“Thus the work of the Canterbury Association will be at a end. And whatever our own feelings may be, who have struggled hard and, some at all events, suffered much, in planting towns and villages in this desert…yet, will there come after us, inhabiting a cultivated, rich and populous district, the seat of manufactures, the …
Henry John Tancred had a career that would make anyone’s head spin!!! Born in the Isle of Wight in 1814, Henry became an officer in the Austrian Army. In 1848, he had a nasty fall from his horse which left him mildly handicapped. He took his sick leave in England and it was there that …
James Edward Fitzgerald (1818 – 1896) Died of old age Place of Death: Wellington Was Canterbury’s first Superintendent, the first to step ashore from the Charlotte Jane, founded the Lyttelton Times and The Press, Lincoln and Springston was his farmland which was known as The Springs. Buried at Bolten Street Cemetery, Wellington. The …
When our First Four Ships arrived in Lyttelton late 1850, the area that was to become known as Shirley attracted the settlers immediately. It was land rich with streams and sand dunes. In fact, one of the first big farms established there was named Sand Dune Station. By 1863, after most of the marsh had …
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796 – 1862) Died of Rheumatic Fever and Neuralgia Place of Death: Wellington Founder of The New Zealand Company. Co- Founder of the Canterbury Association. Buried at Bolten Street Cemetery, Wellington. The story of Edward Gibbon Wakefield: http://www.peelingbackhistory.co.nz/edward-gibbon-wakefield-1796-1862/ Photo taken by Chris Bulovic
William Barnard Rhodes (1807 – 1878) Died of old age Place of Death: Wellington Very successful New Zealand Business man/landowner. Was behind the naming of Port Cooper (first European name for Lyttelton) and Port Levy, had the first farm/brought the first hoof stock on/to Banks Peninsula. Buried at Bolten Street Cemetery, …
Henry Dent Gardiner was the son of an farmer. Born in Essex in England, he arrived in Australia in 1850 chasing gold. He stepped off a ship at Lyttelton in 1855, purchasing a block of land at Harewood where he farmed. Gardiners Road in Harewood is named after him. He also farmed in Irwell and …
