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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3639 Surname: KEOGH
Given names: Johanna Residence: Waipipi
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Johanna KEOGH was born in 1872, the youngest daughter of Mary and John Keogh, immigrants from
County Clare, Ireland who were farming at Waipipi near Waiuku. Johanna had two sisters and eight
brothers.

Johanna married John Edward POWELL on 22 January 1906 and they had three children.

On 26 October 1907 John Edmund was born. He married Violet May HOUGHTON in 1942. He was a
gunner during World War II and while he was away Violet spent part of her time with her parents in
Opotiki. It appears John may have returned and worked on the family farm at Waipipi. Violet passed
away on 13 May 1986 and her ashes are at Manukau Memorial Gardens. John died on 14 August
1988 and was buried at Papakura Cemetery in the Military Section.

On 9 November 1909 Linda Gertrude was born. She married Frederick WALTERS on 28 December
1937 and it is registered as Linda Gertrude Margaret. They lived in Pollok for a period before moving
to the Auckland area. Walter also fought in World War II. He was born on 4 June 1909 and died 26
September 1996. Linda died on 10 September 2006 and was buried at Waipipi Cemetery as was her
husband.

On 30 November 1910 Mary Phyllis was born. She married James Robert McGregor McFARLANE on
28 December 1935 and is registered as Mary Phyllis Ellen. They lived in the Auckland area. James
was born on 15 August 1911 and died on 16 July 1981. Mary died on 26 March 1986 and was buried
with James in Waikumete Cemetery. Cemetery records show a military listing for James (listed as a
Corporal in the New Zealand Provost Corps) and an additional entry:
“E M P McFarlane buried 29 March 1986“.

Johanna and John worked hard all their lives on the Powell farm on Creamery Road at Waipipi. They
saw all their family married and thankfully all return from World War II.

However, Johanna died on 28 August 1948 at the age of 76. John died on 31 May 1953 at the age of
85. They were both buried in the Waipipi Cemetery beside John’s parents Matthew and Johanna.

Sources:
“Of Pigeons and Pipis”; Waipipi School and Districts 125 years and Waipipi District 150 years Booklet
NZ BDM Historic Register and Cemetery Records
Researcher: Penny Prescott; Lois Hopping

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3641 Surname: KEOGH
Given names: Margaret Residence: Waipipi
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Margaret KEOGH was born in 1869, the middle daughter of Mary and John Keogh, immigrants from
County Clare, Ireland who were farming on the corner of Creamery and Keogh Roads at Waipipi near
Waiuku.

Margaret had two sisters and eight brothers.

On 22 January 1895 Margaret married Samuel JONES and lived on Warea Road, near New Plymouth.
They were to have the following children:

o John Noonan b. 15 November 1895
o Mary Victoria b. 25 April 1897
o Annie Margaret b. 11 June 1898
o Millicent Johanna Veronica b. 10 April 1900
o Marjory Catherine b. 10 November 1901
o Samuel Faulkner b. 28 May 1903

They moved north to Towai between 1902 and 1904, then they returned to Warea in 1904 and
Samuel began flax-milling and was in charge of the Warea mill.
In May 1905 Samuel suddenly died from septicaemia after getting a tumour on his leg. Margaret
was 36 years old at the time and was heavily pregnant with their seventh child (Margaret Frederica
known as Peg, born 12 June 1905). After Samuel's death Margaret always wore black with her long
hair plaited and tied up on her head.

With the assistance of her brother, James, who then lived with her, Margaret farmed successfully and
brought up her family of five girls and two boys.

Margaret died at home on Warea Road on 11 September 1948, aged 79 years, and was buried at
Okato, Taranaki.

Sources:
Family Knowledge: Roger Derecourt, Michael and Shirley
Derecourt
www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
OPUNAKE TIMES, VOLUME XXI, ISSUE 735, 2 MAY 1905
OPUNAKE TIMES, 21 SEPTEMBER 1948
New Zealand, Archives New...Probate Records, 1843-1998

Researcher: Penny Prescott

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3640 Surname: KEOGH
Given names: Mary Residence: Waipipi
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Mary KEOGH was born in 1841. She and her husband John were immigrants
from County Clare, Ireland.

They went to Cape Town, South Africa for at least four and a half years
where a son, James, was born but died young and a daughter, Mary, was
born in 1860. Mary, John and young Mary were passengers aboard the
Dutch barque “Alfred” from the Cape of Good Hope arriving 16 November
1864 and were among the pioneer settlers of Waipipi. The granted five
acres allotment was in Parakau Road, the land being described as very
uninviting in its original state of bracken, manuka and swampy bush.

By 1873 they had bought a further 27
acres on the west side of Keogh Road for
£33/15 shillings. Their farm reached
from the old home on Keogh Road to
Creamery Road passing behind what was
Kelly’s farm. The house later required a
two-storied addition for the growing
family of eleven:

Mary, b. Cape Town, South Africa in
1860, married Thomas Martin ROE, died
7 November 1950 aged 90 years. She is
buried at Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland.

Stephen - married Catherine O’BRIEN in 1895 and Ruth WALKER in 1918, died 17 April 1951 aged 87
years and is buried at Waikumete.

Thomas - married Mary WELSH 1898, died 29 August 1931 aged 64 years and is buried at
Waikumete.

Margaret - married Samuel JONES 1895, died 18 September 1948 aged 79 years, Okato, Taranaki.

Johanna – b. 1872, married John POWELL 1906, died 28 August 1948, buried at Waipipi.

John Patrick - b. 1874, married Bridget Maud LIVINGSTONE 1905, died 13 July 1938, aged 63, buried
Waikumete.

Timothy - b. 1876, married Gertrude TIMPERLEY 1906, died 9 August 1944, age 68, buried
Waikumete.

Martin - b. 1878, married Mary TOHU 1906, died 1 May 1946, aged 68, buried Waikumete also
married Te Awe WHARERAU 1924 and Sarah Ann McNAMARA 1936.

James - b. 1880, not married, died 2 October 1954, age 74 years, buried Okato Cemetery, Taranaki.

Michael - b. 1882, married Catherine BRITTON 1910, died 11 January 1969, aged 86 years, buried
Waipipi.

Daniel - b. 1886, not married, died 8 June 1947, aged 59 years, buried Waipipi.

Mary and John’s son, Michael took over the farm and their son, Dan, moved to a farm on Craig Road.

Mary died on 29 October 1907 after a fall aged 66. John died on 27 December 1915 aged 85. Both
are buried at Waipipi Cemetery with John’s headstone showing 1916.

Sources:
“Of Pigeons and Pipis”; Waipipi School and Districts 125 years
Family Knowledge: Roger Derecourt, Michel and Shirley Derecourt
NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XLIV, ISSUE 13582, 30 OCTOBER 1907
Researcher: Penny Prescott

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3638 Surname: KEOUGH
Given names: Elizabeth Residence: Mauku
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

George and Elizabeth KEOUGH arrived in Auckland on the 'Columbus', 10 October 1864 with
members of the 50th Regiment who were stationed in Panmure and Mt Wellington.

The New Zealander 15 April 1865

According to Wise's Post Office Directory George Keough was living in the Panmure area in 1876
where he had 5 acres of leasehold land.
George appears to have been involved in local body affairs in the Mt Wellington area, as a collector
of rates in 1874.
He died 11 April 1892 at Mauku and his death was investigated by the Coroner, 1892/258 (Archives,
NZ)
Public Notices: RE GEORGE KEOUGH, LATE OF MAUKU, SETTLER, DECEASED INTESTATE. All Persons
having Claims against this Estate are requested to send in particulars of same (in duplicate) forthwith
to the undersigned, HILL & MAHONY, Solicitors for Administratrix. 30, Shortland street, June 3,
1892.

NZ Herald, 7 June 1892

Elizabeth appears in the 1893 and 1896 Franklin Electoral rolls in Mauku, doing domestic duties and
with a residential qualification.
There is no further mention of Elizabeth after 1896.
There are other Keoughs enrolled in the Waipipi area - Johanna, John, Mary, Margaret, Thomas, but
George and Elizabeth do not seem to have had children born in New Zealand.
Elizabeth does not appear in Marriage or Death indices.

Resources:
Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz; Wises Directories

Researcher: Rosemary Lewis

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1645 Surname: KERN
Given names: Leah Lydia Residence: Ramarama
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Born on 28 June 1863, Leah Lydia was daughter of Luke BALLARD and Mary Elizabeth SMITH, the
second child of 10 and came to New Zealand with her parents and older brother on the ship
Bombay. The remaining siblings were born in New Zealand.

She married Cecil George KERN, of Ceylon, at her parent’s home on 13 November 1883 and they had
8 children: Edith Annie, Cecil Frank, Jessie Eveline, Mary Louise, Agnes Cecilia, Irene Laura, Charles
Theodore and Ruby Alice. Their eldest son, Cecil Frank was killed in action in WW1. The Kern’s
farmed at Ramarama and have a road named after them. In the NZ Herald of 10 February 1928, Mrs
C. G. Kern is advertising holiday accommodation available for permanent or casual paying guests at
£2 per week.

Lydia, as she preferred to be called, died on
1 November 1940 and is buried in Papakura
Cemetery with her husband. In her
obituary it said that she had resided at
Ramarama for 50 years taking a particularly
active part in church work. At her death
she had 20 grandchildren and seven great
grandchildren.

Leah Lydia Kern (nee Ballard) and Cecil George Kern Photo from google images
Sources:
1893 Electoral roll
Auckland Star 5 Nov 1940
Births, Deaths & Marriages – www.dia.govt.nz
Family Tree on Geni by Ross Ian Cochran – www.geni.com
Researcher: Heather Maloney

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1647 Surname: KERR
Given names: Mary Residence: Patumahoe
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

At forty and fifty years of age, respectively, Despite worshipping at the Anglican church of
Mary KERR (c1819 – 1918) and her husband, St Brides, William gifted a piece of this land on
Robert, were quite old for the rigours of the corner of Mauku and Day Roads to the
pioneer life. Attracted by the Waikato Methodists who built their own church there in
Immigration Scheme, they arrived in Auckland 1866.
from Northern Ireland in 1865 on the
Dauntless with their five children – William Husband, Robert, died in 1882 but Mary
(19), Mary Ann (17), Charlotte (15), Sarah (12) continued to live on the farm with her
and Margaret (10) - but it was a year before unmarried children, William and Sarah, until
they acquired their allotments and began the formidable age of 99. Six years earlier an
building a house and breaking in the land. article in the 1912 Pukekohe & Waiuku Times,
had described her as ‘still hale and hearty’
Fortuitously, they ended up on Patumahoe Hill, which it attributed to the ‘bracing atmosphere
described in the Pukekohe and Waiuku Times of the district.’
in 1912 as ‘some of the richest volcanic land in
the district.’ Less fortuitously, they lost their Sources:
first house to that settler scourge, fire, in 1868, Dauntless passenger list
while busy on the farm; Mary milking the cow, Daily Southern Cross, 10 March 1868
Robert and William carting flax for hackling, Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, 1 Nov. 1912,
and the girls washing flax in the creek. 6 May 1918 & 22 Aug. 1919
Patumahoe: History & Memories
Son, William, also acquired property on St Brides Cemetery Records
Patumahoe Hill, land confiscated by the
Government from local Maori as punishment Informant: Kay Carter
for their support of Waikato whanau during Researcher: Wendy Clark
the Land Wars.

