1843 had a part share in the 30t schooner Richmond. DNZB
settled at Pigeon Bay
built boats at Pigeon Bay JD
PPA Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26698, 4 April 1952, Page 3
SERVICE PLEASES U.S. VISITOR DESCENDANT OF BANKS PENINSULA SETTLER (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 3. I had been told a lot of stories about your hotels before I came here and 1 found they were not true. I was very pleasantly surprised,? said an American cattle rancher and business man who, with his wife, has just completed a tour of New Zealand. He is Mr H. V. Von Holt, owner of the largest dairy herd in the Hawaiian islands and a descendant of one of the earliest settlers in Canterbury, Captain Francis Sinclair, who made his home at Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula, in 1842.
Mr and Mrs von Holt came to New Zealand in particular to see Pigeon Fav. Banks Peninsula, where Mr von Holt?s great grandfather. Captain Francis Sinclair, settled in 1842 with a Mr Hay. Captain Sinclair was drowned in 1846 while on a journey to Wellington and his widow sold the property and went to Canada, later moving to Hawaii.
15 feb 1844 Bisoph SELWYN made a visit BishSelLTRS
On Line: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223340120075560
Francis and Elizabeth Sinclair and their six children migrated from Scotland to New Zealand in 1840. Francis died there in 1846 and in 1863 Elizabeth resettled her, by then expanded, family in Hawai'i. There they bought the island of Ni'ihau and prospered as ranchers and planters, especially after the 1880s under the family name of Robinson. The early history of the family, up to the 1860s, has been often told, but never completely and often inaccurately, and is contained in two distinct historiographic traditions. This essay attempts to set the record straight by providing an extensive body of detailed, accurate information about the Sinclairs, and to discuss these two traditions. The older and more reliable New Zealand one presents the Sinclairs as hard-working pioneer settlers. The Hawai'ian tradition, in contrast, deriving from an oral record passed on by Francis and Elizabeth's daughter Anne, was dominated by elements of 'family romance'. It presented Francis as an heroic naval captain in the Napoleonic campaigns, making him a mythical ancestor befitting a family that had risen in the world. A more matter-of-fact treatment, though, has prevailed since 1988. Francis (Captain) Sinclair immigrated to Glasgow to Wellington on the Blenheim arriving 27 dec 1840 on 25 August 1840.
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