George Avery was born on 17 October 1852 in Taita, Wellington, NZ.
1,2 She and
Sarah Elizabeth Scrimshaw were married on 20 April 1876 in Wellington, NZ.
2 She died on 26 July 1907, at age 54, in Hikutaia, Waikato, NZ.
2 George Avery was a farmer, hotelier butcher.
2 George Avery, junr, Farmer, Brightwell Farm, about three miles from Pahiatua. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand.
Mr George Avery is the second son of Mr George Avery, of the Hutt, and was born at Taita in 1853 (sic).
He received his early education there, and was brought up on his father's farm.
Removing to Pahiatua some years ago, he took up the present property of 477 acres.
The farm was then bush and scrub, with hardly enough grass to feed a horse.
The land, however, was sonn cleared and sown with English grass, and is now a splendid dairying and sheep farm.
The cowsheds are kept in perfect order, and about 130 cows are milked daily.
Mr Avery has taken no active interest in public affairs, but has given his whole time and energy to developing his farm.
He is a director of the Pahiatua Farmers' Co-operative Association.
His residence at the farm is a new villa of eight rooms, and is situated close to the main road.
He is married, and has a family of ten children.
Sometime after this was written (publshed 1897) George moved to Kaponga which is 232km north west of Pahiatua, in Taranaki - 64km south of New Plymouth.
Then in 1904 he moved to Hikutaia which is in the Waikato, 12km south of Thames and 373km north east of Kaponga - an incredible move in those days.