ELMWOOD & MARSHLANDS – Robert Heaton Rhodes (1815 – 1884)

Robert Heaton Rhodes (1815 – 1884) arrived in Lyttelton just before the first four ships in 1850. Two of his brothers had already settled in New Zealand and were doing very well – William was in Wellington and George was in Purau on Banks Peninsula. Robert settles down at Purau with George and the two …

The Rhodes Brothers

William Barnard Rhodes (1807 – 1878) was the eldest of his 13 siblings and the first to arrive in New Zealand out of his 5 brothers! As Captain and co-owner of the ship ‘Harriet’, William saw a lot of the world. In 1836, while employed by the firm of Cooper and Levy, William sailed into …