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A-I of biographies of local Franklin women who voted in the historic 1893 General Election in New Zealand.

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1323 Surname: HARTLAND
Given name: Annie
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Pukekohe East

Qualification: residential

Annie HARTLAND, nee MORGAN, was born in 1867 at Pukekohe East,
the youngest of a family of eight, to William Morgan and Jane
Elizabeth ROBINSON. Her father was from Leeds, Yorkshire and her
mother was from Rotherhithe, London. Her parents had married in
Auckland, New Zealand, on 27 December 1853.

In February 1870, when Annie was just two and a half years old, her
mother Jane died after a brief illness at the age of 36. On 6 December
of that year, Annie’s father William, remarried to Rachel Emma
WELLS. Thus Annie Morgan, later Hartland, was brought up by
William’s new wife and it is possible she would not have
remembered her birth mother. William and Rachel Emma Morgan
went on to have 10 children of their own so it must have been a busy
household for Annie as she was growing up with her own siblings
from William’s first marriage and the new family.

Annie married John Reginald Hartland in 1888 when she was
21 and he 34. They farmed at the top of Red Hill at Jericho,
between Buckland and Pukekohe East, near Morgan’s Corner.
The farm had a big house, a huge barn, and a lot of native
bush. Today the Hartland bush still stands but the house is no
longer there. Nothing more specific is known of Annie and
John Hartland although they stayed on this farm all their lives.
They had nine children: Percival (Percy), Amy, William
Edmond (Ted), John Reginald (Reg), Owen Thomas, Hugh
Joshua (Huey), Bertha, Raymond, and Sarah Millicent. Their
second son, Private William Edmond Hartland, Service
Number 12/763, died 25 April 1915 at the Dardenelles. He is
commemorated at Lone Pine Memorial.
Annie died in 1920 at the age of 52. Her husband John died on
26 November 1931 aged 77. Both are buried at the Pukekohe
East Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

Source: Robinsons of Rotherhithe by Joanne Robinson, ISBN 0-908608-55-1; cwgc.org; PapersPast; 1893 Electoral Roll
Compiled by Christine Madsen and Lynda Muir

Electoral Roll: Franklin 4049 Surname: HAYTER
Given names: Jane
Occupation: household duties Address: Kohekohe

Qualification: residential

Jane HAYTER (nee WHITE) was born in 1834 in Hindon, Wiltshire, England and was christened on 1
June 1834. She was the daughter of George White and Deborah NORRIS. Jane married James Hayter
in Hindon on 26 May 1858. Jane, James and three of their young children emigrated from England to
New Zealand aboard the “Matoaka” arriving in Auckland on 3 January 1865. On 7 January 1865 the
New Zealand Herald reported on the arrival noting:

“The Matoaka brings a total of 441 souls, all in good health, under the medical charge of Dr Jonas King,
there having been only two deaths and six births on the passage”

Jane’s daughter Annie Jane Hayter was included in those births, having been born aboard the vessel
on 18 December 1864, just over two weeks before the ship’s arrival in port.

Amongst Jane’s possessions on the Matoaka was
the Hayter family bible which has been carefully
passed down through the generations. It has
many pages of handwritten inscriptions
recording significant family events, such as
births, deaths & marriages, and when the
children left home.

Like so many others, Jane and James arrived in New Zealand via the Waikato Immigration Scheme.
They were allocated land in Kohekohe, near Waiuku (on the right on Awhitu Road at the end of what
is known as Dickeys’ Straight) where they lived and worked the land for many years with their eight
children. They moved to Papakura in the early 1900s.

Jane died on 21 May 1914, aged 81, and is buried at Waikumete Cemetery. She was a strong
pioneering woman of her time and would have been proud to know that among her descendants are
four Mayors of Auckland - a grandson-in-law, two great grandsons and a great- great grandson.

Compiled by Melanie Hendricksen – great great granddaughter

Electoral Roll: Waipa 1122 Surname: HAYWARD
Given names: Mary Jane
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Razorback

Qualification: residential

Mary Jane HAYWARD nee FITNESS was born in Frant, Sussex, England on 4 November 1845, to James
and Jane Fitness. She was their fourth child and second daughter. In 1851 the family can be found in
the census at Bells Yew Green Road in the parish of Frant.

Six years later they are to make the journey to New Zealand with
James’ parents Thomas and Elizabeth aboard the ‘Euphemus’. The
Euphemus left Gravesend on 9 October 1856 arriving in Auckland
on 12 February 1857. By all accounts the voyage was a ‘very fine
one’ with good weather and little wind taking 126 days.

Mary Jane married George Hayward on 21 May 1867 at
Maungatawhiri.

In her father’s will he mentions Mary Jane and George, leaving half
of his property to her.

Mary Jane and George raised a family of twelve children, the last being born in 1894. It is perhaps
no surprise that a small notice in the paper on 16 September 1913 reads, “Friends were sorry to hear
that Mrs G Hayward had entered the Auckland hospital to undergo an operation”.

Mary Jane died 5 July 1915 and is buried at Pukekohe.

The inscription on her headstone reads;

In loving memory of George HAYWARD died 14th June 1916 aged 74
years. Also Mary Jane dearly beloved wife of George HAYWARD died 5th
July 1915 aged 70 years At rest”

Sources:
1851 Census of England
England Birth and Christenings 1538-1975
Auckland Libraries – My Heritage Family Trees
NZ Yesteryears.co.nz – Passenger list
Researcher: Mary Mercer

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1372 Surname: HENRY
Given names: Bridget
Occupation: settler Address: Patumahoe

Qualification: residential

Bridget HENRY’s immigration to Auckland in In Patumahoe the couple’s entrepreneurial
1864 did not start well. Illness plagued her work ethic led to the acquisition of large blocks
throughout the voyage on the Dauntless, of land and the successful establishment of the
causing some to also fear for the health of her first European store in the settlement.
three month old daughter, Annie. However,
unlike twenty less fortunate passengers, they So, it is surprising to read in the Daily Southern
survived and settled in Patumahoe. Cross, 26 April, 1866, that Bridget, aka Biddy,
was convicted of an assault upon neighbour
Descendants have spoken about Bridget’s and fellow Dauntless passenger, Catherine
roots in Mullagh, in Co. Cavan, where she HICKEY, and sentenced to pay a fine of 10s.,
married Philip Henry of the same village, a man with costs of 11s.6d, or to be imprisoned for
considerably younger than herself. Bridget, fourteen days with hard labour.
daughter of Joseph SMITH, could read and
write, a skill not shared by many people in Their first son, Joseph, was born in the same
those days. year. He was followed by James (who died at
age nine), Francis, Mary, Kate and Patrick. The
Philip was raised ‘in a lovely white house on a children were all educated at Patumahoe
rise overlooking Lake Virginia’. This seems to School.
indicate their families may have been among
the more prosperous in the district. Bridget and Philip donated land to the
community for both a Catholic Church and a
new Post Office, while the Henry Reserve on
Hunter’s Road, provides a lasting reminder of
this pioneer family.

Bridget’s obituary in 1914 said she was 81
years old. It noted her good fortune in being
confined to her bed for only two weeks before
her death

Sources:
Ireland Select Marriages, FHL Film: 101454
Henry Family History
Daily Southern Cross, 26 April 1866, Papers Past
Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, 30 Oct. 1914, Papers Past

Informants: Cathy Hutchison, Lynley Stone, L. King
Compiled by Wendy Clark

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1371 Surname: HENRY
Given names: Mary
Occupation: assistant shopkeeper Address: Patumahoe

Qualification: residential

Mary HENRY (1872–1951) was the only woman on the Patumahoe roll to record an occupation
outside the home. ‘Assistant shopkeeper,’ she wrote, referring to her job in her father’s general
store. ‘A commodious store,’ according to the NZ Herald in 1895, after extensive renovations had
transformed the building into two storeys with balcony, and large show windows on either side of
the main entrance.

Mary was born in Patumahoe to Irish Catholic pioneers, Bridget (nee SMITH) and Philip, who left
their homeland in County Cavan in 1864 aboard the Dauntless. The couple appear to have been
hard working and enterprising for, helped by family, they developed not only a thriving retail
business but four farms and a gum buying business.

Under the tutelage of headmaster MAUNDER, Mary would have been one of the first pupils to
attend the new Patumahoe Primary School, purpose built in 1877 at a cost of £142.

100 years later another principal, Richard MARSH, wrote, ‘Our school owes much to the foresight of
the early settlers … that they could find time away from the body wearing toil of clearing land and
building homesteads, to plan and work also for the schooling of their children’.

In 1901 Mary married a local farmer, David HUTCHINSON, bearing him five children – Robert Henry
(1902), Phyllis Catherine Lucinda (1904), Annie Virginia (aka Maidie, 1905), Patrick David Rudolf (1910)
and David Ultan (1912).

The farm and its twelve ‘choice’ in-calf dairy cows and seven horses – five draught and two mares –
sold in 1907 when the family shifted to Waitara where their two youngest and short-lived sons were
born.

Newspapers of the time show the Hutchinson family being much involved in Waitara community
events. They spent the rest of their lives there, Mary outliving her husband by 10 years.

Sources:
NZ Herald, 11 March 1895;
Patumahoe: History &
Memories, Ch 3; Patumahoe:
History & Memories, Ch 4; NZ
Herald, 16 Jan. 1907; NZ
Cemetery Records, 1800 – 2007;

Researchers: Cathie Hutchinson
& Lynley Stone
Compiled by Wendy Clark

Electoral Roll: Franklin 4050 Surname: HICKEY
Given names: Margaret Cecily
Occupation: household duties Address: Whiriwhiri, Waiuku

Qualification: residential

Margaret was the 10th and youngest child (6 girls and 4 boys) born at Whiriwhiri on 15 December
1869 to Thomas Joseph and Catherine (nee BURKE) HICKEY. Margaret’s mother and father were
emigrants from Ireland and they married in South Africa at St Mary's Church Cape Town on 13
February 1851. They then spent the next 14 years in South Africa before emigrating to New Zealand
on the “Steinwarder” with their seven children but unfortunately their youngest daughter aged two
died and was buried at sea. The “Steinwarder” arrived at Auckland 14 October 1864 and Margaret’s
family eventually arrived at Whiriwhiri to take up their land. Early childhood would have been hard
for Margaret with few pleasures.

