Samuel Henry Coates was born about 1821 in Rotherhithe, SRY, ENG.
1,2 He and
Susan Giddings were married in 1846 in Old St Pauls, Wellington.
3 He died on 11 September 1889, at age ~68, in Orwell Creek, Grey Valley, West Coast, NZ, age 68.
4,3 Children but can't find details.
ESR2 has S A COATES arrived Auckland 1840
BHS has S A COATES
PPA Grey River Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6558, 18 September 1889, Page 2
DEATH.
Coates? On the 11th of September, 1889, at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr L. W. Garrod, Orwell Creek, Mr Samuel Henry Coates, native of Rotherhithe, Surrey, England, and late of BalfOunce. To be with Christ, whioh is far better. Dearest father, how we miss you, None but bleeding hearts can tell ; What earth hath lost heaven has found ; God he dopth all things well.
PPA Otago Witness, Issue 1976, 3 October 1889, Page 17
DEATH OF AN EARLY NEW ZEALAND PIONEER.
There lately died at Orwell Creek, Grey .Valley, West Coast, Mr Samuel Henry Coates, who must leave very few survivor a of the early settlement of New Zealand and who participated in early historical events. The subject of this sketch - for the particulars of which I am indebted , to his relatives - arrived at Hokihangi from England in the ship Earl Stanhope, Captain Tilly, in the year 1837. In the same year he crossed the country to the ,Bay of Islands, where he remained for some time. He was present when the Treaty of Waitangi was made and signed by the Maoris and Governor Hobson,' the first Governor of the colony, in 1839. Mr Coates conversed with an old Maori woman in the Bay of r Islands - who remembered and described the ? arrival; of .Captain Cook's expedition. On that coast there was to be, seen on a rock Captain Cook's name and the name of his vessel cut in the stone as a memento of their visit. In 1843 Mr Coates went to the east coast of the North Island, where .he assisted to build a new house for Mr Baker, the missionary, In 1844 he sailed to Wellington in a vessel called the J Dant, Captain Phillips, where he resided for five years, witnessing the arrival of the first man of war, The Driver, Captain Grey. In 1849, Mr Coates, with his Wife and family, sailed in a : vessel called The Twins for Waikouaiti, where he was employed for a time on Mr Charles Luisted's Goodwood station. In 1850 he left Goodwood for Mr J. Jones' employ on the Hawksbury, near Cherry Farm In December of that year he removed to Dunedin, where he assisted to cut the timber and build the first store for Messrs Macandrew and Hollingshead, .He afterwards lived and worked, at Saddle Hill for a, time. In1853 he went to Tokomairiro to cut the timber for Mr John Cargill's first house. After that job waa finished Mr Coates went to Timaru, where he stayed for a time. Thence he proceeded overland" to Port Cooper, he being the first white man that made the through journey alone. A Dr Draper, who was coming from Port Cooper at the time was drowned at one of the river crossings. . Mr. Coates assisted the Maoris to recover the body and take it to Port Cooper. In the same year he left Port Cooper for Wellington in the brigantine Despatch, Captain Rogers. At Wellington his family joined them. They then left New Zealand for New South Wales and resided there 12 years, returning to New Zealand during the West. Coast rush in 1865. Since then deceased has resided in the Grey Valley, where death closed, his earthly career, A little time prior to his death the deceased had.determined to write an account of the exciting and stirring events that he had witnessed in his early wanderings over the country, particularly in the North Island. His sudden and unexpected death will now leave his tale untold. I hava frequently heard Mr Coates say that he was well acquainted with John Marmon, the Pakeha Maori whose adventures were recorded in the Witness a few years ago, and as he said he himself had passed through even more stirring adventures than Marmon, it can easily be imagined what the early history of the colony has lost by his death prior to his being able to write out a description of his early career. A. G. N. Samuel Henry Coates immigrated to ENG to Hokianga in the Earl Stanhope in 1837.
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