson Sources: Family Search; Papers Past; BMD NZ; NZ Cemeteries Index; NZSG Burial Locator CD; My Heritage; Papakura Museum; Ancestry; Auckland Libraries; bk: “Patumahoe: History & Memories”; headstone photograph by Glennise Ferguson from Find a Grave .

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3903 Surname: WALTER Given names: Sarah Ann Residence: Mauku Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Sarah Ann LANGRIDGE was born 8 March 1832 to parents Edward and Sarah at Maresfield, Sussex, England. At 18 she married a widower Joseph MIDDLEMAS (b.1820) at the parish church Fletching, Sussex on 14 April 1850. They lived in London where a daughter Mary Ann was born 1850 and in 1852 a son Stephen who only lived a few hours. At this point in their lives the big decision must have been made to immigrate to New Zealand. A very big and brave decision indeed! A shipping report in The New Zealander on 23 November 1853 advises that Mr and Mrs Middlemas and child (Mary Ann 1850 – 1870) had arrived at the Port of Auckland from Melbourne on the ship ‘Ocean’. Joseph obtained farming land at Slippery Creek, Drury and opened a store there fronting onto the Great South Road. In December 1857 he became the first Postmaster for Drury operating the Post Office from his store. In a sudden tragic accident, when returning home from Auckland on the night of 15 November 1862, Joseph was killed when his spring cart overturned near the Papakura bridge. His obituary describes him as “an enterprising settler to whom the districts of Drury and Papakura owed much. He was in the prime of life and died in the midst of his usefulness”. Joseph was only 42 and left a young widow, grieving and pregnant with their seventh child. Sarah Matilda was born on 16 January 1863. With true pioneer spirit Sarah carried on their business becoming the Postmistress and the storekeeper. In 1868 Sarah remarried. Her new husband George Gould WALTER was a widower whose young wife had died in 1863 leaving two young daughters Elizabeth Grace b.1857 and Harriett b.1860. George had farming land at Mauku having bought half of Major James Speedy’s farm in 1856, and he also owned the Mauku Inn and the Papakura Hotel. In 1869 they welcomed a new child into their family, a daughter Helen Jane Walter known as Nellie. Sarah’s daughter Jane Middlemas had died in 1863 aged five, of acute tonsillitis and two baby sons had died in infancy. Then her first born, Mary Ann, died in 1870 aged 20, leaving only three surviving of her seven children from her first marriage. In the 1893 electoral roll, Sarah and George are living on the farm at Mauku with George’s eldest daughter Elizabeth. George died there in 1898 and is buried in Papakura Cemetery with his first wife Margaret. Sarah died a few years later in 1904 and is buried in St John’s Anglican Cemetery at Drury with her first husband Joseph. In her death notice in the Auckland Star, she requested that no mourning be worn at her funeral. Researcher: Madeleine Judson Sources: Papers Past; BMD NZ; Family Search; Ancestry; My Heritage: Papakura Museum; FreeBMD; NZ Cemeteries Index; NZSG Burial Locator; Photographs: first post office Drury, courtesy Papakura Museum; Sarah Ann Middlemas, courtesy Healy Family Tree, My Heritage.

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3904 Surname: WALTERS Given names: Margaret Aitken Residence: Waiuku East Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Margaret Aitken was born on 31 January 1862 at Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland the 10th child of James Bain PYE and his wife Elizabeth nee McLEISH. Sadly, Elizabeth died following her birth. James and his five surviving children (five died) – Isabella (15) Mary (14) Janet (8) James (6) and baby Margaret – travelled on the ‘Ganges’ and arrived in Auckland in October 1863 as part of the ‘special’ settlement of Pollok. A house was built against the hillside on the rugged land below Barthow Road. Before leaving Scotland James had arranged with a lady – Helen McKINNELL – to follow the family to New Zealand. They married on her arrival about a year later. On 13 May 1881 Margaret married Joseph Walters and the following children were born: Lily Elizabeth Walters b. 6-3-1882 d. 25-3-1963 Ella Florence Walters b. 22-9-1966 d. 22-9-1966 Howard Stanley Walters b. July-Sept 1885 d. 4-7-1958 Herbert Lorraine Walters b. 10-10-1978 d. 26-11-1978 Alfred Aitken Walters b. 29-11-1891 d. 25-9-1983 Stillbirth Female b.25-2-1893 Ida Phyllis Walters b. 22-4-1895 d. 1948, and Ivan Clifford Walters b. 13-2-1897 d. 23-7-1979. The marriage wasn’t to last and Margaret and Joseph divorced. Margaret married Zenas OWEN, a widower on 30 April 1918 and lived in Hamilton. This marriage too had difficulties but Margaret and Zenas are on the election rolls as living at Beachholm Road, Takapuna in 1925 where they stayed for ten years until Zenas died in August 1936 aged 86. In 1937 Margaret moved to Onehunga and in 1942 was at 7 Anglesea Street in Ponsonby which she said she much enjoyed after having been five years in Onehunga. It was there at her daughter Ella’s home that Margaret died on 7 March 1951 and she is buried at Purewa Cemetery. Margaret said once, “when we lived in the Pollok we could go to town in the steamer; then the roads got better, and people went by rail so goodbye steamer”. Sources: “A Far Away Land” by Lloyd Walker Jan 1862; citing GOVAN, LANARK, SCOTLAND, reference, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 6,035,516. New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LII, ISSUE 86, 12 APRIL 1921 www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/ Photo, diaries – Family Collection (Mrs. Allonby & Elizabeth Hull) Researcher: Penny Prescott

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3905 Surname: WALTERS Given names: Mary Ann Residence: Waiuku East Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Mary Ann EDDY was baptised on 3 February 1839 at Sancreed, Cornwall. She was one of 10 children born to James (1799-1878) and Jenifer Jane (nee BOASE ,1801-1885) Eddy. Mary Ann arrived in Auckland, New Zealand on the City of Auckland, on 11 December 1870 having left London on 14 September 1870. Mary Ann married William WALTERS (1836-1913) in the Waiuku Methodist Church on 24 December 1870. He had arrived in Auckland on board the Aboukir on 6 September 1870. The couple settled on a farm on the Aka Aka swamp – owned 200 acres on the Aka Aka Stream Rd called Lot 2 and 3 and also 68 acres on a wedge of land by the Aka Aka Dairy Factory. In 1893 they also had 80 acres on the corner of Aka Aka Stream Rd and Hill Rd. The villa on the corner on the rise stands there today (2018). Mary Ann and William farmed for many years until their retirement into Waiuku to 193 Colombo Rd. Mary Ann and William had 7 children: Amelia Jane (1871-1970) Elizabeth Ann (1873-1942) Richard William (1875-1950) James (1876-1951) William John (1879-1911) Bertha Mary (1881-1953) Leonard Jewell (1884-1951) Mary Ann died on 17 October 1921 at Waiuku and is buried with her husband in the Waiuku Cemetery. Sources: Ancestryuk Researcher: Barbara Raven