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3643 Surname: KERR
Given names: Sarah Elizabeth Residence: Patumahoe
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

THE HOUSE ON THE HILL Being newly arrived in Patumahoe from
Northern Ireland, and not long finished
On Patumahoe Hill there stands a house with a building their home, its loss must have been
wrap-around veranda and a commanding view heart-breaking. However, the community
of the district. The weather boards on the rallied around with offers of shelter, clothing
eastern side are full length kauri clears of at and food, as well as labour for the rebuild. The
least 44 feet. year was 1868 and Sarah was fifteen.

It was built circa 1911 by second generation She spent most of her life with her mother and
pioneers, Sarah Elizabeth KERR (1853-1933) bachelor brother on the Hill, touted as one of
and her older brother, William. It is the third the richest, volcanic farming areas in the
Kerr home to occupy this site. Dominion.

Sarah and her sisters were washing flax at the Presumably Sarah nursed her mother until her
creek when the original house went up in death at, reportedly, 99 years of age.
flames. The family presumed wind gusting
through the stones of the chimney must have A year after old Mrs Kerr died, the property
ignited an article in the room. Unfortunately, sold for a record price of £105/acre and Sarah
no-one was at home to stop its spread. Their and William retired to the city. William had
mother, Mary, was milking the cow while only 3 years in which to enjoy his leisure.
William and their father, Robert, carted flax for Eleven years after his death, Sarah appears to
hackling. Consequently, not a vestige of have been living with a sister in Grey Lynn
property could be saved. when she, too, met her maker, quite suddenly,
at the hearty age of 82.
What rendered it so distressing was that the
girls, being engaged in flax-washing, had all Sources:
their worst clothes on, so that every decent Daily Southern Cross, 10 March,1868
item of clothing they possessed, even boots, Pukekohe & Waiuku times, 22 August 1919
were destroyed. St Brides Cemetery Records
Dauntless passenger lists
Mr Kerr had lately sold half a ton of wheat and Patumahoe: History & Memories
half a ton of flax, the proceeds of which (£15) Photo courtesy of Kay Carter
were hidden in the house while his daughters,
having been out at service, lost £1 each in Researcher: Wendy Clark
savings, which were stored in their boxes.

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Electoral Roll: Waipa 3315 Surname: KIDD
Given names: Susannah Elizabeth Residence: Pokeno
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Susannah was born Susannah Elizabeth HILTON in 1846 in Littlehampton, Sussex, England. Her
parents were Captain Robert HILTON (1817-1891) and Harriet Elizabeth FENN (1820-1854). She had
three brothers and a sister and later when her father remarried, a half brother and sister.

The Hilton family moved to Australia between 1851, when they were recorded in the UK census, and
1854 when Harriet died in South Australia. Captain Hilton sailed between Australian ports and to
India and Mauritius. He remarried in 1856.

In 1865 Susannah married George KIDD in Adelaide.

Three children born in Australia – Edith in 1865, May in 1867 and Rowland in 1868. After moving to
New Zealand a further four children were born – Adelaide in 1872, Allan in 1874, Daisy in 1876 and
Julian Joseph in 1878.
The only other record of George is a discharge of mortgage on a property near Pokeno where
George and Susannah Kidd are listed as the Mortgagor in 1881. His death has not been found.

By 1896 Elizabeth was living in Nelson Street, Auckland where she remained until her death on 6 July
1833, aged 87. She is buried at Waikumete cemetery, with a daughter and son.

Sources:
McGowan Family Tree – ancestry.co.uk; Newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz and trove.nla.gov.au.
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz; Cemetery records – NZ Society of Genealogists
Researcher: Heather Maloney

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1670 Surname: KING
Given names: Catherine Residence: Pukekohe East
Occupation: farmer’s wife Qualification: residential

Catherine was born Catherine WATSON in Eventually her father purchased a farm in
Ardoyne, Belfast on 16 April 1860. Her father Harrisville where seven more brothers and
John Watson and mother Sarah MANSFIELD sisters were born. He also helped build the
were linen weavers, so Catherine grew up in Harrisville School which the younger Watson
the mill village where her sister Mary was also children attended. In her youth Catherine was
born. By 1864 Catherine’s parents had applied a dressmaker, a keen parishioner, and would
for the Waikato Immigration Scheme and had have been a great help to her mother with her
to travel down to Queenstown to board the many siblings. By the age of 20 she had
ship Ganges for New Zealand. During the married Lewis Walter KING in her parents’
voyage Catherine’s sister Mary became ill with home on the family farm and it would be a fine
dysentery and was one of 56 children to die of guess that Catherine would have made her
similar illness on that voyage. own wedding dress.

Upon arrival a delay in receiving plot titles Lewis had emigrated with his family as a ten-
meant many families had to wait it out at the year-old from South Africa aboard the ship
Queen’s Redoubt in Pokeno so Catherine Maori in 1864. He already had a farm of his
would have started school there as a five-year- own on Jericho Road, Harrisville where they
old. settled and where Catherine described herself
as a farmer’s wife. Although there were no
children born to the couple, Jane BEGBIE lived
over the road with her nine children and, as
Catherine’s husband left Jane a sum of money
in his will, it seems the two families were a
great support to each other.

Catherine looked after her parents when they
sold the family farm until their deaths.
Catherine passed away in 1913 from a seizure
at only 54 years old. Her death notice
described her as having a ‘very charitable
disposition which endeared her to a wide circle
of friends’. She is buried in the Pukekohe East
Presbyterian Church Cemetery along with her
husband (who died in 1918) and next to her
parents, a brother and her three infant sisters.

Sources:
Pukekohe East Presbyterian Church Cemetery records
Watson family history (Private notes)

Researcher: Wendy Smith (nee Watson)

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 4068 Surname: KING
Given names: Charlotte Dair Residence: Waiuku
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

At age 77, Charlotte KING was probably the oldest first-time voter on the 1893 Franklin electoral roll.

Charlotte Dair King (nee FISK) was born in Hobart, Tasmania on 11 January 1816 and immigrated to
New Zealand in December 1839 aboard the “Falcon”. She was the third child, eldest daughter of 11
children.

Her parents were Arnold Fisk and Mary Ann Campbell BUNKER, both of whom came to Australia in
the early 1800’s; Arnold as crew and Mary with her parents. Charlotte was named after a sister of
Mary’s – Charlotte Dair Bunker.

She met her future husband Phillip Hansen King in the Bay of Islands and they were married on 1 July
1840 in Auckland. Philip was the eldest son of Mr John King, first missionary settler in New Zealand
and Hannah HANSEN. John worked for 40 years among the Maoris, aided by Hannah.

Phillip and Charlotte had 12 children.

Isabella Jane 1841-1932, Elizabeth Mary Ann 1843-1943, Arnold John 1844-1899, Henry Holloway
1845-1873, Clara Hannah 1847-1925, Angelina Sarah 1849-1887, Lauretta Shepherd 1851-1942,
William Joseph 1852-1930, Charles Collingwood 1855-1920, Ernest James Edward 1857-1876, Minnie
Matilda 1861-1888 and Annie Eliza 1863-1878

Phillip Hansen King died on 30 August 1880, at his residence, Collingwood, after a long and painful
illness. Charlotte however, continued to live in Waiuku with her son, William King, until her death
on 26 February 1917 at the ripe old age of 101.

Source:
names.nzearlyhistory.com
Ancestry Public Tree – Bronwyn Jane Palmer
www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
Paperspast – OBITUARY AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME XLVIII, ISSUE 49, 26 FEBRUARY 1917
Compiled by: Dianne Jones

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 4069 Surname: KING
Given names: Margaret Residence: Pukekohe East
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Margaret CROSKERY was born in Papakura in In Loving Memory of Edmund beloved husband of
1871, the fourth daughter of James Croskery Margaret King, died 10th Nov 1920 aged 53 years.
and Ellen Jane JENNINGS who originated from As the ivy clings to the oak our memory clings to
Downpatrick, Co Down in Ireland. James and thee. Also his wife Margaret, died 21st March 1940
Ellen had sailed to New Zealand as a newly aged 68 years.
wedded couple and, as assisted immigrants,
were required to travel to Glasgow in order to In Loving Memory of Edmund King died 13th March 1899
board their ship the ‘Resolute’. Their passage and his sister Charlotte died 26th August 1954.
entitled them to an allotment in Kirikiri, Researched by Robin Hunt (nee Watson) and
Papakura which is where Margaret was born Wendy Smith (nee Watson). Sources: Drury Church
along with her seven siblings, Sarah Jane, Eliza of England Cemetery records, Papers Past, Watson
Ann, James, John, Charlotte, Hugh and William. family history (Private notes).
The Croskery’s remained in the area for a
further 60 years until the farm was sold in 1921
although the Croskery legacy lives on in several
landmarks named after them in the area.
Margaret had met Edmund KING of Tuhimata
and they married in 1892, the year of her 21st
birthday. Edmund was the son of early settlers
Henzell and Margaret King (nee KETT) who had
sailed out from Cape Town on board the Maori
in 1864. The family settled on their five acres
in Tuhimata where Edmund was born.

Edmund and Margaret began their married life
in Pukekohe East where their first child Louis
Walter arrived. He was named after his uncle,
Lewis Walter King of Harrisville. Lewis and his
wife had no children of their own but did have
three nephews named after him. In 1895
Margaret had twins, Edmund and Charlotte,
however Edmund only lived until he was three
years old. Louis and his sister Charlotte
attended Pukekohe East School where their
father Edmond was a member of both the
school committee and the Karaka Road Board
for many years.

Edmond passed away in 1920 predeceasing his
wife Margaret by 20 years. She passed away in
1940. They are both buried in Drury’s Church
of England Cemetery. Their son Louis/Lewis
Walter King II married Ida Matheson and his
sister Charlotte King remained single.

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Electoral Roll: Waipa 3317 Surname: KING
Given names: Sarah Residence: Razorback
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Sarah was born Sarah HEWITT in 1840, daughter of James HEWITT and Mary AUSTIN. She married
John COWAN in 1860. They had two little girls (Mary and Sarah) and Sarah was expecting a baby,
when they decided to come to New Zealand on the Ganges, arriving in February 1865. During the
voyage 56 young children died and sadly, one of these was Sarah, the daughter of Sarah and John.
They called their daughter born during the voyage after the death, Sarah Ann but tragedy was to
strike again when daughter Mary died a year later. More despair would follow as Sarah was left with
four small children when John Cowan was killed in an accident on 25 September 1871.

In 1874 she married John KING and they had four children – two sons and two daughters, the
youngest born just six months before John died on 19 July 1882, at the age of 33. This left Sarah
with eight children under the age of seventeen to raise.

Sarah died 8 December 1918 and is buried in Pukekohe
cemetery.

Researcher: Heather Maloney Sources:
Parkinson Family Tree – ancestry.co.uk
Newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz;
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz;
Headstone photo – NZSG Franklin Branch
Shipping records – Auckland Libraries

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Electoral Roll: Waipa 1425 Surname: KINGSFORD
Given names: Charlotte Elizabeth Residence: Razorback
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Charlotte Elizabeth KELSEY was born in Folkstone Kent between 1848 and 1850 and married
Frederick Bosworth KINGSFORD in the second quarter of 1872 at Hastings, Sussex, England.
Charlotte had only one child Leslie, who was born in Folkstone, Kent in October 1873. It is not
known when the Kingsfords
arrived in New Zealand but
by 1881 the family had
settled at Razorback farming
350 acres.

