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WEBB FAMILY GENEALOGY

FROM LONGTON STAFFORDSHIRE ENGLAND TO WHAKAHARA ON THE NORTHERN WAIROA RIVER NORTHLAND NEW ZEALAND

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CHAPTERS

FORWORD PAGE 3

CHAPTER ONE THE GOOD SHIP PARSEE PAGE 11

CHAPTER TWO GENERATION ONE FOR FAMILY ‘WEBB’ FOR JOHANNA PAGE 33

CHAPTER THREE WEBB GENERATION TWO PAGE 43

CHAPTER FOUR WEBB GENERATION THREE PAGE 101

CHAPTER FIVE WEBB GENERATION FOUR PAGE 109

CHAPTER SIX WEBB GENERATION FIVE PAGE 113

CHAPTER SEVEN MILITARY HISTORY FOR WEBB PAGE 114

CHAPTER EIGHT WEBB FAMILY HISTORY, PHOTOS AND REFERENCES PAGE 125

CHAPTER NINE NOTES FOR SAMUEL REV WEBB PAGE 165

CHAPTER TEN NOTES FOR SAMUEL WEBB AND ANN GREEN PAGE 169

CHAPTER ELEVEN THE ARATAPU WEBB’S PAGE 178

CHAPTER TWELVE WILLIAM JAMES WEBB ARTIST PAGE 214 ~ 3 ~

FORWORD

Johanna’s paternal thread through her Dad, Roger Mold…

(This journal is the complete paper trail…)

FROM THE SEA THEY CAME… MIGRANTS ONE AND ALL

Johanna’s great, great, grandad William Green WEBB and his brother Samuel Alfred Webb came out from London England on the Clipper Norham Castle arriving in Auckland 3 Dec 1872…

Note: I wonder if their knowledge of New Zealand helped their father and siblings to make a decision to follow them to New Zealand as well during 1873…

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AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME III, ISSUE 857, 3 DECEMBER 1872, PAGE 2

THE PASSENGERS

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DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XXVIII, ISSUE 4767, 4 DECEMBER 1872, PAGE 2

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DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XXVIII, ISSUE 4768, 5 DECEMBER 1872, PAGE 2

DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XXVIII, ISSUE 4765, 2 DECEMBER 1872, PAGE 4

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1 THE GOOD SHIP ‘PARSEE’

BELOW: THE SAILING SHIP PARSEE THAT SAMUEL GEORGE WEBB AND HIS FAMILY CAME OUT ON FROM LONDON, ENGLAND LANDING IN AUCKLAND MAY 7TH 1873 SAMUEL WEBB 1825 (Johanna’s great, great, great, grandfather)

Note: They were Intermediate passengers on the Parsee so they probably paid their way… Samuel was a widower at the age of 54 He had been in business so ‘had old money’ as they say in the new country…perhaps upper class?

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THE SHIPBOARD CLASS SYSTEM…

Nineteenth-century passenger ships were like microcosms of Victorian society – complete with institutionalised class systems.

‘Cabin class’ passengers paid the most money for their fares, received the biggest cabins, could take the most luggage, and were waited on by the ship’s staff.

‘Intermediate class’ passengers paid a little less, and slept in smaller cabins. They were not waited on hand and foot like cabin class passengers, but their meals were provided, and they had few shipboard responsibilities. (Often intermediate passengers were young, adventurous single men from ‘good families’ hoping to build new lives for themselves.)

Most passengers on immigrant ships to New Zealand were ‘steerage classes’. They had often received a subsidised or free passage from an emigration company or the British Colonial Office. They did not have cabins at all, and instead they lived out the voyage in tiny, dark bunkrooms below deck. They did all their own washing and cleaning, and were allocated plenty of shipboard chores.

While cabin passengers had their meals cooked and brought to them, steerage passengers took turns to cook, and then gathered outside the galley to collect their meals. A cabin passenger once wrote disparagingly of the steerage emigrants, ‘There was never ending cooking going on, and a rush to the galley each for their own ... like so many dogs in a kennel let out to get food.’

(1) Indeed, the emigrants’ shipboard diaries and letters reveal a lot about the attitudes that the different classes had to each other. Martha Adams, a cabin passenger travelling to Nelson in 1850 with her husband wrote, ‘I have never been myself into the steerage, as William says it is not fit for me to go, and besides it is now so filthily dirty, that it can only be wondered at, that there is not more disease on board.’

(2) Another cabin passenger wrote, ‘ ... everybody on this ship think [sic] a great deal of themselves, and even the poorest imagine that they will be grand folk in New Zealand, it can easily be pictured what disturbances are constantly taking place among them owing to this cause. There is not I believe a single young woman on board but scouts the idea of being a servant when they land: nothing less than a piano forte and crochet seem compatible with their ideas of their own dignity; on which account, it is so difficult to get any little service performed for you, presuming you have no servant of your own.’

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(3) And Lucy Lough, a cabin passenger aboard the Egmont in 1856 made this character assassination: ‘There was a disturbance with one of the steerage girls and her father; he thrashed her for being with the Sailors in the forecastle. She is a wild girl and will not I fear be good for much by the end of the voyage.’

(4) In their leisure time, passengers often held dances. There were usually separate events for cabin and steerage passengers, although Nelly Alexander, a steerage passenger aboard the Viola in 1863 wrote with some surprise and pleasure, ‘we dance Scotch reels, country dances, quad reels, polkas and schottisches, we all dance together cabin & steerage people & the ship officers come & look on ...’

(5). But by most accounts such occasions were the exception rather than the rule. Passengers even had to restrict their movements to certain parts of the ship depending on their class. Cabin passengers were given free access to the poop deck – the stern area of the ship above the first class cabins. Steerage passengers were only allowed to roam various areas of the main deck. And nothing was more guaranteed to annoy a cabin passenger than a steerage passenger on the poop deck. The trespassers were often unceremoniously chased off! 1

1 (1) JACKSON, GAINOR W. (1991). SETTLEMENT BY SAIL: 19TH CENTURY IMMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND. WELLINGTON: GP PUBLICATIONS. P 30. (2) SIMPSON, TONY. (1997). THE IMMIGRANTS: THE GREAT MIGRATION FROM BRITAIN TO NEW ZEALAND 1830–1890. AUCKLAND: GODWIT PUBLISHING. P 85. (3) SIMPSON. (1997) P 88. (4) LOUGH, LUCY. (1857). DIARY ON BOARD EGMONT: 11 SEPTEMBER 1856 – 8 MAY 1857. CANTERBURY MUSEUM. TYPESCRIPT MANUSCRIPT: 248/83. (5) ALEXANDER, HELEN. (1863). SHIPBOARD DIARY ON THE VIOLA 1863. TYPESCRIPT: CL. MANUSCRIPT: M 102. OTAGO SETTLERS MUSEUM TEXT ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN TAI AWATEA, TE PAPA'S ONFLOOR MULTIMEDIA DATABASE (1998).

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PARSEE Ship: 1281 tons Captain: Nelson

Sailed FROM London 14th January 1873 - arrived Auckland 7th May 1873

The Parsee, a fine clipper ship of 1281 tons, was built at Greenock in 1869, and was originally intended (as may be implied by her name) for an ‘India-man’. Prior to coming to New Zealand she traded between the Clyde and India, and in the early days made some very fast runs. She completed four voyages to the Dominion, her best run being 84½ days to Port Chalmers, port to port.

The Parsee was sent out first to Auckland in 1873 with five saloon passengers and 98 immigrants. She sailed from Gravesend under the command of Captain Nelson on January 14, and landed the pilot off Portland four days later. In the channel she experienced very heavy west-south-west gales and heavy cross seas, many which broke on board, doing damage and putting the passengers to discomfort. The wheel was carried away by one of these seas coming on board, the lifeboat was also washed off the davits, the main deck was filled with water, and one of the ventilators carried away, by which the 'tween decks became flooded.

The weather having moderated, the vessel experienced variable winds while shaping for the southward. Canary Island was sighted on February 5th, on which day the north-east trades were picked up. These proved fresh, and were carried nearly to the line, but were lost on February 14. Crossed the Equator on February 18, and failed to derive any benefit from the south-east trades, as the winds experienced were light variables from the south to south-east, then north-east and north-west, the former prevailing. Variable winds prevailed ~ 15 ~ to the meridian of the Cape, which was passed on March 25, after sighting the island of Trinidad on March 1st. Her easting was run down parallel of 45 degrees south latitude, although the ship was carried as low as 48 degrees when off the coast of Tasmania. On April 6 a strong north-east to north and them north-west gale was encountered. On May 3 Cape Maria Van Diemen was sighted, thence variable winds down the coast, the ship arriving at Auckland on May 6.

The ‘Daily Southern Cross’ announcing the ship's arrival, stated, “She brings out a fine 2 batch of immigrants, including a number of comely girls”.

ARRIVAL OF THE PARSEE PASSENGERS… Name Age County Occupation Saloon Bevan Miss Emily Hember Miss Louisa Taylor Dr. Windsor Mr Henry Wood Mr Charles Intermediate Batron Hannah Painte Neville P 33 Mary E 21 Maurice 2 Harry Infant Born on board Pedder J H Chick Sutcliffe George Admiral Webb Samuel 48 Mary 18 Thomas 15 George 13 Sarah 11 Elizabeth 10 Arthur 8

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John 6 Charles 4 Families and Children Andrews William 28 Middlesex Labourer Caroline 22 Sarah 2 Jane 7 mths Collins James 24 Surrey Painter Helen 23 Frith Abraham 47 Yorkshire Bootmaker Eliza 40 Thomas T 19 Trans to s/m Elizabeth 16 Trans to s/w Hill Hugh 26 Cornwall Labourer Emma 25 Nellie 3 Mary Ann 10 mths Lush Thomas 38 Berkshire Coachsmith Mary 38 Thomas D 18 Trans to s/m Mitchell Isiah 29 Yorkshire Woolsorter Charlotte 30 Joseph 9 Ishmael 5 Molloy John 24 Kings Co Farm Labourer Teresa 20 Oliver John 38 Surrey Tinsmith Emma 37 Orbler William 30 Kent Labourer Sarah 28 Wright John 42 Tyrone Farm Labourer Ellen 40 Lettitia 19 Trans to s/w George 17 Trans to s/m Sarah 16 Trans to s/w John 15 Trans to s/m Eleanor J 9 ~ 17 ~

Colonial Nominated Clarken Peter 54 Monaghan Labourer Ellen 50 Owen 18 Trans to s/m Rowe Nathaniel 20 Cornwall Tunnel Miner Louisa 19 Brice Sarah 50 Trans to s/w Widow. Travelling with Rowe Single Men Carlisle James 25 Down Labourer Connor Patrick 23 Kerry Farm Labourer Finnegan Patrick 25 Louth Labourer Firth Thomas T 19 Yorkshire Wiredrawer Galivan Patrick 25 Kerry Farm Labourer Gear George 19 Devon Labourer Hill William 24 Cornwall Labourer Loan Richard 28 Armagh Farm Labourer Lush Thomas T 18 Dumfries Painter McElwain John 24 Louth Ploughman Slothers William 21 Armagh Farm Labourer Wright George 17 Tyrone Farm Labourer John 15 Tyrone Farm Labourer Colonial Nominated Barnfield William J 21 Somersetshire Labourer Bentley James 17 Staffordshire Labourer Clarken Owen 18 Monaghan Labourer Fleming John 30 Kilkenny Groom McGinity James 42 Lancashire Labourer Mitchell Richard 21 Cornwall Miner Single Women Bennett Rachel 23 Roscommon Domestic Servant Darrall Jane 21 Berkshire Housemaid Sarah 18 Berkshire Housemaid Firth Elizabeth 15 Yorkshire Servant Forbes Ann 40 Inverness General Servant Foster Emily 20 Sligo General Servant Healey Jane 18 Bucks General Servant Lamb Eliza 20 Oxon Housemaid McMullen Ellen 21 Mayo Housemaid Sarah 19 Mayo General Servant Mitchell Emma 21 Middlesex General Servant Neale Honora 22 Cork Domestic Servant Owen Sarah 26 Glamorgan Cook Reynolds Mary A 18 Norfolk General Servant ~ 18 ~

Ruddell Margaret 29 Armagh Cook Mary 26 Armagh Housemaid Smith Jane 17 Oxon Housemaid Wright Lettitia 19 Tyrone Servant Sarah 16 Tyrone Servant Colonial Nominated Brice Sarah 50 Cornwall Widow Graham Elizabeth 19 Monaghan Domestic Servant Catherine 21 Monaghan Domestic Servant Hyde Margaret 30 Armagh Domestic Servant Treicey Bridget 24 Cavan Domestic Servant

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AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME IV, ISSUE 1028, 7 MAY 1873, PAGE 2

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PORT OF AUCKLAND

DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XXIX, ISSUE 4898, 8 MAY 1873, PAGE 2

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AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME IV, ISSUE 1028, 7 MAY 1873, PAGE 2

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DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XXIX, ISSUE 4898, 8 MAY 1873, PAGE 2

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AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME IV, ISSUE 1029, 8 MAY 1873, PAGE 2

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AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME IV, ISSUE 1043, 24 MAY 1873, PAGE 3

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2 GENERATION’S FOR FAMILY ‘WEBB’ FOR JOHANNA

(Note colour coded red for Johanna’s thread)

NOTES FOR VERY EARLY ‘WEBB’ FAMILIES…

Note: This following information is from from William Webb, a nephew of Johanna’s great grandmother Henrietta Mold nee Webb. The compiler is treating this as conjecture only as there is no paper trail to suggest it factual…

WEBB was in Cromwell’s army of the “Puritans and Roundheads”. When King Charles the second returned to England Webb’s lands had been taken and he was sent out of England. He went to Holland married a Dutch wife who had Spanish blood. He returned to England as a Captain in William Prince of Oranges guard when he became William the second. They landed near Brixton near Torquay on the 5th of November. 1688.

Generations…

1/. Anthony WEBB married Ruth About-?

Anthony was a Millar and lived at Bath. Ruth’s coat of arms is an apple and pen knife.

2/. Thomas WEBB married Ann Shallard About 1756 Bitton

Thomas had pack horses and went from one side of England to the other selling silken goods from France. His wife was one of John Wesley’s first converts.

3/. Samuel WEBB married Ann Maggs About-1778 St George Bristol Samuel was a stone mason at Hanham in the Parish of Brixton. His wife’s mother was a Miss Swift. ~ 34 ~

marriage: spouse: Ann Maggs 24 May 1778 Samuel Webb England Marriages, 1538–1973 Saint George, Bristol, Gloucester, England

From: "Jennie Shelley" Subject: [GLS] WEBB, MAGGS and SHALLARD Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 19:20:51 PST

Hello all. Anyone researching these families: Samuel WEBB (Wesleyan Minister) married Sarah STIRRUP in Staffordshire 1816 He was born in Gloucester. His father Samuel WEBB married Ann MAGGS 1778, St George, Bristol, and his father Thomas WEBB married Ann SHALLARD 1756, Bitton. And his father Anthony WEBB, not sure who he married. Regards Jennie Shelley Auckland New Zealand

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GENERATION ONE AS WE KNOW IT…

1/.SAMUEL WEBB (REVEREND)

(REVEREND) SAMUEL WEBB: Wesleyan Minister from 1808 to 1847

He was born about 1783 at Hanham, Bristol, England (age 58-62) 1841 Census original age 58 He died 25 June 1847 He married SARAH STIRRUP/Stirrah (age 47-51) 1841 Census original age 47 She was born about 1895 at Staffordshire, England (Johanna’s great, great, great, great, Grandmother)

1841 census this family were living at, Church Street, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England

Note: Information from William Webb… Father of Sarah was Thomas Stirrup/Stirrah Mother a widow Mrs Hulse. Sarah’s father was a collier. The business was called Stirrup and Pye. Samuel was born at Hanham near Bristol and became a Wesleyan Minister. He had 7 children: 6 boys and one girl.