On 16 December 1895 Margaret married Denis NEIL at Maioro
School. Denis was the son of Michael and Margaret (nee RYAN)
Neil.
The Ryan family were another Irish family who emigrated from
South Africa on the “Reihersteig”.
Margaret and Denis had six children Edwin, Agnes, Ruby, Cyril,
Kathleen and Roy. The family lived at Otaua.
Margaret was noted for her interest in the Catholic Church at
Otaua where she and her family worshipped for many years and was very involved with fundraising,
particularly garden parties held in the lovely Rose Garden on their family property situated opposite
the Otaua Dairy Factory. Margaret passed away on 9 December 1943 and is buried at Waiuku
Cemetery with her husband Denis who died 6 June 1941.

Biographical information provided by Mary Livingstone, Leone Neil and Stephen Neil

Electoral Roll: Waipa 1155 Surname: HIGGINS
Given names: Margaret
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Rama Rama

Qualification: residential

Margaret was born about 1838 in Kings County,(now County Offaly), Ireland and her maiden name
was HAWLEY.

She married Michael HIGGINS, also from Kings County, on 8 Nov 1864 in Cape Town, South Africa
and travelled to New Zealand with him on the ship ‘Eveline’, arriving in Auckland in January 1865.

They had 8 children – 5 daughters and 3 sons - Margaret 1865 – 1865, Bridget 1866 – 1877,
Margaret (Peggy) 1867 – 1945, James Augustus 1869 – 1932, Sarah Ann 1871 – 1896, Michael Joseph
1874 – 1966, Thomas 1875 – 1942, Bridget Cecilia 1878 – 1947. Only 3 of them married.

Margaret and Michael farmed in Maketu, an area
now known as Ramarama, just south of Auckland.

Margaret died in Auckland on 27 November 1893, the
day before the election so never had the opportunity
to cast her vote. She is buried at the Ramarama
cemetery with Michael and some of her children.

Auckland Star 28 Nov 1893

Sources:

Marriage certificate from Cape Town
Eveline passenger list
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Oral family history

Contributor: Alan Dalton

Electoral Roll: Waipa 1156 Surname: HIGGINS
Given names: Margaret Jnr
Occupation: dressmaker Address: Rama Rama

Qualification: residential

MARGARET JOSEPHINE who was known as Peggy to family and friends, came into this world
in 1867 – exact date unknown.

Margaret never married but she became a well-known dressmaker in the Franklin district and in Te
Aroha. She had moved to Bridge Street in Te Aroha in the early 1900s where she owned her own
home and lived there for many years.

She appeared on the Franklin Electoral Roll in 1896 where she was living with her father at
Ramarama – occupation shown as ‘domestic duties’. On later rolls in Te Aroha she is referred to
variously as a ‘dressmaker’ or ‘spinster’. By 1938 she is shown living with her brother, Michael and
sister-in-law, Sarah at Mercer. She was a skilled dressmaker and made the wedding and
bridesmaid’s dresses for most of her family and nieces. Margaret died in Auckland on 20 June 1945
aged 79 and her will was probated on 25 July. She is buried at the Ramarama Cemetery.

Sources:

NZ Electoral rolls
Family Oral History
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz

Contributor: Alan Dalton

Electoral Roll: Waipa 1158 Surname: HIGGINS
Given names: Sadie
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Rama Rama

Qualification: residential

Note: It is not certain that Sarah Ann HIGGINS is the Sadie on the 1893 electoral roll but as Sarah was
old enough to be enrolled, this story is about her.

Born in Ramarama on 22 Jul 1871, Sarah Ann Higgins was the fifth child and fourth daughter of
Michael Higgins(1836 – 1900) and Margaret HAWLEY (1838-1893). Sarah attended school at
Ramarama, leaving in 1886.

Her death notice says second eldest daughter but she did in fact have three sisters born before her.

Sarah did not marry before her early death on 24 September 1896. She is buried in the family plot at
Ramarama (Maketu) cemetery.

Sources:

NZSG School records collection
Newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Family photo & history – Alan Dalton

Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 4051 Surname: HILL
Given names: Emily
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Waiuku

Qualification: residential

Emily Augusta STOCKWELL was born on 17 June 1840. She married James HILL (b. 6 June 1840).

They had two children. Emily was born on 21 June 1861(later to marry Arthur BREGMEN in 1893)
and Walter James was born on 21 October 1863.

Emily, James and the two children arrived in Auckland on the “Motoaka” on 3 January 1865 and
began farming at “Springbank Farm” on Taurangaruru Road, near Waiuku.

They were to have eight more children:
Thomas Henry b. 21 April 1866
Sarah b. 8 October 1873
Alice Amelia b. 18 November 1874, d. 1942
Florence b. 20 July 1877
Clara (Curl) Maud b. 12 July 1880, m. Walter COBOURN
Arthur Herbert b. 10 July 1883
George Edward b. 2 January 1869, d. August 1948, and
Ellen b. 2 July 1871, d. 7 October 1944.

Emily died at home – “Springbank” – on 1 January 1906 aged 65.

James passed away at his son’s residence “Greenbank”at Glenbrook on 16 July 1919 aged 78 They
are both buried at Waiuku Cemetery. Two of their daughters are buried with them.

Sources:
Hill Family Tree owned by Bev Craig
“Waipipi and Districts 1865-2015”
book
NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME
XLIII, ISSUE 13066, 4 JANUARY 1906
PUKEKOHE & WAIUKU TIMES,
VOLUME 8, ISSUE 491, 18 JULY 1919

Researcher: Penny Prescott

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3583 Surname: HILL
Given names: Marianne
Occupation: household duties Address: Pukekohe East

Qualification: residential

Marianne SALTER, born in Shrewsbury The Pukekohe & Waiuku Times of 26 July
England, married John HILL in 1883 in New 1915 advised that Mr Hill had sold property at
Zealand. In 1893 the Hill family were living in Pokeno Valley:
Pukekohe East and their two daughters,
Marianne Ellen (Nellie) and Rosa May (May) By 1916, Marianne Hill was a registered
Hill were attending Pukekohe East School. midwife in Tuakau and was listed as a nurse in
John was a farmer and his wife Marianne, Tuakau in 1926.
recorded her occupation as “household
duties” in the 1893 Electoral Roll. At the time of signing her will in 1930,
Marianne Hill was a widow and residing in
In 1896 the family moved from Pukekohe East Tuakau.
to Pokeno where John took up farming again,
owning his own farm in Pokeno Valley, which Two years later, in 1932, at the time of her
had been purchased from Mr VINSON. The death, she was living at Te Mata (near Raglan),
homestead was named “Saltaire” and the and more than likely residing with her
original area of the farm was 550 acres, of daughter and son-in-law, Nellie (Marianne
which 440 acres was flax swamp. Harvesting Ellen) and John Henry Phillips who farmed
the flax was to provide a significant part of the there. One grandson, Thomas Arthur Phillips,
income for the family, with it being harvested is mentioned in her will, for whom the sum of
by outside contractors. £300 was to be set aside and “invested in such
securities as my Trustees may from time to
In 1911 Marianne and John’s eldest daughter, time think fit” and to be paid to him on
Nellie (Marianne Ellen) married John Henry attaining the age of 21 with the accumulated
PHILLIPS of Te Mata. A notice appeared in the income arising from the investment. No
NZ Herald on 28 February 1911: provision for any other descendents was made
(although there were other grandchildren). In
Marianne’s younger daughter, May (Rosa the event of Marianne’s grandson
May), married first David Edmund DOLPHIN in predeceasing her, the will provided for that
1915, then in 1921 she married Donald Stewart part of her estate to be divided between her
CATTANACH. two daughters. Marianne is buried at Te Uku
Anglican Cemetery, near Raglan.
Marianne’s husband John was involved in the
community, being secretary of the Pokeno Sources: Papers Past, NZ Gazettes, NZ Historical
branch of the Farmers Union and a member of bdm, School Records.
the local Pokeno school committee. Compiled by Christine Madsen and Lynda Muir

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3584 Surname: HILLMAN
Given names: Sarah
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Pukekohe

Qualification: residential

Sarah WARNER was born about 1834, possibly 28 June 1835, at Penkridge, Staffordshire.

John HILLMAN was born in Walthamstow, Essex in 1836, according to the 1851 census and
according to the Executor of his will, Daniel O'LEARY.

Sarah Warner probably arrived in Auckland on the 'Joseph Fletcher' 17 October 1855 and
John Hillman may have arrived on 'Egmont' 14 September 1855 so were both new arrivals in
New Zealand.

John and Sarah Warner were married in New Zealand in 1857 and settled on Lot 128,
Pukekohe.

Sarah and John had no children.

John is listed as a farmer, had an orchard, and also grew grapes, flowers and had great
success with preserved fruit at the Franklin A&P Shows.

Sarah died in 1907 and is buried at Pukekohe cemetery. John died at Grahamstown, Thames
in 1917.

The headstone inscription reads; Sarah Hillman dearly loved wife of John Hillman died 19th
June 1907 aged 73 years

Sources:
UK BDM - FreeBDM.org
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Old newspapers –
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Headstone photo – Franklin
Branch NZSG
NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk

Researcher: Rosemary Lewis

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3585 Surname: HOCKIN
Given names: Rebecca Jane
Occupation: household duties Address: Waiuku

Qualification: residential

Rebecca Jane, known as Jane, was born at her parents’ farm on 15 December 1870 to Elijah and
Elizabeth Ann HOCKIN (nee MAY), second daughter but fifth child of six. Her mother, Elizabeth, was
known as Betsy.

The Hockins had emigrated from England to New Zealand on the “Spray of the Ocean” that left
London on 6 June and arrived in Auckland on 1 September 1859. On the same ship were members
of the May family, which included Elizabeth and her brothers, John and Anthony.

Jane’s parents took up land at Waitangi Falls Road and developed the land. The farm became known
as Rose Hill.

Elijah was a cooper so built wagon wheels, troughs and barrels. He had a mill for both saw and flour
powered by a water wheel. It was an accident while trying to fix a problem with a saw and a stone
at the Mill that saw Elijah killed. It was only approximately five weeks after Elizabeth had died from
a short illness.

Jane remained single and she lived with her sister Lilly [Elizabeth] until Lilly’s marriage in 1905.