Leslie started school aged 5
at Bombay in 1882 and four
years later was transferred
to Auckland Grammar.
Charlotte became involved in
her community, especially
the Presbyterian and
Wesleyan Churches where
she played the organ. Her
services were acknowledged
with a small gift in 1890.

NZ Herald 26 September 1890

By December 1893 Charlotte and her family are
preparing to return to England. The farm was advertised
for sale at the end of 1893 but wasn’t sold until late
1894. Charlotte’s home had been a substantial one,
with 12 rooms and a commanding view of the
countryside to the Waikato River. Charlotte died 15
April 1929 in Bristol, Gloucester, England.

Sources:
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
England and Wales marriage index 1837-2005
Familysearch. https://www.familysearch.org
Findmypast https://www.findmypast.com.au
Researcher: Mary Mercer

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1675 Surname: KINGSFORD
Given names: Emily Ada Residence: Harrisville, Tuakau
Occupation: lady Qualification: residential

Emily Ada KINGSFORD third daughter and one of fourteen children born to Charles and Sarah
Kingsford of Ponsonby, Auckland was born in 1871.

Emily Kingsford can be found on the 1893 roll where she identifies herself as ‘Lady’. Emily and her
sister Florence appear to be the only members of their family to be at Harrisville, Tuakau in 1893.

On 20 April 1898 Emily married Walter Hampton FRICKER, at St John’s College Chapel, Tamaki.

Walter and Emily made their home in Frankton and five children were born there.

• 1899 Walter John
• 1902 Kenneth Hampton
• 1904 Millicent Francis
• 1907 Philip Osborne
• 1911 Dulcie Isabella.

Sadly, Emily died aged 47 on 20 November
1918.

Walter remarried in 1920 to Elizabeth
Margaret Kingsford elder sister of
Emily Ada.

Elizabeth died in 1940 and Walter in 1961.
All three are buried together in Hamilton West Cemetery,
A2A-R-25.

Sources:

NZBDM: www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Paperspast – Auckland Star, 12 May 1898. Waikato Times, 21 Nov 1918
My Heritage – Mclean web site

Researcher: Mary Mercer

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 4070 Surname: KINGSFORD
Given names: Florence Eliza Residence: Harrisville, Tuakau
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Charles KINGSFORD a baker from Kent, England arrived in New Zealand on the ‘William Miles’ in
November 1862 from London, England. He married Sarah JONES at her father’s residence on 7
March 1867. Sarah was born in Sydney, Australia in 1846.

Florence Eliza KINGSFORD born 28 August 1872 in Ponsonby, Auckland was one of fourteen children
born to Charles and Sarah Kingsford.

Florence Kingsford can be found on the 1893 roll with Emily her sister. Florence and Emily appear to
be the only members of their family to be at Harrisville, Tuakau in 1893.

In 1900 Florence married Charles George LEE a butcher from Whitianga. Charles was born in
Whitianga and after their marriage he took Florence home to Whitianga where they raised their
family:

I. 1901 – 1983 Elsie
II. 1903 - 1996 Beryl Kingsford
III. 1907 – 1907 Florence Rose
IV. 1908 – 1978 Phyllis

Florence died in 1910 aged 38.

Sources:
NZBDM www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
My Heritage Mclean web site – photograph
Researcher. Mary Mercer

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1677 Surname: KINSEY
Given names: Mary Elizabeth Residence: Patumahoe
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

FIRST WOMAN LICENSEE of logs, assisted by a team of bullocks, over the
five kilometres to a newly purchased site on
Mary Elizabeth KINSEY (1829 – 1907) was the the corner of Kingseat and Patumahoe Roads.
first woman licensee of the Mauku Inn in
Patumahoe. However, it appears that she Not long after they opened for guests, Mary
applied for the transfer from her late husband, was the victim of a fraudster who passed off a
Thomas, for the sole purpose of on- fraudulent cheque as payment for several
transferring it to a new licensee. Thomas died days’ accommodation. James McALISTER was
in February 1895 and by June of the same year arrested and charged but perhaps this kind of
she had successfully acquired and passed on clientele cooled Mary’s enthusiasm for hotel
the license to Robert WHITE. keeping on her own.

Thomas had been in possession of the license She and Thomas appear to have had no family
for only a few months before his death. The in New Zealand. She continued to live in
one storey hotel, containing six Patumahoe until her death, leaving behind the
accommodation rooms in addition to those for sum of £147 but no will. The Notice of
the use of the family, was built by George Deceased Estates indicated she emigrated
Gould WALTER in 1860 beside the busy Taihiki from England but there were no known
Inlet, on the corner of Glenbrook and Pearson relatives to whom to disburse the cash.
Roads. As roads opened up and Patumahoe
began to thrive, patronage dropped off and in
1883 G.G.Walter rolled the hotel on a series

The Mauku Inn, 1895 Family Search – Probate Records
Researcher: Wendy Clark
Sources:
Births, Deaths, & Marriages NZ, Papers Past, Patumahoe: History & Memories,
Informant: Howard Upfold

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3649 Surname: KNIGHT
Given names: Annie Residence: Kariotahi
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Annie was born on 23 October 1869 in New Zealand to William CURRIE and Catherine WATSON who
married in Australia c1850, although William was from North Leith, Scotland and Catherine from
Sheffield, England. Annie was the second youngest in a family of ten, six boys and four girls.

William Currie arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1840 from Sydney on the schooner “Kate” belonging to
Mr Joseph. On reaching Auckland he went to Wade and engaged in the timber trade taking
contracts to supply timber at the Waikato Heads, timber for Dr Maunsell’s house, and at Orua Bay,
timber for the house of Rev. Mr Hamlin. Captain Currie eventually had several ships for trading
purposes, but he was also employed by the Government to survey the Waiuku Creek and township.
Sometime later c1851 he purchased land in Auckland and set up businesses of various sorts. In 1857
he went to Waiuku and soon after engaged in cartage of native produce on the portage road from
Awaroa River to Waiuku employing a number of teams. The business prospered until the Land Wars
broke out and settlers fled to Onehunga. On the settlement of the trouble he again settled in
Waiuku on a property in its wild state and brought it up into perfect cultivation, Rural Lot 26, Waiuku
(Freehold). So the family was able to enjoy a quieter Waiuku countryside.

Annie married Stanley Vivian KNIGHT on 15 January 1890 at the Holy Trinity Church, Waiuku, and the
service was conducted by the Rev. N.D. Boyes.

Stanley was born c1863 in Hackney, Middlesex, England to Alfred Knight and Caroline Emily PRICE,
the youngest in a family of eight boys.

Annie and Stanley had seven children – Vivian Hazeldean (Jack) (m. Miss CRANCH) c1891, Winifrede
/ Winifred Belle c1893, Daisy Annie c1895, Constance Mary c1898, Cyril Ambrose Burgess (m. Miss
BURKE) 1902, Marjorie Watson (Mrs BALDWIN) c1907 and Mavis Vera (Mrs BAVERSTOCK) c1910.

They set up home on a freehold farm in Waiuku
called Briarwood, farming there until c1896 when
they moved to Manawaru, Te Aroha. They were
there until they retired back to the Auckland area
c1919. 16 Kingsview Road, Mt Eden was their
first Auckland home and then their final move to
Water Street in Otahuhu.

They were still residing in Otahuhu when Stanley
passed away on 24 January 1951, aged 88. He
was laid to rest in Otahuhu Public Cemetery.
Before the year was out Annie also passed away,
2 December 1951, aged 82, and was laid to rest
beside Stanley.

Sources:

THE CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND [AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL DISTRICT] – WAIUKU
NZ BDM Electoral Rolls Cemetery Records

Researcher: Lois Hopping

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1700 Surname: LAMAN
Given names: Jane Residence: Pukekohe
Occupation: music teacher Qualification: residential

Jane LAMAN was born in 1871 in Epsom, Auckland, the second surviving daughter of John Laman
and Emma TURNER who married at St Mathias, Panmure on 3 January 1863. John Laman and Emma
Turner had possibly arrived in Auckland on the Zealandia on 14 February 1861.

Jane's siblings were Margaret Emma, Annie Emily, Mary, William Henry and Eleanor. Only Jane and
Margaret survived childhood. Her father died on 10 November 1878 in Epsom and her mother died
in 1903, both are buried in Pukekohe.

Jane 'Jeannie' married James WYLIE on 24
June 1899 at St Andrew's Church, Pukekohe.
James Wylie was the son of Hugh Wylie and
Jane MOORE of Buckland. (Akl Star 7 July 1899)

From 1905 to 1914 James and Jane were
living in Buckland where James's mother,
Jane, was also living. In 1919, they were still
living at Buckland, (1914 Electoral Roll below).

It appears that Jane had no children.
Jane died suddenly on 2 June 1933
at home and is buried in Pukekohe
Cemetery.

James remarried in 1935 to Ethel
May COLES and continued to live in
St Heliers Bay Road as a farmer. He
died in Auckland on 8 October 1953.
Sources:
Newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk
Researcher: Rosemary Lewis

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1706 & 3651 Surname: LANER*
Given names: Lucy Anna Residence: Pukekohe
Occupation: farmer & household duties Qualification: residential

LUCY ANN LAUER*

(Note: that her surname was spelled incorrectly on
the electoral roll)

My great-grandmother, Lucy Ann Lauer, was a
Pukekohe East resident in 1893 at the time of
the Electoral Roll being opened to women
voters.

Lucy was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs
Benjamin TAYLOR of Lincolnshire, England and
she married Frederick Lauer in London in
1881. Frederick had spent 15 years as a sailor
on various trading ships and had visited many
parts of the world including New Zealand. The
couple later came to New Zealand and lived
for a short time in Wellington before settling
in Pukekohe about 1883.

Lucy and Frederick bought 101 acres of land
on East Street, Pukekohe where the housing
subdivision Anselmi Ridge is now. When their
family grew in number, they bought land across the road to expand the size of their farm.

The couple had eight children: Fred (married May O’NEILL, and farmed at Waimai), Charles (married
Minnie BAGULEY and farmed at East Street), George (returned from WW1 and lived at Pukekohe),
Lucy (married Mr CRAIG, Auckland), Jane (married Henry DELL, who had the saddlery and bag shop
at Dell’s Corner at the top of King St, Pukekohe – now a night club), Nell (married Frank CURRIE of
Auckland). Two sons Thomas and William were killed in action in World War 1.

Lucy was a real family person who adored her children and grandchildren. She was also regarded
with affection by a wide circle of friends. She was a widow for 14 years after Frederick passed away,
and died aged 90 at her home in Pukekohe East in 1943.

Photo: Lucy Lauer with three grandchildren – Victor, Tom and Vera.

Submitted by Anne Barker (nee Lauer, grand-daughter of Charles & Minnie)

Note: Lucy Anna LANER appears in the 1893 Franklin General Electoral Roll (no.1706) and on the
Supplementary Roll (no.3651) and in both cases the surname should be LAUER.