Compilers information… Samuel Webb had been a Sawyer and a Timber Merchant in Hanham before he became a Wesleyan Minister. His entry into the Ministry is recorded in the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine of 1847. Sarah Webb, nee Stirrup, was the daughter Of Thomas Stirrup, a wealthy earthenware manufacturer of North Staffordshire, and a widow, Mrs Hulse. Sarah Webb was also a member of the Wesleyan Society and had a member’s ticket to this: Signed by John Wesley, himself. She probably met Samuel through this church…

Note from Jennie: Thomas Stirrup father of Sarah Stirrup married a widow. He married Ann Hulse (Mrs) She was Ann Prince daughter of John Prince and Ann Swift. ~ 36 ~

nn mentioned in the record of Rachel Stirrup

Name Ann

Gender Female

Husband Thos. Stirrup

Daughter Rachel Stirrup

Name Rachel Stirrup

Gender Female

Christening Date 29 Mar 1802

Christening Place LANE END,STAFFORD,ENGLAND

Father's Name Thos. Stirrup

Mother's Name Ann

Deaths Jun 1860 (>99%)

WEBB Sarah I Wight 2b335

Deaths Dec 1861 (>99%)

Webb Sarah Ann I. Wight 2b324

Deaths Dec 1870 (>99%)

Webb Sarah 64 I. Wight 2b361 ~ 37 ~

ABOVE: THE REVEREND SAMUEL WEBB AND WIFE SARAH STIRRUP

HE WOULD LIVE AND PREACH AT NEWBURY, BURSLEM STAFFORDSHIRE, DORON END GLOUCESTERSHIRE, WORCESTER AND OTHERS

RIGHT BELOW: DESCRIPTION OF SKETCH ON THE LEFT

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ABOVE: THE STIRRUPS HOMESTEAD…(CINDERHILL HOUSE) THIS FIRST PICTURE WAS BEFORE 1919

BELOW: SOME MORE PICTURES OF CINDERHILL HOUSE. IT WAS SOMETIMES CALLED CINDERHILL HALL. I WAS TOLD IT WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1953 AND THERE IS NOW AN INDUSTRIAL PARK THERE. THE AREA IS NOW CALLED WESTON COYNEY

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ABOVE: THE HILL IS FROM THE COAL MINE (SLAG HEAP). IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF STIRRUP AND PYE'S COALMINES

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SAMUEL AND SARAH WEBB HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN… (Note: Wesleyan children’s births and christenings were also recorded at Paternoster Row Wesleyan Methodist Registry, London, England)

Thomas aged 24-28 1841 Census

Josiah aged 20-24 born Staffordshire 1841 Census

Sarah Anne WEBB born 9 April 1823 Staffordshire Christened 23 July 1830 At Wesleyan Saint Austell, Cornwall, England

Samuel WEBB born 13 Jan 1825 Christened 23 July 1831 At Wesleyan Saint Austell, Cornwall, England

Joseph WEBB 25 November 1827 Christened 23 July 1831 At Wesleyan Saint Austell, Cornwall, England

William James WEBB (Artist?) born 13 July 1830 Christened 23 July 1831 At Wesleyan Saint Austell, Cornwall, England (See history section of this document).

Alfred 8 years 1841 Census

LEFT: JOSEPH AND OR JOSIAH WEBB?

RIGHT: UNKNOWN WEBB GIRL

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LEFT: SARAH ANN WEBB?

Notes from Jennie; The paintings we think are Sarah Ann Webb and Joseph or Josiah Webb children of Rev Samuel Webb and Sarah Stirrup. The fellow in Sweden sent me some copies of paintings done by William J Webb. These would most likely be his brother and sister and an unknown child. Also he sent a drawing done by Joseph (William's brother) that was copied from the painting of Samuel and Sarah. So this was proof of who the painting was of. The 3 paintings had hung in Wilfred Mark Webb's house and was given to a relative in England. This person still has them.

Sarah Webb England and Wales Census, 1861 Name Sarah Webb

County Hampshire

Event Type Census

Event Date 1861

Event Place Niton South, Hampshire, England

Ecclesiastical Parish St Catherine

Registration District Isle Of Wight

Residence Note St Cath Terrace

Gender Female

Age 66

Marital Status Widow

Occupation Annuity Holder

Relationship to Head of Household Head

Birth Year (Estimated) 1795

Birthplace Longton, Staffordshire

Page Number 16

Registration Number RG09

Piece/Folio 661 / 42

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HOUSEHOLD ROLE GENDER AGE BIRTHPLACE

Sarah Webb Head F 66 Longton, Staffordshire

Sarah Ann Webb Daughter F 37 Burston, Staffordshire

Rachel White Sister F 59 Longton, Staffordshire

Mary Ann White Niece F 24 ..., Staffordshire

Selah Jacobs Servant F 24 Whitwell Isle Of Wight,

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3 GENERATION TWO FOR FAMILY ‘WEBB’

1/. Samuel (Reverend) 2/. Samuel

2/. SAMUEL WEBB (Johanna’s great, great, great, grandfather)

SAMUEL WEBB He was born about (on his gravestone 13 January 1826, and also 1861-71 Censuses) At Newbury, Berkshire, England) Other; Bilston, Newham, London, England

Note: The Wesleyans also registered their people’s BDM at Patemoster Row, Methodist Registry, London Samuel’s registration was… Born 13 Jan 1825 Christened 23 July 1832 Parents Samuel and Sarah

Samuel died (on his grave stone and other souces 7 March 1899) At Arapohue, New Zealand At the age of 74

His children alive at that time were 5 males and 3 females…

He is buried with his son… Samuel Alfred Webb Born 22 Oct 1853 Died 29 Nov 1877

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LEFT: OUR SAMUEL WEBB: A PENCIL SKETCH

LEFT: SAMUEL WITH GRANDDAUGHTER EDITH EMILY WEBB DAUGHTER OF THOMAS WEBB AND ANNIE SPRY

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Samuel Webb England and Wales Census, 1851 Name Samuel Webb

Event Type Census

Event Date 1851

Event Place , Staffordshire, England

Registration District Wolverhampton

Residence Note Oxford Street

Gender Male

Age 26

Marital Status Unmarried

Occupation Printer

Relationship to Head of Household Head

Birth Year (Estimated) 1825

Birthplace Newbury, Berkshire

Page Number 7

Registration Number HO107

Piece/Folio 2021 / 301

Affiliate Record Type Household HOUSEHOLD ROLE GENDER AGE BIRTHPLACE

Samuel Webb Head M 26 Newbury, Berkshire

Sarah Webb Mother F 56 Longton, Staffordshire

Sarah Ann Webb Sister F 27 Burslem, Staffordshire

Joseph Webb Brother M 23 Doron End, Gloucestershire

Alfred Webb Brother M 18 , Worcester

NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XIV, ISSUE 5020, 18 DECEMBER 1877, PAGE 7

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NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XXXVI, ISSUE 11013, 17 MARCH 1899, PAGE 1

SAMUEL WEBB married ANN GREEN about 1851… (On Samuels’s death cert at Layton? now a (suburb of London) he was about 28 On other: Marriage Cert: Lane-end, and Longton, Staffordshire, England 5 June 1851

Also on Samuel’s death certificate it says initially that his parents were Thomas and Ann Webb: Thomas a Wesleyan minister: Their names have been crossed out and added Samuel and Sarah Webb?

At age 8 he was sent for education at a college founded by John Wesley for minister’s sons now known as Wesley College, three miles from Bristol. After leaving college he first became a printer and stationer at Bilston (1851 census). Then a China manufacturer at Stafford St Longton: owners Samuel Webb and Co. c. 1868-1872. (Called Peel Pottery) (China of all sorts for home and foreign markets) This company of Peel Pottery, Stafford Street, Longton, succeeded Messrs Webb & Walters Stafford St Longton and is listed as china manufacturers of ‘gold and silver lustres’, in the ‘Kelly's’ Post Office Directory of 1868.

1861 Census: Samuel is employing about 17 men, 7 boys, 23 woman and 9 girls at his factory. So he was producing at the time of Webb and Walters…

1873: Samuel immigrated to New Zealand with 8 children on the sailing ship Parsee: His wife Ann had died two years earlier. (Two children had arrived earlier on the Norham Castle) The family first went to Port Albert, didn’t like it there so moved and settled at Rockvale, Whakahara on the Northern Wairoa: his first home was burnt down and so he built a new one as the following photo indicates… later his eldest son William Green made another move to Arapohue… For a time he was a reader in the Government Printing Office in Auckland but returned to his farm after a while: Amongst other positions, he held the position of chairman of the Okahu Road Board: He died at the age of 75 years.

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FIRES NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XXV, ISSUE 9155, 10 SEPTEMBER 1888, PAGE 10

SAMUEL WEBB'S 2ND HOUSE AT WHAKAHARA

Notes from Jennie: Samuel lived at Whakahara in The Electoral Rolls. There were 2 Samuel Webb's. Ours and Thomas Stirrup Webb's son Samuel who lived at Aratapu and he died 28/6/1921 at Aratapu and is buried at Mt Wesley.

Our Samuel 1880 -1881 Electoral Rolls, Settler lot 34 Whakahara

In 1896 Electoral Roll it has : Samuel Webb Rockvale settler freehold lot 34 Whakahara. I was told the area where he lived was called Rockvale. Or maybe his farm was called Rockvale because the write up about him in the "History And Centennial Of The Northern Wairoa Agricultural & Pastoral Association" mentions Samuel settled at "Rockvale" at Okahu. Maybe he was buried at Arapohue Cemetery because his son Samuel Alfred was buried there in 1877 ~ 48 ~

ANN GREEN WIFE OF SAMUEL WEBB

Was Christened 6 Aug 1826 At Lane End, Longton, Stafford, England Parents William Green and Mary (from IGI)

She was born at Longton Stafford about 1826 She married Samuel Webb 5th June 1851 She died (from death cert) Red Bank Trentham 18 Feb 1871 at 44 years Witness to death was Ann Green living at Dresdyn Trentham Stafford

Ann’s father was William Green born 1791 And her mother Mary Barks/Birks born about 1791 Mary died about 1866

Note: 1861 Census Samuel Webb was age 36 living at Longton Born at Newham/Newbury Berkshire

Same household was William GREEN born about 1791 he was a Widower and a retired China Manufacturer of Longton, Stafford: age 70 His son George Green was 37: A clerk to china manufacturer He was born about 1824 at Longton, Stafford Also his daughter Ann now a wife of Samuel WEBB was aged 34

Ann’s parents were married 1823 at Longton, Staffordshire, England and were shareholders in a China manufacturing Company at Longton Stoke on Trent

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THE CHINA BUSINESS…

A STRIKINGLY GRAPHIC H & M DESIGN FOR A SUTHERLAND BONE CHINA TEA SET.

THE HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE CHINA

The history of the Staffordshire china potteries goes back at least to 1467 when 'row coal' surface seams were being utilized for firing pottery. The area had the advantage of readily available red-burning clays and 'long flame' coal which was necessary for kiln burning. By 1740 Stoke-on-Trent was the center of pottery making in England. By 1800 Staffordshire 3 china was the most prominent in the world.

Longton is the newest of the 6 Staffordshire china towns, but became a focal point for bone china production. The early 1800's saw the first bone china porcelain production, led by Mayor John Aynsley. 1834 there were 48 bone china manufacturers. A contemporary journal described Longton as being equal to Burslem as the heart of fine china production "... ware of great lightness and beauty was produced, fully equaling that for which Chelsea was famous. It will thus be seen that Longton deserves to rank with Burslem".

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STAFFORD STREET WORKS LONGTON, STOKE-ON-TRENT THE FACTORY WAS ON THE WEST SIDE OF STAFFORD STREET (NOW THE STRAND)

From To Occupier Comments

1822 1833 John & Charles Harvey

For a brief period of about one year the business was taken over by

1833 1834 Hulme & Hawley Hulme & Hawley Charles & William Kenwright Harvey were sons of the original Charles

1835 1853 C & W K Harvey Harvey by 1841 they had 3 pottery manufacturies in Longton

John Green & Elisha Holland. John Green's father was a partner in the firm Allerton, Brough & Green. By 1861 they employed 146 people and by 1871 the number had

1853 1881 Holland & Green increased to 258. By 1881 both John Green and Elisha Holland had died and their executors dissolved the business. Ann Green and John Bill Green (two of the executors) were partners of the subsequent business of Green, Clark & Clay.

1881 1885 Green, Clarke & Clay In 1882 a large portion of the buildings was taken down to make way for a row of shops. A part of the works was continued by Green, Clark & Clay.

1885 1891 Green & Clay The partners were William Green and Alfred John Clay.

c.1891 c.1899 A J Clay & Co The main partner was Alfred John Clay.

Holland & Green White Granite Decorated & Plain Earthenware Manufacturers of all kinds Stafford Street, Longton Staffordshire Potteries

1865 advert ~ 51 ~

Agreement between Thomas Robinson and Messrs Allerton, Brough and Green relating to the purchase of a messuage and premises fronting High Street and St James's church, Longton This record is held by Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office

 See contact details

Title: Agreement between Thomas Robinson and Messrs Allerton, Brough and Green relating to the purchase of a messuage and premises fronting High Street and St James's church, Longton

Reference: D4452/1/22/2/14

Description: Consideration: £45 Containing 55 sq yards Thomas Robinson, late of New Street, Longton, now of Spot Gate, p Stone, grocer to

Charles Allerton, Benjamin Singleton Brough and William Green, all of Longton, manufacturers of china

Date: 29 Dec 1843

Held by: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office, not available at The National Archives

Language: English

1845 GREEN, THOMAS. , PIN-MAKING, WARRINGTON, II. M 13 GREEN, MR. WILLIAM, PROPRIETOR,CHINA AND EARTHENWARE- FACTORY, LONGTON, STAFFORDSHIRE . . .

Baltimore Works (Albion Works), Albion Street, Longton

 Sometimes the works were refered to as the Baltimore Works and sometimes as the Albion Works. The two works were likely one and the same, or at least occupied the same site.  The works were located on the junction of the High Street and Albion Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.  Sometimes more than one company shared the works at the same time.  A fire was reported at the 'Baltimore Pottery Works, Albion Street, Longton' in 1891.  By 1950 the OS map shows that the factory had been rebuilt as 'Albion Works (electrical porcelain)' with previous lay- out still extant.  In the mid 1950's Albion Street was renamed to Morpheth Street.

From To Occupier Comments

1796 1829 Weston and Partners Works of George Weston (and partners) probably located on this site from at least c.1799-1829. James Hull left a partnership with George, William and John Weston in 1796,which was probably operating from the same site. A Thomas Harley was also involved in the partnership but left in 1801; John Weston left in 1804. George and William Weston dissolved the partnership in 1815, leaving George Weston to continue the business, possibly with his son, until his bankruptcy in 1829.

c. 1831 1858 Allerton, Brough & Green Probable that by the 1830's the works was owned by Allerton, Brough& Green (and successive partnerships) of the adjacent Park Works (and other manufactories).

1880 Morley & Co. Partnership between William Morley and Alfred Wright Steels as earthenware manufacturers - which was dissolved in August 1880. William Morley continued the business.

1882 Hancock & Morley John Hancock and William Morley - this was a business decorating (decorators) china and earthenware - in Albion Street, Longton - trading as Hancock & Co. and eveidently was in business as the same time as William Morley's earthenware manufacturing business The partnership was dissolved in May 1882. ~ 52 ~

1880 1882 W Morley The business was continued by William Morley in connection with his business as earthenware manufacturer at the Baltimore Works.

1880 1889 George & Thomas Day Originally in partnership with John Aidney as Aidney & Co. - this partnership was dissollved in 1879. George & Thomas Day were recorded at the Albion works in 1880; from c.1882-1889 George Day was in sole charge of the business. They were operating concurrently with other manufacturers at the works.

1882 1894 L Bentley & Co Lewis Bentley and Co. Manufacturing earthenware

1882 1913? Thomas Heath Thomas Heath manufacturing earthenware and majolica. Evidently shared the works with other manufacturers. In the trade directories was originally recorded as 'Baltimore Works, Albion Street' and then from 1892 'Albion Works, High Street'

1894 1898 J. W. Beswick James Wright Beswick began earthenware manufacture in 1894 at at the the Baltimore Works, Longton. The business expanded rapidly and in Baltimore 1898 took over the Gold Street Works (where they continued until Works 1969) which became firmly associated with the Beswick name producing the famous Beswick animals.

