Caroline was born in 1812.
1,2 She died in March 1897, at age ~85, in Wellington, NZ.
2 Class: steerage
PPA Wellington Independent, Volume X, Issue 1319, 13 November 1858
RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
Wednesday, lOth November, 1858. Before Henry St Hill Esq, R M.
Caroline Ashbolt v. Thomas Ashbolt. an action for an assault upon complainant who is the wife of defendant. Settled out of Court by consent, costs 5s
PPA Evening Star, Issue 10258, 9 March 1897
The death of another very early settler, Mrs Caroline Ashbolt, who was in her eighty-sixth year, is reported by the?New Zealand Times.? She left England in the ship Gertrude on the 17th June, 1841, and, after a passage of 136 days, arrived in Wellington on the 31st October of the same year. The ? Times ? says that, so far as it knows, only some half-dozen passengers by the Gertrude are now living in the Wellington district. These are Mr John Plimmer (the father of Wellington), Mr Isaac Plimmer, Mr Dash, and Messrs James, and Henry Mltchel?, the three surviving brothers of a large family who were amongst the earlier settlers. Caroline had person sources.
3 She immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Gertrude arriving NZ 30/10/1841 on 19 June 1841.
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