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1715 Surname: LAPWOOD
Given names: Helen Residence: Tuakau
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Ellen HOLLAND was born at 6:55 p.m. on 5 December 1849 in
Leyland, Lancashire, England along with her twin sister Georgina
who had been born less than half an hour earlier. Her parents
were Henry Holland, bricklayer, and his wife Lavinia COOK who
had 16 known children. In the late 1850s, Henry’s brick making
business went into bankruptcy and he decided to start afresh in
Auckland, New Zealand where he arrived in early 1860 and
established a brick making business in Karangahape Road. It was
not until two years later in late June 1862 that Ellen and 8 of her
siblings and her mother could set sail for New Zealand - on board
the Romulus from London.

The family initially lived on the corner of Oxford and Regent
Streets in Newton, but when Henry’s business went into
bankruptcy in the late 1860s the family moved south to Onewhero. They lived on Lot 69 in the Parish
of Onewhero - a 55-acre Crown Grant of land located across the Waikato River from the Tuakau
Landing and allotted in March 1867 to Ellen’s older brother George Holland.

Ellen became known as Helen in New Zealand. On 18 November 1870 she married Alfred Octavius
LAPWOOD at the home of Charles T. HOSKING in Waiuku where she is believed to have been working
as a domestic servant. Alfred was born at Stoke Newington Green, Middlesex, England. He had sailed
to New Zealand as a crewman on board the immigrant ship Ganges and arrived in Auckland in early
1865. Helen and Alfred settled at Tuakau where Alfred worked as a labourer and then a farmer. Over
the years Helen and Alfred produced a large family of 12 children which included an unnamed son in
1880 who died when only three days old. The 11 children who survived infancy were successfully
raised and they, in turn, all married and all but one began their own families. Helen got to experience
the arrival of 46 grandchildren during her lifetime, but this would have been tempered with the loss
of five of them including the accidental drowning of two teenage granddaughters (Hazel PUTATAKA
and Beryl Alice Lapwood) in the Waikato River in early 1926. Helen also had to bear the loss of four
of her children as adults – sons Edward and Alfred Henry in the 1918 influenza epidemic; daughter
Lavinia in 1920; and son Arthur in a work accident in mid-1925. But the end of 1925 would hopefully
have been more a joyous time with the arrival of her first great grandchild (Gordon Alfred SANGSTER).

Alfred suffered a debilitating bad stroke late in his life and Helen was given legal power of attorney to
be his signatory for his final years. He died at his home in Tuakau on 8 November 1923. Helen died
at the same residence in Tuakau on 30 August 1926 from complications related to the diabetes she
had suffered from for 10 years. Both are buried in the Alexandra Redoubt Cemetery, Tuakau.
Sources:

GRO Birth Certificates for Ellen HOLLAND & Alfred Octavius LAPWOOD
Papers Past website: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
NZ birth, marriage and death dates: http://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
Photo of Helen LAPWOOD [nee HOLLAND]: https://www.ancestry.com
“The Lapwoods of Tuakau – The Family of Alfred Octavius Lapwood (1844-1923)” Christine Headford, 1998

Researcher: Christine Headford

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3654 Surname: LARGE
Given names: Isabella Ewart Residence: Waiuku
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Isabella Ewart was born 3 February 1865 in Dunedin, the eldest
daughter to William GRAY and Margaret Turnbull PATERSON.
William and Margaret married in Wellington on 18 January 1861.
William was from Collingham, Berwickshire in Scotland and Margaret
from Edinburgh, Scotland.

Isabella/Belle married George Ephraim LARGE on 27 December 1887
in her parents’ home in Kohukohu, Hokianga. George was the only
son of William Large of Norwich, England.

They do not appear to have had any children.

George was a school teacher before they were married and appears
as a Solo Teacher for 1885 and 1886 at Cowes, on Waiheke Island. He was also teaching at
Kohukohu and Raglan with short relief teaching positions as well. Both Isabella and George became
fully involved in each new community.

By 1889 they were in Waiuku and again involved in the community and George as head teacher with
an assistant teacher, Miss Sarah Arey. For most of his time in Waiuku he had pupil teachers helping
him. Social events, volunteer work and general interest activities kept Belle busy. George was
involved with cricket and football, both as a player and administrator. He also belonged to the
Masons. In 1902 he was an Assistant at Bayfield District High School and the following year a solo
teacher at Matakohe.

George took a break from teaching possibly to do study and they moved to the Auckland area and
George took on the job of a grain merchant. With Belle’s support he returns to full time teaching at
Waihi and then Hukerenui North School. From there he accepted a temporary master’s position in
hygiene, physiology, and chemistry at the Auckland Technical School.

Belle and George on the move again and in 1919 they were at Hangitiki, then in 1921 George took on
the responsibility of Head Teacher at Waihi Plains School. They were there for four years before
George was again to be transferred. However, after some thought, the couple decided George
would relinquish his teaching profession and embark in a commercial venture. They had acquired an
interest in a house furnishing business in Auckland and within a month of making the decision they
were in Auckland. Their friends bid them farewell and good luck in the new venture.

Hard work was involved for both George and Isabella in running a business. George utilised his
accounting skills and Isabella her personal skills. Although they remained in the Auckland area they
moved home several times and finally settled in Shakespeare Road, and George took retirement.

George passed away 12 March 1943 and was laid to rest at Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland.

Isabella passed away 26 August 1949, aged 85, and was also laid to rest at Hillsborough Cemetery.

Sources:
NZ BDM Historical Records Cemetery Records Electoral Rolls
PapersPast – School Placements, Farewells, Community Involvement

Researchers: Lois Hopping, Val Gillanders

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1742 Surname: LEECH
Given names: Elizabeth Residence: Pukekohe
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Elizabeth (Eliza) CAMPBELL married Alexander Jamieson LEECH (c1833-1898) in 1868 in Auckland.

They had a daughter, Mary, born in 1877 who married George DIX in 1904. Mary was the sole
executrix of her mother's will, and had to make statements regarding her mother's probate as her
mother had evidently had a stroke (brain haemorrhage).

In 1873 Alexander requested to buy a section in Pukekohe West, Lot 160 Section2. James
DILWORTH, Elizabeth's previous employer, provided a mortgage for the land. Later, Alexander asked
for Lots 159. 160 and 164 to be sold to pay his debts and the remaining estate to go to Eliza and his
daughter (further details available archway.achives.govt.nz).

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times 3 May 1921 Sources:
Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; Archives NZ –
archway.archives.govt.nz; Cemetery collection –
Franklin Branch NZSG; Probate records –
www.familysearch.org

Researcher: Rosemary Lewis

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3658 Surname: LEGGETT
Given names: Ann Residence: Maioro
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Ann was born in c1838 in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland to parents Patrick DEANE and Elizabeth Gertrude
FITZPATRICK.

Ann married Laurence NOLAN on 9 July 1859 in St Augustine Church, Lancashire, England.

Ann and Laurence came to New Zealand on the “Reiherstieg” on 24 December 1864. They were
housed with other passengers in tents at Onehunga for approximately a month then taken to
Maioro. Many were in tents until April when they were allotted their section.

Annie and Laurence farmed for a short period with John, Annie’s brother, at Maioro on a property
which today would be near the NZ Steel mine site on Forestry Road. Sadly, Laurence died in
Auckland Hospital on 21 September 1867 and place of burial is unknown.

Annie received a land grant, Lot 62 in Maioro, on 6 September 1870
and records her as “Ann Nolan – Widow”, a housekeeper in
Onehunga.

Annie’s sister, Catherine married John McDONALD on 30 April
1872. John had come to New Zealand on the same ship as Annie
and Laurence.

Annie remarried on 21 February 1873 to William LEGGETT at St
Patrick’s Cathedral in Auckland. They had three children – James,
Elizabeth Ellen and Mary – and continued to live in Maioro.
However, farming was not William’s main occupation as on
Electoral Rolls he appears as a stoker.

A neighbour, Mary Ann JOHNSON (nee BAILEY), was kicked by a horse while pregnant and died
(1896) through complications of the miscarriage that resulted. Her husband was left with a big, but
young family. Annie and William took in the two youngest boys, Lionel and Oliver (who was only 2),
and looked on them as their own. Their own children would have been young adults by that time.
Another neighbour took in the two eldest boys, the grandparents the two girls.

Ann and William continued to live in Maioro until a decision
was made to move to Waiuku and Ann sold the land to John
Martin and Catherine McDonald in 1902.

According to Alf GOODWRIGHT, a resident of Maioro, Ann was
well known and respected in the Waiuku area as a midwife.

William passed away on 20 April 1926 and Ann passed away
shortly after on 30 June 1926 and they are buried at Onehunga.

Sources:
Descendants’ Family Knowledge
Electoral Rolls, Cemetery Records, NZ BDM Historical Records
PapersPast – OBITUARY NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXIII, ISSUE 19372, 6 JULY 1926
Researcher: Lois Hopping

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3661 Surname: LEWIS
Given names: Wilhelmina Elizabeth Residence: Waiuku
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Wilhelmina Elizabeth BRAUN was born in Waiuku on 7 September 1868. Her parents were Heinrich
Wilhelm and Maria Henrietta Frederica MEERSHERN, who were both born in Germany and migrated
to South Africa, where the first two children in the family, Anna and Louis (George William) were
born in the Cape of Hope. The family came to New Zealand on the barque Steinwaerder sailing from
the Cape of Good Hope and arriving in Auckland on 14 October 1864 and was part of the Waikato
Immigration Scheme.

Wilhelm was 28 years, Henrietta 29 years, Anna 3 years and Louis 3 months. The family’s surname
on the ship’s manifest states BRAUR.

The family settled in Waiuku, Wilhelm being a Mailman and then a Carter, with more children joining
the family. Wilhelmina’s younger brother Henry in 1883 was accidently shot at home while catching
a horse in the paddock, he survived this accident, but unfortunately in 1888 when he was fifteen, he
was thrown from his horse while taking a beast to market and was killed.

Wilhelmina married Charles Lewsey LEWIS on 20 February 1889 in the Holy Trinity Church, Waiuku,
where Wilhelmina’s brother George was one of the witnesses. When married they were both bakers
and Wilhelmina was 20 and Charles was 24 and had been born in England.

On the Electoral rolls from 1890 to 1905-06, Charles’ occupation is listed as a Confectioner with
Wilhelmina as Domestic Duties, the couple still living in Waiuku. During this time Henrietta,
Wilhelmina’s mother, passed away in 1895 and is buried in the Waiuku Cemetery with her son
Henry.

By 1911 the couple had moved to Matangi, a farming community in the Waikato where Charles was
a Creamery Manager. They are known to have stayed until 1919. In 1928 Charles was then a Dairy
Factory Tester and they were living at Islington Terrace, Frankton, Hamilton until 1946.

In 1949 Charles had retired from work and the couple retired to live at 3 Riverview Road, S.W.4, New
Lynn in Auckland.

Charles passed away on 15 October 1952 aged 88 years and Wilhelmina died two years later on 6
February 1954 aged 85 years.

There are no known children and Charles and Wilhelmina are buried together in Waikumete
Cemetery, Auckland.

Sources: Paperspast, Historical BDMs, Ancestry, Auckland Council-Cemeteries
Researcher: Gillian Conroy

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1762 Surname: LISK
Given names: Jane Residence: Tuakau
Occupation: flax dresser Qualification: residential

Jane HAWTHORNE was born in 1843 or 1844, possibly in Cheshire or York, England. We don’t know
what age she was when she arrived in New Zealand, but she married Edward LISK in 1867 when she
would have been 23 or 24.

Edward had arrived two years earlier, on the ship Louisa out of London. He landed in Auckland on
28 March 1865.