1898 1901 Robinson & Jones William Henry Robinson was in partnership with Frederick William Jones.

1901 1904 W H Robinson

1904 ?? Robinson & Beresford

?? 1912 Walton & Co

1912 1921 J H Walton China manufacturer - this company recorded their factory as both 'Baltimore Works' and 'Albion Works'

By 1950 the OS map shows that the factory had been rebuilt as 'Albion Works (electrical porcelain)' with previous lay-out still extant.

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BARKER BROS LTD EARTHENWARE FACTORY, ST JAME'S CHURCH AND SURROUNDING POTTERIES, LONGTON, 1947 - BRITAIN FROM ABOVE - CLICK PICTURE TO GO TO BRITAIN FROM ABOVE - ST. JAMES'S CHURCH IS JUST ABOVE THE CENTRE

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ST. JAMES'S PLACE CHINA WORKS IS SHOWN BY THE BLUE OVAL AND THE BALTIMORE WORKS (NOW THE ALBION WORKS) IS THE RED OVAL

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JANUARY 1890 ADVERT IN THE POTTERY GAZETTE FOR THOMAS HEATH - BALTIMORE WORKS, ALBION STREET, LONGTON

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FEBUARY 1892 ADVERT IN THE POTTERY GAZETTE FOR L BENTLEY & CO - BALTIMORE WORKS, ALBION STREET, LONGTON

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DECEMBER 1894 ADVERT IN THE POTTERY GAZETTE FOR J.W. BESWICK - BALTIMORE WORKS, ALBION STREET, LONGTON

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ABOVE: APPARENTLY A BUST OF A GREEN ANCESTOR

BELOW: WILLIAM GREEN'S HOUSE MAYBE STAFFORD ST. OR LANE END LONGTON, STOKE ON TRENT?

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SAMUEL WEBB AND ANN WEBB NEE GREEN HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN… 1871 CENSUS William Green WEBB Born 1853 at Bilston Stafford Died 1906 Samuel Alfred born 1854 Longton Stafford died 1877 Arapohue Mary Emily born 1855 Longton Staffordshire Thomas born 1857 Longton Stafford Married Annie Spry 1883 George born 1859 Longton Staffordshire Married Catherine Simpkin Sarah Ann born 1860 Longton Staffordshire Married James Young 1883 Elizabeth born 1863 Longton Staffordshire Arthur James born 1865 Longton Staffordshire John Henry born 1867 Longton Staffordshire Charles born 1869 Longton Staffordshire Charles married Ethel Mary Redfern 1898

Johanna’s great, great, grandad William Green WEBB and his brother Samuel Alfred Webb came out from London England on the Clipper Norham Castle arriving in Auckland 3 Dec 1872…both siblings to the above…

NOTES FOR CHILDREN OF SAMUEL

NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XX, ISSUE 6669, 3 APRIL 1883, PAGE 4

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Registration Bride's Given Bride's Family Groom's Given Groom's Family

Number Name(s) Name Name(s) Name

1883/736 Annie Spry Thomas Webb

1895/1576 Constance Mary Quicke Arthur James Webb

1883/48 Catherine Simpking George Webb

1894/256 Edith Ellen Maria Lewis John Henry Webb

1898/2620 Ethel Mary Redfern Charles Webb

1888/185 Elizabeth Webb George Dreadon

1883/47 Sarah Anne Webb James Young

1871 Census

Name Age Samuel Webb 46 Samuel Alfred Webb 17 Mary Emily Webb 16 Thomas Webb 13 George Webb 12 Sarah Ann Webb 10 Elizabeth Webb 8 Arthur James Webb 6 John Henry Webb 4 Charles Webb 2 Elizabeth Hughes 23

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From the passenger list of the sailing ship “Parsee” he had the following Children…

Mary 18 years Thomas 15 years George 13 years Sarah 11 years Elizabeth 10 years old, Arthur 8 years old John 6 years Charles 4 years old

In 1806, during the Musket Wars, Ngā Puhi attacked the Te Roroa chief Tāoho at Arapohue, but was repulsed. Samuel Polack passed through in 1832, at which time there was a desolate and decayed village called Warepohuhi in the area. The Arapohue block (about 79 km²) was sold in the late 1850s for £350, despite a dispute between Ngā Puhi and Ngāti Whātua over claims to the rights. The area was heavily forested in kauri. Most of those who purchased lots in the area were absentee owners. In 1876, there were only 30 residents on the 283 holdings of the Arapohue and neighbouring Okahu and Whakahara blocks. The village of Arapohue was owned by Logan Campbell until 1899. The area was developed as farmland in the early 20th century.

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NEWS OF THE DAY FOR SAMUEL WEBB

PAGE 6 ADVERTISEMENTS COLUMN 4 DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XXII, ISSUE 2729, 16 APRIL 1866, PAGE 6

BIRTHS. DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XXVI, ISSUE 4016, 6 JULY 1870, PAGE 8

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NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXXIII, ISSUE 22360, 5 MARCH 1936, PAGE 14

BELOW: HTTP://WWW.FORGOTTENBOOKS.COM/READBOOK_TEXT/THE_JOURNAL_OF_MALACOLOGY_1895_V4_1000894248/73

The end of 1895 will see the completion of the fifth year of the publication of the Journal of Malacology, which has now reached its fourth volume, the parts issued in 1892 and 1S93 forming Volume II. Judging from the gratifying letters received from time to time, the present volume in no wise falls short of its pre- decessors, and as Acting Editor, I must sincerely thank those members of the staff on whose efforts the success of the JoL'KXAL has been largely dependent, as well as the literary and artistic contributors during the year. The care expended by the printer on the production of the work should also be made mention of. ~ 100 ~

It is contemplated that after this number, the Bibliography should be put into the hands of ^Ir. E. R. S^'kes, who has kindly offered to superintend the whole of the work in con- nection with this department. Nothing more remains to be said except to express the hope that in iSg6 still better work ma}- be aimed at and accomplished. Wilfred Mark Webb. Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S. 15 Current Literature ...... •• 19.39.60,77 Editors' Notes ...... 31,52,68,86 The Toheroa and its Enemies . . . . Samuel Webb 67

There is also a hsh called " Scluuipper " which makes a business of catching the bivalves, the fish come in shoals to where the Toheroas are found, and you can see their tails sticking up like grass in a field as they gulp down the poor things. These Schnappers are furnished with a pair of jaws like a stone-crusher, and boys and men catch them with a line and strong hook baited with a Toheroa and good they are to eat. TheToheroas are dug out like potatoes, and though they have many enemies they must increase very, very fast, for two inches below the surface there is often a layer three or four deep. The Maories go with pack horses to fetch them. " Samuel Webb,Rockvale, Whakahara, June igth, 1S95. [It would be interesting to learn the specific name of the bivalve. " Ed.]

1883 Webb brothers Mititai had 120 sheep Samuel Webb Rock Vale Whakahara had 28

Discharged Deed of Mortgage sixty acres more or less of parts of allotments 23 and 24 Parish of Arapohue and north eastern Land Titles

portion of allotment 124 Parish of Okahu Parish of Arapohue ORDER 1896 1941 Office, Akld between William Green Webb of Mititai near Aratapu and The DETAILS Auckland

Government Advances to Settlers Office Superintendent »

Hi Roger George Dreadon and Ellen nee Coad came to NZ 1862 with 2 of their children. The rest of the children were born in NZ. Their son George married Elizabeth Webb, sister of your William Green Webb. I have a booklet written about the Dreadon family by John Dreadon. He says all the Dreadon's in NZ are related to George and Ellen. Jennie

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4 WEBB GENERATION THREE 1/. Samuel (Reverend) 2/. Samuel Webb 1825 3/. William Green Webb

WILLIAM GREEN WEBB He was born 1853 at Bilston, Stafford, England He died 2 Oct 1906 at Northern Wairoa Hospital, N.Z He married Friederike/FREDERICA OTTO 1883 (Johanna’s great, great grandmother) She was born about 15-2-1862 She died 1 Sept 1931 at her residence Arapohue

(Her death certificate says she was born in Frankfurt, however it is interesting to note that the main street in Kassel is “Frankfurter Strasse” (Frankfurt Street), so this could be possible as well given Kassel is the city where the family was generally based)

Both are buried in the Arapohue Cemetery Frederica emigrated from Germany about 1870 with her mother Her Dad had come the year before (SEE OTTO FAMILY FILE)

1883/873 Frederica Otto William Green Webb

NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XLIII, ISSUE 13311, 18 OCTOBER 1906, PAGE 9

AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXII, ISSUE 206, 1 SEPTEMBER 1931, PAGE 1

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NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XXIV, ISSUE 8926, 15 DECEMBER 1887, PAGE 6

WILLIAM AND FREDERICA WEBB HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN…

1/. Frederick WEBB (Johanna’s great, grandmother’s brother)

Married Ida Nichols and lived in Australia. He died lost at sea between Helensville and Dargaville. Fred was an Engineer and was either lost at sea on the Kaipara or walked off the ship en-route and then disappeared. This held up the settlement of the Webb Estate with his share going to his wife’s new husband. He had two Daughters…?? Mrs J. A. Barylett. Sydney? Mrs A. Hearn. Los Angeles?

1912/9050 Ida Nicholas Frederick Webb

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Registration Family Name Given Name(s) Mother's Given Father's Given Still

Number Name(s) Name(s) Birth

1913/24897 Webb Arthur Stewart Ida Frederick - Order Product

1915/6111 Webb Albert Frederick Ida Frederick

It would seem he had two sons

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MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LVIII, ISSUE 28, 3 FEBRUARY 1927, PAGE 11

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2/. George Samuel WEBB: (Johanna’s great, grandmother’s brother)

Soldier in the First World War: Shot below eye with the bullet passing down on an angle and coming out through the gullet on the opposite side. During his rehabilitation in England he met a nurse called Fanny Coy of Elly England who would later visit George in New Zealand and then they would marry at New Plymouth in 1923. (See military history for George Samuel Webb page)

NORTHERN ADVOCATE, 24 APRIL 1918, PAGE 2

1923/9131 Fanny Coy George Samuel Webb

They had one child… (William WEBB) Living

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ABOVE: GEORGE AND FANNY BELOW: WITH THEIR GRANDCHILDREN

3/. William Otto WEBB (Johanna’s great, grandmother’s brother)

1929/2288 Martha Stansell William Otto Webb

Married: Martha Stansell and then Eva Montgomery No Children.

4/. Karl Shallard WEBB (Johanna’s great, grandmother’s brother)

Married: Lila HOUSE Children… Thomas and Ngarie

Ngaire nee Webb belongs to 4/ Karl Shallard Webb as below.

My husband Jeff Nichols is Ngaire nee Webb's son, so the information you sent is much appreciated.

5/. Ann Winifred WEBB (Johanna’s great, grandmother’s sister)

Married: A W GOODISON Ann died of flu: 1917 ~ 107 ~

No children.

1914/8099 Ann Winnifred Webb Henry Cartwright Goodison

NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXV, ISSUE 20112, 24 NOVEMBER 1928, PAGE 1

6/. Frederica Mary WEBB. (Johanna’s great, grandmother’s sister)

Married: Walter THOMPSON Children; Nicholas, Gordon, Rex, Noel, Lewis, Colin, Carol.

1921/1144 Friedarica Mary Webb Maurice Walter Luxford Thompson

Notes for (Frederica) Frieda WEBB:

Before she was married Frieda would visit her sister at Kaihu to take care of her sisters children while her sister was away she would have an affair with her sister’s husband and become pregnant. The illegitimate child would be brought up and adopted by Frieda’s mother. My half Aunties name is Althea and she would eventually marry Eric Shepherd: They then farmed at Wellsford and had three children: a girl called Diane and two sons Wayne and Neville. Altheas husband was a prominent cricketer in the North. They are both buried at Port Albert. It has only been a few years since the balance of the family received this news. It is quiet sad as I had an Auntie who I never met and also some cousins.

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7/. Henrietta WEBB (Johanna’s great grandmother) Born 30-03-1892, Dargaville, New Zealand Died 31-10-1969, Hamilton, New Zealand

1887/14265 Webb Ann Winifred Frederica William Green-Order Product

1891/840 Webb Henrietta Frederica William Green-Order Product

1888/6634 Webb George Samuel Frederica William Green-Order Product

1904/18920 Webb Karl Shallard Frederica William Green-Order Product

1885/60 Webb Frederick Charles Frederica William Green-Order Product

1893/6279 Webb William Otto Frederica William Green-Order Product

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5 WEBB GENERATION FOUR

1/. Samuel 1783 (Johanna’s great, great, great, great grandfather) 2/. Samuel Webb 1825 (Johanna’s great, great, great, grandfather) 3/. William Green Webb (Johanna’s great, great, grandfather) 4/. Henrietta WEBB (Johanna’s great grandmother)

Henrietta WEBB She was born 30-03-18921, Dargaville, New Zealand Died 31-10-1969, Hamilton, New Zealand buried My Wesley Dargaville Married… Herbert John MOLD 28-08-1912, at Grafton, Auckland

1912/7866 Henrietta Webb Herbert John Mold

THEY HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN… (See Mold family genealogy for more information for this thread)

William Edward MOLD Born Died Buried at

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ABOVE: FREDERICA CENTRE WITH HER DAUGHTERS LEFT TO RIGHT: FRIEDA, ANN WINNIFRED, HENRIETTA

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FROM LEFT: FRIEDA, MISS BOSWELL (TEACHER) MR OTTO AND FREDERICA SITTING AND KARL AT BACK IS WINNIE

ABOVE: FREDERICA WEBB NEE OTTO AND HER HUSBAND WILLIAM GREEN WEBB ARAPOHUE CEMETERY

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BELOW: OBITUARY FOR MRS FREDERICA WEBB

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6 WEBB GENERATION FIVE

1/. Samuel 1783 (Johanna’s great, great, great, great grandfather) 2/. Samuel Webb 1825 (Johanna’s great, great, great, grandfather) 3/. William Green Webb (Johanna’s great, great, grandfather) 4/. Henrietta WEBB (Johanna’s great grandmother) 5/. William Edward MOLD (Johanna’s grandfather)

William Edward MOLD Born Died Buried at Married Beatrice Frances SNOWDEN Born Died

THEY HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN… Generation six

Roger Mold Born: 8.11.1947 Auckland, N.Z

Peter William Mold

(Note: See MOLD genealogy for more information for this thread…)

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7 MILITARY HISTORY FOR WEBB

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8 WEBB FAMILY HISTORY, PHOTOS AND REFERENCES

LEFT: JOHANNA’S GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GRANDMOTHER, HENRIETTA OTTO NEE DISCHER AND HER GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER, FREDRICK CHARLES OTTO. MARRIED: 16-10-1859, GERMANY. DAUGHTER, FREDERICKA OTTO:

RIGHT: FREDRICK CHARLES OTTO.

LEFT: JOHANNA’S GREAT, GREAT, GRANDMOTHER, FREDERICKA OTTO. ON HER WEDDING DAY BORN 15-2-1862, GERMANY DIED 1-9-1930, ARAPOHUE, DARGAVILLE. MARRIED; WILLIAM GEORGE WEBB

RIGHT: HENRIETTA OTTO NEE DISCHER

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LEFT: FREDERICA WEBB JOHANNA’S GREAT, GREAT GRANDMOTHER

RIGHT: WILLIAM GREEN WEBB JOHANNA’S GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER

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LEFT: JOHANNA’S GREAT, GREAT AUNT WINIFRED WEBB WITH HER SISTER HENRIETTA ON RIGHT

RIGHT AND BELOW: POST CARD FROM MY GRANDMOTHER TO HER SISTER FRIEDA. (FREDRICA)

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ABOVE AND BELOW: JOHANNA’S GREAT, GRANDMOTHER HENRIETTA ON THE LEFT: TO RIGHT HER SIBLINGS (NAMES UNKNOWN)

JOHANNA’S GREAT, GRANDMOTHER WAS HORSEWOMEN OF THE YEAR AT THE ARAPOHUE SHOW FOR 18 YEARS IN A ROW

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ABOVE: LEFT MRS SLOANE TUI FINLAYSON AND HENRIETTA MOLD NEE WEBB BOTH EX PUPILS AND EX TEACHERS AT THE 1961 ARAPOHUE SCHOOL REUNION

ABOVE: IMAGE 033: PROBABLY THE BELLS OR NICHOLSON’S OR WEBB’S: PIT SAWING A LOG FOR TIMBER

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LEFT: IMAGE 019: GREAT, GRANNY WEBB WITH A MEMBER OF HER FAMILY?? KARL SHALLARD WEBB

RIGHT: UNKNOWN: IMAGE 027: TAKEN BY J. MCALLISTER IN STRATFORD, TARANAKI.