Jane then went to keep house for her brother Harry, a school teacher, at Aratapu. Harry was
married to Florence Margaret GREEN in 1907 but Jane remained with them. When Harry retired
Jane moved with him to Castor Bay, Takapuna, Auckland.

Jane died on 31 October 1922 aged 51 and was buried at Waikaraka Cemetery.

In her will, dated 11 January 1921, she was living at Castor Bay, Takapuna with Harry and her estate
was left to her two brothers and two sisters. Thomas had died in 1862 aged one month.

Sources:

• Alice May’s writings from Leo May
• Find a Grave
• www.familysearch.org
• N Z Civil Record Indexes 1800-1966
• N Z Archives Probate Records 1843-1998
• MARRIAGES.NEW ZEALAND HERALD,

VOLUME XLII, ISSUE 13006, 25 OCTOBER
1905, SUPPLEMENT
• DEATHS.NEW ZEALAND HERALD,
VOLUME LIX, ISSUE 18236, 1 NOVEMBER
1922
• Ancestry – Clark Family Tree (Robert
Clark)

Researcher: Penny Prescott, Lois Hopping

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3586 Surname: HODGE
Given names: Eliza
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Waiuku

Qualification: residential

Eliza, daughter of John WALTERS and Emma née RICHARDS was
baptised in the parish of Tywardreath, Cornwall, England on 28
Nov 1830 (family records state her birth as 5 Dec 1826).

John was a copper miner and, in 1845, he and son William departed
Falmouth Harbour, aboard the barque Agostine, bound for Port
Jackson and thence to New Zealand. Also on board were the
NINNIS and ROWE families completing the team which was to set
up and run a new copper mine on Kawau Island. Three years later
Emma, with Eliza and her siblings, travelled on the Elora, arriving in
New Zealand on 27 May 1848, a journey of 106 days. The families
lived on both Kawau and Great Barrier Islands, mining and also ran
a butchery before moving to Auckland where John and his sons
farmed and became successful businessmen.

Eliza Richards HODGE Samuel HODGE, a Cornishman, was also working in the mining

business and, on 21 Dec 1848, he and Eliza were married by Bishop

SELWYN at St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Auckland. According to family records their first son Samuel

was born on Kawau Island in 1850, followed by Eliza Jane in 1852. When the mining operations on the

island came to an end Samuel pursued goldmining at Bendigo, Victoria. On returning to New Zealand

he began farming at West Tamaki and Mangere before moving to a bush section at Waiuku (1860).

Their home was a slab whare until enough timber had been cut from the property to erect a modest

pit-sawn dwelling. During the unrest of the 1860s Samuel sent Eliza and the children to stay with family

in Auckland while he joined the volunteer defence corps. Samuel died in 1877. Eliza remained in

Waiuku until 1896 when son Samuel and his wife Elizabeth moved to Papatoetoe. She resided with

them for more than twenty years, moving with them when they retired from farming to 77 Mountain

Road, Epsom. She is recorded there on the 1919 electoral roll, at the age of 92, having remained on

the roll through six polls in which women could cast their votes.

Eliza was a staunch Wesleyan Methodist all her life and the Hodges were hospitable hosts to visiting
ministers and church friends. They were ardent members of the Waiuku Band of Hope and Total
Abstinence Society which promoted abstinence from alcoholic drinks and offered social musical
evenings at which young people were encouraged to ‘sign the pledge’; a card professing their
commitment to the cause. Mrs Hodge was a frequent contributor of ‘trays’ to church and social
events; whether Eliza or daughter-in-law Elizabeth on any occasion we can only guess.

Eliza Jane married Charles Thomas BARRIBALL in 1872 and their union produced ten grandchildren.
Samuel Jnr and Elizabeth LAMBERT wed on 13 June 1883 and were blessed with eight children. Sadly,
two died as babies and little Myrtle Henrietta was only ten years old when she too passed.

Eliza who died on 20 July 1921 is buried at Waiuku with Samuel and infant grandson Samuel Leslie.

Compiler: Val Gillanders - Sources: Papers Past /Ancestry/Findmypast/NZSG/Archives/bdmhistoricalrecords
Notes: Many who have recorded this family list a second son William, (1852-1941). I have been unable to verify this.

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1426 Surname: HOGAN
Given names: Margaret
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Pukekohe

Qualification: residential

Margaret was born Margaret TOBIN in 1843 in County Clare, Ireland. She arrived in New Zealand on
the Eveline on 22 January 1865 with her sister Bridget (later Mrs John WATSON and also on the 1893
Electoral Roll) and her brother Michael (1841-1887).

Most of the passengers from this ship took up land around Patumahoe and as Michael did, it was
likely that his sisters lived with him at first.

Margaret married Mathew MORONEY in 1865. He was a storekeeper and was killed in 1867 while
felling a tree with his brother in-law, Michael Tobin. They had a young daughter Honorah Cecilia and
possibly a baby on the way as William was born in 1868 but appears to have taken the name of
Margaret’s second husband, Thomas HOGAN.

Margaret married Thomas (1831-1906), a farmer with 105 acres freehold, in 1869 and they had two
children Patrick (1870-1956) and Mary Ann born 1872 and although not verified was probably the
Mary Hogan who died unmarried in 1945 and is buried close to Margaret and Thomas.

Thomas had several parcels of land,as mentioned in his will. There is a street named after this family
close to the Catholic Church in Pukekohe. Margaret and Thomas lived in Pukekohe until their
deaths.

Margaret died on 11 October 1905 and is buried in the Catholic Church Cemetery in Pukekohe.
Thomas died shortly after and is buried with Margaret.

Sources:

NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk
Probate records – www.familysearch.org
Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Headstone photo – Franklin Branch NZSG
Shipping lists – Auckland Libraries

Researcher: Judith Batt

Compiler: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1425 Surname: HOGAN
Given names: Mary Ann
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Pukekohe

Qualification: residential

Mary Ann HOGAN (also known as Molly) was born in Pukekohe in 1872. She was the daughter of
Margaret, nee TOBIN (1843-1905) and Thomas Hogan (1831-1906). Margaret had previously been
married to Mathew MORONEY and had a daughter Hanorah Cecilia to that marriage. William and
Patrick Hogan were born before Mary, so she was the youngest of four children brought up on the
farm in Pukekohe.

Mary was on the electoral rolls of 1893, 1896, 1900 and 1905 as a spinster, Pukekohe . In 1928 the
electoral roll gave her address as Dublin Street, Pukekohe.

Mary was single when named in her father’s will in 1906 and remained single. She died on 31
December 1944 and is buried at Pukekohe Catholic Cemetery – her headstone has 1945 on it.

NZ Herald 13 July 1929

Sources:
NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Headstone photo – Franklin Branch NZSG
Old newspapers –
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Researcher: Judith Batt
Compiler: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1429 Surname: HOGWOOD
Given names: Alice Sarah
Occupation: domestic duties Address: West Mauku

Qualification: residential

Alice was born in 1853 to John and Elizabeth CRAWFORD. Together with her parents she travelled
on the Belgravia, arriving in New Zealand in May 1865. The following year the family settled at
Mauku. Alice met local man, Arthur HOGWOOD (1855 – 1924) and marriage records show that Alice
Sarah Anna Amelia Crawford married Arthur in 1892.

Shortly after their marriage Arthur took over Alice’s parents’ property where they continued to live
for the remainder of their lives.

Alice and Arthur had two children, Alice Sophia Ivy Hogwood (known as Ivy) born in 1893 and Arthur
Rowan Hogwood born in 1894.

Alice took a great interest in the work of the Church of England and was a Sunday School teacher at
the Mauku Church for over ten years.

Alice passed away on 12 July 1929, her husband having died five years earlier. Alice was survived by
her children.

Alice, her husband and her brother, (William Rowan Crawford 1843 – 1923) are buried at St Bride’s
Church Cemetery Mauku.

The Mauku Church Hall is named after their daughter Ivy, in recognition of the family involvement in
the church affairs.

Sources:

BDM - www.dia.govt.nz
Papers Past - NZ Herald
15/7/1929
Headstone photo - Franklin
Branch NZSG

Researcher Joan Taylor

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3588 Surname: HOLLAND
Given names: Ellen Address: Waiuku
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Ellen (nee HICKEY), was born in Killaloe, County Clare, Southern
Ireland, about 1841 and migrated to Cape Town, to escape the famine
and poverty in Ireland about 1859.

She married Michael ENRIGHT in St Marys Catholic Church, Cape Town
on the 10th June 1862 where Ellen trained and worked as a nurse.

Work dried up in Cape Town for Michael.

On 18th August 1864 they sailed to N Z on the Steinwaerder with their
16-month-old son John arriving in Auckland on the 14th October 1864

in search of a better life for his family.

As their allotments were not surveyed they were accommodated at
the Immigration Barracks on the North Shore, Auckland. On the 25th
January 1865 they left for Waiuku. The men set to work building bridges and roads to Whiriwhiri,
while their families lived in tents on the riverside. They moved on to their farm on the 2nd February
1865.
Her nursing skills were called on many times by the settlers. She lived next door to a Ngati Te Ata Pa
and once saved a little Maori girl from death. After that the family was kept supplied with fish,
kumara and peaches as they were ever grateful to Ellen.

Michael passed away 18th Jan 1873 aged 30 leaving Ellen with 5 children to raise.

• John Joseph 1863-1950
• Michael 1865-1942
• Mathew 1867-1942
• Mary Jane 1869-1962
• James William ENRIGHT 1871-1939

She married William HOLLAND on 29th April 1875 at her Whiriwhiri residence. Giving birth to 6 more
children.

• Margaret Hannah 1876-1957
• Robert (Bob) 1878-1948
• Ellen Elizabeth 1879-1960
• Esther Ann 1881-1911
• Francis Valentine 1885-1962
• Ernest HOLLAND 1885-1948

William Holland passed away on the 17th February 1889 at the age of 66.

Ellen remained on the farm with her unmarried daughter (Ellen Elizabeth Holland) until her death on
the 28th February 1921 aged 80 years. She is buried in the Waiuku Cemetery beside her second

husband William Holland.