They lost little time in starting their family. Sarah was born in 1868, followed by William, Edward,
Mary Jane, David and John. Their last son, James, died as a newborn in 1881.

Edward worked as a platelayer for the railway. He stood for the school committee for Harrisville,
and narrowly missed election.

Their daughter Sarah was married to John COLLINS in 1892, which would have been a happy time.
The boys were athletic and played cricket. They may have also worked for the railway.

Jane died on 21 December 1893 at her home in Tuakau and was interred on Tuakau Hill. Her epitaph
was, ‘We knew no sorrow – knew not grief till thy bright face was missed.’ She was in her 50th year.

There would have been several children still at
home. Possibly this was the reason Jane’s
husband Edward remarried, to Clara
Catherine NASH of Thames, less than a year
later. The following year, 1895, Edward and
Clara had twins. Only a few years after that,
Edward was involved in a horrific train
accident when a carriage in Buckland derailed
and crushed him. He survived and was
hospitalised, but died nearly 8 months later,
in 1898, less than 5 years after Jane’s death.
He was 57.

Jane and Edward’s children all lived much
longer than their parents, dying in their 70’s
and 80’s.

Sources:
Papers Past
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers
Births Deaths and Marriages
https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Cemeteries record and photo
https://www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz

Researcher: Joan Leitch

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3665 Surname: LLOYD
Given names: Caroline Residence: Patumahoe
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Mrs. Caroline LLOYD is seen in Electoral Rolls 1893, 1896, Patumahoe, residential, household duties,
and in 1911, Patumahoe, domestic duties.

Caroline had been married before. Caroline Johanna Frederica KOLBECK, born c1831, daughter of
Carl Frederick Kolbeck and Amelia Elizabeth REDESS, married Thomas MURRAY in the Cape Colony
about 1855. They emigrated from South Africa on the ‘Eveline’ which arrived into Auckland on 22
January 1865. Both aged 36 years. The Murrays settled on a small block of land in the Patumahoe
area, and quickly became friends with some of the well-known settlers in the district, as witnessed in
Thomas’s and Caroline’s Wills.

Thomas passed away, according to an Affidavit, on or about 18 December 1879. His Last Will and
Testament had been signed on 6 July 1876, bequeathing to his wife Caroline Murray all the property
of which he was possessed at the time of his death, and appointing Heywood Crispe of Stanlake,
Mauku, and James Finlay of Cowgate, Mauku, executors of his Will. The Will, however, was signed in
the presence of Thomas Murray by Charles T. Lloyd and Louis Kahu. Probate not granted until 19
March 1880. Thomas was 53, born about 1827.

Just over a year later, Caroline married Charles Thomas LLOYD at St Bride’s Church, Mauku, by the
Rev. W. Taylor, on 4 February 1881. Charles Thomas, son of Charles Thomas Lloyd and Frances Sarah
Langdown, was born in London about 1833. On this marriage, he was 48, Caroline was 50. Caroline
was illiterate and made her mark.

Charles Thomas Lloyd was a former diver on the Cape Town breakwater, but in Patumahoe he
worked as a timber splitter/general labourer. He had arrived from South Africa under the Settlers’
Scheme, on the ‘Reihersteig’ which arrived in Auckland 24 December 1864. He died, after a short
illness, on 23 April 1912 in Patumahoe, aged 81, and is buried at St. Bride’s Church cemetery.

Caroline LLOYD died in Mt. Albert, Auckland, on 29 October 1913. Her Will, written 13 April 1912,
just before her husband died, named him as beneficiary, but after his death to her Trustee - Marion
Frances Lovegrove, widow, of Auckland, with whom she was living at the time of her death. Joseph
Henry of Patumahoe was named executor. This Will was signed with Caroline’s mark. The
Lovegrove family had travelled on the ‘Reihersteig’ with Charles Thomas Lloyd, and had settled in
Hamilton, then Te Aroha, where they were a prominent family. Caroline was buried at Waikumete,
Auckland.

Sources: NZBDM, PapersPastNZ, Archives NZ, NZSG Kiwi Index, Familysearch.org, FindMyPast world,
ancestry.com, NZSG Marriage, Burial, Electoral Roll and Freeholders CDs, local Patumahoe history, South
African newspapers.

Researcher : Rosemary Eden

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1774 Surname: LODGE
Given names: Marion Residence: Pukekohe
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Mary Ann (Marion) LOCKE, daughter of Joseph Locke, was born in Dorchester, Devon in 1859 and
married Henry James LODGE in Auckland in 1880. Her obituary states she came to New Zealand as
an infant. Mary Ann's father was probably in the 14th Regiment and died aged 43, on 4 March 1869.

Henry had a boot making business, first in Auckland then in Pukekohe which he operated until his
retirement. Mary Ann was involved with the Pukekohe Flower Show, winning prizes for her flowers.

Mary Ann and Henry had three children: Emma Christina, Henry James and William Claude.

Sources:
Old newspaperspaperspast.natlib.govt.nz; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz; Headstone photo – Franklin Branch NZSG.
Researcher: Rosemary Lewis

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3666 Surname: LOGAN
Given names: Amelia Residence: Tuakau
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Amelia LOGAN nee CREAN, was born in February 1841 and met her husband
John Logan, a 'Leader' in their Methodist Church. However, when they
married in January 1863, it was in the Church of Ireland, Irvinestown, County
Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

After the death of her father, Amelia and John worked the family farm in
Drumdron, Co.Tyrone but were both beguiled by talk of the lands in New
Zealand and decided to join with John’s parents and his seven sisters and
emigrate. Amelia and John’s son George was just eleven months old when
they embarked on the ship "Dauntless" in December 1864. Sadly, George
was one of the twenty people who died on the voyage.

Amelia was also 6 months pregnant and their first daughter; Elizabeth Jane Dauntless Moor was born
on 9 February 1865 and survived the journey arriving in New Zealand on 15 May 1865.

John and Amelia were billeted in the soldiers’ barracks in Onehunga until their new 'Land Allocations'
were made and in August/September 1865 they made their way by small boats to Drury and then by
cart and foot to Tuakau where the soldiers had erected rows of tents on the 'Domain' to house the
women and children while the men cleared their lands.

John built for Amelia a 'whare' which they called 'Tyrone'. By 1869, Amelia had four small children,
Elizabeth, George (October 1866), Joseph (May 1868) and William (August 1869). The Maori wars
were moving much closer along the Waikato River and John and Amelia, with their four children,
decided it would be much safer to move away for a while and boarded the ship "Hero" and sailed to
Australia, joining Amelia’s brother, Joseph and his family who lived in Araleun, near Geelong and the
goldfields. Nine months later, Amelia decided it was too hot in Australia and so in 1870, they all set
sail again on the "Hero" and returned to their lands in New Zealand.

John must have done well on the goldfields as he
bought the first wooden house built in Tuakau and
moved it onto his land and this is where Amelia
gave birth to Margaret Amelia (March 1871),
Letitia (September 1872), Thomas (September
1874), Mary-Ann (May 1875), Esther Lucinda
(May 1878) and Leonard (January 1880). John
purchased another 40 acres next to the old
Tuakau cemetery, land which reached right down
to the Waikato river, and built a two-storied
house which became known locally as 'Pine Hill'.
It was here that Amelia gave birth to their last
child, Edith Maris (March 1882).

Amelia died on 1 October 1925 aged 85 and is buried in the Tuakau Cemetery.

Information supplied by Laraine Meyer. Great-Granddaughter of Amelia and John Logan.

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3667 Surname: LOGAN
Given names: Letitia Residence: Tuakau
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Letitia LOGAN was born 1 September 1872 in New Zealand, the
seventh child of John LOGAN and Amelia CREAN of Tuakau.

Letitia’s parents had arrived on the ‘Dauntless’ from
Queenstown, Ireland in May 1865. Travelling with them were
John’s parents and his 10 siblings. The travelling group
consisted of some 15 members of the same family.

Letitia’s mother Amelia was pregnant with her second child
when they sailed. Sadly, she lost her first-born, George Robert,
on the journey but gave birth to her first daughter Elizabeth Jane
Dauntless Moor in February 1865.

Staying in Onehunga for a short time until the land grants had
been made, John and Amelia moved to Tuakau in August 1865.
Later John and his sons took up land at Onewhero when the area
was opened for settlement.

Letitia grew up in a large family of 12 children and in 1896 her
father built a store in Onewhero where Letitia, Mary Anne
(sister) and Thomas (brother) worked.

In October 1899 Letitia married William LINSTROM and together raised two children.

• Amelia Honor May was born in 1902 and married Hudson Taylor SALTER
• William Raymond was born in 1905 and died aged 12 years in 1918.

Letitia died in 1953 aged 80 and is buried with William at Papakura.

Sources.
Family information and photo– Laraine Meyer
Franklin Pioneer Register
NZBDM -bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz

Compiled by Mary Mercer.

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3668 Surname: LOGAN
Given names: Margaret Amelia Residence: Tuakau
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Margaret Amelia LOGAN (Cissy) was born 2 March 1871 in New
Zealand, the sixth child of John Logan and Amelia CREAN of Tuakau.

Margaret’s parents had arrived on the ‘Dauntless’ from Queenstown,
Ireland in May 1865. Travelling with them were John’s parents and
his 10 siblings. The travelling group consisted of some 15 members of
the same family.

Margaret’s mother Amelia was pregnant with her second child when
they sailed. Sadly, she lost her first-born, George Robert, on the
journey but gave birth to her first daughter Elizabeth Jane Dauntless
Moor in February 1865.

Staying in Onehunga for a short time until the land grants had been
made, John and Amelia moved to Tuakau in August 1865. Later John
and his sons took up land at Onewhero when the area was opened for
settlement.

Margaret married Adam MADILL jnr in October 1898.

Their only child, a daughter, was born in 1901.

Sadly, Adam died in 1904 aged 38 years. His will was complicated in that the sum of money left to his
wife was to be reduced if she married again. The executors were careful, and it took several years and
several court hearings for Margaret to access her full entailment even though she never remarried. A
memorial notice appeared in the paper for many years after Adams death.

Her daughter Aimee married Joseph HEATHERINGTON in 1939.

Sources.
Family information and photo – Laraine Meyer
Franklin Pioneer Register
NZBDM -bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz

Compiled by Mary Mercer.

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Electoral Roll: Waipa 1526 Surname: LOURY*
Given names: Jessie Residence: Bombay
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Jessie LOWRY* was the daughter of James and Janet RAMSAY of
Clogher, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. She was born c1844.

She married a farmer, John Richard Lowry from Lisbellaw, at
Clogher, in January 1865. With their 6 children they immigrated
to New Zealand on board the Northumberland in 1877 to
Victoria and then by the sailing ship Hero to Auckland, a journey
of more than three months.

With them were John Richard, James, William, Jessie, Joseph
and Julia Mary, who was six weeks old when they left Northern
Ireland. They had three more children in Bombay, Fred, Daisy
and Harold.

They had a small farm on the Razorback Road (the old Great South Road) between Pokeno and
Bombay. They grew potatoes and tobacco and John worked as a Land Valuer.

Julia Mary REED’s daughters, Joyce and Isla, remembered visiting
their grandmother and recall that she was musical and could speak
Gaelic. She made cheese, loved gardening and was always ready
to help her neighbours. She taught Sunday School and was never
heard to speak an unkind word of anyone. She loved crocheting
lace curtains and often wore a black silk dress and beaded black silk
bonnet outdoors.

