Henry Witt was born in 1821 in ENG.
1 He and
Eliza Winkworth were married on 25 September 1841 in St Marys Church, Lambeth, LON, ENG.
2 Witt class: Steerage Witt
WITT family:
Henry Witt of Vauxhall Street, South Lambeth and Eliza Winkworth of St Margaret, Westminster, were married on Saturday September 25th 1841 in the very old St Mary's Church, Lambeth. (St Catherines 4/310). The witness's at the wedding were B. Witt (Benjamin) and Deborah Witt, brother and sister of Henry. Henry 20 and Eliza 19 married on Saturday just four days after their application to emigrated to NZ and emigrated just days after their wedding. In Wellington both worked to make a new life for themselves. Verbal history states that the children were born in the Pipitea Pa, Wellington, and that they were looked after by the Maori women in the pa while both parents worked. Was this Wellington's first child care? The children grew up speaking fluent Maori. Henry died in Wellington when their youngest child, Robert Henry, was 5 years old. Their children were Deborah (Tricker), Thomas, (married Emma Robinson), Jane (married Robinson), Eliza (married Hewitt) & Robert Henry (married Cecilia Eyles). Benjamin WITT (Henry's brother) was a 30 year old carpenter when he came to NZ on the Clifton. On the Jury lists of February 14th 1844 and February 8th 1845 Benjamin was living at Thorndon Flat, and working as a Carpenter (NZ Spectator & Cooks Straits Guardian Jury list). He worked in Wellington until about 1846 when he moved to Auckland and married Maryanne Brooks who had arrived in Wellington on board the Martha Ridgeway. From Auckland they went to Sydney for a number of years and then returned to New Zealand in the early 1860's. Their children were Benjamin Robert, Alice, George, James, Robert Henry, Thomas William and Henry Monday. Further details can be obtained from Glenda Rattray. A book named WITT - Wiltshire to Wellington about the WITT family will be completed in 2003. For further information on this book please email as above. Henry Witt had person sources.
3 He immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Clifton arriving NZ 17/2/1842 on 2 October 841.
2 He was an Agricultural Labourer in 1842.
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