Electoral Roll: Franklin 4157 Surname: WALTERS Given names: Susan Residence: Waiuku Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Susan BEAUMONT was born in England c1845 and John WALTERS in Wales, c1838. They were married on 5 May 1865 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. They had one child, John Frederick a.k.a. Frederick John, who was born in London, England, January 1866. The family spent some time in the U.S.A. when Frederick was young, before returning to England and finally heading for New Zealand. The family, John, Susan, Frederick and Annie (a niece) came to New Zealand on the British Empire on 4 February 1880. The passenger list shows John, Mrs Walters, Frederick and Miss Walters. Although their voyage was quick there was sickness on board, both the measles and scarlet fever, and on arrival in Auckland they were placed in quarantine. On the 1890 Electoral Roll, John (engineer) and John Frederick (plumber) are living in Pitt Street, Auckland. Soon after, John and Susan go farming in Waiuku, but the country life did not appear to suit as they returned to Auckland, settling in Panmure, by 1900. Susan has the occupation of milliner. Having migrated back to the U.S.A., Frederick married Margaret Greene WILLIAMS (Maggie) in 1890. They had three children: Albert Windsor, 1891-1971, born in San Francisco, California; Oswald Atholston, 1896-2000, born in New Zealand and Violet, 1905-1916, born in Solano, California. Annie married James Emmanuel TRISTRAM on Wednesday, 23 April 1902, at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs J Walters, at Grafton Road, Auckland. There appears to have been no children from this marriage. From most newspaper articles relating to Annie it is obvious her uncle and aunt treated her and listed her as their daughter. James was a chemist and was the second son of James Quick and Margaret Catherine Tristram of Kihikihi. John passed away after a lingering illness on 17 August 1911, aged 74, at the residence of his daughter, Annie, in Bower Street, Napier and was laid to rest at the Old Napier Cemetery. John and Susan may have gone to live with Annie because of John’s illness; however, Susan remained with them after John’s death. By 1914 Annie and James had moved to Willis Street in Wellington and by 1928 they were in Manukau Road, Epsom, Auckland. With each move Susan went with them. Susan passed away 26 November 1929, aged 84, and was laid to rest at Hillsborough Cemetery. James passed away 20 June 1935, aged 67, and Annie passed away 23 February 1938. They too were buried at Hillsborough Cemetery. Sources: PapersPast, NZ BDM Historical Records, Cemetery Records, Electoral Rolls, 1870 US Census Records Researcher: Lois Hopping

Electoral Roll: Waipa 2845 Surname: WARN Given names: Ellen Residence: Pokeno Occupation: labourer* Qualification: residential Ellen WARN is believed to be the daughter of John Warn (1835-1911) and Bridget LANDRES (1835- 1911), from Bothwell, Lanark, Scotland who arrived in Auckland on 22 December 1864 on board the ‘Helenslee’ with their young son Richard. The family settled at Pokeno and another son John Martin was born in 1868. It appears that Ellen’s birth in 1867 was not recorded. On 30 June 1897 Ellen married Arthur Fielding YATES (1873-1955) and they lived at Hikurangi, Northland where Arthur was a farmer. Two children were born to this marriage, in 1898 and 1902. Sadly, they were each only to live a short time and Ellen died 1 September 1902, aged only 35. She is buried at Kauri cemetery, north of Whangarei. This is the inscription from her headstone, as transcribed by NZ Society of Genealogists members in 1979. The sad state of her headstone reflects her short, sad life. * Ellen’s occupation on the roll is “labourer” while that of her brother Richard is “domestic duties”. It is presumed they should be the other way around. Sources: BDM – www.dia.govt.nz Cemetery records – ancestry.co.uk NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk Family tree, ancestry.co.uk – R Kemeys Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 4158 Surname: WARREN Given names: Rebecca Residence: Tuakau Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential There are several possibilities for the birth of Rebecca WARREN, but the most likely is that she was born in 1867 in Sligo (where her brother Francis was born), the daughter of Alexander Warren and Elizabeth TAYLOR. Her brother Francis, a school teacher, had arrived in New Zealand prior to 1881. Rebecca arrived in 1883 on the ship Doric and would have probably kept house for Francis, who was appointed head teacher at Tuakau in August 1889, until his marriage to Ethel GILL on 19 April 1897. Rebecca had travelled second saloon class on the Doric at a cost of £36, a considerable amount in those days, so at the age of 16 her family must have been wealthy, or her brother paid for her. From 1894 until 1906 she worked at Auckland Hospital as a housemaid and she was given a farewell social on leaving the Tuakau district, as reported by the Observer newspaper, on 24 April 1897 (just one week after the marriage of Francis). In 1907 she married Albert Edward GIBAUD (1871-1944) in Victoria, Australia. He was a member of the Gibaud brushmaking and manufacturing family and while he worked there, Rebecca was the license holder of the Victorian Hotel from 1908 until 1910, then the Crown Hotel. Rebecca and Albert did not have a family and she lived at various addresses in Central Melbourne until her death on 18 January 1939. Rebecca had obviously been very successful in business as she left a very healthy estate. Albert remarried and died 11 September 1944 but is buried with Rebecca in the Melbourne Central cemetery, Carlton. Sources: NZ Electoral rolls; Irish BDM; trove.nla.govt.au; Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; Shipping record – NZ Society of Genealogists. Researcher: Judith Batt Compiler: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3063 Surname: WATERS Given names: Annie Eliza Residence: Patumahoe Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential THE WEDDING PRESENT William WATERS came from a Brethren family but when his sweetheart, Annie Eliza, nee HENRY (1864-1951), wanted to marry in a Catholic church he built her one – on land donated by the Henry family. They wed on 8 January 1890, the first couple to do so in St Michael’s. It may have been her wedding day but Annie still had to help with the milking on her parents’ farm before the ceremony. She and her new husband settled on a small property on the corner of Eden and Patumahoe Roads. William, who had originally arrived in the district to build coops for NATHAN’s ostrich farm, now built them a fine home. They raised twelve children, three of whom served in the Gallipoli campaign. William spent much of his working life in the building trade up in Auckland, often being absent from home for weeks on end. Annie hand milked several cows and fattened pigs with the skim milk, earning the family an extra £200 a year. Sally ADAMS recalls her grandmother’s sister, Annie, as an imposing figure dressed from top to toe in black who often mentioned the harrowing voyage out from Ireland on the Dauntless although records show she was only a few months old. She outlived William by eleven years. ‘Widowhood was my first experience of not having to live under the authority of a man,’ she once said. ‘As a girl I had feared my father. As a married woman I feared my husband.’ Sources: Franklin County News, 17 July 1989, Franklin Life, 29 Oct. 2003, & Patumahoe: History & Memories book Henry Family’s Oral History Sally Adam’s recollections Annie Waters oral history, 1949 Informants: Cathie Hutchinson, Lynley Stone, Sally Adams, Lorayn King Photo courtesy of the Henry Family Compiled by Wendy Clark

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3072 Surname: WATSON Given names: Bridget Residence: Puni Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Bridget TOBIN was born in County Clare, Ireland c1845 and arrived in New Zealand, aged 20, with her sister Margaret and brother Michael on the Eveline on 22 January 1865. Most of the passengers from this ship settled at Patumahoe and Bridget was probably living with her brother on his farm at South Mauku (near Puni) until her marriage to John WATSON on 22 June 1868. John was born in Elgin, Scotland and had arrived as a 16 year old, with his family in November 1861 on the Black Eagle. His father managed BURTT Farm at Paerata and the family were involved in the Land War skirmishes, narrowly avoiding death on one occasion. Bridget and John had six children – four sons and two daughters. The Tobin family are remembered with a busy street in the centre of Pukekohe named after them. Bridget and John shifted to Avondale where they farmed and market gardened and it was here that Bridget died on 30 December 1924. John died in 1929 and they are buried in the Pukekohe Catholic Church Cemetery. Sources: Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk Street sign – google maps Headstone photo – Franklin Branch NZSG Researcher: Judith Batt Compiler: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3921 Surname: WATSON Given names: Jane Residence: Patumahoe Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential HAPPY WITH HER LOT In 1864, at the age of two, Jane GORDON (1862-1954) and her four older brothers emigrated from Kilmarnock, Ayrshire with their parents, Thomas Gordon and Jean HAMILTON. Their destination was Auckland. Like most of the Helenslee passengers, the family settled in Pokeno. Although her father had been a calico printer in Scotland, he now took up farming. And it was a farmer that Jane (known as Jean) married in 1884; a Thomas WATSON, also Scottish, whose family had come out from South Africa on the Eveline. After the wedding celebrations they travelled by horseback from Pokeno to Thomas’s home in Patumahoe where they raised thirteen children. Except for the youngest, Jean delivered the entire brood with only the help of neighbours – even the twins. In 1892 they bought the Bradys’ original allotment but, later on, farmed on Union Rd in Mauku where Cam Beloe recalled the annual horse race meetings being held. Thomas’s fascination with machines meant Jean was the first in the district to acquire a washing machine. And by 1914 they owned a car, only the third to grace Franklin’s roads, which Thomas drove into a cow on the Pukekohe-Bombay road. It had to be put down and the owner sued Thomas for its value. Velna Vendt remembers her grandmother, Jean, as a devout Presbyterian; very active in the church. “She was also a gifted needlewoman who, not only managed a household of 13 children, but found time to sew garments by hand as an outworker for Smith and Caughey. Between all this she took her rostered turn teaching sewing at Patumahoe School.” “I recall her as a woman who was happy with her lot; a capable woman, resilient. She may have needed to be for my grandfather, a hardworking man, was also tough and uncompromising with a short fuse.” “He once set his twin sons to digging up a seven-acre block by spade. When one of the twins fell by the wayside, my father Allen had to take his place. How thankful and proud they were when they accomplished the task. But my grandfather tossed his hat in the air and stomped on it in disgust. They had dug to only one spade’s depth. He made them dig over the whole paddock again, to the depth of two spades.” “My grandmother survived him by 10 years. As she approached her nineties, I remember her always dressed in the same black quilted satin dressing gown, adorned with mauve flowers,” said Velna. “She loved her family and was well loved in return.” Sources: Kilmarnock, Ayr Parish Records Helenslee Passenger List Patumahoe: History & Memories, pages 20 & 176 Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, 6 March 1914 Auckland Star, 31 March 1944 Informant: Velna Vendt Researchers: Val Gillanders / Wendy Clark