In 1911, she wrote in beautiful cursive script, to her daughter Julia,
who lived at Mangatawhiri and described the miserable weather
conditions that Christmas, with carts bogged in the mud and
farmers waiting for fine days to bring in the harvest.

One year later, she went out gathering firewood, caught a chill and
died in December 1912 of cardiac complications. This was before
the first cars arrived in Franklin and the doctor had to ride on
horseback from Pukekohe.

Jessie Lowry is buried with John in the cemetery at St Peter’s in the
Forest at Bombay.

Contributed by great granddaughter Colleen Williams

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Electoral Roll: Waipa 1526 Surname: LOURY*
Given names: Jessie Residence: Bombay
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Jessie LOWRY* was born in Ireland c1844. Her
parents, James and Janet RAMSAY were farmers.
Jessie was baptised in the Presbyterian Church at
Clogher, Castletown, County Tyrone and it was in
this same church that she married John Lowry in
January 1865.

Jessie had six children: John Richard, James
Ramsay, William Robert, Jessie Sarah Maria,
Joseph Arthur, and Julia Mary while living at
Shanco on a large farm which was originally
owned by John’s parents. Jessie was a member
of the local Lisbellaw Presbyterian Church and the
children were baptised there.

In 1877 John, Jessie and children made the move
to New Zealand sailing from Plymouth on the
Northumberland to Melbourne. They completed
their journey on the Hero, arriving in Auckland in
June 1877. Jessie and family moved to the
Bombay area where they bought a small farm on
the Razorback Road. Three more children were born in New Zealand: Frederick Samuel Baxter, Daisy
Elizabeth and Harold Thomas.

Jessie was like many country women of her time, busy with home and farm affairs and with
contributing to the community. Family journal entries record her as a kind dear old lady who was
musical and a speaker of Gaelic. Photos show a short plump woman dressed in black. According to
the account of one of her grandchildren Jessie always wore black and had a bonnet with black bead
trimming and a black ribbon bow. She is known to have enjoyed gardening and reading and to have
taught Sunday school at the Anglican Church of St Peter in the Forest.

After the sale of their Razorback Road farm John and Jessie moved to a house built by their son
Joseph closer to the centre of the Bombay village. Jessie died in 1912 at the age of 69 from cardiac
disease and is buried in the St Peter’s graveyard.

Contributed by Christine Carter and Jenny Sharpe
Sources: Family History

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3673 Surname: LOWE
Given names: Emma Residence: Waiuku East
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Emma was baptised on 27 May 1849 in St Margarets at Witton near North Walsham in Norfolk,
England.

Her parents were Daniel MORRIS and Anne SHREEVE who had been married in the same church in
October of 1835.

In the 1861 census Emma was a scholar aged 12 with her father being an agricultural labourer.

It is noted in the 1871 census records that Emma’s parents have a boarder, James LOW(E) stating his
age as 25 years.

Emma was 21 years old when she married James Low(e) in November of 1871 in St Margarets at
Witton, the same church where her family had always worshipped.

James, a labourer, and Emma left London on 10 October 1874 bound for New Zealand sailing on the
‘Warwick’, arriving in Auckland on 2 February 1875.

James was 27 and Emma was 25. The cost of the passage money to the Government was £29.

James and Emma farmed in Morley Road, Glenbrook,
Waiuku on land that was part of Hamlin’s Grant and this is
where they raised their six children.

o Herbert Morris born 1876
o Algernon James born 1881
o Benjamin George born 1883
o William John born 1885
o Emma Maria born 1887
o Elsie Sarah born 1889

Emma passed away on 1 April 1907 aged 57 years and is
buried in the Waiuku cemetery with James who passed
away many years later on 20 May 1938 aged 91 years.

Acknowledgements:

Ancestry, Historical BDMs, Findmypast.

Researched by: Gillian Conroy

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3674 Surname: LOWE
Given names: Kate Maria Residence: Waiuku East
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Kate Maria WEBB was born on 5 January 1848 in Highborn, London and was baptised on 21
September 1860 when she was 12 at St Peters in the East at Oxford. Her parents were George, a
gunmaker, and Elizabeth.

She trained to be a teacher at Whitelands College and gained her Teachers Certificate 2nd class in
1868 and served her probation at Happisburgh National School in Norfolk.
John LOWE was born in 1849 in Walcott, Norfolk. They were married on 16 August 1874 at St Marys
in Happisburgh. John was late of the Royal House Guards and Kate Maria a schoolmistress.

They sailed for New Zealand on the ‘Geraldine Paget’ on 18 September 1874, arriving in Lyttleton on
27 December 1874, where their first known address was Oxford Terrace, Christchurch. John was a
police constable and Kate’s occupation was a 2nd schoolmistress for Colombo Street School (now
Sydenham). Her salary was £80 per annum. John purchased 40 acres at Wainui in 1876 but did not
get title until 1882. Kate Maria taught at Wainui school from 1877 to 1880.

Their first son John Benjamin (b. 25 August 1876, baptised at St
Michaels Church, Christchurch) passed away aged 4 months.
Their second son William John (b. 26 August 1877, baptised at
Okains Bay Church, Banks Peninsula) passed away aged 11
months. While living at Wainui four of their five daughters were
born: Kate Maria b.1878, Laura Elsie b.1880, Ellen Gertrude
b.1882, Jessie Louisa b.1885.
John sold the land in 1885 and the family sailed north to be
closer to his brother James who had previously settled in the
Glenbrook area of Waiuku. Edith Lucy was born in 1888.
Their farm of 106 acres, was part of Hamlins Grant (on the right
on the Glenbrook to Drury road opposite Mission Bush Rd).
They lived there for about 25 years before retiring to Colombo
Rd, Waiuku where they built a large new home, ‘Cheshunt’.
John milked a few cows and reared pigs and calves, while Kate
Maria made butter and bread. Every Friday the family went to Waiuku where Kate Maria sold her
butter, eggs and fruit, often enough to help pay for their groceries.

The family attended the local Church of England and she would make aprons for the church bazaar.
Kate was a gifted writer and sewer and a great reader. She loved to write letters and wrote many to
her relations in England as well as to her grandchildren. She taught her daughters to sew, crochet,
drawn thread work and patchwork.
John and Kate celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary on 16 August 1924 with a celebration at
their home which was attended by 33 people.

They had been married 58 years when John passed away in 1932. Kate Maria continued to live in
the house with a housekeeper for a while, however eventually she went to live with one of her
daughters. The family still took her to Waiuku every Friday although she was very deaf and nearly
blind. She celebrated her 90th birthday with a party and a cake made and iced by Arkles.
Kate Maria passed away on 2 January 1941 aged 92 years. John and Kate Maria are interred
together at Waiuku cemetery.

Acknowledgements: ‘Norfolk to Waiuku’ by John Arthur (Jack) Wright, Freereg.co.uk
By: Gillian Conroy

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1794 Surname: LUCAS
Given names: Harriette Anette* Residence: Puni, Pukekohe
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Harriette/Harriett/Harriet Annette* LUCAS was the second wife of Frederick Lucas and was born in
Painswick, England in the September quarter of 1852. It is believed that she was Harriett LEWIS,
daughter of John Lewis, blacksmith, found as a 9 year old on the 1861 UK census and on the 1871
census as a servant for the chaplain of the infirmary in Gloucester. According to her obiturary she
came to New Zealand about 1878 and worked as a nurse.

Frederick Lucas’ first wife, Margaret had died in 1885 leaving five children under 5, including new
born twins. It was this family that Harriette would raise when she married Frederick on 10
December 1886.

Harriette and Frederick had four children of their own – a daughter born in 1887 followed by three
sons. At the time of the 1893 election Harriette would have been 43, caring for nine children under
13 and according to her obituary, helping other familes in the district, while living in trying
conditions.

Frederick Lucas died on 10 June 1932 and
Harriet (spelt like this on the cemetery records)
died on 7 October 1934.

They are buried near each other in the
Pukekohe Cemetery and their graves are
marked with simple name plates. (photo below)

Sources:

Historical records – ancestry.co.uk
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz;
Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
UK census – ancestry.co.uk
Headstone photo – Franklin Branch NZSG

Researcher: Judith Batt Compiler: Heather Maloney

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1795 Surname: LUCAS
Given names: Mary Residence: Puni, Pukekohe
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Mary, born Marie HARTUNG and her husband Matthias (there are many variations in spelling of his
name) LUCAS were both born in Brandenburg, Germany and were married there on 26 March 1848.

They came to New Zealand on the Maori from the Cape Colony, South Africa, departing on 8
November 1864 and arriving in Auckland on 23 December 1864. On the passenger list were Matties,
age 44, carpenter, Marie age 39, Fredrick age 8, Anna age 6 and Wilhelm age 1. The two older
children had been born in Brandenburg and Wilhelm in South Africa. It seems that there were no
other children born to this couple and it is likely that Frederick was their only child to reach
adulthood.

According to an obiturary for Frederick, (NZ Herald June 1932), the family settled at Pukekohe with
other families who had come from South Africa as part of the Waikato Immigration Scheme.

Mary and Mathias took up Lots 50 & 52 Puni and farmed there for the rest of their lives.

In 1900 Mary, aged 75 and Matthias, aged 79, both of German descent, were naturalised as New
Zealanders.

Mary died at Puni on 18 February 1901 and Matthias died in Auckland on 19 October 1908. They are
both buried at Pukekohe Cemetery with simple name plates marking their graves.

Sources:
Historical records – ancestry.co.uk; NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk; newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Cemetery photo – Franklin Branch NZSG.
Researcher: Judith Batt, Compiler: Heather Maloney

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1798 Surname: LUDLOW
Given names: Ann Residence: Tuakau
Occupation: fruitgrower Qualification: residential

On 27 January 1851 Ann McKELVY married George LUDLOW in Aghalurcher, Lisnaskea, Fermanagh,
Ireland. One son, named Robert, was born in Ireland.
The Tuesday edition of The New Zealander, published on 11 August 1863, reported the arrival in

Auckland of the Queen of Beauty. On board were George and Ann Ludlow and their son Robert. The

family initially lived in Dublin Street, Newton and were storekeepers in Ponsonby before heading to

Thames in 1869 where they carried on as storekeepers in the Star Store in Karaka Road.

Ann was widowed when George died, aged 50, on 17 July 1876.
He is buried in the Shortland Cemetery. After George’s death
Ann continued running the Karaka Road store and she regularly
placed advertisements in The Evening Star.
It appears that Ann kept up with the latest progress in the food
preservation industry. By the mid-1870s the tinning of fruit as a
method of preserving had become popular. On 2 February 1881
The Thames Advertiser reported that “…The fruit preserving and
tinning industry in the Thames appears to increase each season
… Mr R N Smith, Kauaeranga Valley and Mrs Ludlow, of Karaka
Creek, are also paying some attention to this industry.”.
In May 1882 Ann moved to Tuakau. She continued tinning the
fruit grown in her orchard. In 1894 the New Zealand Herald
reported that “…Mrs Ludlow has a fine orchard, and tins and
dries the fruit”. Ann continued to live in Tuakau until her death
on 20 July 1907.

