Pratt
U, #19085, b. 22 January 1842
Parents
Biography
Pratt was born on 22 January 1842 in Wellington, NZ.
1 Two different reports on birth for Mrs PRATT 22 jan. one has son one has daughter. PPA.
Citations
- [S272] Newspapers Past, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Sellars
F, #19086, b. about 1837
Parents
Biography
Sellars was born about 1837 in ENG.
1 She and
Henry F Smith were married in 1859 in Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ, Rev James INNES.
2 Sellars immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Arab arriving NZ 16/10/1841 on 3 June 1841.
1 Citations
- [S116] various web sites, Shipping Lists
- [S272] Newspapers Past, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Edward Joshua Riddiford
M, #19089, b. 7 August 1842
Parents
Biography
Edward Joshua Riddiford was born on 7 August 1842 in Wellington, NZ.
1,2 He and
Eleanor (Nellie) Caroline Bunny were married on 3 October 1878 in St James Church, Lower Hutt.
2 From DNZB
Edward Joshua Riddiford was born on 7 August 1842 at the Hutt, Wellington, the third of 12 children of Harriot Stone and her husband, Daniel Riddiford, an emigration agent in the New Zealand Company. Around 1845 the family took up residence near the mouth of the Orongorongo River, 30 miles from Wellington. On 1 April 1848 Daniel Riddiford acquired a lease from local Maori of 7,000 acres of the Orongorongo lands between the Wainuiomata River and the Mukamuka Stream and the family moved again. In 1848 or 1849 he leased Te Awaiti, an unbroken 30,000-acre block on the east coast of Wairarapa, and during the 1850s he purchased 500 acres of the Orongorongo run and 44 acres at Woburn.
Edward Riddiford attended Christ's College, Christchurch, from 1857, and he and his two friends, Willie Fitzherbert and Alexander Bowler, introduced a primitive form of football (using a bullock's bladder) to the school. At the age of 16 Edward was sent to live with his paternal grandmother, Harriet Evans, in Melbourne, Australia, where he attended Scotch College. At the age of 18 or 19 he spent six months droving cattle from Queensland to Victoria.
In 1861 Edward headed for the goldfields in Otago, New Zealand. While there he received a letter from his mother urging him to 'waste no more time in vain speculations' and to return home immediately: 'I am not satisfied with Te Awaiti. There is much to be done to put it in proper training, and I consider, dear Edward, you are the person who ought to do it'.
4 sons 3 daughters
ANWA2 staes that Edward RIDDIFORD also had a maori partner and children with her whilst married to a pakeha wife.
Citations
- [S272] Newspapers Past, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
- [S1] Department of Internal Affairs, The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography vol 1
Margaret Ann Shand
F, #19093, b. 1 August 1844
Parents
Biography
Margaret Ann Shand was born on 1 August 1844 in Waiwhetu, Wellington, NZ.
1,2,3 Citations
- [S272] Newspapers Past, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
- [S436] NZ Government Department Internal Affairs, Index of Births Deaths and Marriages
- [S237] NZBDM, microfiche
Alexander Shand
M, #19094, b. 15 November 1840
Parents
Biography
Alexander Shand was born on 15 November 1840 in Petone, Wellington, NZ.
1,2,3,4,5 NZBDM has afther = Archibald Graham and mother NR.
Citations
- [S272] Newspapers Past, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
- [S538] Louis E WARD, Early Wellington
- [S436] NZ Government Department Internal Affairs, Index of Births Deaths and Marriages
- [S237] NZBDM, microfiche
- [S227] N Z Government, BDM on line indices
Elizabeth Pilcher
F, #19098, b. 11 August 1848, d. 13 January 1941
Parents
Biography
Elizabeth Pilcher was born on 11 August 1848 in Wellington, NZ.
1,2 She and
Francis Clarence Greer were married on 24 April 1866 in Wellington, NZ.
1 She died on 13 January 1941, at age 92, in Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ.
1 13 children see ACHT.
Citations
- [S704] PECK of TAITA, web site extensive trees
- [S723] Arthur H CARMAN, Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road