LEFT: UNKNOWN: IMAGE 010:

RIGHT BELOW: IMAGE 005: BELLS, NICHOLSONS OR WEBB’S.

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LEFT: FREDRICK CHARLES OTTO JOHANNA’S GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GRANDFATHER BORN 12-10-1833: KASSELL - GERMANY DIED 6-10-1918, ARAPOHUE – DARGAVILLE

Fredrick Charles immigrated to New Zealand in 1869 from Germany via England. He worked for nearly two years then sent his hard earned savings to his wife and daughter so they could join him.

BELOW: FOUR GENERATIONS THE BABY IS JOHANNA’S GREAT, AUNT MOLLY WITH HER GREAT, GRANDMOTHER DIRECTLY BEHIND TO THE LEFT IS HER GREAT, GREAT, GRANDMA FREDERICA WEBB AND TO THE RIGHT IS HER GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GRANDFATHER FREDERIC CHARLES OTTO

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BELOW: ROGER WITH AUNT AND UNCLE AND THEIR CHILD: THIS FAMILY HE NEVER MET

BELOW: LEFT; ALTHEA MARY SHEPHERD NEE WEBB WITH HER HUSBAND ERIC KARL SHEPHERD RIGHT BELOW: THEIR DAUGHTER DIANE WARD

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ABOVE: WILLIAM WEBB AND HIS FAMILY. WILLIAM IS JOHANNA’S GRANDFATHER BILL MOLD’S COUSIN…

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THE ARAPOHUE METHODIST CHURCH 1885-1985 BY HAZEL SIMPKIN

Dedicated to the pioneers who built this church. In writing this account, I have made great efforts to verify every date and fact given, to check from another source if at all possible, and to go back to the original source also, if possible. While I have taken every care to be accurate, it is not easy to be sure of the truth after one hundred years. It has been impossible to write this history without mentioning some names perhaps many times but I am only too well aware that I may have unknowingly omitted names of others who have played a large part in the life of the church. Hazel Simpkin

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ARAPOHUE BEFORE THE OPENING OF THE CHURCH

The Arapohue Methodist Church was opened in 1885, and only forty years prior to this date, the European history of the district had scarcely begun. James Buller, who came to the Methodist Mission Station at Tangiteroria in 1840, described the Northern Wairoa country as ‘a vast sweep of sombre and silent woodland, with the river, like a silver thread, running through it’. Thirty years later, there were a few families settled in the district, trying to change the primeval forest that Mr Bradley describes in his journal, into productive farmland. In 1870 he writes in this journal of looking for cows, away in the bush past the little circle of homes from Enderley to Bradley's Landing and Mititai. The Bradley family were some of the earliest Arapohue settlers, coming in 1865, but they were not connected with the church here, as Mr Bradley was a Unitarian minister in England. Some of the other earlier families at Arapohue and Mititai included Samuel Dodd, who came in 1861, William Dreadon at Greenmount in 1867, George Dreadon at Pencarrow in 1873, Samuel Webb at Rockvale about the same time, Joseph Simpkin at Woodside in 1875, and James Young in about 1876. Benjamin New came later, in 1887.

JAMES YOUNG

When we look at the green and productive Arapohue hillsides now, it is hard to visualise how the area must have looked in the 1870's. A few houses, a few chopped, burnt and grassed patches, and little in the way of roads and fences. Though a Road Board apparently existed in the early 1870's, the Hobson County Council was not yet formed, and it was not until 1879 that Thomas Webb was appointed as the collector of road taxes for the Hobson County. It was about this time that the chain wide road line from the Arapohue crossroads to the Pencarrow turn-off was chopped and cleared. Certainly it would be safe to say that the homes and farms were not thoroughly established by 1883, when the subscription list for the building of the church appears to have been opened.

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CHARLES ROGERS

JOSEPH & ELIZABETH SIMPKIN

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FREDERIKA WEBB

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THE CHURCH AS A BODY - BEFORE THE BUILDING

There are various references and records which show that Methodism was making its presence felt, and that the movement towards building a church was gaining impetus during the years of the late 1870's. (I am indebted to Rev D.H. Burt for much of the information in this section). A.H. Reed in 'The Story of Northland' (page 317) states that "up to 1867 there was no church serving the scattered district embracing Matakohe, Omaru, Toka Toka, Whakahara, Arapohue and Okahu. A preacher visited the settlements once a month, and no doubt there were groups meeting for simple worship in each other's homes". In 1877 the Methodist Church appointed Mr J. Osborne as a Home Missioner to the Wairoa district with responsibilities to the European settlers. Then in 1880, Wairoa was created a Circuit in its own right, and Rev George W.J. Spence took up the first appointment, being stationed at Aratapu. The 'New Zealand Wesleyan' for 3rd December 1880 gives a picture of conditions at the time. "The Wairoa having been worked as a Home Mission Station for three years previously was constituted a circuit by the Dunedin Conference of 1880, and the Rev G.W.J. Spence appointed thereto. Miles upon miles of kauri forest line the bank of the river ...... Whakahara and Arapohue are farming districts on the eastern banks of the river ...... Services are also held regularly at Te Kopuru, Dargaville, Whakahara, Arapohue and Mangawhare ...... The places are not far distant, but as there are no roads, all the travelling has to be done by boat". So from the above we would presume that Mr Osborne had started services at Whakahara and Arapohue during his three years in the area, and it appears that a Sunday School also functioned at Arapohue. Thomas Bartle's journal describes a lively church group at Arapohue in 1880. (Though the entry was made in 1883, he was writing about a visit made in 1880. His daughter Mrs Oliver Bickers stressed the point that he made up his journal at infrequent intervals). He writes; "I thank God for good health and strength, and which enabled me to work hard for ten hours a day. I took services at Arapohue four miles on the opposite side of the river at all stages of weather and tide, which varied our life considerably. Arrangements for services were made by Mr Webb, Whakahara, Rockvale, to bring us from Mititai on horseback, and we shared the hospitality of the Webbs on Saturday night and Sunday morning, riding over after dinner to the school-room, a distance of three or four miles, where the service was held ...... The service was conducted at the district school, capable of holding 100 people, but those attending was generally between 15 to 50. Mr Simpkin led the singing and had a Sunday School class in which he took a loving interest ...... " Another mention of services held at Arapohue before the opening of the church is contained in a letter from Rev Spence to William Simpkin before he was taken into full ~ 145 ~ membership of the Methodist Church. This was a most loving and spiritual letter, and was written at Aratapu on 7th of March 1882, and begins; "My dear brother. On Sunday the 26th inst I hope to be at Arapohue when the Lord's Supper will be administered and the Society tickets renewed". Alvan Simpkin wrote in his "Looking Back" journal; "One day Grandmother heard the children laughing up the track in the bush, and on investigating, found a strange man with them. He proved to be the Rev Garland, the Methodist minister, who was walking on his visiting rounds". Rev Garland was in the Wairoa Circuit for six months during 1882. All the fore-going shows some of the church activity in the district prior to the building of the church.

THE BUILDING OF THE CHURCH

The research that Rev D.H. Burt has already done has been most useful in this section also, and his notes have been freely drawn upon in the following. The practice of using only surnames so often in the old minutes and records can make it very difficult for a later researcher to discover exactly who was referred to, in the case of several members of the same family. This has been so in the case of the Webb family, but if anyone deserves the name of father of the Arapohue Church, it would seem to be William Green Webb. The Wairoa Circuit Quarterly Meeting minute book shows the building project was making progress. At the meeting held on the 4th April 1882, the chairman spoke "of the necessity of building a church at Arapohue, and stated that Mr Webb had offered a site, and also offered to raise a sub-scription at home for the building of the said church". Messrs S.Webb, Thomas Webb and F. Green had already been appointed to be members of a sub-committee for Arapohue. The minutes for the meeting of the 1st of July, 1882 record that the matter of a church for Arapohue… "a rising district of the eastern side of the river, was freely discussed. Mr Webb Jr, having generously offered an eligible site, besides a handsome subscription, it was felt that with the return of the good weather, the work of building should commence".

Now we come to the question of who did give the land the church was to be built on? In the "New Zealand Methodist", the 1884, Conference clearly reports a gift of land by the ‘Webb Brothers’. Mrs Freida Thompson, her daughter Mrs Carol Clements and other members of the Webb Family say it was a gift from their father and grandfather, William Green Webb, who we understand is the Mr Webb mentioned in the Quarterly Meeting minutes. However, Mrs Thompson did say that perhaps William and Arthur Webb had not divided the land at this stage, which might explain the wording, but she did think it was only her father who had made the gift. ~ 146 ~

The subscription list for the building of the church makes interesting reading, and we are fortunate to have the original record of this. References to Mr Webb opening the subscription list make it reasonably certain that he started the entries in the book, and the first names entered there are those of the Webb family. Miss D. Paton, Mrs Young and Thomas Rogers also collected. What a roll call of old Arapohue names is recorded in those first pages! Not many of these names are represented in the district now. We cannot fail to be filled with admiration for the generous giving of those early settlers. £5 would have been quite a high proportion of a yearly income from an unimproved farm in 1883, yet there were many gifts of this amount recorded in the first pages of this old account book. The support in both time and money that these people gave to the project of the building of the church shows the importance they placed on the erection of the first church in this new European community. We note Rev C.H. Garland's contribution of £5. That must have been quite a large part of his salary for the short time he was in the Wairoa Circuit.

Permission from the Auckland District meeting of the Methodist Church to proceed with building had been granted in November 1882, but it would seem that the "good weather" was delayed, for it was not until the February 1884 Conference that a loan of £50 was requested towards the erection of a church to seat 100 people, £100 to be raised locally.

It would have taken some time to collect the £100 needed before building could commence, and obviously, these matters took a while to organise, as they do today. This loan was granted for five years, repayable by half-yearly instalments, on condition of plans and specifications being approved by the Church Building and Loan Fund.

The late William Simpkin used to tell of the building of the church. He was one of the local men who cleared the ground, and the women and children made it a picnic day while the men worked.

Messrs Haslett and Berridge were the builders of the church. They built several public buildings of the times, including the Hobson County Office at Aratapu, John Dreadon was a pupil at the school across the road, and ...... remembered the work going on. His most vivid memory, which stayed with him until he was an old man, was of the mouth-watering aroma of frying bacon which wafted across to the school grounds at lunch time!

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The old account book shows the contract price as £148, and blocks and shingles were put on the ground for this price. Details of expenditure were as follows, in the financial statement presented by Mr Webb for the trustees:

Subscriptions received £85.14.6d Promises still unpaid £9.10.0d Collections at opening £4. 0.9d Grant from Church Building and Loan Fund £50. 0.0d Total Income £158. 9.3d Contract for building £148. 0.0d Shingles £6. 0.0d Surveying £5. 0.0d Transfer of site £1.15.0d Advertising, loan expenses, postage £1.10.0d Insurance 12.6d £162.17.6d Balance still to raise £4. 8.3d

A full account of the opening of the church appears in the July 1885 "New Zealand Wesleyan" as follows; "Wairoa (Arapohue) The opening of a new church at Arapohue took place on Sunday May 24th. The scheme for this erection was first initiated during the ministry of Rev Mr Spence, some three years ago, but owing to the force of circumstances we were compelled to leave the matter in abeyance. Last summer, however, another effort was made, and tenders were invited, which resulted in the contract being let.

The contractors have done their work well, and we now have a neat and substantial church. The opening service was conducted by our old and much esteemed friend the Rev W. Gittos. His sermons were warm expositions of experimental truth, and were the source of much profit to all. The congregations were large, and the collections good. The following day the inevitable soiree and public meeting eventuated under the presidency of F.W. Matthews Esq. of Te Kopuru. Addresses were given by the Chairman, Messrs Gittos, Brooke, Barclay and Trounson (of Paparoa). A number of lady friends enlivened the proceedings with some choice selections of music and some recitations. The financial statement was presented on behalf of the trustees by Mr Webb. Votes of thanks, and the National Athem, in honour of her Majesty's birthday, brought the meeting to a close".

The General Register of Church Properties gives the names of the original trustees as S. Webb, J. Matthews, Joseph Simpkin, G.H. Rogers and James Young. The same book records the land as a gift from Messrs Webb Brothers, and the erection of the building as costing £162, which corresponds with Mr Webb's financial statement.

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THE EARLY DAYS OF THE CHURCH

The first account book, and an early Trust minute book give us some idea of how the church as a body was growing. There is now no one who can tell us about events before the turn of the century, but the entries in the old books can with some imagination, be used to see something of what was taking place.

The first few pages of the account book show the regular and rapid repayment of the loan money. The loan was repaid by 1891, which may seem quite a few years in which to pay £50, but when one considers the financial effort that had already been made, and what £50 would have meant in those days, it was a great effort to have the church paid for in less than ten years since first raising money for it. To quote D.H. Burt; "This was a worthy effort by a small group of families when the district was still very young and comparatively low in production. It was an expression of faith, both in God and in the future of the district, which has been shown to be thoroughly justified by future events".

There was an outlay of £10.10s in 1888 for the painting of the church, so perhaps this was the first painting since it was built. Insurance in this year was £1.1.3d. In 1888 also the organ was sold for £11, and a new one was bought for £24.

Once the instalments on the loan were paid up, the main items of expenditure seem to be for insurance and lighting, and tea, sugar, bread, etc. Probably these items were to provide supper for the soiree which figure quite frequently in the records of the times. It seems that the duties of the Trustees included arranging these soirees, and the anniversaries, as well as caring for the church property.

Mention of the weather in some of these old records makes one realise that travelling on the roads of Arapohue was not easy at this period. In October 1903, the "Trustees were all notified of the meeting, but owing to the stormy weather, there were only two present". In March 1907, the Trustees "resolved that the anniversary of the church be held about the next full moon (end of April)."

MISS DREADON'S RECOLLECTIONS

The earliest first-hand account of the Arapohue Church has been available in the writing of this history comes from Miss Letitia Dreadon, who was born in 1884, the year before the church was opened. She was a daughter of William Dreadon, and lived at Greenmount, almost opposite the church. In 1976 she talked to the writer about the early days of the church, and much of what she said is verified by written records. She remembered the soirees, which were a tea, followed by a concert. The women were very busy preparing for these. One of her older sisters would bring sandwiches packed in a ~ 149 ~ milk pan. Another sister, Ellen Dreadon (Mrs Jack Masefield) and May Smith (Mrs Sam Dreadon) were two who used to sing. The school teachers often performed, and she remembered Miss Mitchell and Miss Hardy, who were musical, both taking part in the church functions. Sunday School was in the afternoon, about half past two, and the church service was in the evening about seven o'clock once a fortnight in the summer time as in the winter the roads were too muddy to allow people to come. After service it was quite a time of social activity, as people went to different homes for tea. Miss Dreadon didn't remember a morning service at this period. Of course, in those early days, the ministers were in charge of the whole vast Northern Wairoa Circuit, and the Arapohue Church could expect only its share of the minister's time. Revs Blight and Gibson were the ministers she remembered from her childhood, and later. Rev Martin, who was the first to be stationed this side of the river. Of the lay preachers, she remembered after all those years Mr Stevens, an older man, who worked at one of the local sawmills, and was a "good plain preacher", also John Stallworthy and his son Arthur, and Arthur Webb and Frank Wordsworth.

There was a great Sunday School and a great congregation. Joseph Simpkin was the Sunday School superintendent for some time, and the Sunday School apparently included adult classes - or all-age Sunday School, as we would call it now. Joseph's Young Men's Class for 1893 contains many old names of the district.