Compiled by Beverley Cochrane (nee Enright)
(Great-Granddaughter of Ellen) from family records and the book ‘The Enrights of Pawarenga’ by Tom
Shoebridge

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1441 Surname: HOLMES
Given names: Alice Ann
Occupation: household duties Address: Waiuku

Qualification: residential

Alice Ann HOLMES nee HARE was born in 1860, North Witham, Lincolnshire, England to William Hare
and Elizabeth Ann HALLIDAY. Alice along with her parents immigrated to Queensland, Australia
sometime after the 1861 English census and before the birth of her brother in Queensland in 1864.
They settled in the Toowoomba area.

It was on the Pilton Station, Darling Downs that Alice met her future husband Samuel Holmes, the
son of John Holmes and Sarah WOOD. Samuel courted Alice, who at the time lived near to Kings
Creek at Eton Dale. Alice and Samuel were married on 21 January 1879 in Cambooya, Queensland
by the Rev. James McLEVERTY. She was aged 18. Their first three children, Ida, Mabel and Herbert
were born in Queensland. Samuel then decided that he would return to New Zealand with his new
family in 1883.

They took up property at Stony Creek, Waiuku. Here they had the remainder of their children:
Edwin, Sydney, Emily, Albert, Percy, Daisy, Claude and Cicely. Alice was a wonderful wife and
mother, raising a family of eleven and being a tremendous help to Samuel. A big family on a small
income made housekeeping difficult but Alice was a good manager. Although she did not have
much education, she had access to most of the money and kept things going. She also milked the
cows as Samuel was away working a lot of the time.

After a residence of 49 years in the Waiuku district, Alice died on 20 June 1932 aged 72. She is
buried with her husband in the Waiuku Cemetery.

Sources:
The Holmes Story, by Greg D Holmes, published 1982
BDM England, Australia, England census

Researcher: Leonie Aspin, Great great grandaughter of Alice Ann
Holmes nee Hare.

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3590 Surname: HOLMES
Given names: Elizabeth Kate Address: Waiuku
Occupation: housework Qualification: residential

Elizabeth Kate CARDON, “Kate”, Aunt Kate to many, was the first-
born child of Thomas and Martha Cardon, and was born c1861 in
Illinois, U.S.A. Her parents Thomas Cardon and Martha REED both
born in Lincolnshire had married in 1860 in Pike County, Illinois.
Elizabeth Kate was clearly named after her grandmothers, both also
named Elizabeth. Infant Kate and her parents went back to Britain,
then in 1865 with a younger brother, they sailed for NZ on the
Matoaka. They were part of the Waikato Immigration scheme, as
were Kate’s future husband and his family.

Kate’s mother died in 1879 and only a few months later on 6 August, aged 18, Kate married George
Thomas HOLMES in the Holy Trinity Church, Waiuku. They had eight children together, six girls and
two boys. After having four daughters, the twins arrived, a boy and a girl. Kate said, "well George
you’ve finally got your wish, God has sent you a boy." George’s reply: " Yes and he had to send a
bloomin’ girl as well". However, another daughter and a son were born later. The children all
married and had families, except for one daughter who remained a spinster.

Kate was also one of eight; she had four sisters and three brothers. The younger six were born in NZ.
The girls married and had families. One brother died very young shortly after the arrival of the
family in NZ. Of the two surviving brothers, one was miner and lived and died in Waihi, the other
was quite a colourful character often making an appearance in newspaper headlines.

George and Kate lived at Karioitahi, Otaua and Waiuku, a family of farmers. The Otaua farm was
bounded by the Otaua creek and Awaroa stream and the Waikato River at the bottom. Often when
George travelled to Waiuku, he would go up by canoe via the Otaua creek; the spot he left from
became known as Holmes Landing.

Kate purchased a home in Pacific St, Waiuku where she operated a maternity home, quite different
from work her farm work. Her mother had died from exhaustion at childbirth, and it is possible
young Kate was present. One does speculate if this is why Kate became a midwife. Many a local
child was said to be born under Kate’s watchful eye.

Kate died on 17 February 1948 in Waiuku and was buried in the Waiuku Cemetery with George who
had passed away in 1896. Their youngest child, a son, was only four at the time; the eldest a
daughter aged sixteen. Kate must have been a tenacious, strong and hard-working woman to have
been left with eight children to bring up alone. There have been and are still many descendants
from this family.

Sources:
N. Z., Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981; Illinois State wide Marriage Index, 1763–1900, 1860-04-15 A /11 2647 PIKE; England Births and
Christenings, 1538-1975, FamilySearch; BDM Historical Records (NZ Department of Internal Affairs; N Z Newspapers; Waiuku Cemetery
database, Wugrv-4-021; “The Holmes Story” Author; Greg Holmes

Researcher: Della Saunders, Descendant, 23/05/2018

Electoral Roll: Waipa 3275 Surname: HOLMES
Given names: Emily
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Rama Rama

Qualification: residential

Emily PALMER was born in 1857 at Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, the daughter of Joseph Palmer
(from her marriage certificate).

She married George HERBERT (1857-1892) in 1882 at Bristol and they arrived in New Zealand in 1887
on board the Rimutaka. Unfortunately George died just two years after their arrival, aged only 32.

In May 1892, at the Brookbanks residence in Auckland, Emily married Richard HOLMES (1846-1921),
a widower with 7 children, 4 of them under the age of 10. They farmed on part of the Martyn
Estate at Ramarama that they called ‘Homeside’.

Emily did not have any children of her own and died at the young age of 45. She is buried at the
Bombay Presbyterian Church cemetery with Richard and his first wife Mary.

Sources:

BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
BDM – England – freebmd.org.uk
Somerville Family Tree – ancestry.com
Franklin Branch NZ Society of Genealogists – cemetery photo

Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3591 Surname: HOLMES
Given names: Sarah Address: Karioitahi
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Sarah WOOD was born in Hertfordshire, England and christened on 17 October 1819 at Little
Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas and Ann Wood. In 1841 she was
living with her grandparents John and Sarah Wood in Great Berkhamstead, as her father had passed
away in 1837. Sarah was named after her grandmother.

Sarah met and later married John HOLMES on the 4 December 1842 at St Marys Church, St
Marylebone, the bride’s father is noted as Thomas Wood, builder. The place of residence for all
participants is shown as 92 Crawford Street, London, adjacent to the church and probably a
temporary place to stay for the wedding.

John was a miller and Sarah a shopkeeper’s wife, homemaker, and mother. The couple had twelve
children together in total seven boys and five girls, all of which were born in England.

John and Sarah lived in the farm house at "Vine Farm" and John had taken over the farming
operations of both properties from his father. John and Sarah Holmes continued to farm the
properties after his father’s death, for the next 17 years, from the "Vine Farm" homestead, where
they lived with their ever-growing family.

In 1865 John and Sarah along with ten of their children, (two other children a boy and girl had died
young) boarded the ship “Matoaka” and set off to New Zealand. They were part of the Waikato
Immigration scheme. The couple along with the family settled in Kariotahi for ten years before some
of the family moved in 1875 to Queensland, Australia. The second son remained in New Zealand to
run the farm.

In 1876 John, Sarah and some of the children move again to “Kings Creek”, Pilton, a life of drought,
snakes and hardship didn’t take the fancy of John and Sarah, who were in their older years and in
c1882 they returned to live in New Zealand. Most of the children married and lived, somewhat in a

close vicinity to their parents.

Sarah lost her husband John who died in 1884; she passed away 28
July 1900 in Waiuku. She is buried with her husband in the Waiuku
Cemetery.

Sources:
• The Holmes Story, Author Greg Holmes
• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975,"
• Wyvern Holmes, (Grandson of Sam Holmes (1850-1942) Marriage License
• New Zealand Herald Newspaper, 4 Feb 1884
• Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXI, Issue 2327, 4 January 1865
• N.Z S G Inc. 2006, 1893 N.Z. Electoral Roll
• New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981
• Waiuku Cemetery database
• Birth, Death Marriage Historical Records (N. Z. D I A)
Genealogical Research, Della Saunders, Descendant, 23/05/2018

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3593 Surname: HONE
Given names: Elizabeth Address: Waiuku
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Elizabeth was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire in April 1844, the daughter of Elizabeth (née
WATSON) and James MacDONALD who had married on 20 October 1943. James was an engineer and
her grandfathers were both stocking makers. By 1851 her family had moved to Birmingham and 16-
year-old Elizabeth was employed as a pin maker.

John HONE, a labourer born in Sibford, Gower Oxfordshire, had moved to Birmingham in search of
work and it was there that he and Elizabeth wed, in the parish church of St Martin’s, on 10 September
1865. Elizabeth signed the register, John made his mark.

The young couple were to face unimaginable tragedy. Seven babies were born in a little over seven
years; six died in infancy. Sarah Ann, who had boarded the New Zealand bound barque Dilharee with
her parents, contracted scarlatina on board ship and died in the Auckland Immigration barracks on 30
January 1875, just two weeks after arriving in the colony. At New Year 1885 John and Elizabeth would
have looked forward to a bright future. Their New Zealand born children George, Albert John, Beatrice
Mary and Alice were thriving. Leila Elizabeth was still just a ‘twinkle in their eyes’.

But tragedy returned. On 10 January 1885 an ailing John began to complain of severe pains in his
head. His cough had caused an aneurism and he died as Elizabeth frantically ministered to him. Four
children under ten and barely pregnant with her fifth, one can only imagine her despair.

The community rallied to her aid. A Harvest Festival on Sunday 15 February saw Holy Trinity church
decorated with an abundance of fruits and flowers, miniature sheaves of wheat, oats and rye, stalks
of maize and vegetables; all was handed over to ‘Mrs Hone, widow of the late John Hone, who died
here suddenly, leaving Mrs Hone in very straightened circumstances.’

In 1888, when she applied for charitable aid, Elizabeth was working as a charwoman. In time she
became the district midwife. Calling upon her at all hours of the night or day husbands knew to take
an extra horse. Elizabeth would ride the spare horse to the confinement and walk back home when
work was done to her quarter acre property in Queen Street, two doors from the Town Hall.

When William ARROWSMITH, a local benefactor, died in 1900 he made numerous bequests, among
them leaving Elizabeth ‘all my right, title, and interest in, and to, the quarter acre section of land
adjoining her property at Waiuku, being Subdivision 4 of Lot 4 in the Parish of Waiuku East’. The
bequest was a generous gesture which gave her independence and security as she aged. Her own will
instructed that “an enclosure and headstone be erected over my late husband and my graves such
fence and headstone with inscription not to exceed the cost of £25 nor less than £20.”

