Joseph Greaves was born on 18 May 1812 in St Albans, HERT, ENG.
1,2,3,4 He and
Mary Ann Redwood were married on 23 January 1845 in St Mary's Catholic Church, Waimea, Nelson, NZ, Rev J P O'REILLY catholic clergyman Wellington.
5,4 He and
Elizabeth Ann Martin were married on 29 December 1856 in WARKS, ENG.
4 He died on 23 February 1886, at age 73, in Bedwardine, WORCS, ENG.
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From WIKI
Joseph Greaves was born in 1812 in Hertfordshire, England, the son of John Greaves and his wife Mary Whitehead.
He worked as a solicitor in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1842 until 1848, when he returned to England. He acted for the New Zealand Company, landholders and merchants in Nelson.
He first married Mary Redwood, the daughter of the early settlers Henry Redwood senior and Mary Redwood (nee Gilbert)[1] in January 1845.[2]
After returning to England, in the 1851 census he was a widower living with his mother at Leamington Priors in Warwickshire. In the 1861 census he was a widower at The Hill in Stratford-upon-Avon, the house of his brother-in-law Edward Fordham Flower. in the 1871 census he was at Leigh in Worcestershire with his unmarried sister Amelia and with Mary Josephine, the only daughter of his second marriage in 1856 to Elizabeth Anne Martin. Lastly, in the 1881 census he was a landowning widower living at Lower Howsell Cottage, Leigh, Worcester with his unmarried sister Amelia and with their niece Janet Smith, daughter of his sister Mary Sophia Greaves, as a visitor.
He died at St Johns in Bedwardine, Worcestershire. His executors were his nephews Stephen Pellatt Smith and Edward Lyon Larkin. He made bequests to his sisters-in-law Elizabeth Tarleton, Sarah Field, and Emma Hodgson, his daughter Mary Josephine Greaves, and sister Amelia Greaves.[3. Joseph Greaves was a solicitor in 1841.
2 He immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Mary Ann arriving Nelson 8 feb 1842 on 24 September 1841.
1 He emigrated from Nelson to England in 1848.
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