Other early teachers were Elizabeth Matthews (Charles Roger's second wife), Amy Simpkin (Mrs Evans), and Joe Simpkin who later left to join the Exclusive Brethren. Nell Simpkin (Mrs Stonex) used to play the organ for the church, as did Miss Dreadon herself later. She said that before the three Simpkin brothers left to join the Exclusives, they were a choir in themselves.

Arthur Webb used to take a great interest in the church and Sunday School. The Sunday School picnics were often held at Woodside, Joseph Simpkin's home. There were Sunday School anniversaries too, with prizes.

Mr John Mattnews used to trim the lamps for the evening services, and he took a pride in making this his own job. After so many years, the old lady said she could still see him filling those lamps with kerosene. An entry in the Trust minute book for November 1896 reads; "Resolved that the use of the church building be granted to Rev M. Beck for Anglican church services. Resolved that the Salvation Army be permitted to use the building also. Resolved that the charge to each body be one shilling and sixpence for each time used in the evening. It was agreed that the amount received for the use of the building ...... be paid to Mr Matthews to repay him for his expenditure in connection with the church lighting." Miss Dreadon also talked of the Sunday School library of "suitable books". She remembered the pulpit with upright rails that went right along the front of the church. She spoke of the white picket fence around the section. There is a continuing story of the picket fence in the ~ 150 ~

Trust account books, and in 1904 the account book records a payment of £5.4s to the Kauri Timber Company for pickets. It is not many years ago that the last signs of this picket fence and gate disappeared.

INTO THE NEW CENTURY

The formation of the Exclusive Brethren fellowship in Arapohue must have made a big difference to the Methodist Church. Various sources state that Mr H.T. Smith Senior was the first of the Exclusive Brethren in the district the name of Joseph Simpkin Junior disappears from the Trust book after April 1906. Walter Simpkin would already have left when he married Hannah Smith. Ted Johnsen was another who joined the Exclusive fellowship. The settlement probably felt this division very keenly. It certainly separated some families such as the Smiths and Simpkins when some members left the old church and others remained.

This period before the division may well have been one of the times of the church's greatest strength. Without membership rolls to refer to, we cannot, of course, assess the numerical strength of the church, and this is only one way of measuring the quality of the church life, anyway. But it would be safe to assume that after the formation of the new group, membership of the Arapohue Church dropped for a while at least, and it must have been a difficult time in many ways.

Over the one hundred years of its life, the main church building has not undergone any structural changes, but a vestry at the back was built in 1908, Miss Dreadon said that Mr George Sills was greatly interested in the church, and he and others built the lean-to on the back. The Trust minutes of 2nd December 1907 record that; "Some necessary renovations and alterations of church buildings were .discussed, and it was decided that the church should be painted, and a W.C. built as soon as necessary funds are in hand. All Trustees to be collectors for this work"

They must have carried on with this project, for in the year ending September 1909, we read in the account book that donation and subscriptions for this work amounted to £22.11s, which was the cost of the erection of the vestry.

The Northern Wairoa Circuit minute book records that "Mr New reported a vestry built at Arapohue free of debt Resolved on motion of Mr New that a hearty vote of thanks be accorded to Messrs Harding, G. Sills and W. Simpkin for labour and materials."

In 1903 the Circuit Society Stewards for Arapohue were J. Matthews, G. Sills and H.J. Slade. In 1906 they were G. Sills, G. Warren and W. Webb. The church services were being held fortnightly at two o'clock. ~ 151 ~

Arapohue was trying hard to get a married home missioner stationed there, and in 1908 Mr B. New urged the placing of the home missioner, either married or single, at Arapohue as being more likely to influence the young men. But in the same year a letter was read at Quarterly Meeting saying that the friends at Arapohue were satisfied to leave the residence as it was then. In January 1906 the minutes record that a letter of sympathy be sent to Mrs W.G. Webb and family regretting the death of Mr Webb. The soirees still continued. The meeting on 7th July 1909 was told of concerts at Rehia and Arapohue during the last quarter. At the meeting of 12th January 1910, Mr Slade of Arapohue said he would like to be relieved of the position of Senior Circuit Steward, but he was unanimously requested to retain office. He must have reconsidered, for in 1911 he was elected Senior Circuit Steward again. In 1923 he was again asking to be relieved, so he must have been kept working.

At the beginning of 1912, it was reported that the Arapohue Sunday School had been re- organised, and was doing good work. The next Quarterly Meeting, in April, was at Arapohue and for the next few years Arapohue had its regular turn at being the venue for these meetings. Did the Arapohue officials complain of the long trip across the river each time?

At the January 1914 meeting Mr H.T. Smith Junior was appointed the Society Steward for Arapohue. At the April meeting of 1914 Mr New moved that Mr Munro be Arapohue’s congregational representative, and Mr S. Pritchard be sacramental steward. This appears to be the first mention of Mr Sydney Pritchard, and his long and loyal association with the church continued until his death in November 1975.

Travelling conditions could not have been easy, even yet. In October 1914 it was reported that the Arapohue Bible Class had been closed owing to bad weather, but was about to re- open, its membership averaging about twenty. In January 1918 it was noted that good work was being done in the Sunday School by Mifs New. (note the spelling, the secretary was obviously an older person).

Now we come to a time of change in the Circuits of the Northern Wairoa area. Apparently a division, with the river as a natural boundary line, had been considered for some time. An adjourned Quarterly Meeting on 31st January 1918 decided that the area including Arapohue, Okahu, Rehia, Toka Toka, Naumai, Raupu and Ruawai be formed into a home mission station as a circuit on its own, to be known as the Rehia Home Mission Station. The first Quarterly Meeting of the new Rehia Home Mission Station was held in the Arapohue Church on 1st July 1918. Those present were W. Simpkin, G. Sills, J. Young, A.J. Bailley, B.C. New, H.J. Slade, S. Pritchard and Miss D. New, with Rev Southern as the chairman.

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It is not often that a woman's name appears in the quarterly meeting records of the time, but Miss New was appointed as the agent for the Missionary Review, so perhaps this was the reason for her presence. It had been decided that the minister was to reside at Ruawai, but apparently this did not happen, as in October 1918 the Circuit hired Mr Paton's house at Arapohue for the minister for fifteen months. Then in April 1919 it was moved by B.C. New and seconded by W. Simpkin that Mr B. Simpkin's house at Arapohue be purchased at a sum of £300. In July 1919 a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr W. Simpkin for collecting for the Parsonage, and also to Mr Bulford for renewing the church roof. The minutes of the next Quarterly Meeting, in October 1919, record the names of the first Arapohue Parsonage Trust as Messrs Slade, New, Ball, Simpkin and Pritchard, with other names to come. At this meeting it was decided to purchase Mr Battensby's horse for the Circuit, so there are no car expenses yet. Then in April 1921 when Mr Cule was leaving, it was decided to buy his harness and buggy for £14. At the same time, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr & Mrs Cule for the splendid work done for the church while living at Arapohue.

In January 1923 a letter of appreciation was to be sent to Mr New for "his services rendered in the church while living in the district." They moved to Te Puke.

At the first Quarterly Meeting of 1925 it was moved by S. Pritchard and seconded by Mr Roberts that "we re-unite with the Northern Wairoa Circuit to enable a third man to be appointed. The Circuit to be under the superintendance of the minister at Dargaville." The last Quarterly Meeting of the Rehia Home Mission Station was held at the Arapohue Parsonage on 1st April 1925, and Mr Clarke the retiring Home Missioner was remembered with an expression of appreciation of his work.

But the Arapohue Church was not part of the Northern Wairoa Circuit again for very many years, for in 1933 the Ruawai Circuit was formed, with John Court as the first minister, though by now the minister was stationed at Ruawai, not at Arapohue. Now we are moving into the time of being able to draw on living memories as well as using the available records. The first Quarterly Meeting of the new Ruawai Circuit was held on 4th April 1933, and the Arapohue officials were listed as follows; Mrs W. Dreadon and Mrs A Simpkin as society stewards, Mrs P. Speedy as the congregational representative, Mrs G. Webb and Mrs Keer as benevolent stewards George Simpkin as a local preacher. Miss T. Webb as the Sunday School representative, and A. Simpkin, W. Simpkin and S. Pritchard as Trustees.

It was reported at this meeting that a strong Women's Guild had been formed in the Arapohue - Mititai - Okahu area. Indeed, this Guild has continued, with a name change, as the most permanent of all the church groups, and over the years it has made a great financial contribution to the upkeep of the church. ~ 153 ~

Over the last fifty years there have been repeated and regular references in the records of substantial donations made by this group. In the early days this group of ladies worked very hard catering for the local stock sales as a fund-raising effort. They included Mesdames Fanny Webb, Rita Norris, Poppy Wyatt, Mildred Speedy, Vera Dodd, Nell Hamlyn, and Gladys Young. Bill Taylor, who lived opposite the Mititai sale-yards, would keep out a bucket of milk on sale days, and at first, the ladies boiled the water for the tea in his copper.

Over the years, many people have made some area of church service their own special responsibility. One of the early members of the church, Mr James Young, always wound the clock. He used to walk off to church before his family was ready, in order to prepare for the service. Mrs George (Fanny) Webb cleaned the church and arranged the flowers for many years until she grew old, when a roster of helpers was arranged. Mrs Bill (Gladys) Young prepared the communion elements for thirty years, and started by helping Fanny Webb in this task. In the mid-thirties we see two Quarterly Meeting entries which reflect the times. On 12th July 1933 it was decided that the Arapohue Parsonage and Church Trust be approached about buying two benzine lamps for the Arapohue Church. This would probably be the last outlay for lighting of this kind, for it was to be only a few years before electricity reached the district in 1937. The same Quarterly Meeting reminds us of the Depression, with the following reference: "Relief Camps. Moved Mrs George Webb and seconded by Mr Cates that we get in touch with other denominations re a systematic visitation of the Relief Camps, and that if a combined effort be not possible then we still do our best for the local camps." There was a camp at the Mititai Hall for a while.

INTO THE SECOND FIFTY YEARS

Preparations were being made for the Golden Jubilee. At the Quarterly Meeting of 9th July 1935 it was moved by W. Simpkin that a Jubilee gathering be held. It was decided to hold morning and evening services on the second Sunday in December (which was not the actual anniversary of the opening), to be followed by a sacred concert on the following Tuesday. An attempt was to be made to obtain the Rev W.T. Blight, or failing him, the Rev A. Mitchell as preacher, but the following Quarterly Meeting report does not state who the preacher was. In 1937 the Ladies' Guild president was Mrs A. Ball and the secretary was Mrs P. Speedy. In 1938 a balance sheet from the Arapohue Catering Ladies showed "splendid financial results", and in that year the group made donations totalling £28.7.8d to the Home and Foreign Missions, the Trust funds, and towards the installation of electricity in the church. In 1939 it was the same story, with the Guild still working hard, and this year they raised ~ 154 ~

£26 from working at the stock sales, and £24 from other sources. The April Quarterly Meeting warmly congratulated them on their "splendid effort".

In April 1940 Mrs Webb presented the report from the Ladies' Guild, and this year they had raised $41.15s with catering at the Mititai sales, and they were able to make various donations, and "improvements to the Arapohue Church and approaches thereto", and still have a credit of £20 in hand. Though it is many years now since the Ladies' Guild ceased catering for stock sales, they have continued their very considerable financial contribution to the upkeep of the church.

The Arapohue Parsonage Trust was disbanded in 1940, and the parsonage which had been rented for some years, was sold to Mr Howard Pritchard, who soon left to join the Air Force. Later his father lived here for his long retirement, and was handy to the church for his chore of mowing the lawns, which he did for many years.

The Quarterly Meeting minutes continue to give us information about the events of the Church. In 1941 it was noted that Rita Snowden was to visit Arapohue on 19th June. Wally Smith was reported as a prisoner of war, and was to spend the rest of the war in Germany. In 1943 a letter of appreciation was sent to Mr W.P. Begg for his services as organist at Arapohue for a number of years, and a letter of appreciation was also sent to Miss A. Foster for her services as a Sunday School teacher for the last five years. Mrs Malcolm, the headteacher's wife, carried on with Sunday School work. In July 1944 the minutes record a welcome to the Ralph family, and in the years to come, members of this family played a very full part in the life of the church.

The Diamond Jubilee of the church was approaching, and it was felt that it was time to make some alterations and improvements to the building. The Church Trust joined with the Ladies' Guild and the circuit stewards to form a committee to consider ways and means. The Ladies' Guild already had £80 available for the work, and the Circuit was asked to subsidise these funds with an equal amount from the Harding Bequest. The pine trees around the boundary were cut down, and the sale of these provided further funds. Older members will remember a working bee at the church, with the women and young people bagging pine cones for sale while the men did the heavier cleaning up. It would be interesting to know how many descendants of the people who were at the first site-clearing working bee were there that day! The improvements to the church at this time cost over £300. In October 1944 the Trust secretary, J.A. Simpkin stressed the "Present exorbitant costs", but by today's standards, the amount was put to good use. The interior of the building was painted, the windows were replaced, the pulpit was remodelled, and the vestry room at the back was enlarged, with a kitchen and cloakroom added. Mr E.J. Clarke did this work during 1945. In 1945 Mr A.L. Hutching's name appeared on the preaching, plan as a local preacher, and was to remain there for many years. At the Quarterly Meeting in October 1945, a reference to the Sunday School work is typical of many other reports throughout the years. "Miss F. ~ 155 ~

Ralph gave a report of the Arapohue Sunday School stating that the roll was 20, average attendance 14, and made reference to the Youth Service held recently, in which some of the older Sunday School scholars took a worthy part. In this connection, Mrs Norris and Mrs Webb on behalf of the Arapohue parents wished to extend thanks to the Ralph family for all the preparation and training of the children."

Progress! The circuit plan for the quarter ending July 1946 announces a Home Mission meeting at Arapohue on 27th May, when Rev. Laurenson was to show moving pictures, one of which was to be a new 'Talkie'. The war was over now, but food parcels were being sent to Britain and Europe, and the Arapohue Church was one place where goods could be left. The Arapohue Bible Class helped considerably with donations for this cause, sending food parcels for several years after the war to Roumania, Hungary and Austria. The Arapohue fellowship sent many food parcels to Bolton, in England, to names connected with a Methodist church there, after a member had seen a request in the Methodist Times.

In 1946 a new car was purchased for the Circuit, and the Ladies' Guild made a donation of £10 towards this. The Ruawai Bible Class donated a baptismal font to the church, and Ngaire Lila Webb and Joan Emily Louise Dodd may have been among the first babies baptised after this was presented.

The 70th Anniversary of the opening of the church was held on 6th June 1949, the error in the date not being discovered until later. The fifties and sixties would appear to have been a good time for the Arapohue Church. The war was over, and the country was entering on a period of prosperity, transport was easier with better roads, and the petrol shortage of the war years was over. There were quite strong and lively Sunday School and Youth groups, while the Ladies' Guild continued to function as actively as ever. To mention a few families, the Ralphs, Simpkins and Youngs were strong supporters, and had young members in their families who were also active in the church, so the Arapohue Church group was not made up only of older folk.

In the Quarterly Meeting minutes there are many references to the healthy state of both the Sunday School and Ladies' Guild. The church membership for the adult roll was recorded for the whole of the Ruawai Circuit, but judging by the collection amounts as recorded quarter after quarter, the financial contribution of the Arapohue group was at least as large as any of the other churches in the circuit. The late forties and into the fifties was the period of regular Fellowship lunches at the church after the service in the morning, followed by a time of singing, prayer and devotions. In the fifties we note a record of appreciation of the work of three most faithful members. In 1950 the Trust minutes record appreciation of Mrs G.S. (Fanny) Webb's services in cleaning the church for many years, in 1955 Miss Foster was farewelled as she returned to live in England, and in 1958 the Trust placed on record their appreciation of Mr S. Pritchard's work in mowing the lawn for so long. ~ 156 ~

The Trust continued to keep the building in a sound condition, with the help of the ever generous Ladies' Guild. In 1955 they made repairs to the roof, and in 1956 the floor was to be sanded, the pulpit renovated and the pews cleaned and re-varnished. The church was nearly burnt down in the fifties. Mr Anderson the schoolmaster, who lived across the road found the long grass ablaze one night, and put out the flames with buckets of water. In October 1959 the Ruawai Circuit magazine, the 'Reflector' noted that Mr A.L. Hutching had been appointed the new Circiut Steward, making this the first appointment from Arapohue since the Circuit was formed in 1933, though earlier W. Simpkin and S. Pritchard had been circuit stewards for the Rehia Home Mission Station.

THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

The Quarterly Meeting minutes continue to give much of the written information, but also referred to are the little 'Reflector' magazines that Rev D. Burt published while he was minister of the circuit. Also, these are more recent times, and we can rely on memories, too. In any circuit where there are several preaching places and only one minister, the lay preachers have a prominent role. Many lay preachers have occupied the pulpit at Arapohue, and we pay tribute to their service in spreading the Christian message. During the time of Rev D. Burt's ministry in the Ruawai Circuit he trained and prepared several young people to sit for local preachers' exams. They included Richard Johanson, Warren Roberts and Bill Simpkin from Arapohue. In 1960 when he passed his final exams, Richard just missed top place in New Zealand by a fraction of a mark. In 1961 when Bill was received as an accredited local preacher, the reception service was taken by his uncle, E.T. Simpkin, the president of the Northland branch of the Local Preachers' Association. 1960 saw Misses F & A Ralph leaving the district, and tributes were paid to their family's contributions to the life of the church. In the same year, Mr and Mrs S. McCully came to the district and joined the church, to be other faithful and hard-working members.

The 75th anniversary of the opening of the church was held in May 1960, and this anniversary service was taken by Rev. H. Moore, returning to the circuit for the occasion. At this service there was recognition of Mr A.L. Hutching's twenty five years as an accredited local preacher. The list of Arapohue Church officials in October 1960 were as follows; Miss G. Simpkin as Home Mission secretary, Mrs R. Johansson as Foreign Mission secretary, Mrs J.A. Simpkin as president of the Ladies' Guild and Mrs W. Young as secretary, Mr J.A. Simpkin as Trust secretary, Mrs L. Hutching as Sunday School superintendant, W.A. Simpkin as society steward, Mrs G. Webb and Mrs W. Young as sacramental stewards, Mrs S. McCully as the members' representative, and A.L. Hutching, R. Johansson as local preachers, with W. Simpkin on trial. The first Quarterly Meeting of 1961 sent greetings to Mr S. Pritchard on the occasion of his 80th birthday in February. In July 1961 it was reported that Mrs S. McCully was now treasurer of the Ladies' Guild. In January 1962 Ngaire Webb and Joan Dodd, whose ~ 157 ~ baptisms were noted earlier, were confirmed as members, and Mrs Karl Webb who had already been attending the church for many years, was received as a transfer from the Salvation Army in Auckland.

At the April 1964 Quarterly Meeting, Mr J.A. Simpkin, the Trust secretary reported that the church had been reblocked, reroofed and the windows reglazed. The contractor, Mr Bruce Turley, had supplied materials at cost price. Thanks was given to the financial assistance from Mrs G. Webb and the late George Webb. In 1968 the Arapohue Church became part of the new Union Parish of Ruawai, and these words were soon put on the notice board outside the church. However, the union with the Presbyterians was no new thing for Arapohue. Over a great many years the congregation had been a combination of Presbyterians and Methodists worshipping amicably together. Some services were taken by the Presbyterian minister of Ruawai.

Some of the Presbyterian members were… Mr W. Begg who was organist for a long time and with his wife and family made a regular part of the congregation. In later years his daughter, Mrs Betty Webb was, for a time the Sunday School superintendant, and her husband, Bill Webb, acted as circuit steward. Mr & Mrs Don Boyd attended regularly, usually bringing a car full of children from the Windy Hill area. Mr Boyd left a bequest to the Arapohue Church. Mrs Madge Hamlyn, ever since her marriage, has been a reliable member, and was secretary for the Ladies' Guild for fourteen years. Mrs Val Davis also, and her family were regular at church and Sunday School. The first Union Parish Council meeting to be held at Arapohue took place in July of that year, and reports from various departments were given. In the Sunday School, Mrs L Hutching reported 28 children, ten families and seven teachers. For the Women's Fellowship (note the change of name) Mrs J.A. Simpkin reported regular meetings, visitation to the Eventide Homes at Te Kopuru, and plans for the annual sale of work at Mititai. Mrs V. Davis reported on the Arapohue family social, very much enjoyed by about sixty adults and children. J.A. Simpkin reported on the Trust, and said that owing to two legacies the financial position was very healthy. The church itself was very sound, and had been kept in good repair over the years. Thanks was due to the women of the church for the great contribution they had made. The Sunday School hall was in doubtful condition, and would probably need replacing sometime in the future.

The church was now called Wesley Church, so it kept its Methodist connections still. At the April 1969 Parish Council meeting Mr S. McCully expressed the appreciation of the congregation of the new wording on the church notice board. The Trust was asked to consider some immediate action concerning the church, and in that year a contract for the painting of the exterior was let to K.R. Dreadon for $281. In 1969 also the Johansson family were farewelled as they left for Auckland.

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In February 1970 the Parish Council sent a letter of greeting to Sydney Pritchard on the occasion of his eighty-ninth birthday. He had quite a few more years of connection with the church still, for he died on 15th November 1975, after over sixty years of active and loyal membership at Arapohue. He had a good tenor singing voice, which was heard at services until he was a very old man.

In March 1977 a further change in the Ruawai Circuit took place, and the Arapohue Church became part of the Ruawai Co-operating Parish, when the Methodists and Presbyterians of the former Union Parish combined with the Anglican Churches of Ruawai and Mititai. Since the end of the seventies and early eighties it has seemed that the church might have to be closed, as numbers of members decreased, and problems associated with the uniting of denominations needed resolving. For some time the Trust had been holding funds which included legacies from the late Donald Boyd and Letitia Dreadon, and in May 1980 they decided to proceed with plans for renovations, subject to approval by the Parish Council. By December 1981 the Trust had the green light to proceed, and they resolved "to enquire for a suitable person to undertake the necessary work."

Also, at this Trust meeting the members agreed to sign a Dissolution of the Trust, and to arrange for a Memorandum of Transfer of the title of the church to the new Co-operating Parish of Ruawai. So in June 1982, after 97 years in existence, the Arapohue Church Trust became the new Arapohue Church Maintenance Committee. Two family names covered the whole period, and members of this committee were C. Bickers, S. McCully, W. Simpkin and D. Young.

At this first meeting of the newly named committee, the members decided to abolish the old hall at the rear of the church, and build a smaller one. The contract for this work was let to John Pattinson. The total cost, including some other repairs and renovations, was $5846, of which $2132 was contributed by the Women's Fellowship, continuing their tradition of substantial financial help towards the upkeep of the church. The opening service for the new hall took place in November 1982, and was taken by Rev Barry Jones. Now we come to the present day, and the concluding of this little history of the church.

Many families have had a long association with this church, and names keep appearing, but ministers have come and gone in fairly rapid succession. The Methodist organisation of the past has been for ministers to move on after only a few years, and most were not given long to make their mark here. Though many ministers who have served at Arapohue may not be mentioned by name, we do appreciate and value their work. The service that they and their wives gave has been of immeasurable value in the life not only of the church but the district as a whole. The early ministers deserve much credit for the visiting they did when the lack of, or poor conditions of the roads made walking or riding, and later, driving, a difficult operation. ~ 159 ~

Ministers and their wives have used their own special strengths in their work here. Mrs John Dennis is remembered for her habit of always standing in the church porch with her husband, and greeting everyone with a cheery word and a firm handshake. The valuable work that Rev Doug Burt did in training future local preachers has already been mentioned. These people are remembered by the writer. There are many others who have made their contribution and passed on, unknown now, but we thank them.

While we regret that the centenary of the Arapohue Church also marks its closing as a place of worship, we can rejoice in the one hundred years of Christian witness and service it has provided. This little account attempts to record something of its history during this one hundred years of its life.

MARRIAGES AT THE ARAPOHUE CHURCH

As taken from available marriage registers. 1922 Frank John Taylor and Pretoria Mary E.M. Wear 1922 Henry Joseph Eddy and Ivy Winnifred Gallien 1934 James Hotham Wyatt and Emma Elizabeth Ball 1937 John McKenzie and Zoe Rosemary Fischer 1938 Ian Hamilton Copeland Dassler and Ellen Doreen Young 1940 Eric Karl Shepherd and Althea Webb 1948 Arthur Reeves Palmer and Rosemary Ethel Simpkin 1950 Henry Richard Johansson and Mona Noeline Elizabeth Ralph 1954 William Keith Browning and Gladstone Olive Anderson 1958 Henry Leo Van Veen and Noeline Florence May Ralph 1966 David Lincoln Philpot and Ellen Louise Dreadon 1967 Kelvin John Wells and Evelyn May Dreadon 1968 Raymond Douglas Rountree and Judith Anne McGowan 1969 Siosaia Finau Militoni and Phyllis June Dassler 1972 Frederick John Reeve and Lloma Jeanine Dreadon 1980 Ronald Edwin Peter McKenzie and Shirley Mclntyre 1959 Graham William George Crawshaw and Joan Alvan Simpkin 1984 Brian Josey and Lynette Harris

LIST OF MINISTERS AND HOME MISSIONARIES

Who have served in the Northern Wairoa Circuit, Rehia Home Mission Station and Ruawai Circuit from 1880 to the present time. 1880 Wairoa George W.J. Spence (Aratapu) 1881 " 1882 Andrew C. Caughey " (C.H.Garland for 6 mths) 1883 Thomas J.Wills 1884 Thomas G.Brooke (Aratapu) ~ 160 ~

1885 - 1886 " (Mangawhare) 1887 Northern Wairoa George T.Marshall " 1888 " 1889-91 Thomas S.Jones " 1892-95 Joseph Blight " 1896-98-99 Samuel J.Gibson " 1900 B.F. Rothwell " 1901-02 R.Taylor " 1905 George Frost " 1904-05 S.Peryman " 1906 W.Wills " F.Martin Rehia HM 1907 " " C.J.Bush Rehia HM 1908 " " one to be sent 1909 " " W.H.Wise Rehia HM 1910-11 John D.Jory " H.Odell Rehia HM 1912 Wm S.Bowie " H.Benny Rehia HM 1915 " " A.E.Haynes Rehia HM 1914-15 Wm.Speer (Dargaville) A.E.Haynes Rehia HM 1916 " " H.Ford Rehia HM 1917 Wm.Speer (Dargaville) N.Challoner Rehia HM 1918 John Southern " W.Vickers Rehia HM 1919 Rehia H.M.Station A.Fitchett (Arapohue) 1920 G.H.Cule " 1921 T.Flower " 1922 C.Aker " 1923 " " 1924 E.J.Clarke " 1925 Northern Wairoa Wm A.Watson (Dargaville) E.Hill Arapohue 1926 Amos Reader " 1927 E.W. Hames C.Reay Ruawai 1928-29 G.Rotherham Ruawai 1930-32 Walter J.Enticott W.John Court Ruawai 1933 Ruawai Circuit W.John Court The Arapohue Methodist Church 1885-1985 by Hazel Simpkin

1934-35 Henry J.Tozer 1936-37 H.Ian K.Hopper 1938-40 Howard C.Matthews 1941 Robert W.Mayson 1942-45 Clarence T.J.Luxton 1944-45 W.G.Peate (H.M.) 1946-49 Harry Moore 1950-55 John Dennis ~ 161 ~

1954-56 A.Wharton E.Silvester 1957-61 Douglas H.Burt 1962-65 Amos Burroughs Ruawai Union Parish 1966-68 Charles D.Shave 1969-72 W.S.Gilbert Ruawai Co-operating Parish 1973-77 F.J.Bradley 1978-81 D.R.Curtis 1982-85 J.Deacon 1985-85 K.Gwynne

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HARRY WEBB ALF DREADON AND GEORGE SILLS. THE UNKNOWN OLD MAN MAY BE GEORGES FATHER SIMEON SILLS. SAME SORT OF EYES

GROUP PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CLARK FAMILY TAKEN ON THE VERANDAH OF THEIR STORE AT WHAKAHARA, NORTHERN WAIROA. THEY ARE FROM LEFT (STANDING): GEORGE CLARK, HANNAH MARIA CLARK, WILLIAM CLARK, SARAH ANN CLARK. 4 (SITTING): CHARLES CLARK (FATHER), DINAH CLARK (MOTHER)..

4 DATE: [CA1865] REF: PACOLL-0036-8-03 POSSIBLY PHOTOGRAPHED BY J J POTTER, SCHOOL TEACHER AT WHAKAHARA

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9 NOTES FOR SAMUEL REV WEBB

Hi Roger a picture of me so you know who you are talking to. William Green Webb and his brother Samuel Alfred came out on "Northern Castle" 3 Dec 1872

William Green did not marry a widow. She was Mary Birks. I have her and William Green's as well as Rev Samuel Webb's and Sarah's death certs. I also have William Green, Thomas Stirrup and Rev Samuel Webb's Wills Thomas Stirrup father of Sarah Stirrup married a widow. He married Ann Hulse (Mrs) She was Ann Prince daughter of John Prince and Ann Swift. Did you know that Samuel Webb, William Green, Thomas Stirrup and his father John also John Prince were all pottery manufactures . There are other pottery manufacturers that these families are connected to.

Saml Webb

Event Type Census

Event Date 1841

Wolverhampton and Seisdon, Staffordshire, Event Place England

Residence Note Church Street

Gender Male

Age 58-62

Age (Original) 58

Birth Year (Estimated) 1779-1783

Registration District Wolverhampton & Seisdon

Book Number 7

Parish Wolverhampton

County Staffordshire ~ 166 ~

Page Number 1

Registration Number HO107

Piece/Folio 1000/24

Affiliate Record Type Household

1841 shows the following

Sarah Webb

Event Type Census

Event Date 1841

Event Place Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England

Residence Note Church Street

Gender Female

Age 47-51

Age (Original) 47

Birth Year (Estimated) 1790-1794

Birthplace Staffordshire

Registration District Wolverhampton & Seisdon

Book Number 7

Parish Wolverhampton

County Staffordshire

Page Number 1

Registration Number HO107

Piece/Folio 1000/24

Affiliate Record Type Household

ROLE GENDER AGE BIRTHPLACE HOUSEHOLD

Saml Webb M 58-62

Sarah Webb F 47-51 Staffordshire

Thomas Webb M 24-28

Josiah Webb M 20-24 Staffordshire

Sarah Webb F 18-22 Staffordshire

Samuel Webb F 16-20

Joseph Webb F 13

William Webb F 10

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Alfred Webb F 8

birth: father: Joseph Webb 25 November 1827 Samuel Webb England Births and christening: mother: Christenings, 1538- 23 July 1831 Sarah Stirrah 1975 WESLEYAN, SAINT AUSTELL, CORNWALL, ENGLAND

Sarah Ann Webb birth: father: England Births and 9 April 1823 Samuel Webb Christenings, 1538- christening: mother: 1975 23 July 1830 Sarah Stirrah WESLEYAN, SAINT AUSTELL, CORNWALL, ENGLAND

Samuel Webb birth: father: England Births and 13 January 1825 Samuel Webb Christenings, 1538- christening: mother: 1975 23 July 1831 Sarah Stirrah WESLEYAN, SAINT AUSTELL, CORNWALL, ENGLAND

William James birth: father: Webb 13 July 1830 Saml. Webb England Births and christening: mother: Christenings, 1538- 23 July 1831 Sarah Stirrah 1975 WESLEYAN, SAINT AUSTELL, CORNWALL, ENGLAND

Name Samuel Webb

Spouse's Name Sarah Stirrup

Event Date 08 Feb 1816

Event Place Caverswall,Stafford,England ~ 168 ~

 spouse:Mary Ann Frost Thomas Stirrup birth: about Wolverhampton, Webb 1823 Stafford,  children:Mary Jane Webb, Charlotte Webb, Samuel International Lichfield, Webb, Alfred Webb, Emily Webb Genealogical England Index (IGI) marriage: 1 February Parish of 1844 Wolverhampton, Stafford, England

1841 Census

Sarah Webb Age: 60 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1781 Gender: Female Where born: Berkshire, England

Civil Parish: Hungerford Hundred: Kintbury Eagle County/Island: Berkshire Country: England