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3074 Surname: WATSON Given names: Lily Jane Residence: Pukekohe East Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Lilly Jane Culberton ANDERSON was born in Auckland in 1866 to John Culberton Anderson and Mary WRIGHT who at the time were residing in Cabbage Bush, Mt Eden. John was a native of Northumberland and Mary from Stitchill in Scotland and they met and married on board the ship Pegasus whilst immigrating to New Zealand in 1865, the year before Lilly’s birth. Lilly’s sister Flora was also born in Mt Eden before the family moved to Waiterimu in 1873. There they ran a boarding house for travellers called ‘Halfway House’ which was also the local postal agency. Five more children followed for the Anderson family, John, Violet, Edwin, Alan and Rosey. Business must have been good as Lilly and her sister Rosey attended Miss TUTIN’s boarding school for ladies in 1882 where they had to travel to Auckland, steamer to Mangawhai then arranged transport across land to Hakura. Lilly would have returned home to help in the business and by 1891 had met and married Andrew WATSON also known as Henry. Their only child Alan Murray Watson was born the following year whilst the young family were in Christchurch. By 1893 the family was back and living in Pukekohe East, with or near Andrew’s parents John and Sarah Watson of Harrisville. Lilly and Andrew may have only had one child, Alan, but he would go on to provide nine grandchildren for the couple. Lilly died in 1938 at the age of 72 and is buried at Otahuhu Public Cemetery with members of her Anderson family. Her husband Andrew died in 1933 and is buried with his parents and three infant sisters in Pukekohe East Cemetery alongside his older sister and brother-in-law, Catherine and Lewis Walter KING. Lilly Jane Sources: bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz; Anderson family history; Findagrave.com. Researcher: Doreen Balderston (nee Anderson - Grandaughter)

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3075 Surname: WATSON Given names: Sarah Anne* Residence: Pukekohe East Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Sarah Ann* MANSFIELD (Sarah Anne on Electoral Roll) was born in Co Tyrone on 20 September 1834 to Andrew Thomas Mansfield and Mary MULLEN/McMULLEN. Her parents were farmers so Sarah’s early years were in the countryside but as a young woman she was living in Belfast and working as a weaver. On 22 October 1859, in St Anne’s Church, Shankill, Belfast, she married John WATSON, also a weaver and possibly of Scottish descent. John and Sarah are listed as living in the mill village of Michael ANDREWS, whose Damask Linen mill was in Ardoyne. The following year their daughter Catherine was born followed by a second daughter Mary two years later. By 1864 the young family had applied for the Waikato Immigration Scheme and with Sarah now eight months pregnant, travelled the long and arduous journey from Belfast to Queenstown where they boarded the ship Ganges to New Zealand. Three weeks later Sarah gave birth to a son, Andrew, on board. Sadly her second daughter Mary succumbed to dysentery and diarrhoea which was prevalent amongst the children on board and passed away whilst the Ganges lay anchored in quarantine in Auckland harbour. At first, time was spent with other Ganges passengers at the Queen’s Redoubt, Pokeno before the family could take up their allotments of 5 roods in Tuakau and 10 roods in Pukekohe. At some point a farm was purchased on the corner of Jericho Road, Harrisville, part lot 31 Pukekohe East, and whilst living here Sarah had six more children, William, Mary, James, Robert, Alexander and Annie. Mary died of influenza at three years old and Annie of scarlet fever at only five. John was a regular member of the Pukekohe East Road Board and served many times on the Harrisville School Board. John and Sarah continued to farm in Harrisville until their retirement when they moved in with their daughter Catherine and son-in-law Lewis KING on their Jericho Road farm. Sarah passed away on 10 November 1906 and John on 14 August 1909. Both are buried in Pukekohe East Presbyterian Church Cemetery with their three young daughters and their son Andrew. Sources: Familysearch.com Watson family bible EmeraldAncestors Ancestry.com passengerlists Researcher: Jane Jeffs (nee Watson)

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3916 Surname: WATTERMAN* Given names: Mahala Augusta Maude Residence: Waiuku Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Mahala was born to William Adolphus WATERMAN* and Sara/Sarah DAVENPORT/DEVENPORT on 20 January 1871 at Komokoriki, Auckland, the only girl in a family of four. She was known as May. May married/partnered Henry GILMAN, born c1862 and they had four children: • Harold Darwin born c1905, died 22 October 1934 Flying Officer Gilman, and his British companion, Mr J K C BAINES, were killed when the plane he piloted crashed into a mountainous region of Southern Italy during the MacRobertson Centenary Air Race. The plane suddenly went into a nose dive at 5000 feet. He was engaged to be married to Miss Edith WILSON at the time. May and family learned of his death from the radio news broadcast. • Marjorie Josephine born 10 October 1906, died 11 May 1988 • Noel Vivian born 3 June 1909, married Marjorie Evelyn DAY in 1954, died 12 January 1994 • Frances Honor born 1 January 1913, died 19 April 1996. They initially spent time in Australia, Wellington and c1911 were in Tauranga where Henry worked as a sawmiller. Sadly, Henry passed away 22 March 1913 leaving May with a young family and soon after she returned to the Auckland area. On 8 November 1915 May married Alexander Edmund MACREDIE, a widower and Auctioneer, making their home at 45 Abbotsford Terrace, Devonport, Auckland. Alexander had married Clara BALL in 1891 and they had one child Muriel Alice born 1894. Clara passed away in 1913. Alexander passed away on 2 January 1927, aged 69, and was laid to rest in Takapuna Cemetery. A short time later the family moved to 51 Clarence Street. It was here that May passed away on 2 September 1942. She was laid to rest with Alexander. The siblings continued to live together until Noel married Marjorie Evelyn DAY in 1954. The sisters remained in the family home until c1960 when they moved to live with Noel and Marjorie. They saw their lives out together. All three siblings were cremated, and ashes buried at North Shore Memorial Park. Sources: Electoral Rolls Cemetery Records PapersPast – NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXXI, ISSUE 21943, 29 OCTOBER 1934 Researcher: Lois Hopping