Elizabeth died 24 November 1922, fondly remembered by 5 children and 27 grandchildren.

Sources: Renee Maxwell (granddaughter)/Papers Past/Archives NZ/bdmhistoricalrecords/UKGRO

Compiled by: Val Gillanders

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3594 Surname: HONEY
Given names: Elizabeth Address: Waiuku
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Elizabeth Emily was born on 20 March 1860 in Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, England to parents
George TUCKER and Elizabeth SILCOCK. Her sister Sarah was eight years older.

The family of four sailed from London on 17 September 1864 on the ‘Matoaka’, landing in Auckland
on 3 January 1865, a long 108 days later. They were among 441 passengers all arriving under the
Waikato Immigration Scheme and all looking for a new life. George was allotted land in Karioitahi, -
Lot 14 Karioitahi (Honey Rd).

A community soon developed and families formed new friendships and connections which
developed even further as their children grew and married fellow immigrants. Elizabeth’s sister
Sarah met her future husband on the ‘Matoaka’.

Elizabeth married Richard Henry HONEY at Karioitahi on 19 May 1877 where they took up land.

They had nine children:

Maud Elizabeth (1878), George James (1881), William Edward (1884), Gordon Goodwin (1886), Olive
May (1889-1889), Frederick John (1890), Lionel (1893), Richard Colin (1897) and Alfred Ernest
(1902).

Richard and Elizabeth’s first home was on what was to later
become Honey Road – where she had been brought up.
They then farmed at Butchers Bridge Road.

Elizabeth died at her home on 12 September 1931, aged 72.
Richard died 25 May 1938 aged 82. They are ‘at rest’ in
Waiuku Cemetery.

Alfred (my grandfather) took on the family farm at Butchers
Bridge Road, giving his sister Maud a home for life. To our
knowledge, all of Richard and Elizabeth’s other children left
the district.

Source:

Honey Family knowledge – Margaret Honey
PapersPast – DEATHS NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXVIII, ISSUE 20978, 15 SEPTEMBER 1931
PapersPast – OBITUARY AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXII, ISSUE 218, 15 SEPTEMBER 1931

Compiled by Penny Prescott

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3595 Surname: HONEYFIELD*
Given names: Mary Ann Address: Tuhimata
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Note: The entry on the 1893 electoral roll was Mary Ann HONEYFIELD but extensive searching has
not found a woman by that name, however Mary Ann HONEYFORD* should have been on the roll.

Born Mary Ann BRUNKER about 1838, little is known about her. She married Benjamin Honeyford
(1835-1915) in New Zealand in 1867 and four children were born to the marriage – three daughters
and a son, John, who died age 3 in 1875.

Life would have been busy as her husband had a store at Tuimata and a farm and in 1867 conditions
would have been harsh and remote for the newly married Mary.

Mary died on 22 October 1906 and is buried at the Bombay Presbyterian Church cemetery with her
husband who died eight years later.

Sources: Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; Franklin Branch NZSG cemetery records; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1450 Surname: HONEYFORD
Given names: Esther
Occupation: household duties Address: Rama Rama

Qualification: residential

Esther HONEYFORD was born on 8 December 1867, the eldest daughter of Benjamin Honeyford and
Mary Ann BRUNKER. She had two sisters, Annie born 1871 and Mary (Minnie) born 1876.

Although the article below, from the Pukekohe & Waiuku Times of 2 September 1913 talks of her
father selling his farm, he was listed in the NZ electoral rolls from 1880 until 1906 as a storekeeper,
Tuimata. No doubt Esther helped at home and in the store. She remained single but had four
nieces, the daughters (who lived to the ages of 97, 95, 93 & 88) of her sister Annie MAYO of Feilding
and two nephews, the sons of her sister Minnie HUNNIFORD of Pukekohe.

Esther died 15 May 1943 and is buried at
Pukekohe Cemetery.

Sources:
NZSG Index 5 – school records
Probate – www.familysearch.org
NZ Electoral rolls – www.ancestry.co.uk
NZSG Franklin Branch – cemetery photos
Old newspapers – http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3596 Surname: HOOD
Given names: Susannah Address: Waiuku
Occupation: lady Qualification: residential

Susannah was born in Gilston, England on 4 October

1848 to John and Sarah HOLMES and was their eldest

daughter after 3 sons. At age 16 her family, which by

then numbered 10 children, set sail for New Zealand

on the “Matoaka”. On arrival, she went to work and

live with a dressmaker who owned a shop in Parnell

and there met her husband John HOOD, who was the

younger brother of the shop’s owner. Susannah and

John were married 15 September 1869 in St Paul’s

church in Auckland. After their marriage they lived in

Freeman’s Bay and then Parnell, but about 1880 they

moved to Waiuku where they bought 46 acres and

built “The Towers” on Misa Rd just above Stoney

Creek. About 1888, the Otaua swamp was opened

up for settlement and they moved again to the

Susannah (standing) Hood’s Landing Road area where they built “The

Willows” on 300 acres. They had 8 children and their

youngest son John remained on the farm after his father died in 1911 and Susannah went to

Auckland where she died 1 December 1941 aged 93. The farm remained in the Hood family

until 1964.

Mable COX (nee PERRY) is a great niece of Susannah but never met her, as Susannah moved
to Auckland to live with her daughters when her husband died. However, Mable
remembers her mother Emily (nee HOLMES) talking about Aunt Sue. She recounts a funny
story of when Susannah went to stay with the LAPWOODs (cousins) in Tuakau. Aunt Sue
wore long pantaloons or bloomers as was the fashion of the day. The mischievous Lapwood
boys got hold of these bloomers, tied the ends up and placed some kittens inside them!
Mable is not sure what happened when Aunt Sue tried to put her bloomers on!

References:
“The Holmes Story” Compiled by Greg D. Holmes 1982
Mable Holmes Cox (nee Perry) oral account June 2018
Researcher: Jennifer Cox

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3598 Surname: HOSKING
Given names: Mary Elizabeth Address: Waiuku
Occupation: dressmaker Qualification: residential

Mary Elizabeth HOSKING, the eldest child of Sophia (nee BARRIBALL)
and Caleb Hosking, was born on the family farm, Fernleigh, on the
eastern fringe of Waiuku on 28 March 1872. She first attended
Waitangi School (Pukeoware) until 1883 and then Waiuku School in
George St, until reaching Standard 6 at the end of 1886. The works of
Shakespeare made a lasting impression - late in life she would still
recite soliloquies from his plays.

In common with many a farmer’s daughter Mary quickly grew
accustomed to hard work. She was the one who encouraged the other
children to complete their chores and then reported on them, earning
the nickname The Newspaper from her brother Charles. Work was to
remain a mixture of virtue and necessity all her life and her strict
approach would continue with her own children and older
grandchildren. After leaving school and receiving training from her skilled tailoress Aunt Liza, wife of
her uncle Joseph Barriball, Mary spent some years as a dressmaker, gaining skills that also served her
well through later family life.

In 1900, aged 28, Mary married Henry Perry GARLAND at Fernleigh. They set up home at Woodlands,
a leased property near Awhitu Central, and grazed around 25 cows, while Henry supplemented their
income by droving, surveying and road-building. Domestically life was hard. Packing cases draped
with curtains served as chests of drawers. Yet she still found time to help with the Awhitu Church and
provide secretarial assistance for Henry during his many years on the school committee. There were
a daughter and three sons in the first five years of marriage and Mary suffered a bout of postnatal
depression so severe, that at times some of the children stayed at Fernleigh with their Hosking
grandparents. Around 1907 Henry and Mary bought an adjacent property, Woodville. Built from a
single kauri in 1879 by Henry’s father it is still in fine fettle today. Life improved and Mary gained a
reputation as a capable housekeeper and, later, with the only telephone in the district, also ran the
Post Office from Woodville, with mail and phone messages delivered by her young sons on horseback.
In about 1913 she miscarried with twins and then, in 1915 and 1917 gave birth to two further
daughters. In 1919 the family moved to Aka Aka. The farm there was increasingly run by their sons
as Henry became prominent in local politics. In the 1930s they bought a house in Racecourse Road,
Waiuku, from which Mary continued her work for Wesley Methodist Church.

In many ways Mary was a product of time and place. A strict Sabbatarian all her life, she was not
without a sense of humour. When a very young grandchild crawled along the floor and persistently
tried to look up her skirts she laughed and skipped away delightedly. She also enjoyed her
grandchildren’s incredulity when she told them she was so small at birth that she could be carried
around on a cushion. By the time of the telling she weighed about 15 stone.

After Henry died in 1952 Mary lived with her two younger daughters and family until her death on 20
July 1958. She is buried in Waiuku Cemetery.

Researcher: Nola Smith

Sources:
NZ Electoral Rolls
The Hosking Story, 2007.
National Archives (Archway) - school records for Waitangi and Waiuku Schools 1881 – 1886

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3599 Surname: HOSKING
Given names: Sophia
Occupation: household duties Address: Waiuku

Qualification: residential

Sophia HOSKING, the third child and eldest daughter of Charles
BARRIBALL and Ann MARTYN, was born in North Tamerton,
Cornwall on 7 October 1841 and christened in the local parish
church on 31 October 1841. Probably her first 13 months of life
were spent at Alvacott Farm, North Tamerton. With her parents
and her older brothers John and Samuel, Sophia sailed from
Plymouth on the Duke of Westminster on 4 December 1842,
landing in Auckland on 1 April 1843.

At first the family, like many other new settlers, lived in tents
and shared raupo whare, while Charles found as much
gardening and labouring work as he could. But by the time of
the birth of Sophia’s next sibling, Charles Thomas, in late April
1845 the family had moved to Mt Eden, where for about 11
years her parents worked the leased allotments they named Eden Grove. Letters written in the early
1850s by Ann Barriball to her brother Tristam Martyn give a glowing picture of her expanding young
family and the success of their agricultural endeavours, in which Sophia, as the eldest daughter, would
have played an important role by helping with the farming, with the care of her six younger siblings
and with various other domestic chores. The sketchy school records of the period give no clue of
Sophia’s education, but Ann’s own literacy would have ensured her daughter had adequate schooling.
Social life largely centred on the growing Methodist congregations in High Street Auckland and later
Epsom.

