Jabez Thornton (1817 – 1904)

Jabez Thornton arrived at Lyttelton on the ‘Charlotte Jane’ on the 16th December 1850.  He was 32 years old and was on his own. A Carpenter by trade, he married Mary Coster on the 16th September 1852. As there was no church at Lyttelton at that stage, they were married in a temporary church. They …