Sources:
Ancestry.com. Ireland, Select Marriages, 1619-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2014.
Newspaper articles: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Researcher: Sandra Brasell

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3676 Surname: LYON
Given names: Mary Residence: Patumahoe
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Mary LYON is seen in the 1893 and 1896 Electoral rolls, as ‘Patumahoe, domestic duties’. According
to a descendant, Mary LYON (or LYONS) was born Mary HAGARTY in 1815, Cork, Ireland, the
daughter of John Hagarty (Hegarty) and Martha/Mary Fitzgerald of Cork.

Mary married George LYON, who was born in Lincolnshire about 1815, and who was a soldier in the
89th Regiment of Foot, Reg. No. 2473, sometime between 1847-1854, when his Regiment was in
England ex Canada, and before being posted to Gibraltar. George went on to fight at Sevastopol in
the Crimea during the winter of 1854. George had attested at age 21 in 1846, and left when almost
35 in 1859, having served in the Cape Colony after Crimea.

Mary and George had two children, Mary Ann, born 1849, and Charles born 1853, baptised at St.
Anne RC, Shandon, Cork.

After George retired from the 89th, he, Mary and the children immigrated to the Cape Colony where
he worked on the famous breakwater, then, because work dwindled, they accepted the offer of the
New Zealand Government and migrated on the ‘EVELINE’ arriving into Auckland on 22 January 1865.
He became a farmer of Lot 22, Patumahoe, a 5-acre block, as seen in the Freeholders list. He worked
also as a labourer as 5 acres was a small block and would not sustain them financially.

Mary and George’s children married: Mary Ann Lyon in 1868 to Edward M. Jones, moved up to
Auckland, and had 16 children between 1868-1892. Charles married Mary Cox in 1872, and after a
few years in Patumahoe, moved to Whangarei. A year after the youngest of his 9 children was born
in 1891, Charles was tragically killed when thrown from his horse on 20 August 1892 aged 39 years.

Mary and George applied for a pension in February 1899. In the report, Mr. Heywood Crispe said to
the Pukekohe Court, ‘that they were quite unable to attend, he being a cripple, and his wife very
infirm. George had the Imperial pension for service in Crimea’ … which paid 9d a day. They were
awarded £18 each.

On Tuesday 23 October 1900, due to ailing health, George Lyon passed away age 77 years. He and
Mary had been married for 52 years. He was buried at St. Bride’s Mauku, with the Pukekohe
Mounted Infantry attending. The coffin was covered in the Union Jack out of respect for an old
soldier.

After George’s death, Mary, moved up to Manukau Road,
Parnell, to live with her daughter Mary Ann. Her death notice in
the Auckland Star on 28 March 1903, reads: “LYONS, on Friday
March 27, 1903, at the residence of Mrs. E. Jones, Manukau Rd.,
Parnell, Mary, wife of the late George Lyons, late of Patumahoe,
in her 88th year. The funeral will leave her daughter’s residence
on Sunday at 2.00pm”. Mary was buried at Purewa,
Meadowbank. Her headstone is at Purewa Cemetery along
with her daughter, d 29 December 1926, and son in law Edward,
d 1902.

Sources: rootsireland, FindMyPast, ancestry, NZBDM, NZSG death and
electoral rolls, familysearch, findagrave, Purewa cemetery, Kiwi Index.

Researcher: R. H. Eden

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3677 Surname: LYONS
Given names: Anastatia Residence: Tuhimata
Occupation: farmer Qualification: residential

Anastatia (also spelt Anastasia on some documents) was born Anastasia FLEMING in 1850. Family
legend has it that she was of Spanish ancestry but this has not been confirmed.

From Irish parish baptism registers – could this be her? She did name her first two children William
Edward and Ellena.

Our first confirmed record of Anastatia is her marriage to John Newman LYONS on 15 April 1869, age
19, at his residence, Tuhimata, near Drury.

She and John had at least nine children – 5 daughters and 4 sons, born between 1870 and 1886.

John died in 1900 and is buried at Lake Cemetery, Devonport, Auckland and Anastatia appears on
electoral rolls at many different addresses between 1900 and 1911. After this, she is living in Surrey
St, Auckland with her son John, a tinsmith and son, James a painter.

In 1935 and 1938 she is listed at Little Sisters of the
Poor, Auckland and she died in May 1939 as shown
on the cemetery records below.

Little Sisters of the Poor home, Tweed St, Auckland, photo
from their website

The family also believes that the 10th Prime Minister of Australia, Rt Hon. Joseph Aloysius, was her
nephew.
Sources:
Family tree – ancestry; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz and on www.familysearch.org; Waikumete cemetery records
Researcher: Heather Maloney

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Electoral Roll: Waipa 3345 Surname: MacKINLAY
Given names: Isabella Residence: Bombay
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

The 1893 Electoral Roll records Isabella MacKINLAY and her husband John Fortune MacKinlay residing
in Bombay. In 1893 he would have been about 51 years old and Isabella about 41. John was a teacher
cum farmer and had taught for a time at Pukekohe West Public School, leaving there in 1881 for a
position at a school in Auckland City.

An obituary for Isabella written when she died in 1938 suggests she came as a 20-year-old from
Edinburgh, Scotland about 1872. She was probably already married to John MacKinlay as no marriage
record has been found in New Zealand.

The Auckland Star of 1 December 1909
recorded John’s death at the age of 67 and
he was buried at the Presbyterian
Cemetery at Bombay. An ornate
headstone was erected in his memory.

Two years later, on 2 December 1911, the Poverty
Bay Herald announced the marriage of Isabella
MacKinlay to James BAYLISS.

James, born in England, was about 50 and Isabella
59. James was an orchardist at Patutahi, near
Gisborne. This is where Isabella was to spend the
rest of her life.

In January 1914 the Poverty Bay Herald reported
on a problem some of the locals were having with
their hens:

The Poverty Bay Herald of 30 December 1938
carried a notice of the passing of Isabella:

Isabella and her husband James Bayliss are buried in
unmarked graves at Patutahi Cemetery, near Gisborne.
There were no children from either of Isabella’s marriages.

Sources: 1893 Electoral Roll, Papers Past, NZ Historical bdm, researched by Lynda Muir.

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Electoral Roll: Waipa 3346 Surname: MacPHERSON
Given names: Christina Residence: Rama Rama
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Christina MacPHERSON was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and was christened on 3 February 1844.
The daughter of Daniel MacPherson (1807-1861) and Elizabeth FERGUSON (1814-1851), she had 2
sisters and 3 brothers.

It appears that Christina travelled with her brother Daniel Jolly McPherson (note: different spelling)
to Australia then to New Zealand, arriving between 1866 and 1871. Daniel had married Margaret
Jane DUFF in Ballarat and two children were born before they arrived in Auckland where he set up
business as a draper.

Christina may have been the Miss MacPherson teaching at Bombay School around that time which
would account for the fact that she was on this electoral roll and her niece Janie MacPherson was
also on the roll living at Rama Rama. Both the McPherson and MacPherson spellings seemed to be
used for this family.

By 1900 Christina and Jane were living with Daniel at Selwyn St, Auckland and in 1911 she was living
at 47 Surrey St, Auckland but did not appear on any electoral roll again before her death on 13 April
1934.

Christina never married and is buried with her brother Daniel and his wife Margaret in Waikumete
cemetery, Auckland.

The headstone inscription as recorded by New Zealand Society of Genealogists members

Sources:
Family Tree – ancestry.com
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Cemetery records – www.genealogy.org now on ancestry
Researcher: Heather Maloney

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Electoral Roll: Waipa 3348 Surname: MacPHERSON
Given names: Janie Residence: Rama Rama
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Signature from her will

Janie (or Jane) MacPHERSON was the third child of Daniel Jolly McPHERSON
(note different spelling), (1833-1902) draper and Margaret Jane DUFF (1845-1898) and was born in
1871 in New Zealand, shortly after her parents arrived in Auckland. They had married in Ballarat in
1860. Jane had four sisters and four brothers.

The family had arrived in New Zealand shortly before Jane’s birth and appeared to have settled in
Auckland where Daniel had a drapery, according to the electoral rolls from 1880 to 1890, ‘operating
out of the dwelling in which he resides’ in Karangahape Road. In 1893 and 1896 Jane and her
parents are found on the electoral roll with Ramarama as their address.

It is not known when Jane started her nursing career but her death notice and headstone record her
involvement as a nurse during WW1.

Headstone inscription, Rotorua cemetery
Sources:
Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz; NZSG cemetery collection; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
Researcher: Heather Maloney

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1815 Surname: MADILL
Given names: Annie Residence: Pukekohe
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Nancy Ann (Annie) was born in Drum, County Monaghan, Ireland in 1841. She was the daughter of
Robert HANNA (1821 - 1868) and Elizabeth CRAWFORD (1821- 1884) and the eldest of 12 children –
5 daughters and 7 sons. Annie's brother John Robert Hanna was an early photographer with a studio
in Queen Street, Auckland. Another brother, Andrew, was a solicitor in Auckland.

The Hanna family had arrived on the Ganges on 14 February 1865. Annie was 24 and her baby sister
Phoebe, aged 1, was one of the 54 children who died during the ill-fated voyage.

Annie married William Henry MADILL on 5 October 1865, in Hobson St, Auckland (her surname was
recorded as HANNAH on the marriage certificate). William had also been born in Drum and it is
likely they knew each other in Ireland. William had arrived in Auckland on 16 October 1864 on the
Eagle Speed.

After a short time at the goldfields in Thames, the Madills settled in Pukekohe on 107 acres on the
northern side of Cape Hill. Here they raised a family of eleven children – their youngest son Adam
was to give his life in active service in France in 1917.

Annie died at her residence ‘Woodside’ on 6 October 1896 and William died on 19 December 1901.
They are buried together with two daughters at Pukekohe Cemetery.

Sources:
Madill family Tree – ancestry.co.uk
Old newspapers - paperspast.natlib.govt.nz;
Headstone photo: Franklin Branch NZSG
NZ Electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk
Researcher: Rosemary Lewis

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1813 Surname: MADILL
Given names: Jessie Residence: Puni, Pukekohe
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Jessie was born Janet (Jessie) BROWN, the oldest
daughter but second child of John Brown and Christina
DISHART. She was born on 12 August 1857, in Govan,
Lanark, Scotland.

Her parents, both from Fife, had married in 1855 and
after Jessie was born they had gone with other settlers to
the Cape Colony, South Africa. Here two more children
were born and in 1864, the family set sail on the Eveline
for New Zealand, arriving in Auckland on 22 January 1865.
Jessie was 6, her siblings Alexander 8, Elizabeth 3 and
William 1.

They first lived at Mauku, then went to Thames during the
gold rush and came back to Puni (Lot 11, South Mauku) where Jessie would have no doubt helped
out at home with the younger children – six more had been born - and the household chores.

In 1877 she married Marcus MADILL who had come to New Zealand on the Queen Bee about 1867.

They developed land at Puni and raised a large family of ten children – six daughters and four sons.
In c1907 they moved to Papatoetoe where they continued farming, then moved to Stanley Bay.
Three of their sons went to WW1 and John was killed in action in France.

The Madills were strong Presbyterians and
very involved with church activities.

Marcus died at their residence in Stanley Bay
on 16 January 1919. Jessie was living at
Momana Rd, Greenlane on the 1919
Electoral Roll and died on 11 December
1920. They are buried together in the
Otahuhu cemetery.