A crown grant of land in 1856 brought the Barriballs to settle in Waiuku, on a property they named
Eden Hill where 15 years later, on 4 July 1871, Sophia would marry widower and fellow Methodist -
Caleb Hosking. A farmer from the South Hams in Devon, Caleb had immigrated to New Zealand on
the Rock City in 1855, settling with his first wife Rhoda SCOTT in the early 1860s on his Fernleigh
property (on Waiuku’s eastern fringe).

After her marriage Sophia received an Aka Aka land grant. With their growing family the Hoskings
used this as extra farmland while continuing to live on and further develop their Fernleigh property.
Their Methodist commitment never flagged – first at the Kaiwaka Road church, and then as the town
centre moved north, the new Wesley Church on the hill (effectively financed by Caleb and Sophia’s
brothers for its first three years). Hospitality to visiting ministers, family and friends and local
community involvement were ongoing. Six of their children and their families lived on the Fernleigh
property and the other grandchildren were often staying and of course the Barriballs were always
just around the corner in this busy supportive community.

In 1909 Fernleigh was sold to their son Charles and they moved over the road to their new home
Parkville, where Caleb died in 1918 and Sophia on 7 May 1930. They are buried in Waiuku cemetery.

Sources:
NZ Electoral Rolls
Baptisms database (Cornwall OPC) record 3103047: Sophia Berriball (sic), daughter of Anne and Charles (Labourer).
1841 census Alvacott farm occupied by the farmer and his workers and families, who included Charles’ parents Thomas and
Grace, together with Charles, Ann and their youngsters John and Samuel.
Auckland 1844 Police census Charles is listed as a gardener; in the census of the following year as a labourer engaged in
agriculture in the Glen Ligar area.
Werrington to Waiuku: A History of the Barriballs of Waiuku; Joanne Robinson; 1997. KB Print Ltd., pp22-24

Researcher: Nola Smith

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3600 Surname: HUDSON
Given names: Eliza Address: Pollok
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Eliza HUDSON, (8th child) of Robert Hudson and Margaret
nee McCOUAT

B: Oct 18, 1871 in Pollok Settlement, NZ
D: Nov 29, 1947 in Pollok Settlement, NZ

Married: (his 3rd wife) July 15, 1901 in Aka Aka, Franklin
Thomas COCHRANE: B: 1845 Killyleagh, Walshestown,
County Down, North Ireland.
D: Mar 3, 1923 • Pollok, NZ

They lived in Pollok, having a large plot of land made up
from multiple Lots allocated to the settlers, which was
known as Cochranes Gap, raising their five children. Eliza
was a very versatile lady, milking the house cow, making
butter, bottling fruit.

When her husband died, Eliza continued to run the
very large family farm with the help of her sons Pat
and Barry. Some of the Estate land was gifted for
the tennis court and Eliza became the Patron and
she even knitted white jumpers for all the tennis
players! She was a very well thought of member of
the community being a very generous person,
known to be hospitable to all including “strays and
waifs”, always feeding any workmen that came to
the property and never turning anyone away.

Cochrane Homestead “The Grange” Eliza died at the age of 76 and was buried at the
Pollok cemetery in the Cochrane Plot, joining her
husband Tom who had died 24 years earlier.

Sources:
Ancestry.com.au
Hudson Family Bible
NZ & Scotland Electoral Rolls and Directories
BDM records

Researcher: Dianne Hudson

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3601 Surname: HUDSON
Given names: Magdaline Address: Pollok
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Magdaline HUDSON, (3rd child) of Robert Hudson and
Margaret nee McCOUAT

B: 16 MAY 1863 • Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland
D: 26 MAY 1934 • Pollok, Franklin, Auckland, NZ

As a baby of only one year old, Magdaline travelled
from Scotland with her mother, brother Thomas and
sister Margret who sailed on the clipper ship “Flying
Foam,” arriving in Auckland on August 6, 1864,

Magdaline lived at the family home helping with
household duties until her 30’s. She never married
and moved to Auckland city working as a grocery store
keeper on Napier Street and a couple other areas.

In 1911, the year after her mother had died, she
returned to the family home in Pollok and stayed there
until her own death in 1934.

Magdaline died at the age of 71 and was buried at the Pollok cemetery in the Hudson Plot, joining
her parents and others who had gone before her.

Sources:
Ancestry.com.au
Hudson Family Bible
NZ & Scotland Electoral Rolls and Directories
BDM records

Researcher: Dianne Hudson

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3602 Surname: HUDSON
Given names: Margaret Address: Pollok
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Margaret HUDSON nee McCOUAT, B: October 6, 1939, in Barrhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland
D: Oct 24, 1910, Pollok, NZ

Family information tells: In Pollokshaws, Scotland, Margaret
McCouat, daughter of an upper-class family took her horse
for shoeing. The young blacksmith, Robert Hudson and she
ended up having a relationship. Being below her status, her
parents were not happy about this and when she got
pregnant, Margaret and Robert were married on June 2,
1857. Six months later, on December 20, 1857 their first
child Robert was born. The first of 12 children over 21 years.

Robert Hudson (1834-1906) with son Robert (6yrs old),
leaving wife and other children, came to New Zealand on 12
October 1863 on the ship "Ganges" arrived in Auckland with
a group of families from Pollokshaws, Scotland, led by their
minister the Rev. James Milne SMITH. They were bound for
the district that now bears the name Pollok on the Awhitu
Peninsula as part of the original migrant family.

Margaret was pregnant with her fourth child, Magdaline at that time, so didn’t leave for New
Zealand until the baby was one year old. Margaret and children: Thomas (4), Margret (2½) and
Magdaline sailed on the clipper ship “Flying Foam”, arriving in Auckland on August 6, 1864 after a
very eventful trip with mutiny by some crew delaying the ship plus wild, stormy weather south of
Tasmania.

Settling in Pollok, after clearing their land and
building their home, Margaret went on to have
the rest of the other eight children who were
born in New Zealand.

This would have been an extreme change to her
upper-class life-style she knew in Scotland. This
is one of the examples of the tough
determination the Scots are renown for,
enduring such hardships.

Margaret died at the age of 71and was
buried at the Pollok cemetery in the Hudson
Plot, joining her husband, Robert and other
family.

Photo credit: from “The Far Away Land”
The Story of Pollok Settlement by Lloyd Walker

Sources:
Ancestry.com.au
Hudson Family Bible
NZ & Scotland Electoral Rolls and Directories
BDM records

Researcher: Dianne Hudson

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3603 Surname: HULL
Given names: Eunice Adelaide
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Waiuku

Qualification: residential

Eunice Adelaide HULL (8 February 1861 – 5 January 1934)

Her biography, taken from the Hull family
history book (page 44):

Eunice, second daughter and child of John and
Isabella Adelaide Hull [known as Addie], we may
suppose without supporting evidence was born
at ‘Park Farm’, Waiuku. Addie’s sister Eleanor,
wife of Charles Ferdinand BISCHOFF, in N.Z.
since 1855 and living nearby, would have been
there to offer support and assistance and to
look after little Amelia [first child, aged 2y] while
the birth of Eunice occurred.

As a small child, Eunice was evacuated to
Onehunga in 1863 with her mother and Amelia
due to the danger of the Maori uprising. Living
nearby was lifelong good friend Katie CURRIE
[Franklin Roll no.3419]. Early days and schooling
were on the farm and at Waiuku. As a teenager
and young woman Eunice was involved with the Anglican Church as a Sunday school teacher and
with the choir. She was involved in all the community activities of the day - picnics, boat outings,
church fetes, concerts, bazaars.

Farm work occupied a big part of her day as all the family were part of the unpaid work team. We
know that she was a good horsewoman, as it is recorded that John Hull bought her a good riding
horse. On another occasion, with niece Ruth, riding past Tuakau on the way to visit brother
Abraham “Don bucked her off”.

She was in later years a great strength to her father, encouraging and assisting him in the difficult
days following his accident when his hip was broken. ‘Eunice has kindly cared for me for 15 years’,
he wrote to his friend Darby. She was very much loved by all her nieces and nephews and known as
Aunt Nice. We can thank her for ensuring that we have [her father] John’s photo which she insisted be
taken. John Hull made sure Eunice was well cared for after his passing in 1905 by leaving to her in
his will the originally purchased part of ‘Park Farm’. A parcel of land totalling 147 acres.

Big changes eventuated in Eunice’s life after John’s death when in 1909 youngest brother Arthur
bought ‘Park Farm’ necessitating a new home for the womenfolk. Eunice bought ‘The Grove’ (a
house and 3 acres running down to the Estuary), for £500 in King Street in the Waiuku township. It
became home for her, her mother and sisters Jane and Jessica. They had a cow - milk and cream; a
pig - pork and bacon; poultry - eggs and meat; fruit trees and vegetables.

After the death of her mother Addie in 1915 and then the death of Jane in 1922, in 1923 Eunice
chose to live with sister Jessica and her husband Ernie DICKSON and nephew Fred at their new house
and farmlet on Hull Road, ‘Awaitiroa’ as a boarder. ‘The Grove’ was rented out for many years over
this period. During this time, Eunice and Jessica visited their oldest sister Amelia in the South Island,
a very special visit.

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Ill health brought her life to an end on 5
January 1934 aged 72 years 11 months. Her
funeral was held at the Anglican Church
Waiuku, followed by interment at Waiuku
cemetery with Jane.

<< Presentation page in a Bible given to sister Jessica as a wedding gift
by Eunice.

<< Eunice’s needle work sampler
completed at age 14y.
Although Eunice was from a
large family, only she, her
future sister-in-law Elizabeth
MUIR (Franklin 3710), and
aunt Eleanor BISCHOFF
(Franklin 3330) enrolled for
the 1893 election.

Sources:
1893 Electoral Roll
Births, Deaths and Marriages – www.dia.govt.nz
Printed family history of John Hull, Pioneer of Waiuku.
PapersPast
Researcher: Sheryn Hull
New Zealand Society of Genealogists #27060

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3608 Surname: HUSSEY
Given names: Ann Address: Karaka
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Ann HUSSEY (nee HODDER) was born in 1842 in Newfoundland.

In the 1861 England census Ann (aged 19) is the wife of Edward Hussey of Whitechurch Canonicum,
Dorset. He was a dairyman.

They had at least four children baptised at Whitechurch Canonicum.

The family arrived in New Zealand on 25 November 1874 on the ship “Hydastes”. Ann was 32 and
Edward was 47.