Street address:

View Image Occupation:

Registration district: Hungerford Sub registration district: Hungerford Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Sarah Webb 60 Sarah Webb 20

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10 NOTES FOR SAMUEL WEBB AND ANN GREEN

<="" td=""> [2 of 3] Name WEBB, S Vessel NORHAM CASTLE: Dec 3 1872

<="" td=""> [3 of 3] Name WEBB, W G Vessel NORHAM CASTLE: Dec 3 1872

WEBB Samuel - Whakahara - 189 189 High Court Auckland, Department of Akl ORDER DETAILS

Farmer » 9 9 Justice d

WEBB George Samuel - Arapohue - Farmer ORDER DETAILS » 1963 1963 Whangarei High Court Akld

Land valuation - George Samuel Webb to Karl High Court Auckland, ORDER DETAILS 1950 1950 Akld

Shallard Webb » Department of Justice

Land valuation - George Samuel Webb to William High Court Auckland, ORDER 1951 1951 Akld

George Webb DETAILS » Department of Justice

Application for consent to sale - Calvin Deed, Cecily High Court Auckland, Muriel Deed and Edith Ellen Maria Webb (Trustees of 1945 1945 Akld ORDER Department of Justice

Samuel Webb) to Daniel George McIntyre DETAILS »

WEBB Samuel - Aratapu - High Court Auckland, Department of ORDER DETAILS 1921 1921 Akld

Settler » Justice

Name Birks

Gender Female

Christening Date 1791

Christening Place ASHFORD CARBONELL,SHROPSHIRE,ENGLAND

Father's Name Samuel Birks

Mother's Name Sarah

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WILLIAM GREEN

View Tree GENDER

Male BIRTH

1791 Sources1 1. MARRIAGES (1)

SPOUSE

Mrs. William Green MARRIAGE

1823 Longton,Staffordshire,Eng

WILLIAM GREEN

View Tree GENDER

Male BIRTH

1791 Sources1 1. MARRIAGES (1)

SPOUSE

Mrs. William Green MARRIAGE

1823 Longton,Staffordshire,Eng

Name Events Relationships birth: 1853 Bilston, Stafford, England  father:Samuel Webb William G. Webb  mother:Ann Green International Genealogical Index (IGI)

Name Events Relationships birth: 1853 Bilston, Stafford, England  father:Samuel Webb William G. Webb  mother:Ann Green International Genealogical Index (IGI)

birth: 1855 Longton, Stafford, England Mary E. Webb  father:Samuel Webb International Genealogical Index (IGI)  mother:Ann Green ~ 171 ~

Name Events Relationships birth: 1859 Longton, Stafford, England George Webb  father:Samuel Webb International Genealogical Index (IGI)  mother:Ann Green

birth: 1857 Longton, Stafford, England Thomas Webb  father:Samuel Webb International Genealogical Index (IGI)  mother:Ann Green

birth: 1860 Longton, Stafford, England Sarah A. Webb  father:Samuel Webb International Genealogical Index (IGI)  mother:Ann Green

birth: 1854 Longton, Stafford, England Samuel A. Webb  father:Samuel Webb International Genealogical Index (IGI)  mother:Ann Green

birth: father: Samuel Webb 13 January 1825 Samuel Webb England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Newbury mother: christening: Sarah 23 July 1831

Name Events Relationships Preview

birth: father: William James Webb 13 July 1830 Saml. Webb England Births and Christenings, 1538- christening: mother: 1975 23 July 1831 Sarah Stirrah WESLEYAN, SAINT AUSTELL, CORNWALL, ENGLAND

William James Webb christening: father: England Births and Christenings, 1538- 8 September 1830 James Webb 1975 WELLINGTON, SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND mother: Jane

William James Webb birth: father: England Births and Christenings, 1538- 13 July 1830 Samuel Webb 1975 Redruth mother: christening: Sarah 23 July 1831 Paternoster Row Wesleyan Methodist Registry, London, England

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Name Sarah Stirrup

Gender Female

Christening Date 27 Jun 1788

Christening Place ST JOHN'S, LONGTON, STAFFORD, ENGLAND

Mother's Name Mary Stirrup

Name: Samuel A Webb View Age: 7 Original Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854 Record Relation: Grandson Father's Name: Samuel Mother's Name: Ann Gender: Male

Where born: Longton, Staffordshire, England View original image

Civil Parish: Longton Ecclesiastical parish: St James Town: Longton ~ 173 ~

County/Island: Staffordshire Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage: View Image

Registration district: Stoke Upon Trent Sub registration district: Longton ED, institution, or vessel: 13 Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule 18 number:

Household Members: Name Age William 70 Green George 37 Green Ann 34 Webb Samuel 36 Webb William G 8 Webb Samuel A 7 Webb Mary E 6 Webb Thomas 4 Webb George 2 Webb Sarah A 7 Webb Mo Ann Elton 17 Ann Love 17

Sub registration district: Trentham ED, institution, or vessel: 4h Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule 80 number:

Household Members: Name Age Samuel Webb 46 Samuel Alfred Webb 17 Mary Emily Webb 16 Thomas Webb 13 George Webb 12 Sarah Ann Webb 10 Elizabeth Webb 8 ~ 174 ~

Arthur James Webb 6 John Henry Webb 4 Charles Webb 2 Elizabeth Hughes 23

1861 CENSUS

ABOVE: SAMUEL WEBB NZ AND THE GREENS

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1871 CENSUS FOR SAMUEL WEBB NZ

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NOTES FOR SAMUEL WEBB

Name Samuel Webb

Gender Male

Christening Date 23 Jul 1831

Christening Place Paternoster Row Wesleyan Methodist Registry, London, England

Birth Date 13 Jan 1825

Birthplace Newbury

Father's Name Samuel Webb

Mother's Name Sarah

View all related information

NAME: Samuel Webb GENDER: Male FATHER'S NAME: Samuel Webb SPOUSE'S NAME: Ann Green SPOUSE'S FATHER'S NAME: William Green MARRIAGE DATE: 05 Jun 1851 MARRIAGE PLACE: Lane-end and Longton, Staffordshire, England

HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS NAME

Samuel

Webb Ann

Green

Samuel Webb England Births and Christenings

 spouse:Mrs. Ann Webb Samuel Webb birth: about Staffordshire, International 1823 Sedgley, England children:Thomas Webb, John Webb, Isaac Genealogical Index marriage: about nr Staffordshire, Webb, William Webb, Samuel Webb, Hannah Webb (IGI) 1849 England

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Type: Marriages Surname: Webb First name(s): Samuel Start date: Mar 1845 End date: Dec 1855 Spouse/Mother's surname: Green Spouse's first name(s): Ann District: all County: Staffordshire

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Marriages Jun 1851 (>99%)

Webb Samuel Stoke on Tr 17 217

Marriages Jun 1851 (>99%)

Green Ann Stoke on T 17 217

Name Ann Green

Gender Female

Christening Date 06 Aug 1826

Christening Place LANE END,STAFFORD,ENGLAND

Father's Name William Green

Mother's Name Mary

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11 THE ARATAPU WEBB’S (Brother to ours at Arapohue)

MR. THOMAS STIRRUP WEBB

An old Colonist he is one of the oldest settlers in the Aratapu district, and after surmounting all the difficulties of the pioneer days, he is now, at the ripe age of eighty-four, surrounded by descendants to the third generation, and in the enjoyment of peace and plenty. Mr. Webb was born in Leicestershire, England. He was the son of the Rev. Samuel Webb, a Wesleyan minister, and was educated at Kingswood school, Bristol. Mr. Webb afterwards settled at Boston in Staffordshire, where he carried on the business of a chemist, and was one of the township commissioners. He came to Auckland in 1863, and has occupied many honourable positions in the colony. He has been in his time a Justice of the Peace, a coroner, a returning officer, county councilor, and licensing commissioner, but on account of his advancing years, he has not for some time held any public position. 5

Parents Reverend Samuel Webb Married Sarah STIRRUP 8 Feb 1816 At Caverswall, Staffordshire, England Sarah was born about 1781 Berkshire, England The 1841 census she is living at Kintbury Eagle, Hungerford, Berkshire England

THEIR CHILD… Thomas Stirrup WEBB Born 7-2-1817, Parsonage, Castle Donnington, Leicestershire, England Died 1903 1903/4994 Webb Thomas Stirrup 86Y

Thomas Stirrup WEBB married Mary Anne FROST At the Old Church at Wolverhampton 8-2-1884

5 THE CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND [AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL DISTRICT] ~ 179 ~

Thomas and family immigrated to New Zealand on the good ship “Gertrude” 1863 and 6 settled at Aratapu on the Northern Wairoa south of Dargaville. When Thomas Stirrup was only eight years old, he was sent to the College founded by John Wesley for educating the sons of Wesleyan Ministers. Kingswood school about four miles from Bath. (See history section of this document). Here he stayed for six years, learning, amongst other things, Latin and Greek. When he left, he was the third top boy in the school and was one of the six Censors (Prefects). His father seemed to wish him to be a Minister, but as he had no talent for speaking, he objected, though he did help in composing sermons. He became apprenticed then to John Perdue, a wholesale chemist and grocer at Hungerford in Berkshire. By this apprenticeship, which cost seventy pounds he was bound for seven years. After some time he set up as a chemist and druggist at No 8 High Street, Bilston Mary Ann Frost was born at Ettingshall Lane, commonly known as Calcherns Corner on 1 March 1821, the eldest daughter and second child of Mathew and Mary Frost. Mathew Frost was a wealthy man; (See reference in History section of this document) He was railway contractor and road surveyor. He owned, at various times, several collieries around Bilston. Mary Anne had a horror of affectation. She was an active strong woman, always at work a born administrator who got through a pile of work. Mary Anne was called affectionately by the early settlers in the Northern Wairoa Old Lady Webb. She was noted for the good table and the style of living she always kept. It was from her side of the family that the original money came. She inherited both money and property and these she left to her husband Thomas Stirrup on her death in 1855. Thomas also inherited from his mother Sarah as her father had also been a wealthy man.

CHILDREN OF THOMAS STIRRUP AND MARY ANN WEBB From the ‘Gertrude’ passenger list

Arthur Charlotte Emily Mary Anne Samuel Sarah E Thomas Four children died in their infancy.

6 (SEE SHEILA M BELSHAWS BOOK. “MAN OF INTEGRITY” FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THEIR LIVES ON THE NORTHERN WAIROA)

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Thomas Webb Married Penelope Martha MASSEY Who was born 1834 and died 1919

They had two daughters and a son Thomas Clifton Webb. (Sir Cliff) Sir Clifton would go on to be a very well-known New Zealand Politician and at the end of his career was knighted for his service to his country.

The following came from my source (A Biography of Sir Clifton Webb by Sheila M Belshaw)

CHILDREN FOR THOMAS AND PENELOPE WEBB…

Samuel WEBB Born 1845 Died 1921

Emily WEBB Born 1859 Died 1911

Mary Jane WEBB Born 1847

Thomas WEBB Born 1850 Died 1933

Thomas Anthony WEBB Born 1849 Died 1850

Charlotte WEBB Born 1852

Alfred WEBB Born 1855

Sarah Anne WEBB Born 1861 Died 1863 ~ 181 ~

Emma Sarah WEBB Born 1857 Died 1859

Henry WEBB Born 1853 Died 1856

GERTRUDE 1863

The sailing ship that, Thomas Stirrup Webb and his family came out to New Zealand on, arriving in Auckland, Feb. 9th. 1863

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SHIP GERTRUDE ship 1300 tons ARRIVAL DATE Auckland 9 February 1863 MASTER J C CONGDON PORT OF DEPARTURE from London - 97 days from Gravesend NEWSPAPER/DATE The New Zealander 10 February 1863

PASSENGERS…

ADAMS, Emma

ALEXANDER, Andrew, Margaret, Margaret & Agnes

ANTUBUS, Ed C

ARIDGES, James F

ARNEY, Emma

ATTENBOROUGH, John

BACH, Harriet, Alfred & Thomas

BACON, George

BAKER, Henry J & Mary Ann

BALL, Henry

BEASLEY, Henry F

BELL, John

BENHAM, William

BLANDFORD, Emily, Maud, Rosa, George, Eliza, Constance, Blanch, Lillian, Morgan

BLOOMFIELD, Alice & Grace

BLOOMFIELD, Elizabeth E, Francis, Mary Ann, Charles, Ellen, Frederick W Samuel & Emma

BOCH, Rachael, Richard, Ellen, Helpoen Maria, Emily & Florence

BOTHAM, Robert & Mary

BOYD, James S

BRADLEY, Alexander & Susanna ~ 183 ~

BRADLEY, John, Jane, Jane, David, Franklin, William, Catherine, Robert, Susanna, Samuel & Mary

BRAITHWAITE, Joseph

BRO*ERIP, Edmund

BROOKS, Albert E

BROTHY, John H

BROWN, Chas

BROWN, Peter

BULLEN, R, Mrs, Robert, Thomas & Walter

BURGESS, W S

BURNS, William & Agnes

BYATT, Charles & Robert

CAMPBELL, Robert & Archibald

CARROLL, Robert

CASHMORE, Peter, Ann, Thirza Ann, Benjamin, Helen & Wm

CHADDOCK, Bartholomew

CHADWICK, William & Jane

CHOAT, John, Alice, Sarah, Catherine, Alfred J, James F & Elizabeth

CLARKE, James, Elizabeth, Martha A & Ebeneza

CLOKEY, Jane

COMFORTH, Charles & Mrs Ellen

COOK, George

COOK, Henry, Eliza, Albert & John

COOK, Paul B & John G ~ 184 ~

COOPER, Theophilus, Susanna, Susanna, Jane, Theophilus, William, Edward & Charles

COTTERILL, Henry, Mrs Harriet, Alice & Ellen

CRANWELL, George, Fanny, Emma & Ann

CROSBY, Robert

DAWSON, Frank

DAY, W

DOUGLAS, Rachael

DUCKWORTH, James H

EASTWOOD, James & Charles

EASTWOOD, Wm, Mrs Ann M, Nancy M, Alfred H, John, Jessie H, Edgar & Walter H

EDWARDS, Joseph, Caroline & Caroline

ELLIOTT, Charles

EVENDON, William & Sarah

FACON, Robert

FARMER, George E

FARRAND, William B

FENWICK, Ralph G

FISHER, Samuel

FITCHERY, Joseph

FLETCHER, Howard

FOUND, Mary

FURNESS, William

GLEN, Joseph A ~ 185 ~

GOWLAND, Peter C

GRACE, Gerald

GREGORY, Alfred B

GRIFFITHS, Harriet

GROOMBRIDGE, Alfred W, Sarah, Alfred

HAMMOND, Thomas & M A

HANSON, Jane

HARPER, G

HARRISON, John

HAUGHAN, Jesse H & Sarah

HAWKINS, William, Deborah, Margaret, Deborah, Annie, James & Isabella

HAYES, Lydia

HAZARD, William H

HENDRY SMITH, John & Janet

HERSEY, James

HICKS, W H & Mrs

HINDLE, Emma

HINDLE, Thomas, Sarah, Ellen & Ann

HOGAN, Daniel

HOGET, Elizabeth, Mary Jane, Ann & Elizabeth

HOLDERSHAW, David

HORNE, Thomas

HOWARD, John & Annie ~ 186 ~

HOWARD, Samuel

HOWLEY, Philip

HUPERT, H W

HURDLE, James

JEPHESTE, Ellen

JOHNSTON, Joseph

JONES, Abegena P

JONES, Thomas

JONES, Thomas & Ellen

JONES, William

KIRK, Sarah

KIRK, Thomas, Sarah J A, George, Thomas W, Harry & Amy

LAMBERTON, Grace

LITTLE, James

LORD, Sarah

LYNCH, Thomas

LYSAGHT, Edmond

MAKINS, Edward

MARSEFIELD, Richard M M

MARTIN, Edwin

MARTIN, John, Maria, Edward & Maria

MARVIN, Lewis

McKENZIE, William ~ 187 ~

MOGINNIE, John, Charlotte, John C, Jane F, William J, Sarah, Clara E & Arthur

MOORE, Edward

MOORE, Edward

MORLEY, William, Mary Ann, Ann E & Charles

MORTIMORE, John & Martha

MOSSMAN, James D

MUCKLESTON, William

MUMFORD, Jonathan & Ann

MURRAY, T L

MYE, George

NATHAN, Harry

OGDON, Richard

OLIFF, Wm

OLIVER, John, Esther & John

PALETHORPE, Thomas

PARROW, John

PEARCE, William, Mrs, Polexfen (sic) Jane, William, Sarah & Elizabeth

PERCY, Frank

PILKINGTON, Edmond

PINTER, G

PLUMLEY, Edwin A, Mrs Julia, Emily J, Fanny & Rosa H

POPE, Henry

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POYSER, Otho & Arthur

PYKE, George

RAWLINGS, Austin

ROBINSON, Charlotte, Rebecca, Emily, Harry & Charles

ROBINSON, William, Emma & Matthew

ROBINSON, William, Emma & Matthew Henry

ROWLEY, John

SANDES, Robert F M G

SANDES, Thomas G

SCRIMGEAR, James

SHEPPARD, George, Emily & William

SLATTER, John

SMITH, Joseph

SMITH, Robert

SOMERFIELD, F S

SPICK, Robert & Jane

STANSON, Mary, Charlotte & John

STEELE, George S

STEEN, Andrew

STEWART, Robert

TALLOW, Daniel & Mrs

THOMPSON, Eliza, George L, Janet & Mary

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THOMPSON, John H

THOMSON, George & Mrs Jeannnie

TIBBITS, Gerase (sic)