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3917 Surname: WATTERMAN* Given names: Sara Residence: Waiuku Occupation: hotelkeeper Qualification: residential Sara/Sarah was born c1841 (baptised 13 June 1841) to Samuel DAVENPORT/DEVENPORT and Mahala BATE in Walsall, Staffordshire, England in a family of seven children, three of whom died in England. Samuel and Mahala with Sara, Amelia (Mahala Amelia), Oliver and Florence, arrived in New Zealand on 6 July 1863 aboard the Telegraph. Aboard also were Samuel’s first cousin, Samuel FROST, and his family. Before leaving England Sara and her sister Amelia worked as hosiers and haberdashers and Samuel as a tailor and draper. Sadly, not long after their arrival Oliver passed away on 2 March 1864, aged 17, at the family home in Wakefield Street, Auckland. Sara married William Adolphus WATERMAN* on 9 November 1866 in Auckland. William was a Captain, master mariner, and arrived in New Zealand c1860. At the time of their marriage William was trading with the islands. Sara and William had four children: Samuel William Adolphus b. 29 March 1868 Tahiti, d. 28 September 1910, Mahala Augusta Maude (May) born 20 January 1871, died 2 September 1942. Alfred Clarence Melville b. 24 December 1875, m. Eva ROGERS 18 July 1900, d. 28 March 1937 Sidney Percy b. 10 January 1878, d. 6 August 1879 (as Sidney Percy Devonport Waterman). Gradually William gave up the sea and with Sara they entered the catering and hotel business, with both a catering business in Auckland and a hotel in Coromandel in c1880. They were back to the Auckland area with a hotel in Queen Street in c1890. Sara and William then had the Kentish Hotel in Waiuku c1892 purchased from Thomas Sedgwick. In September 1893 William was struck down with paralysis but although he improved his health was compromised. Circa 1896 building conditions at the hotel caused a new portion to be added, a conditional licence granted, and lifted, when plans/work began. By 1901 Sara and William had sold the Kentish Hotel and went to live in the Auckland area. William finally found peace from pain when he passed away on 7 December 1902, aged 74, at his home, “Davenport Villa” in Epsom, Auckland. He was laid to rest at St Andrew’s Cemetery, Epsom. Sara lived with Samuel at Selwyn Place, Epsom until his death in 1910. She continued to live there for a short period until she joined Alfred and Eva at the Papakura Hotel where Alfred was the Publican. Sara brought all her knowledge and personality to help them make a great success of it. Sara died 3 February 1915, aged 73, at the Papakura Hotel. She had been suffering with bronchitis and had retired to her bed a fortnight earlier and sadly did not recover. She was laid to rest with her husband William, their son Samuel and a grandson William Melville. Her obituary acknowledged, “that her death would be received with great regret in the very many towns in which she had been the licensee of hotels. In Waiuku particularly she was very well known and had a large circle of friends. Sara was of a kindly and amiable disposition and was everywhere held in the highest esteem.” Sources: Papers Past, Electoral Rolls, Cemetery Records, English Census Records Researcher: Val Gillanders Compiler: Lois Hopping

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3919 Surname: WATTS Given names: Essney* Residence: Waiuku West Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential The correct spelling of Essney's name is Asenath*, a biblical name, which would have sounded quite different in a local dialect but whoever registered her birth had to leave it to the registrar to enter and he would have written what it may have sounded like to him. Essney was the younger daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth (née HARRIS) PATMORE and was baptised on 18 December 1831 at Broughing, Hertford, England. Noted in the 1841 census were an older sister Harriet and an older brother Nicholas. She met William WATTS in Kent and they married on 3 November 1851 in the parish church at Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, England. At the time of the 1861 census they were living in Lambeth, London where husband William was an omnibus coach driver. With them was a boarder, a girl of 7 years, Jane DAW. The following year they had heard of the Waikato Immigration Scheme to New Zealand via South Africa and decided to take that opportunity so registered their interest. They left UK along with 138 other passengers on the “Matoaka”, a 3-masted, full rigged ship. On this voyage with them was their first adopted daughter Jane Daw Watts. The ship arrived in Auckland on 3 January 1865. William and Essney Watts qualified for a land grant and were allocated 10 acres of land at Waipipi and also a Town Section at Te Tora Point (Lot 227). They did not take up this land and in fact none of those allocated land there in fact did so. They were therefore granted a refund of some £8.0.0 in 1869-70 which enabled them to apply for and develop land at Lot 5 Karioitahi. Essney would have ably supported and assisted William in all these endeavours. They were unable to have children of their own so over the years adopted another three children: Francis William Billing Watts, a baby of 5 months, whose mother had just died of TB – they had been on the “Matoaka” with Essney and William. Next was Arthur Cuthbert Watts, adopted at the age of four, and the last to be adopted was Margaret Hicks Watts, at the age of six years. It was a happy household, all of the children having good manners and all of them hard working. Education was very important too and all children attended the local school at Karioitahi and also the Holy Trinity church, both of which Essney and William had been instrumental in establishing. Essney and William enjoyed a long-married life of some 54 years, William dying in 1905 aged 73 and Essney living until 1920 aged 86. At that stage she was being looked after by son William (Bill) who had inherited the farm. Both are buried at the Waiuku Cemetery with the gravestone recording her name by then as Esney and later family have used that spelling ever since. Sources: -Waiuku Immigration Records, Archives NZ Auckland - Book "Old Waiuku and District" by Brian Muir - Auckland Provincial Highways District Rolls 1863-1879 - Papers Past - www.theshipslist.com - Westpac Archives Inspector's Six-monthly returns - Waiuku Museum, Mrs Poppy Short Researcher: Claire Dawe

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3920 Surname: WATTS Given names: Laura Cecilia Residence: Manukau Heads Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Laura Cecilia was born c1869 to Alfred and Cecilia WATTS in England. Sadly, her father passed away shortly after the family arrived in New Zealand in 1875, but she was brought up, along with her sister Kathleen Edith Watts (c1871), in a loving family when Cecilia married Charles MOELLER in 1879. Passenger list information suggested there may have been a third child. Laura and Kathleen became big sisters to Charles Arthur, Albert Gordon and Irene Agatha. Charles Moeller was stationed at the Manukau Heads Lighthouse in various positions during her childhood; head boatman for the oar-operated pilot boat, assistant signalman and assistant lighthouse keeper. All these activities carried out in a small but supportive community. Everyone knew they relied on each other and willingly helped when the occasion arose or even without an occasion. Laura enjoyed music, playing the piano, along with Miss White, at her sister’s wedding to Herbert THOMPSON (1891), which was held at Awhitu. Laura married on 12 October 1896 to William Frederick JONES. William was born in Dublin, Ireland to Mr and Mrs G W Jones, and had six brothers and three sisters. He came to New Zealand in November 1863 on board the Helvellyn, landing in Auckland. In his early working years, he was apprenticed to Owen and Graham, and then William McArthur & Co. who were wholesale drapers and Island traders with business premises where Smith & Caughey traded in Auckland. They made their home in Waiuku where William had been living and operating his own business as a general storekeeper. They had five children – Laureen Sylvia 1897, Wilfred Arthur 1898, Vivian 1900-1900, Irvin Acele (Viveen Cecile) 1902 and Kathleen Dorothy 1903. Laura and William continued to live in Waiuku for a short period before moving to Auckland where they appeared to live for a short time with William’s father, and while there William Frederick worked as a Commission Agent. Laura passed away on 21 May 1908, aged 39, and was laid to rest in Waikaraka Cemetery, Auckland. William continued to live in the Auckland area after Laura’s death, and on retirement mainly in Papatoetoe, before finally settling in Northcote. Among his pleasures was sailing and he owned boats in his own name and in conjunction with his brother, one being the Jessie Logan, a deck yacht of eight tons. William passed away 3 December 1931, aged 83, and was laid to rest Birkenhead/Glenfield Cemetery. Source: NZ BDM Historical Records and Electoral Rolls PapersPast: Sister’s Marriage 6 November 1891 and Obituary W.F. Jones 7 December 1931 Researcher: Lois Hopping