Ann died at the age of 58 on 17 February 1900 and is buried in the Presbyterian section of Pukekohe
Cemetery. Edward on died 19 July 1901 at his daughter’s home in Waitakauri.

Sources:
UK Census 1861
Baptism Records Whitechurch Canonicum, Dorset
NZ Births, Deaths, Marriages
Photo from Findagrave.com
Papers Past
NZ Herald 25 November 1874
Auckland Star Feb 1900

Researcher: Carol Eggleton

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3612 Surname: HUTCHEON
Given names: Mary Address: Buckland
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Mary was born on 7 January 1863 in New Zealand. Her parents Thomas BARNABY (1834-1920) and
her mother Ann CAIRNS (1844-1926) had come to New Zealand as single people on theWilliam
Watson, arriving in Auckland in February 1859. It is doubtful whether they knew each other before
the voyage as Thomas was from London and Ann from Sunderland but on 9 April 1862 they were
married in Auckland.

Mary was the eldest of the twelve children – nine daughters and three sons from this marriage and
no doubt had to help out at home before her marriage in 1892 to William HUTCHEON. William was
a farm labourer but was known as ‘doctor’ as it appeared he was able to give medical advice no
doubt learnt from his uncle who was a doctor in Scotland.

William Hutcheon married Mary Douglas Barnaby in 1892 but was to die in very unusual
circumstances in January 1894. A verdict of the effects of eating cucumbers was given for his
sudden death! Mary gave birth on the day of William’s funeral and already had a two year old son,
so what a dreadful time she must have had. In William’s obituary it said that they had just shifted
into a nice cottage and that he was working for Mr H. BILKEY.

In 1900 & 1905 Mary was on the electoral roll living in Ponsonby Road, a stationer, so maybe she
had a shop in the front of her house as in 1911 she is listed as living at 107 Ponsonby Road, widow.
After that Mary shifted frequently – Onehunga, Kingsland, Eden, Ferner Ave and from 1949 until her
death was at St Heliers Road, maybe with her sister Margaret WALLACE, who she left her estate to.

Mary saw the death of both her children – William in 1896, age 4 and Thomas Douglas Hutcheon
who died of wounds during WW1, August 1917.

She lived until 95 years of age, and died on 2 March 1957. Her final resting place, with Thomas, is
marked with a simple name plate in Pukekohe cemetery.

Signature from her will written in 1956 (age 94)
Sources: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Researcher: Judith Batt Compiler: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3613 Surname: HYDE
Given names: Eliza Address: Whangarata
Occupation: domestic Qualification: residential

Eliza DORKES was born in Huntingdonshire, England in 1831. In October 1857 she married Charles
HYDE at St Neots, Huntingdonshire. In April 1870 Charles, Eliza and their seven children (Frederick,
James, Thomas, Lizzie, Anne, Martha and Harriet)
boarded the ship ‘Excelsior’ and sailed for New
Zealand. During the voyage, on 17 July, Eliza gave
birth to a daughter. She was named Mary Lees E.
Hyde – it is quite possible she was given the middle
name Lees after Captain LEES, master of the
Excelsior.

The family settled in the Clevedon area and were there for 10 years before they acquired land at
Tuakau. The entire family moved to Whangarata Road, Tuakau in 1883. Charles Hyde died in 1901
and is buried at Tuakau Cemetery. Eliza was to live for another 30 years, dying at Tuakau on 21 January
1931 in her 100th year. She is buried with her husband Charles.

When Eliza turned 99 an article about her appeared in The New Zealand Herald on 16 September
1930. Eliza recalled her early days in New Zealand. “The country was mostly in bush. The church was
three miles away, and for me it meant walking and carrying a child. There was no road.”

Sources:
Hyde family information: Tuakau and District Museum
‘Excelsior’ passenger list – NZ Herald 6 August 1870: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Birth of Mary Lees HYDE – The Colonist 2 September 1870: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
‘Nearly a Centenarian’ article in NZ Herald 16 September 1930: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Researcher: Sandra Brasell

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1500 Surname: INGHAM
Given names: Eliza Jane
Occupation: household duties Address: Pukekohe

Qualification: residential

Eliza Jane was born Eliza (sometimes Elizabeth or Lizzie) Jane GRAHAM, the sixth child of James
Augustus Graham and Ellen BOWMAN, on 5 June 1867. She received her education at the Pukekohe
Convent School and lived in Victoria St, Pukekohe.

She married Joseph INGHAM in 1890. In 1896 with Joseph, a wheelwright and their 3 small children
– Emma Ruth born 1892, James Augustus born 1893 and Ellie born 1895, they shifted to Gisborne.

By 1911 they were living at 366 Clifford St, Whataupoko, Gisborne, an address that Eliza would have
for the rest of her life. (Google photo 2016)

Joseph died in 1943 and Eliza on 18 May 1949. They are
buried together at Taruheru cemetery, Gisborne.

Sources:
Ancestry: electoral rolls; Gisborne Council cemetery records; Family history – Alan Dalton.
Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3614 Surname: IRWIN
Given names: Agnes Address: Awitu
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Born in Lanarkshire, Scotland on 10th April 1862, Agnes
was the second daughter of Thomas and Agnes
BROWNLEE who, one year later, immigrated to New
Zealand aboard the ship, “Ganges”. Arriving in Auckland
in June 1863, Agnes and her mother, three brothers and
one sister lived in the Auckland suburb of Edendale
(now Sandringham) until her father, Thomas had
prepared a home for them on the farm they would call
”Springvale” on the corner of Awhitu and Given Roads at
Pollok.

In 1889 Agnes married John IRWIN, son of John Irwin Sr
and Mary Jane McGORLICK, who inherited the family
home on the farm, “Nga Puriri”, on Manukau Heads
Road at Awhitu.

They raised five sons, Stan, Alf, George, Herbert and
Leslie. Lacking many amenities as we know them today, the local church was a congregating and
unifying factor in the lives of the pioneering families and Agnes, with her husband and five sons
walked every Sunday from the farm to join the other settlers in worship.

John passed away in 1926 of gangrene from an injury to his foot and Agnes passed away on 17th
September 1929, aged 67. They are buried at Awhitu Central Church Cemetery.

Sources:
www.Brownlee.com.au

Researcher Lynley Aitchinson

Electoral Roll: Waipa 1292 Surname: JACKSON
Given names: Jane
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Razorback

Qualification: residential

Jane was the fourth child in a family of five born to Mary and Thomas JACKSON of Razorback. Jane’s
birth registration is for 1871 (1871/14331) and it is likely she was born at Bombay.

Jane never married and during her adult life shared a house with her sister in Epsom, Auckland.

Jane died aged 86 years on 18 January 1958 and is buried with her sister at Purewa Cemetery
Auckland.

Sources:
NZBDM: https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
Purewa cemetery records; http://www.purewa.co.nz/
Researcher: Mary Mercer

Electoral Roll: Waipa 3289 Surname: JACKSON
Given names: Jane
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Pokeno

Qualification: residential

Jane TAYLOR married Campbell JACKSON on 31 December 1860 at Ruther Gel, Lanarkshire, Scotland,
where they are on the 1861 Scottish census with Campbell, age 24 a railway labourer.

They had a son named Hugh before they left Glasgow aboard the Helenslee on 10 September 1864,
bound for New Zealand. They arrived in Auckland on 22 December 1864 and after a short time in
Auckland settled in Pokeno having been granted Lots 24, 30 and 33 on Section 1 Pokeno (as recorded
on the 1875 electoral roll). In the 1893 roll they were living on Lots 23 and 130, Pokeno, where
Campbell was a farmer and active in community organizations.

A further seven children arrived between 1866 and 1878, making a family of six sons and two
daughters.

Jane died in 1894 and Campbell married a widow, Emily OTTO in 1900 at Te Aroha. He died in 1911
and is buried with Jane in the Pokeno cemetery.

Sources:

Fletcher & Hansen family Tree – ancestry.co.uk
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
NZ electoral rolls: ancestry.co.uk
Headstone photo – Waikato District Council
Shipping lists - NZ Society of Genealogists

Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Waipa 1294 Surname: JACKSON
Given names: Mabel
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Razorback

Qualification: residential

Mabel was the second child born to Mary and Thomas JACKSON of Razorback. Mabel’s birth
registration is 1867/14163.

Very little is known of Mabel’s early life but during adulthood she lived with her sister Jane in Epsom
Auckland.

Mabel appeared to be independent and on her death 15 June 1937 her estate was estimated to be
worth around £4,000 pounds.

Mabel left detailed instructions in her will, one item left to her brother William was described as
“chest of drawers known as my Mothers and made by Milburn, cabinet maker of Bombay”

Mabel shares her burial plot at Purewa with her sister Jane No: W1292 on the 1893 Electoral Roll.

Sources:

NZBDM: https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
Purewa cemetery records; http://www.purewa.co.nz/
Familysearch: https://www.familysearch.org
Researcher: Mary Mercer

Electoral Roll: Waipa 1295 Surname: JACKSON
Given names: Mary
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Razorback

Qualification: residential

Mary JACKSON was the second daughter of Jane and Rev. J. F. MANDENO, who came to Auckland
with their family in 1855. Mary was born in 1831 and baptised on the 30 Sep 1831 in Wem,
Shropshire, England.

The family is difficult to find in the 1841 census but in 1851 they can be found at Chapple House,
Northamptonshire. J. F. Mandeno is an Independent Minister and he and his wife have 7 children
living with them. The three eldest girls Jane, Mary and Sarah are all teachers.

The family sailed for New Zealand in 1855 leaving behind Jane the eldest daughter.

Mary married Captain Thomas Jackson 1860 (NZBDM 1860/2595) and settled in 1866 at Razorback
where Captain Jackson had purchased a property of 600 acres. Together they raised 4 children at
Razorback. Captain Jackson was a resident Magistrate for Waikato.

Mary died in February 1929
NZBDM (1929/8801)

Mary’s two daughters Jane
and Mabel are also on the
1893 Roll.

Sources.
1851 Census England
Findmypast – England births baptisms 1538-1975
NZBDM https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Researcher. Mary Mercer

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1525 Surname: JAMES
Given names: Dorcas Ann
Occupation: dressmaker Address: Waiuku

Qualification: residential

Dorcas Ann JAMES was born on 28 April 1867, the first child of eight born to William John James and
Elizabeth Prudence WALTERS who lived at ‘Brookside Farm’ Waitangi (now 412 Bald Hill Road
Pukeoware) near Waiuku.

