13 siblings MHFT
13 descendants 1892 JGOC
Mr SMALES retired as a missionary in 1856 and established a farm, "Hampton Parl" in East Tamaki.
He married 3 times and had 15 children.
PPA DEATH OF THE REV. GIDEON SMALES.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9635, 6 October 1894, Page 5
We regret to record the death of the Rev. Gideon Smales, of Hampton Park, East Tamaki, which took place yesterday morning at six o'clock. Only a few weeks have passed since Mr. Smales drove to the city as usual. He took cold on the journey home, and later it was found that the heart's action was very weak, not constitutional, bub from old age. Dr. Bewes was called in, and everything that medical skill could suggest was done by the family to ease his pain and suffering, but the sytem had been boo severely taxed, and he passed away peacefully as above. Mr. Smales was born at Whitby, Yorkshire, on the 26th October, 1817, was accepted after examination by the English Wesleyan Methodist Conference as a Wesley an minister, ordained at the Liverpool Conference of 1839, and left Bristol in September. 1839, in the Missionary brig Triton, 120 tons burden, with a large party of missionaries for New Zealand and other parts of the South Seas. The company included the Revs. Thomas Buddie, George Buttle, John Aldred, H. H. Turton, John Skevington, and Gideon Smales, so that we now have to record the death of the last of the Tritons.
Those very interesting episodes which have appeared in the columns of our Saturday Supplement during the past few months have given our readers some idea of the perils and dangers to which the early missionaries were exposed, and also, in the case of Mr. Smales, the services rendered by him to the Government and settlers at some very critical periods. From May, 1840, when the Triton arrived at Hokianga, to the year 1856, Mr. Smales devoted himself to the work of the Maori mission, under the direction of the Wesleyan Missionary Society ; and during that) period he had his full share of the hard- ? ships and privations which fell to the lob of the early missionaries. In the latter year, 1856, Mr. Smales removed with his family from the mission station at Aotea to the property he had purchased from the Government, at East Tamaki, and at the same time ceased his official connection with the Australasian Wesleyan Church. He, however, retained his relation with the English Wosleyan Conference to the ' end. Mr. Smales paid three visits bo the land of his birth, returning to the colony by the Mourmahal in 1859, via Panama in 1863, and via San Francisco in 1873. The visit to England in 1859 was to obtain the best possible educational advantages for his eldest son John Bumby Smales, who was educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, and St. John's College, Cambridge, and of whom the Senior rangier of 1869 wrote to Mr. Smales to the effect that if his son had lived he would without) doubb have been tho Senior Wrangler of that year. This was confirmed by so m of the professors, all of whom boro testimony to the ability of the "premier young New Zealander," who died of consumption shortly before the examinations were taken. Soon after his removal to the East Tamaki, Mr. Smales erected a stone church on his property at his own cost, and placed ib ab the disposal of the Anglican and Wesleyan Church authorities. For a number of years this was the only church in the district, and was attended regularly by members of all sections of the Christian Church. By mutual arrangement the services were conducted each Sunday by the Anglican and Wesleyan ministers alternately. During the past 20 or 25 years Mr. Smales nob only took the services occasionally in his own church, bub also conducted services for the ministers of other churches, principally in Papakura Valley and Howick. All through his life ib has been manifest to those who knew him, that Mr. Smales possessed a considerable amount of energy and perseverance. After purchasing the land at the East Tamaki, he was told that being so rough and covered with stones, ib was nob worbh clearing. He '? however, was not easily deterred, bob set bo work, cleared and cultivated 100 acres each year for a period of three years, so that the rough run is now a good farm ? the best in the district. Ab the opening of the Thames Goldfield he erected that large building known as the " Home Institute," ab a cost ot over £4000. This place nob only provided shelter and home for many in sore need, who would otherwise have been homeless, bub was also placed ab the disposal of and freely used by the different Churches and Benevolent Societies for soirees, public meetings, and concerts, free of charge. Unfortunately the enterprise resulted in a very eerious- financial loss bo the spirited owner. Mr. Smales was a man of broad views, and laboured under the thab Christianity, with its universal prin-
cipleof love, should predominate over every other system in the wide world. He possessed superior mental gifts, had a wellcultivated mind, an easy and fluent style, and always expressed himself in a lucid manner; bin addresses wore usually both '-'.''-? ing and instructive. He |has been a Œ Œ ''(tor to the public press, has pub,k :Œ?Œ "eral pamphlets, and one small rolurti". He to t ..rraab interest) in educational matters, a,j v d .-is a member of the Auckland Institute. He did his utmost to cultivate ict:a, -"stations with all his neighbours, at ? ': promote peace and goodwill everywiu". 'Mr. Smales was very happy and beloved in las family relations, and leaves his wiu- * with two sons, five ] daughters, and six and children to mourn their loss.
Thus one by one our old pioneers are passing away to the great majority. Few of our readers can now realise the difficulties and dangers that were overcome in tho early days of the colony by those whose departure we are-called to mourn. The funeral will take place to-morrow (Sunday) at 3 p.m. A short service will be held in the house, and the deceased will be interred in the vault of St. Johp's Church, Easb Tamaki, where some other members of his family have been buried.
NZMEMLIST 2 jun 2022
I understand that Mrs Harry Brusey gave 6 volumes of material to the National Library containing the Journals of Rev J H Bumby; Journal and album of Mrs Mary Anna Smales (Bumby); Triton journal of Rev Gideon Smales; and Papers of Rev Gideon Smales, 1786, 1831-1876. Two of the volumes were removed in 1982 and given back to the family. The librarian was unable to say whether the two volumes removed are on the microfiche mentioned below.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22570657?search%5Bpath%5D=items&search%5Btext%5D=%27Rev.+J+H+Bumby+and+Smales+Family.++MS+Mrs+Mary+Anna+Smales%27 It says it is on microfilm and that copyright unknown.
I would like to contact the Brusey family as I am a descendant of the Bumby family and in touch with other Bumbys in England and NZ. As Mrs Brusey had the diaries she may have been related. DEWI. Gideon (Rev) Smales immigrated to arrived BOI 7 may 1840 on the Triton in 1840.
1,4,5 He was a printer and book binder in Missions in 1840.
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