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3091 Surname: WEBSTER Given names: Helen Watson Residence: Pukekohe Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Helen Watson POTTER was born in London in the June quarter 1852. She was the eldest daughter (and maybe the eldest child) of Emma and Joseph Potter, who had come to New Zealand on the Egmont with two children in 1858. Joseph (1828-1912) was a well-known merchant in Auckland and with his wife Emma (1831-1894) had a family of at least 12 children. Helen married Robert Fellowes WEBSTER on 23 November 1881 in a double wedding ceremony with her sister Mary Gurney. Helen and Robert had a family of three daughters: • 1883 Beatrice Mary • 1885 Violet Helen, and • 1888 Winifred Emma. In 1878 Robert, who had served in the Auckland Militia, opened the first saddlery business in Waiuku but after his marriage decided to return to Pukekohe and set up business there – a business he operated for 40 years. He was a Justice of the Peace and the District Coroner and was very involved in a wide range of community organisations. He was chairman of the Pukekohe School where his daughters were educated. Robert Fellowes Webster died on 26 March 1924 and Emma died three days later at her residence in Prospect Terrace, Pukekohe, on 29 March 1924. They are buried together in Pukekohe Cemetery. Sources: Photo – nzetc.victoria.ac.nz; bdm – www.dia.govt.nz Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Headstone photo: Franklin Branch NZSG Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3924 Surname: WEST Given names: Annie Residence: Waiuku Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Annie WEST was born in Fairfield, Mangere, New Zealand on 14 March 1863. She was daughter of Margaret Northey West and Joseph Lashford West, immigrants from Cornwall. Annie was their eldest child and her birth was followed by that of seven brothers. The family shifted in the mid-1860s from the Auckland area to Waiuku, where they farmed. Annie did not marry. Annie would have been 30 years of age in 1893 when she enrolled on the Electoral Roll. She took a keen interest in all church work, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Women’s Institute. She was also an enthusiastic gardener and lover of flowers. Annie and her mother, Margaret Northey West, shifted to 95 Queen St, Waiuku just before her brother Sydney Nickell West left to fight in WW1. Annie lived with her mother until her mother died in 1921. Annie died on 11 November 1936 and is buried in the Waiuku Cemetery beside her parents. Sources: Family information, and the book “From Yeomen to Pioneers”. Four hundred years of the Nickell family in Cornwall, Australia and New Zealand, by Max Garner. Researchers: Carol West, Gweneth Baird, Ros West. (Great-nieces of Annie West).

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3927 Surname: WEST Given names: Margaret Northey Residence: Waiuku Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Margaret Northey WEST (nee NICKELL) was born 23 February 1842 in St Mabyn, Cornwall, England. She was the daughter of Charles Nickell and Ann Nickell (nee NORTHEY), and had one older brother also born in Cornwall. In 1854, Margaret’s family emigrated from Cornwall to Belfast, (also known as Port Fairy) in Victoria, Australia on the ship ‘Oithona’. They embarked on 2 February 1855 when Margaret was 13 years of age. In 1862, at the age of 20, Margaret married Joseph Lashford West who had emigrated from the same village in Cornwall to New Zealand in 1851. The families were known to each other and Joseph travelled to Australia to marry Margaret. Margaret and Joseph immediately left for New Zealand and lived in Auckland (Freeman’s Bay) before shifting to the Waiuku area in the mid-1860s, where they farmed. Margaret Northey West had 8 children, one daughter and seven sons. She would have been 51 at the time she enrolled on the Electoral Roll. She lived the last part of her life with her unmarried daughter Annie. They lived at 95 Queen St, Waiuku in a house bought for them by her youngest son before he left for WW1. In this house, her grandson many years later would have his medical surgery. Margaret died on 23 May 1921. She is buried, along with her husband and daughter in the Waiuku Cemetery. Sources: Family knowledge. The book, “From Yeomen to Pioneers”; 400 years of the Nickell family in Cornwall, Australia and New Zealand by Max Garner. Researchers: Carol West, Gweneth Baird, Ros West. (Great granddaughters of Margaret Northey West)

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3929 Surname: WESTHEAD Given names: Emily Residence: Kohekohe Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Emily GILLOTT was born 1864 on board the ship ‘Matoaka’ on the way to New Zealand with her parents Joseph and Sarah, siblings Jonas, Astley, and Henry, landing in Auckland on 3 January 1865. They spent some time in the Onehunga barracks as their land was not ready, they then were shipped across the Manukau harbour to the Te Toro point, and lived in tents until their land was ready, a 10- acre block at Kohekohe. Emily married Joseph WESTHEAD 5 July 1880, at Kohekohe and went on to have 11 children. Having a baby!!, call the midwife, Emily Westhead was that midwife. In the late 1800s and early 1900s in the Waipipi area, when a woman was in labour, a call would go out for the midwife. Emily would grab her bag, take her horse and cart and head out to help deliver the pending new arrival. Emily died on 26 April 1936 and is buried in the Waipipi Cemetery. Sources: Ancestry Family memories Historical BMD Researcher: Carole Prescott (Great Niece)

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3930 Surname: WHEELER Given names: Charlotte Maria Residence: Waiuku East Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Charlotte was the second daughter born to Anna Elizabeth (nee MELLSOP) and John WHEELER on 27 August 1868 at Titi Farm, Mauku. She had four sisters and five brothers. Charlotte was fourteen years old when her mother Anna died of cancer 6 February 1883. Anna is buried at St Brides, Mauku along with members of the Wheeler family. With her older sister, Catherine, Charlotte had the task of looking after the Wheeler children, including 12-month-old Cecil. There were eight children for them to care for, so it was not long before some of the older children were sent to stay with their HENRY cousins at Aka Aka. After struggling to keep his family together John decided it may be better if he moved to Waingaro and farm with the Henrys where all the family could be together with support from the extended family. In 1900 Charlotte was living at John St, Auckland her occupation given as home duties. By 1905-6 she was at 23 Sentinel St, Auckland where she was to remain even after her marriage. Charlotte and Sidney (Jim) Cooke MILLS, a widower, married on 17 August 1914 at the Registrar’s Office in Auckland. Sidney’s (b.1861 London) occupation shown on the marriage certificate is Switchman (this would be with the Tramways). In 1919 she and Sidney, by now retired, were living in Raglan, staying there for the next ten years. Their son Herbert (Bert) Cooke (d.1986) married Doris Minnie MILLAR. Charlotte’s adopted son Wilfred (d. 1960 Waiheke Is) married Rita Louise SMITH and on her death, her sister Ophir Emily Smith. Charlotte Mills died in Auckland 16 April 1940, predeceasing her husband by six years. Charlotte Elizabeth Mills (nee Wheeler) 1868-1940 Sources: www.dia.govt.nz Ancestry.com Electoral rolls The Mellsop family book Researcher: Rosalie-Ann Nicholson

Electoral Roll: Waipa 3612 Surname: WHITE Given names: Eliza Residence: Bombay Occupation: settler Qualification: residential Eliza SETCHELL was born in 1814. Very little is known of her until her marriage to George WHITE and their journey to New Zealand on the Lancashire Witch. On the passenger list is George and Eliza and their children George, Alfred, Robert, Eliza, Mary and Florence. Like most of the settlers who arrived on that ship on 2 June 1865, after 100 days at sea they were looking forward to taking up their own land in New Zealand. The Whites settled in Bombay and had Lots 48, 49, 50, 51 and 52 in Section 4. Most of the lots were of 10 acres but not the lush grass that many of the settlers expected. Years of hard work was ahead to make a living off the farm. George died 14 January 1892, age 80 and on his death certificate it stated that their were six living children – 3 males and 3 females. No details of date or place of marriage were recorded. Eliza died on 28 January 1899 and they are both buried at St Peters of the Forest Church cemetery at Bombay. NZ Herald 8 Feb 1899 Sources: Shipping lists – Auckland Libraries Probate – www.familysearch.org Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Headstone photo – Franklin Branch NZSG Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3935 Surname: WHITE Given names: Emily Residence: Waiuku Occupation: Household Duties Qualification: Residential Emily was born Emma WESTHEAD c1858 in Hollingworth, Cheshire, England to James Westhead and Emma Eunice FRITTON, the youngest of five children. James made his living as a cotton spinner in a Lancashire mill. James’s father was a weaver in a mill also. The family were listed on the New Zealand bound Matoaka passenger list as parents James and Eunice with Joseph c1853, Benjamin c1856 and Emma, arriving in Auckland 3 January 1865, shortly after the end of the Land Wars in the Waikato region. Emma was seven years of age. Two brothers did not come to New Zealand, John 1839 and William 1840. James and his family settled in Kohekohe on Lot 68. William WHITE (age 11), Emily’s future husband, came to New Zealand with his mother, step-father and half-siblings. He appeared on the passenger list for the Matoaka as William HAYTER. The Hayters also settled in the Kohekohe area. The White family of William and Mary and their children George, William, Mary and Eliza that are also on the 1865 Matoaka passenger list are not connected with this family. Emily (age 18), as she chose to be called from this stage, married William (age 22) on 29 May 1876 at the home of her parents in Kohekohe in a Presbyterian service conducted by James Galloway. They had 12 children: Joseph 1877, William James 1879, Alfred 1881, Francis 1883, Eunice Florence 1885, Ernest 1887, Robert Allen 1890, Jane Winifred 1891, Arthur Edwin 1896, John Albert 1897, and twins Norman and Benjamin 1901. William had been living in the Waiuku area and was earning a living as a farm servant. This continued until Emily and William moved to Auckland and William provided by working in various labouring jobs. They had several homes in Auckland but finally settled at 5 St James Street and it was at this address that William passed away on 10 February 1926, aged 74. He was laid to rest at Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland. Emily passed away on 8 July 1928 and was laid to rest with William. Sources: Extended family contacts and their Ancestry® websites NZ BDM Historical Records Cemetery Records Papers Past – Death Notice Electoral Rolls Auckland Library – Auckland Area Passenger Arrivals 1838-1889 Researchers: Lois Hopping and Penny Prescott Please note further research was undertaken after the printed publication of “Women of Franklin” and this profile has been updated accordingly.