Dorcas appeared on the 1893 Electoral Roll as a
dressmaker and it would be a profession that would be
useful in a country district. Although most country women
will turn their hands to anything that “special occasion”
garment needs the professional and something extra.

In future years Dorcas was on ‘domestic duties’. It could
simply have been that with her mother aging and many of
her family still living at the farm, these duties were too
much for Elizabeth and Dorcas, as eldest daughter, took
over the responsibility of the home.

Dorcas remained unmarried, as did most of her sisters and
one brother. One brother, Joseph John Albert (known as
Albert, a saddler) married Ruby BARRIBALL, and one sister,
Selina Doney, married Robert PRITCHARD in Queensland,
Australia, late in life.

At the time of her death Dorcas was still living at Brookside
Farm, the family farm her parents developed, as were
Richard William Arthur, Alicia Jane, Sarah Louisa James and
Selina Doney Pritchard, her brother and sisters.

Dorcas passed away on 31 October 1949 at the age of 82.
She was buried on 1 November 1949 in Waiuku Cemetery
alongside many members of her family.

Sources:
Cemeteries Online
NZ Electoral Rolls
NZ BDM Historical Records
Ancestry Public Records

Researchers: Penny Prescott, Lois Hopping

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1526 Surname: JAMES
Given names: Elizabeth Prudena
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Waiuku

Qualification: residential

Elizabeth Prudence was the second child of Vincent John and Ann WALTERS who had arrived in
Australia from Cornwall, England with a baby girl. Elizabeth was born on 1 January 1840 and
christened at Mulgoa, New South Wales on 1 November that year.

In 1848 the family came to New Zealand on the brig “Louisa”.

William John JAMES, born Cornwall, England 1836, met and married Elizabeth on 26 October 1865.
A newspaper clipping to celebrate their golden wedding stated that they were married at East
Tamaki by Rev. J.S. RISWORTH who was assisted by the Rev. G. BUTTLE.

They had eight children – six girls and two boys:
1867-1949 Dorcas Ann
1869-1936 Mary Elizabeth Pawley/Pauley (known as Pollie)
1871-1954 Richard William Arthur
1873-1957 Sarah Louisa
1874-1958 Selina Doney – married Robert PRITCHARD (his second marriage) in 1922 in Queensland
1877-1957 Alicia Jane Walters
1880-1933 Joseph John Albert – married Ruby Ethel BARRIBALL 1904 – they had four children,and
1882-1956 Clarice Augusta.

Early electoral rolls had William listed as having premises at which he resided in Waiuku East.
However, on the 1880-81 Electoral Roll he was on two lists – residence as before, but also 100 acres
Part Lot 65 Waiuku East. It is this block that became the family farm known as ‘Brookside Farm’.
Elizabeth and William developed the farm and many used their grounds and tennis courts.

William passed away at ‘Brookside Farm’ 412 Bald Hill Road at the age of 81. His obituary states he
(and Elizabeth) had resided at Waiuku for nearly 60 years and were well-known and highly-respected
residents. Land on the main road had been donated to be used for community activities. The
current Pukeoware Hall is on that land now (2018). William had been a member of the Waiuku
Volunteers during the Maori war and saw active service on several occasions.

At the time of William’s death on 31 July 1916 his widow and seven of their eight children still
resided in Waiuku. Selina was living in Australia but in 1938 returned to New Zealand.
Elizabeth passed away on 1 September 1920 at the age of 80. Her death record states that the
“Waiuku district has lost a very old resident, and parent of a highly-respected family.”
Both William and Elizabeth were buried in the Presbyterian section of the Waiuku Cemetery.

Sources:
James family knowledge – Don James
PUKEKOHE & WAIUKU TIMES, VOLUME 9,
ISSUE 563, 3 SEPTEMBER 1920
www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
"Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981,"
database, FamilySearch
"New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-
1966," database, FamilySearch
Photo and information – Glenis Wilson, current
owner (2018)
Researcher: Penny Prescott, Lois Hopping

Electoral Roll: Franklin 3617 Surname: JAMIESON
Given names: Catherine Address: Paerata
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Catherine was born 12th November 1833, a daughter of William McCORD and Sarah nee
BAINBRIDGE.

In 1853 on 24th May at Ahoghill, Ballymena, Antrim, Ireland, she married Archibald JAMIESON.

Between 1853 and 1877 Catherine and Archibald had 10 children who they brought to New Zealand
on the ship "Lady Jocelyn" in January 1881.

After they landed at Tauranga, the family farmed at Paerata.

No more children were born and over the following years there were to be marriages and
grandchildren. There was even a fire that burnt down a stable and cowshed in 1892.

In July 1901 her husband, Archibald, died. His body was taken by train from Paerata to Pukekohe to
be buried in the Pukekohe Cemetery.

AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME XXXII, ISSUE 166, 26 JULY 1901

Catherine was to survive until 26th May 1914. She passed away at Paerata at the age of 81 and is
buried in Pukekohe Cemetery.

AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME XLV, ISSUE 124, 26 MAY 1914

Sources:
Papers Past.
NZSG Franklin Branch cemetery photos.
MyHeritage Family trees.
Researcher: Bea McGill

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1537 Surname: JENKINS
Given names: Agnes Sarah
Occupation: household duties Address: Pukekohe

Qualification: residential

Agnes Sarah CLARKE, daughter of John Thomas Clarke and Matilda Eleanor (Helena) COLLOMBINE
was born c 1848 in Shoreditch, London where her father was a watchmaker.

Agnes arrived in Auckland with her parents and siblings on the Tyburnia on 3 October 1863. In the
UK 1861 census, Agnes was the oldest of six children and was a scholar.

Agnes Sarah Clarke married William JENKINS in 1869 and they settled at Pukekohe where they
farmed on Lots 221 to 224, Pukekohe.

They had 8 children: William John born 1870; Thomas born 1872; Charlotte born 1874; Piercy also
known as Percy born 1876 (who won a prize for his onions in the 1894 Franklin Show); Annie Priscilla
born 1878; Agnes Sarah born 1880; Walter born 1883 and Matilda Helena born 1886.

Agnes died in 1897 and is buried in Pukekohe Cemetery. The
headstone reads:

In loving memory of Agnes the beloved wife of William JENKINS who
died 10 March 1897 aged 47 years. Also Charlotte JENKINS who died
October 31st 1903 aged 34 years

William Jenkins died in Ponsonby on 8 April 1913.

Sources:
UK census 1861 – ancestry.co.uk
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.nz
Headstone photo – Franklin Branch NZSG

Researcher: Rosemary Lewis

Electoral Roll: Waipa 1308 Surname: JENNINGS
Given names: Alice Maria
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Rama Rama

Qualification: residential

Alice was born Alice MURPHY, daughter of James Murphy and Mary GRANNELL, baptized 15 Nov
1839 at Ballinloe, Wexford, Ireland.

As a young woman she travelled to the Cape Colony where at age 16, in 1855, she married Jack
O’COCKLAND and a son John was born in 1859. She then married William JENNINGS c 1859, age 20
and they set sail from Cape Town, arriving on board the ‘Maori’, in Auckland on 23 December 1864.
As part of the Waikato Immigration Scheme they were given a Crown Grant of 15 acres at Maketu,
Ramarama, land they were to farm for many years.

Alice and William had eight children, sadly their eldest, William Jnr, not a year old, died at sea on the
way to New Zealand. William Jennings died 16 May 1897 and is buried at St John’s cemetery, Drury.

Alice (her death certificate just says Alice) died on 27 March 1925 and is buried with her son Henry,
at the Ramarama Catholic cemetery.

Sources: Family history & photo – Mr B Breen; Old
newspapers – Auckland Star 2 April 1925

Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Waipa 1310 Surname: JENNINGS
Given names: Helen
Occupation: dressmaker Address: RamaRama

Qualification: residential

Ellie JENNINGS (taken age 94 in 1967)
Although she appeared on the 1893 electoral roll (and rolls until 1905) as Helen JENNINGS,
dressmaker at Ramarama, she was always known to her family as Ellie.
From 1928 until her death she appeared on the electoral rolls as Ellen Emma, spinster, living with
her sister Elizabeth Jennings, also a spinster, firstly at 72 Symonds St, then at 24 Domain Drive,
Auckland. Mr BREEN remembers visiting them at this address in the mid 1960’s. He said they were
very helpful providing family history and photos at that time.
She died on 2 Jan 1971 and is buried at Purewa cemetery, Auckland.

Sources:
Family information & photos – Mr B Breen; NZ electoral rolls – Ancestry.co.uk; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Cemetery records – Purewa cemetery
Researcher: Heather Maloney

Electoral Roll: Franklin 1583 Surname: JOHNSTON
Given names: Elizabeth
Occupation: domestic duties Address: Buckland

Qualification: residential

Elizabeth HEWITT, daughter of James Hewitt and Mary AUSTIN, was born about 1848 in County
Armagh, Ireland.

She arrived in New Zealand c 1866 and married Robert JOHNSTON on 5 January 1871 in the
Pukekohe area.

In 1890 Robert's qualification for the electoral roll was Pukekohe Lot 25 Section 2, 10 acres freehold.

Robert Johnston was born c 1840 in Toureen, Annacarty, Tipperary, Eire. He died in Cambridge, 18
June 1920.

Robert arrived in New Zealand c 1864 and had worked as a plate layer on the railways. He had also
helped to drain the swamplands where the present Pukekohe Race Course is. When he retired from
the railways he went farming in Harrisville and later Buckland and was instrumental in establishing
the Buckland Anglican Church.

Robert and Elizabeth had 10 children between 1871 and 1891: Mary Jane, Annie (married William
McGOWAN), Edward, Eda Eliza (married Frederick FINLEY), Robert (lived in Alberta Canada and died
in USA), William, Joseph Howard, John, Albert Edward and Lillian Gladys (married Alan FISHER).

In 1928 Elizabeth was living with her daughter Mary Jane Johnston at Thornton Rd, Cambridge.

Elizabeth died 3 December 1933 in Cambridge, where she had lived since c 1920.

Sources:
Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz; Pukekohe Old Cemetery headstone
inscriptions, NZSG
Researcher: Rosemary Lewis


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