Sources:

Spencer Family Tree, ancestry.co.uk – photo and
information.
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz
NZ electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk
Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Researcher: Judith Batt
Compiler: Heather Maloney

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1816 Surname: MADILL
Given names: Magaret* Ellen Residence: Pukekohe
Occupation: dressmaker Qualification: residential

William Henry MADILL arrived in Auckland on 16 October 1864 on the Eagle Speed. Nancy (Annie)
HANNA arrived with her family on the Ganges on 14 February 1865. They were married in New
Zealand on 5 October 1865, in Auckland. Both had been born in Drum, County Monaghan, Ireland.

Their third child, Margaret* Ellen Madill, was born in New Zealand on 6 March 1869. She was one of
at least ten children born to William and Annie. All the Madill children attended Pukekohe East
District School.

Margaret Ellen Madill oldest
daughter of W.H Madill married
Frederick Waterston MATTHEWS
of Northern Wairoa, on 3 June
1896 at her parents' home,
Woodview, Pukekohe. Frederick
was an accountant. (This notice says

oldest, but in fact Margaret was the
third.)

Margaret received £50 from her father's will in 1902. Frederick and Margaret were living at
Mangawhare, a thriving kauri timber port at that time.

Margaret gave her occupation on the 1893 Electoral Roll as dressmaker and she obviously used her
talents for community events, such as this one, found in the local paper - Margaret Matthews, as a
seamstress, provided costumes for the Franklin Spring Show Entertainment in September 1914:

Frederick was nominated as an Auckland City
Councillor in 1929 so the family were very
involved with local body politics, however he
was not elected despite gaining almost 4000
votes. In 1935 he was nominated for a
position on the Auckland Hospital Board, but
again was unsuccessful.

Margaret and Frederick had two daughters,
but Doris, born in 1897 died aged 11. Eleanor May born in 1901 married Russell GILSEN in 1946.

Margaret aged 78 died on 29 November 1948 and was buried at Purewa Cemetery and Frederick
was buried at Purewa Cemetery on 15 February 1949 aged 77 years.

Sources: Madill Family Tree – ancestry.co.uk; BDM – www.dia.govt.nz; Newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Researcher: Rosemary Lewis

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 4077 Surname: MADILL
Given names: Mary Jane Residence: Tuakau
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Mary Jane was born in Ireland to David and Mary CARR (or CORR) of Kilmore. When she was about
20, she married Adam MADILL in County Monaghan.

They stayed in Ireland for the next 15 years, busy raising 8 children. Meanwhile, many of Adam’s
uncles and cousins moved to Ontario, Canada. So, in 1881 they took their brood of children to
Canada to learn new farming practices.

After 4 years and another child, in 1885 they travelled to New Zealand on the steamer ‘Australia’
and landed in Auckland. Two of Adam’s older brothers, Marcus and William, had already been living
in the Puni area for many years.

Mary Jane and Adam lived in Pukekohe for 3 years before moving to Tuakau. There they became
well known farmers in the district. Mary Jane was involved in the Presbyterian church, and their
children enjoyed being among cousins. As with many families, names were repeatedly used, so
there were multiple Mary Jane and Adam Madill’s, as well as Marcus and William.

In 1904 their son Adam died after a long illness, leaving a widow and young child. A complicated
probate followed as the widow sought to claim more money from funds set aside for her daughter.

Mary Jane and Adam celebrated their
golden wedding on 18 July 1916.
Adam died four years later in 1920,
aged 75. Mary Jane then spent her
remaining years in Hamilton and
Auckland with her married daughters,
until her death in 1932 aged 85 years.

Her tombstone reads ‘He hath done all
things well’, which would reflect Mary
Jane’s long and busy life.

Sources:
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers
Births Deaths and Marriages https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Cemeteries record and photo https://www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz
Photo: Madill family archives

Researcher: Joan Leitch

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 1814 Surname: MADILL
Given names: Phebe Residence: Pukekohe
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Photo of Phebe with Mabel taken c1905

Phebe MADILL was born in New Zealand on 29
September 1871, the daughter of William
Henry Madill and Nancy Ann (Annie) HANNA
(or HANNAH as it appeared on the marriage
certificate). She appears to have been named
for her mother's sister who died as an infant,
coming to New Zealand on the ill-fated Ganges.
Her father, William, had arrived in October
1864 on the Eagle Speed. Both her parents
came from Drum, County Monaghan, Ireland.

On 19 June 1895 she married Arthur Frederick
BROWN (known as Fred), a railway clerk. In
1900 they were living in Hunterville where Fred
was a railway clerk and telegraphist. Phebe
was living in Hunterville at the time of her
father's death in 1902 when she received £50 - the unmarried daughters received £100 each.

Phebe and Fred had seven children between 1900 and 1913.

Due to Fred’s work, the Brown family moved around - in 1905/1906 Fred was the station master at
Paeroa, in 1911 station master at Thames and by 1914 he was station master in Pukekohe and
Patumahoe. In Pukekohe they lived in the Station Master's House then in Totara Ave where Fred is
described as a produce merchant and in 1949 they were living in Victoria St, Pukekohe.

In 1929 Arthur Frederick Brown was elected to the Pukekohe Borough Council and he was also a JP.

Fred and Phebe both died in 1953 and are buried in
the Pukekohe Cemetery.

Sources:

Madill Family Tree – ancestry.co.uk; K Weston - photo
NZ Electoral rolls – ancestry.co.uk
Old newspapers – paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
BDM – www.dia.govt.nz

Researcher: Rosemary Lewis

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Electoral Roll: Waipa 1589 Surname: MAHER
Given names: Mary Residence: Maketu
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Mary MAHER was born in Ballinlassa, Tipperary, Ireland, the daughter of Daniel Maher and Anne (or
Nancy) MacKEY. She was baptised on 26 November 1826 –see Irish Catholic Parish Register record below

She was the eldest of at least 13 children and although unconfirmed, it is almost certain that she
arrived in New Zealand with her sisters Catherine, Margaret and Johanna aboard the ‘Royal Charlie’
as reported in the Daily Southern Cross, 6 August 1862. It seems that the four sisters arrived before
their siblings who came on the ‘Scimitar’ in 1864. Two siblings died young but the remaining three
also came to New Zealand.

Four of the five brothers died young – three in accidents and none of them married. From the family
of 13, only three did marry. When James Maher was killed in a mining accident he died intestate
and among the legal documents was this one with four of the sisters signatures.

Mary Maher never married and died on 10 February 1910. She was buried in the Catholic section of
the Symonds Street cemetery in Auckland, along with at least six of her siblings. Many of these
graves were removed to enable the motorway to be built and a plaque records their names.

Sources:
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Probate – www.familysearch.org
Irish Catholic Parish Registers

Researcher: Judith Batt
Compiler: Heather Maloney

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Electoral Roll: Waipa 1590 Surname: MAHER
Given names: Mary, junr. Residence: Rama Rama
Occupation: domestic duties Qualification: residential

Who was Mary MAHER Junior

?

Despite a collective best effort, no trace was found for any women fitting this description.

We do know that there was another Mary Maher on the 1893 electoral roll living at Maketu (a place
name which some people used instead of Ramarama). This one was a single woman who lived with
her bachelor brother Daniel Maher at that time. She was the eldest of thirteen children of Daniel
Maher and Anne MacKEY. Two of the children died young but the other eleven came to New
Zealand from Tipperary, Ireland. Four of the five males died young - two in mining accidents and
one fell from a hay loft. The remaining male, Daniel farmed at Ramarama until his death in 1921 and
is buried in the Catholic cemetery at Ramarama. None of the males married.

Of the six females who made it to adulthood only three, Johanna, Ann and Ellie married. Margaret,
Catherine and Mary remained single. This Mary died in 1910, aged 83.

So was Mary Maher Jnr – an illegitimate daughter, a cousin or some other relative and why did she
only appear on the 1893 electoral roll?

Sources:
Every possible source was looked at.
Compiler: Heather Maloney

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Electoral Roll: Franklin 3679 Surname: MAKGILL
Given names: Margaret Isabella Residence: Waiuku
Occupation: household duties Qualification: residential

Margaret Isabella HALDANE was the 3rd daughter of Robert and Jane
Haldane of Cloanden, near Auchterarder in Perthshire, Scotland. She was
born on 5 January 1847. Her father was a Writer to the Signet and a
successful businessman. The Haldanes dynasty could trace their ancestral
lines back to Robert The Bruce, William The Conqueror, The Emperor
Charlemagne, King Alfred The Great and the Emperor Otto. The family
had a 7000-acre estate called Gleneagles which it still holds today. After
Margaret’s mother died in childbirth her father remarried and had a
further 5 children. Margaret was educated by governesses and she was
particularly interested in writing. She kept diaries, some of which we have
to this day. It is a delight to read of her life aboard the ship coming to
New Zealand, her trials and tribulations of being a pioneering woman and
her ponderings and ruminations on the day to day lives of her children.

Although only 4’11” tall, Margaret had great courage and forbearance.
She married her cousin Captain John MAKGILL (later the 10th Baronet of
Makgill) at the age of 18 and they immediately left for India where he was
commissioned by the Madras Engineers. They spent three years there, but the climate did not suit
Margaret and they returned to Scotland. They spent the next thirteen years in Scotland and by this
stage Margaret had given birth to nine children. She also adopted her husband’s daughter who was
born before they were married. The daughter’s mother was an unknown Indian woman who died
after giving birth. Her family disowned the baby and Captain John took responsibility of his much-
loved daughter. Margaret lost her first baby who was born in India and she also lost a baby at fourteen
months of age in Scotland after complications following measles. She gives a very moving and
harrowing account of baby Katherine’s last hours in her diary, certainly a terrible time for the family.
In her diary, Margaret laments the weather in Scotland and the repeated colds the children suffer.
Both Margaret and John disliked the conventions and limitations of life in Britain. They wanted liberty
and freedom. He was a very physical man who loved the sea and boating. In those days for a
gentleman do manual labour was unthinkable. Therefore, the decision was made to uproot the entire
household and immigrate to New Zealand.

They sailed from London on the Orient boat Cotopaxi on 12 October 1881, Margaret and John, eight
children, a farm manager, a dairy maid, a housemaid, and a “boy-of-all-work”. Mr MITCHELL - a
coachman at the Makgill estate of Kembach - and his family joined them later, as well as Mr SCOTT
the gardener from Kembach and his wife. It took three months of searching for the perfect farm and
they finally settled on land at Taurangaruru Road. They named their farm Brackmont and the whole
family lived in the top floor of the Kentish Hotel for six months whilst the house was being built. By
1900 Captain John had increased his holdings with adjoining lands to a total of 2,500 acres. They also
purchased 193 acres of land at Orua Bay. Although they sold some of the land, they retained around
seventy acres and spent holidays at the “Top House” built in the Indian style with open verandas. It
was a wonderful get-away for the family and to this day is enjoyed by many in the family. A further
three children were born in New Zealand (one died), and a town house was purchased in Onehunga
as a base for the education of the youngest daughter Grace at Diocesan School and as a retirement
home.

Lady Margaret returned several times to Britain with varying children and kept up a regular

correspondence with relatives. Many of her letters have been kept and give a very detailed and

personal glimpse into the day to day life of her family. She died on 18 March 1920 aged 73 at her

home in Onehunga.

References: The Pioneering Baronet By Heather Makgill and Val Loh Researcher: Val Loh

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