Electoral Roll: Waipa 3613 Surname: WHITE Given names: Florence Residence: Bombay Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Florence’s signature from probate records for Sampson 1927 Florence was the youngest daughter of George WHITE (1812-1892) and Eliza SETCHELL (1814-1899) and came to New Zealand on the Lancashire Witch, arriving in Auckland on 2 June 1865. She was born in London in 1859, so was about six when the family settled in Bombay and no doubt had some schooling. The Bombay School that first opened in 1865 was a pay-to-attend and only survived a short time. An Education Board School was opened in 1871. In 1897 Florence married Sampson WHITWORTH, who was a miner at Waitekauri and then went contracting. On the 1905 and 1911 electoral rolls he was a quarryman and then went farming at Whitford until his death. Sampson died in 1927 and Florence moved to Onehunga, ending her life in the Infirmary at Epsom (now part of Green Lane Hospital) on 14 August 1939. They are both buried in the Hillsborough cemetery with this inscription on their headstone. Sources: Findlay Family Tee – ancestry; Probate records – www.familysearch.org; NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.nz; Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; Burial record – NZ Society of Genealogists Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Waipa 3615 Surname: WHITE Given names: Mary Residence: Bombay Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Mary and Alfred WHITE only had one child. • Caroline, born at Bombay on 24 September 1876. She married Frank Thompson in 1908 and died at Whangarei in 1952. Alfred had arrived with his parents and 5 siblings on the Lancashire Witch in June 1865 and settled on land in Bombay, but nothing is known about Mary. Sources: BDM – www.dia.govt.nz Shipping lists – Auckland Libraries Headstone photo – Franklin Branch NZ Society of Genealogists Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3937 Surname: WHITE Given names: Mary Sophia Residence: Manukau Heads Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Mary Sophia SUSTINS was born to George Sustins and Sophia DAVY, the fourth daughter in a family of six. Mary was born at the Mission House at Mission Bay, Auckland c1858. “Her father, George, was a Master Mariner and as Captain sailed the first ‘Southern Cross’ sailing ship to New Zealand arriving on 19 July 1855. Sadness came to George and his young family in April 1861 at the sudden death of Sophia, wife and mother. Mary moved to Wellington to live with friends after her mother’s death, and it was there that she met her future husband.” “Charles White was born in Yorkshire on 1 March 1839 and sailed to New Zealand on “Donna Nita” in 1863, when he was 24 years old. He lived in the South Island for 11 years, working as a telegraph linesman in Christchurch. On 28 July 1873, Charles married 15-year-old Mary Sophia, at his home in Kaikoura.” “A few months after their marriage, Charles White was offered the position of Telegraph Operator at Manukau Heads. Charles and Mary travelled up from the South Island by ship with their few possessions, arriving early in 1874. As there were no roads, their supplies were unloaded at the Blowhole Wharf, and carried up the steep hill by hand or horseback. A small wooden house on the south side of the steep hill leading up to the flagstaff was to be their home.” “Much sadness was in store for Charles’ young bride. Their first child, Charles Thomas, was born on 29 May 1874 but died at midnight on Christmas Day, six months later. Charles Robert was born on 4 July 1875, but he lived for only 18 days. A year later, twin boys were born on 18 June 1876, but both babies died the following day. Their fifth son, Albert Surtees, was born on 4 October 1877, lived a few months, and died on 20 January 1878. These five babies were all buried somewhere near the site of the flagstaff.” “The next four births were happier occasions, two daughters, Sophia Elizabeth, born on 23 March 1880 and Phoebe Alma on 13 June 1882, were healthy youngsters, as were Arthur Gilbert, born 6 May 1885 and Frances Mary, 22 January 1888. A tenth child, Myrtle, 22 January 1891 died at three months on 5 April.” “Charles worked as sole charge of the telegraph office and considering the activity and dangers involved at the Manukau Heads, a very important job. Mary was a great reader and letter writer and spent her spare time corresponding with family and friends. Charles and Mary lived at Manukau Heads until 1896, when they were transferred back to the South Island.” Mary was pregnant at that stage and gave birth to a girl, May Pearl Sustins, on 6 May in Christchurch. They spent their retirement at Waipipi, and Charles died 29 April 1929 aged 90, at his home on Waipipi Road. Mary died 29 October 1940 aged 82. They are buried together in the Waiuku Cemetery. Sources: Charles White – Manukau Heads Telegraph Pg 88-89 “Heads Harbour & Hills – An Awhitu History Paperspast - Obituary Cemetery Records Researcher: Jeff Pyle, Lois Hopping

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3143 Surname: WHITESIDE Given names: Susanna Residence: Whangarata Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Susanna (sometimes spelt Susannah) FERGUSON was born about 1830 in Ireland. She was the daughter of James Ferguson and his wife Mary Ann McKETTRICK. On 5 February 1863 Susanna married George WHITESIDE in Belfast, Ireland. Their first child, Samuel George, was born the following year on 27 March 1864 and when he was just a few months old the family boarded the Ganges and sailed to New Zealand as part of the Waikato Immigration Scheme. A second son, William James, was born in 1866. Samuel’s obituary, part of which is shown, mentions the family’s first years in New Zealand. In a 1930 article published by the Otago Daily Times, Samuel mentions life at Whangarata in an article he wrote about the kokako. In 1882 an altercation with another Whangarata resident, Margaret CHIPLIN, saw Susannah appear in court as a witness. The case was dismissed. Susannah’s husband George died in February 1899 and is buried at the Alexandra Redoubt Cemetery in Tuakau. On 8 May 1913, aged 78 years, Susannah died and was buried beside her husband. Sources: Marriage record - Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913 database: https://www.familysearch.org Headstone: https://www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz/servicesfacilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-database Obituary of S G Whiteside: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/bay-ofplenty-beacon/1942/7/8/4 Otago Daily Times article: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/otagodaily-times/1930/12/2/2 Birth and death records: https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz Researcher: Sandra Brasell

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3146 Surname: WHITING Given names: Sarah Residence: Mauku Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Sarah McCULLOUGH was a young bride of 20 when she married Arthur Frederick George WHITING on 12 May 1891. Arthur was born at Russell, New Zealand on 1 February 1864 to parents Jabez and Catherine Dorothea Whiting (nee FAWKES) from Gloustershire, England. At the time of the 1893 general election, Arthur and Sarah are living at Mauku where Arthur, a carpenter, had the freehold of Lot 14. They were the proud parents of baby Dorothy Hazel born 13 June 1892. As young parents living at Mauku through the 1890s they would have been involved in their community. Arthur was a keen cricketer and for a time captained the Mauku Cricket team. The turn of the century found them living on the Coromandel Peninsula where Arthur was working in the Opitonui mines. Their second child, Arthur Clyde was born there in 1902. After a short time in the mines, Arthur returned to carpentry and they lived at Papakura and later Otahuhu. Alexander Lisle was born in 1911 during their time at Papakura but tragically died a year later, on 10 May 1912 and is buried in Papakura Cemetery. From details on the 1928 and subsequent electoral rolls, Sarah and Arthur are living apart; Arthur listed as a carpenter, returned to the Coromandel area where he lived until his death in 1944 aged 80 and is buried at Buffalo Cemetery, Coromandel. Sarah remained in the Auckland region living with her unmarried daughter Hazel. She died in 1955 and is buried at Papakura Cemetery with their infant son Lisle. (The children were known by their underlined names.) The headstone reads, “In loving memory of Sarah, loved wife of Arthur Whiting and beloved mother of Hazel and Clyde, died 4th Oct 1955 aged 84 years, and their loved son Lisle died 10 May 1912 – aged 1 year. At rest.” Sources: Papers Past; BMD NZ; Ancestry; Family Search; FindaGrave; bk: Patumahoe History & Memories Researcher: Madeleine Judson

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3152 Surname: WHITTEN Given names: Sarah Residence: Puni Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential The earliest reference found for Sarah WHITTEN is on the 1893 Electoral Roll. She was the wife of Robert Whitten who was on the electoral rolls from 1890 to 1896 as a millhand, living at Puni although on his probate records he is described as a farmer. Maybe, like many farmers in those days he had to earn income off the farm to survive. Robert died on 28 July 1898, his death notice was in the Auckland Star, 30 July 1898, as was a small item saying he had died suddenly after suffering influenza and bronchitis. Sarah lived on at Puni for several years but on the 1911 and 1914 electoral rolls she was living at Papatoetoe. It is not known where Sarah was born , who her parents were or even if she had any children. She died on 28 March 1919 – no death notice or probate has been found – and she is buried in Pukekohe Cemetery with Robert. Sources: Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk Probate records – www.familysearch.com Headstone photo – Franklin Branch NZSG Researcher: Judith Batt Compiler: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3153 Surname: WIDGERY Given names: Caroline Residence: Tuakau Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Caroline LOW married John WIDGERY on 20 October 1839 at St Mary’s Redcliffe Church, Bristol, England. They can be found in the 1841 census living at Milk Street, St Paul, Bristol with Caroline’s mother Mary, a widow. Caroline was just 20 years old and her first child had been born that year. John’s occupation is given as hairdresser. By 1851 they are still in Bristol, Caroline now has three children and is listed as a haberdasher, John is still a hairdresser. In 1861 John is listed as a linen draper with their daughter Emily a draper’s assistant, their eldest son aged 19 is a hairdresser. The family business of drapery and hairdressing appears to have supported them well. At age 55 in 1871 John had returned to hairdressing and Caroline now 50 had no given occupation. In 1874 they can be found on the passenger list for the Great Western travelling cabin class to New York City. There is no way to determine how long they stayed in New York or when they continued their journey to New Zealand, but the 1878 Electoral Roll records John at Tuakau on Freehold land, part of lot 64 Tuakau. Caroline and John celebrated their 50th Wedding anniversary in Tuakau in 1889. Sadly, the following year on 4 August John died and was buried next to his granddaughter in the ‘new’ Tuakau Cemetery. It was to be another 15 years before Caroline joined him on 9 December 1905. Sources: Findmypast – census and marriage. Family Search – Passenger list Papers Past – Auckland Star 4 Aug 1890, and 9 Dec 1905 Waikato Cemeteries database – photo Researcher: Mary Mercer

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3158 Surname: WIGHTMAN Given names: Fanny Residence: Puni Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Frances (Fanny) Millar WIGHTMAN was born around 1872 and she was the daughter of Frederick and Ellen (nee MILLAR) Wightman. Frederick and Ellen arrived in New Zealand on board the Ganges in 1865. Frederick was born in Bangor, County Down around 1834 and was the son of Henry and Isabella (nee CAMPBELL) Wightman. Henry was employed as a coachman. On 25 December 1857 Frederick married Ellen Millar, the daughter of John Millar, bootmaker, the May Street Presbyterian Church in Belfast. Ellen was born around 1834. Frederick’s occupation is listed as gardener on their marriage certificate. Fanny married Samuel McNALLY on 8 June 1903 in the Pukekohe Presbyterian Church. Samuel was born on 18 May 1870 and was the third son of Robert and Anne Jane (nee SIMMS) McNally. Robert and Anne Jane were also Ganges passengers. This marriage produced three children, Madge, Edith and Frederick Sims. The Franklin electoral rolls show that Fanny and Sam were farming in Puni from 1893 till 1896. This is possibly the 10-acre lot that ran from McNally's Road up to the corner of Ward Street and Puni Road. From 1896 to 1899 they are listed as farming in Pukekohe West, 1902 to 1905 in Pukekohe and from 1905 to 1911 in Pukekohe West again. From 1911 to 1919 they are back in Pukekohe and it was in 1916 that they were left the land in McNally Road. The Raglan electoral roll has them living at Puni Road where they remained until 1938. Fanny looked after her father in his later years until his death in 1926. Frances passed away on 9 June 1936 and was interred in the Pukekohe Cemetery. Shortly afterwards Sam moved to Helvetia Road, being listed there, in the electoral rolls, as a farmer. He lived for another 15 years until his death on 12 November 1951. Sources: From County Armagh To A Land Afar – The Story of Robert & Anne Jane (nee Simms) McNally by Anne Miller Researcher: Anne (McNally) Miller

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3157 Surname: WIGHTMAN Given names: Louisa Residence: Puni Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Louisa was born on 2 February 1869 and she was the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (nee MILLS) ADAMS. The Adams family arrived in New Zealand on board the Maori on 23 December 1864. Louisa married Thomas WIGHTMAN on 31 March 1891 at the Adam’s property on Mill Farm in Pukekohe. Thomas was born on 4 May 1862 in County Down, Ireland and was the eldest son and child of Frederick and Ellen (nee MILLAR) Wightman. He came to New Zealand on board the Ganges which arrived in Auckland on 14 February 1864. It is believed that Thomas was schooled at home by his mother as were the rest of the family. It is thought that he spent his early years working on the farm at Puni and he continued to do after his marriage. Louisa and Thomas’ first three children were born in Puni. They were Eleanor Millar born 19 March 1892, Leonard Walter born 4 August 1893 and George Henry born 29 January 1895. Sometime between 1895 and 1898 the family moved to the Patumahoe area because Leonard was enrolled in the Patumahoe School. On 19 May 1899 Mabel Francis Mary was born at Patumahoe and on 10 May 1903 Edgar Llewellyn was born. Their next child Thomas was born on 26 January 1905 in Patumahoe and after that the family shifted to the Whitford area. The next child, Reginald Whitford, was born on 15 July 1907 in Whitford. In 1908 the family was on the move again and they shifted up north to the Raupo/Matakohe area and it was here that their ninth child Kathleen Rebecca was born on 22 December 1908. Three and a half years later the family moved again and settled to the Waimauku farm named ‘Hanekau’ at the end of what was known as Fletcher Road. On 24 November 1915 their last child, Isabella Louisa was born in Helensville. Throughout all the moves over the years Thomas remained working as a farmer apart from the time they were in Whitford when it is thought that he worked at a hotel and while there Louisa returned to live with her parents for a period of time. However, Thomas died in 1919 aged 57 and was interred in the Kumeu Anglican Cemetery and Louisa died in Auckland Hospital on 18 July 1937 aged 68. Sources: Wightmans of Waimauku – History, Legends & Recollections by Ian Wightman 2013 Papers Past- paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Researcher: Ross Miller

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3161 Surname: WILCOX Given names: Annie Jane Residence: Pukekohe East Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential Annie Jane GREER was born in Sligo, Ireland in 1860. She was one of the older members of her family and had left Ireland to join relations in New Zealand. Sligo at that time was a rather depressed, very Catholic part of Western Ulster. Henry WILCOX was visiting his relations in Coromandel when they first met, and it was suggested to Henry that this girl would make a good wife for him. Her introduction to Henry would almost certainly have been arranged by her relations. Henry Wilcox was born at Tuberlion, Co Cavan, Ireland on 7 October 1849, the third son of Henry and Elizabeth Wilcox. He was 19 years of age when he arrived in Auckland on 19 December 1869 aboard the Chile. On the voyage he accompanied his brother John’s wife, Mary Anne VEITCH, and her young son. Henry initially went to Thames to try his luck at gold mining – his younger brother John was already established there as a mine manager. Then sometime in the 1870s he went to Canterbury in the South Island where his work included a period at GRIGG’s Station at Long Beach and building bridges on the then new railway line between Kaikoura and Christchurch. Around 1881, Henry returned north and, through a land clearance scheme, purchased a property of 120 acres, lot 38, of rough bushland at Buckland, 30 miles south of Auckland. At that time there were no formed roads. Being of pioneer spirit, he felled most of the bush and began the task of clearing the land, converting it into one of the best dairy farms in the Franklin district. The farm was given the name ‘Willowstream’. Photo: Annie & Henry Wilcox with 12 of their 13 children, about 1904. Annie Jane and Henry married at Christ Church, Coromandel on 20 August 1883. Their marriage certificate shows Annie Jane was aged 23 and Henry aged 32. Henry and Annie Jane took up residence on the farm at Buckland where, over the following 20 years, their seven sons and six daughters were born. All were born at their home with branches of the family now spread throughout New Zealand and Australia. In addition to farming and raising their large family, Henry began participating in local body politics in 1893 and Annie Jane was his strongest supporter. Sadly, Annie Jane Wilcox died in 1912 at the age of 51, two years after being stricken by a severe stroke, and is buried in the Pukekohe Public Cemetery. Her husband Henry died 24 years later at the age of 87 and is buried beside his wife. The Wilcox homestead at Harrisville. Source: From “The Wilcox Story” provided by Ian Wilcox & Brian Wilcox (grandsons) in collaboration with others of the family. Collated by Christine Madsen & Lynda Muir

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3169 Surname: WILKINSON Given names: Jane Residence: Woodlands, Pukekohe Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Signature from probate documents for Thomas in 1901 Jane IRVING was born in the September quarter 1839 in Wigton, Cumberland. She married Thomas WILKINSON in 1858 in Plumbland, Cumberland and they had a family of six sons, although one died very young. According to the obituary for one of the sons, the family came to New Zealand about 1876 and settled on land on the eastern slopes of Pukekohe Hill, bordered by what is now known as Anzac Road. They called their large block of land ‘Woodlands’ and built up a herd of pedigree Jersey cows. This advertisement had been appearing in the Auckland Star for weeks before Thomas’ death and an auction of livestock and goods was held on 27 August 1901. Jane and Thomas were prominent members of the Church of England in Pukekohe. Thomas died on 7 September 1901 and Jane died on 30 April 1913. They are buried together in the Pukekohe Cemetery. Sources: UK census – ancestry.co.uk Parish records – www.cornwall-opc-database.org Free BMD Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Cemetery photo – Franklin Branch NZSG Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3168 Surname: WILKINSON Given names: Jessica Residence: Pukekohe Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Jessica (also known as Jessie) Margaret Clara DAWSON was born c1862 although it appears that her birth may not have been registered. She was the daughter of Frederick Wood Dawson (1819 – 1894) and Maria Elizabeth WHITNEY (1919 – 1882) who had arrived in New Zealand in 1854 with five children including Josephine, who had been born during the voyage. Two more children were born to the couple – Jessica and a son in 1864. Jessica’s oldest sibling, Frederick William Edmund Dawson was a doctor in Auckland. On 9 March 1892 she married Robert Fisher WILKINSON, who had come to New Zealand as a child and lived on his parent’s dairy farm ‘Ensley’ on Pukekohe Hill. Robert became a reknown breeder of jersey cows, an official in the Jersey Breeders’ Association and a judge of the same. A detailed account of the wedding was found in the NZ Herald, 10 March 1892. Jessie and Robert had a family of: - Ella Cecilia Irwin Wilkinson (1893-1983) who married George Richard WILLIS in 1919 - Ernest Dawson Willkinson (1895-1987) - A stillborn son on 14 May 1897. Jessie died the day after this birth. Sources: Knight Family Tree – Ancestry.co.uk Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz BDM – www.dia.govt.nz Headstone photo: Franklin Branch NZSG Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3944 Surname: WILLIAMS Given names: Anna Residence: Waiuku Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential Anna WILLIAMS was born Anna Charlotte Emma, on 16 November 1872, in Patumahoe to Paulina ADOLPH and Louis HARTMANN, one of four children, two boys and two girls. Paulina was born in Sommerfeld, Prussia c1851 and migrated with her parents and siblings to Cape Town, where they lived for a period. They then sailed to New Zealand aboard the Eveline in 1865. Louis was born in Hanover, Germany c1841. He was a fisherman by occupation building up to having his own boats. Anna married Vincent John Williams on 19 April 1892. Vincent was born to Henry Williams and Mary Daniels WALTERS on 20 August 1868 in Waiuku. Henry was born in St Tudy, Cornwall, England, c1836. Mary was born in Mulgoa, New South Wales, c1842. Her family came to New Zealand where she met Henry and married in 1864 in Auckland. Anna and Vincent had four children: Mary Paulina 1893 (Mrs J.J. Coady), Eric Lawrence 1894, Henry Antone 1897 and Vincent John (Jnr) 1890. The family lived in Waiuku and Vincent earned a living as a labourer. The 1919 Electoral Roll still showed Vincent as a labourer but by 1935 Vincent and Anna were living at 11 Walmsley Road, Otahuhu and Vincent was a farmer. Son Vincent was living at Otaua Road, Waiuku, working as an electrician at that time. Anna and Vincent continued to live in Walmsley Road, Otahuhu but in the late 1940’s they moved to No. 72. It was here that Vincent passed away on 15 June 1953 aged 84. He was cremated, and his ashes scattered at Waikumete Cemetery. Anna passed away shortly after Vincent on 7 January 1954, aged 81. She was also cremated, and her ashes scattered. She was at the Glen Wallace Home in Papatoetoe when she died. Sources: Cemetery Records Electoral Roll Ancestry Public Tree – Williams Family NZ BDM Historical Records Researcher: Lois Hopping

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3946 Surname: WILLIAMS Given names: George Ruth* Residence: Waiuku East Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential *Ruth Grace was born on 5 January 1871 at Waiuku. She was the fourth of five children of Henry WILLIAMS, a Maori War veteran originally from Cornwall, and his wife Mary Daniels WALTERS. Ruth’s father, Henry was a farmer and butcher. When Ruth was just eight years old her mother Mary died of mortification of the leg. As the eldest daughter, Ruth must have taken on some of the domestic work at home. Ruth had attended school at Waitangi, Pukeoware and Waiuku. She married Francis Guylott DEED on 18 April 1895 at her brother Vincent’s home at Waiuku. Ruth’s brother Charles had married Francis’ sister Georgina DEED some five years previously. Ruth and Francis dairy farmed at Otaua, with Ruth regularly milking cows as her family grew. They had a family of six boys but sadly their three daughters died at birth. Their eldest son Guylott was killed in World War 1, but her other sons were all too young to sign up. Although this loss would have been with her every day, each Armistice and ANZAC Day Ruth would remember her eldest son by retiring to her bedroom for most of the day. The family shifted into Pukekohe in 1919 but just before Christmas 1924 Ruth’s husband was knocked down by a motor car in the main street of Pukekohe and died from his injuries, aged 57. Ruth remained a widow but had an active retirement, she played croquet at the Buckland Croquet Club of which she was patron when she died. She also belonged to the Buckland’s Women’s Institute and the Gardening Circle. She died 26 August 1953 at Buckland and is buried at Pukekohe Cemetery with her husband. Information taken from the privately published The Family of Francis & Ruth Deed, compiled by Colin Deed in 2004. Researcher: Andrea Oosterwijk