TREMANAN, Joseph B, Sarah, Joseph H, Sydney M & Daisy

TURNBULL, John, Jane & Jane

WAKEFIELD, Henry J

WALKER, Jos

WALKER, Stewart

WARD, Lydia

WEBB, Mary Ann, Samuel, Mary Ann, Thomas, Charlotte, Arthur, Emily & Sarah E

WEBB, Thos S

WHEAT, Thomas

WHITE, Henry

WHITE, James A, Samuel & Elizabeth

WHITHFORD, Clement, Elizabeth, Clement, Joseph H, Edward & Walter

WILLIAMS, Thomas

WOOD, John & Mrs

WOODMAN, Mary

WORKER, Rev W, Mrs Jane & infant

WORKER, Wm H, Fredk G, Annie, Mary N & Newton A

WRIGLEY, John

D Nathan, agent

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Yesterday evening about 5 o'clock, signal was made for a ship inside Tiritiri, which turned out to be the Gertrude, Captain J C CONGDON, 97 days from Gravesend and 91 from the Start. Had a severe gale in the Channel, which was the only heavy weather experienced throughout. Was 28 days fetching the line: The first land made on the NZ coast was Hokianga harbour which she fetched on Friday; making the North Cape on Saturday and from thence had a fresh breeze from the N.Z. Capt Congdon reports that he never experienced such a voyage of fine weather before. The ship has arrived in beautiful order; she brings a total of 365 all told, chiefly Non-conformists and all in good health. There were 3 births and 6 deaths (five children and one adult). Everyone on board speaks in the highest terms of Capt CONGDON and all his officers; testimonials were presented to them, as also to the Doctor, Mr FISHER. Owing to the lateness of the hour at which she fetched to her anchorage we are unable to give a detailed report but full particulars will be publish in tomorrow's issue as also the testimonials. We regret we are unable to obtain the names of the saloon passengers; they will appear in our next.

The following is our detailed report of the passage of the ship Gertrude - left Gravesend on 4 November, the Downs on the 6th; experienced very heavy weather in the Channel taking her departure from the Start on the 10th. Sighted Cape Antonio on 27 November: distance 30 miles: Caught the N.E. trade which was moderate; passed outside the Cape de Verds and crossed the Equator on 7 December. The S.E. trade, which proved variable and very light, was picked up. Passed the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope on 27 December and ran down her longitude in the parallel of 45 deg. S, experiencing fine weather and passing a long way to the southward of Tasmania. The first land made on this coast was Hokianga harbour which she fetched on Friday last and made the North Cape on the following day; had a fine breeze from the N.E. down coast, arriving off the Little Barrier on Monday afternoon. The whole passage seems to have been one of fine weather throughout; the passengers have all arrived in good health, no sickness whatever having occurred, although there were six deaths - five infants, and one lady through child birth. The following vessels were spoken - 26 November, ship Albenus from Glasgow bound to Calcutta; 29 January ship Bengollen off Tasmania; 6 February ship Dawson from Melbourne to Callao, 12 days out, and off the North Cape the schooner Amelia (which arrived in harbour the same evening as the Gertrude). The Gertrude is a fine roomy ship of 1300 tons, built at St John's, New Brunswick, in 1853. She sails fast, judging by the number of miles logged; her greatest day's run was 254 miles which was done repeatedly. She has made a very fair passage. Being only 97 days from Gravesend and was off Van Diemen’s Land on her 80th day out. The ship has arrived in clean and creditable condition. The names of the saloon passengers by this vessel appeared in our yesterday's impression. On discharge of her inward cargo the Gertrude proceeds to Bombay for which place she has a quantity of iron on board. The total number of passengers by the Gertrude is 365. The following is a list of their professions - 40 farmers; 5 drapers; 1 accountant; 1 dentist; 19 female servants; 1 merchant; 1 jeweller; 3 warehousemen; 2 millwrights; 1 gardener; 1 groom; 2 leather merchants; 7 clerks; 2 agents; ~ 191 ~

2 engineers; 16 labourers; 2 painters; 1 watchmaker; 3 blacksmiths; 1 dressmaker; 5 butchers; 1 mason; 2 millers; 8 carpenters; 1 mechanic; 3 joiners; 2 mariners; 1 rope maker; 2 lace makers; 7 farm servants; 1 pawnbroker; 3 printers; 1 chemist; 1 gauger; 1 cook; 1 plasterer; 1 grocer; 1 shop man; 1 cabinetmaker; 1 schoolmaster; 1 tailor.

On the Gertrude nearing Auckland the passengers assembled and presented the following testimonials…

SHIP GERTRUDE, 7 FEBRUARY 1863

TO CAPTAIN CONGDON

Sir - We the undersigned passengers on board the above vessel, beg to offer to you our thanks for the kind consideration you have shown for the health and comfort of all classes committed to your care during the speedy and pleasant voyage from London to Auckland under your command. We also tender our thanks for the unwearied attention you have paid to the navigation of the vessel, as well as extreme sobriety of your conduct by which you have set an example to all under your charge and we trust that peace, happiness and prosperity will attend your future career.

[Here follow the signatures] Not shown in the newspaper

TO MR ALLEN, CHIEF OFFICER

Sir - after a voyage from London of a most prosperous character, we the undersigned passengers of the Gertrude cannot separate without expressing our thanks to you for the many kind services you have rendered us and at the same time to congratulate ourselves in having so able a seaman as second in command of the ship and to whose skill and experience, under Divine providence, so much is owing that our course to Auckland will terminate so favourably. With our hearty good wishes for your health and welfare, we remain, [Here follow the signatures]

TO MR DUFF, SECOND OFFICER

Sir - We the undersigned passengers by the ship Gertrude from London to Auckland, before landing desire to present our sincere thanks to you for your very obliging and gentlemanly conduct towards all on board and to express our best wishes for your happiness and future success. [Here follow the signatures]

TO R E FISHER, ESQ, SURGEON

Sir - We the passengers on board the Gertrude desire before separating to tender to you our grateful thanks for your kind and unwearied attention during the voyage from London ~ 192 ~ and to congratulate you on the success of your professional services. As a small token of our esteem we beg your acceptance of the accompanying purse of sovereigns. With best wishes for your future prosperity and happiness, we remain, yours etc. [Here follow the signatures]

After these testimonials, which were numerously signed, had been presented, suitable replies were made by each party respectively.

DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XIX, ISSUE 1736, 11 FEBRUARY 1863, PAGE 3

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HISTORY RELATING TO MARY ANNE FROST WIFE OF THOMAS STIRRUP WEBB B C N BRANCHES AND BYE WAYS BY RAY SHILL

8. PENSNETT CANAL

The Earl of Dudley owned the largest proportion of mineral property in the Black Country, which included coal, ironstone, limestone and fireclay mines. Many of these properties were leased off to private enterprise, but there was a growing trend to bring these operations under the control of a central agency. Mineral acquisitions had proceeded gradually by the estate of Viscount Dudley and Ward, culminating with John William who was created Earl of Dudley in 1827. With his death in 1833 control passed onto the executors, who included the Earl of Stafford. Francis Downing was the mineral agent until 1836, but a very capable person, Richard Smith, replaced him. Smith was the architect of the industrial empire that was to be developed. It was Smith who took back many of the leasehold properties for in house control. These included the Level Furnaces. In order to improve communication a new private canal link was needed and within three years after Smiths appointment a new private canal was commissioned. In 1839 contracts were invited for the construction of this waterway

MINES OFFICE DUDLEY APRIL 16 1839:- TO CANAL CONTRACTORS

The Trustees of the late Earl of Dudley are about to make a canal from the Parkhead end of the Dudley Tunnel to the Pensnett Mine Engine near the Round Oak, Brierley Hill. Persons willing to contract to perform the work may see plans and specifications at this office after Tuesday the 28th day instant and may obtain further information from the engineer Matthew Frost, Wolverhampton Road, Bilston, every morning before eleven o'clock. Sealed tenders are required to be delivered to this office on Thursday the 2nd May addressed to Mr Richard Smith. The Trustees do not bind themselves to accept the lowest tender; sureties will be required for the due performance of work.

BIRMINGHAM GAZETTE 12TH APRIL 1839

Matthew Frost was a surveyor, land-owner colliery owner and contractor, who lived at Bilston. His contracting work was often conducted in partnership with John Bate. The Pensnett Canal was one of his earliest canal construction ventures and was conducted during the same period as cutting and making of the Hatherton Branch Canal (Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal), which was made between 1839 and 1841. Matthew Frost had two brothers, James and Samuel, who were also surveyors and Matthew may have been of assistance to his elder brother James Frost, who was contractor for the Stourbridge Extension Canal (1838-1840). ~ 198 ~

Cutting the Pensnett Canal began during 1839 and work was an ember of that year. It was constructed at the same level as that of the Dudley Canal at Park-head (473 ft.). A junction was made there above the top lock of the Park-head Locks and opposite another private arm that served M & W Grazebrook's Blowers Green Furnaces. This was a busy industrial area surrounded by coalmines, ironstone mines, iron smelting furnaces and iron works. The canal followed the 473 ft. level through to an area known as the Wallows. It was 1-1/4 miles long and completion of this waterway is generally agreed as during the year 1840.

Engineering features include the making of bridges for the tracks and turnpike roads and there was also a tramway bridge that had to be made for the "railway" from Dudley to Mines at High Lanes and the Park-head Furnaces. Compared to the Hatherton Branch Canal and the associated reservoir construction, the making of the Pensnett Canal was a much smaller undertaking. Matthew Frost then went on to other important projects. These included part of the Bentley Canal, Neachills Branch and Rushall Canal. He also was associated with the making of colliery tramways and railways. Frost built the Cheslyn Hay Tramroad between 1841 and 1842 for the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal Company and in 1845 was making a mineral tramway to Portobello Colliery for William Ward, whilst from 1851 to 1854 he and John Bate made part of the Great Western Railway line between Birmingham and Priest-fields.

The new canal provided access to the Old Park Colliery, which Richard Smith was keen to develop and link by a new railway to the furnace complex at the Level, Brierley Hill. Construction of the railway then followed, as did the reconstruction of the New Level Furnaces. The railway link formed the nucleus of the internal railway system developed for the Late Earl's Trustees, known as the Pensnett Railway and a wharf was made near the terminus of the Pensnett Canal for interchange between railway and canal.

The route the Pensnett Canal provided opportunity for canal side development and included coke ovens, limekilns and a brick works. The largest development was the Hartshill Ironworks, whose forges and rolling mills generated important traffic for the Pensnett Canal. Hartshill Ironworks was developed during tje late 1840's and became the property of Hingley and Smith.

Perhaps the most important volume of trade was directed towards the Wallows terminus where interchange was possible with the Earl of Dudley's various operations, which greatly increased during the 1850's and 1860's. The Pensnett Railway became quite extensive connecting a number of coalmines with the canal. Perhaps the greatest traffic came from the Old Park and later the deep mines at Himley that sent coal to the interchange basin at the Wallows. Railway boats also came to make the journey along the Pensnett Canal to fetch iron goods and other commodities for transhipment to rail wagons at their respective interchange depots on the BCN. ~ 199 ~

A later canal side development was a small power station at Hartshill for the Dudley, Stourbridge and District Electric Tramways that supplied current to the tramway network there.

The Wallows end of the canal was said to be disused by the mid 1940's but there was still traffic to the Hartshill Ironworks until 1950. After this ended, the whole canal became disused. Part was filled in, but a section near Hartshill remained in water, and in fact is still in water, a reed covered stagnant strip near Canal Street.

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ABOVE: JOHANNA’S GREAT, GRANDMOTHERS COUSIN

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NEWS OF THE DAY FOR ARATAPU WEBB

DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XXVII, ISSUE 4255, 4 APRIL 1871, PAGE 2

DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME XXVII, ISSUE 4302, 29 MAY 1871, PAGE 3

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AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME V, ISSUE 1288, 24 MARCH 1874, PAGE 2

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AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME VIII, ISSUE 2305, 25 JULY 1877, PAGE 2

NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LVI, ISSUE 17105, 10 MARCH 1919, PAGE 1

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AN OLD SETTLER DEPARTED NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XL, ISSUE 12352, 18 AUGUST 1903, PAGE 5

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NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LVIII, ISSUE 17820, 29 JUNE 1921, PAGE 8

NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXX, ISSUE 21651, 17 NOVEMBER 1933, PAGE 14

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AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXIV, ISSUE 272, 17 NOVEMBER 1933, PAGE 8

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NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXXI, ISSUE 21730, 20 FEBRUARY 1934, PAGE 12

OBITUARY NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LXXI, ISSUE 21874, 9 AUGUST 1934, PAGE 14

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WAIROA BELL FEB 26 1897 ARAPOHUE AG SHOW –

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12 WILLIAM JAMES WEBB ARTIST

(Brother of Johanna’s 3 x great grandfather)

William James WEBB Artist

Following are four paintings by William

ABOVE: A SCENE FROM JERUSALEM WILLIAM SPENT SOME TIME IN ISRAEL.

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THE WHITE OWL

PERCH

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OXEN IN THE FIELD HOLY LAND

BIOGRAPHY OF ‘WILLIAM JAMES WEBB’

INTRODUCTION

There is few biographical details of Webbe (or Webb) who was known as a painter of rustic genre, religious and allegorical subjects, and animals. William James Webbe went by the name of William J Webbe for his paintings but went by the name of W. J. Webb when he 7 illustrated books. He lived in London, travelled abroad to Dusseldorf and to Jerusalem and the Middle East, and exhibited at the RA 1853-78, also at the British Institution and Royal Society of British Artists. The style of his paintings, with their detail and high colour, and the religious and allegorical content of his paintings, -- but chiefly his visits to the East -- declare him as a follower of Holman Hunt. He travelled to Palestine in the 1862. Although not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he was close to Holman Hunt, and it is likely that his style was initially influenced by him. Webbe exhibited a small number of faerie pictures in the 1850’s but the greater part of his output was of birds and animals, often with an element of anthropomorphism, set in minutely observed landscapes that resemble the Nazarenes as much as the Pre-Raphaelites. 8

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BIOGRAPHY 9

According to Jennie Shelley, his great great grandniece, who lives in New Zealand, Webb was born William James Webb on 13 July 1830 at Redruth, Cornwall, and baptized on the 23rd of that month at St Austell, Cornwall. One of eight children, he was the son of Rev. Samuel Webb (Wesleyan minister) and Sarah nee Stirrup. William married Besse [?] sometime before 1871, and they had 2 children, Wilfred Mark Webb and Ethel Alice Webb. William, who was living in Isle of Wight in 1856, resided at Langham Chambers 1857. In the 1901 census William aged 70 and his wife Besse aged 52 were living at 4 Marlborough Rd, Ealing, Middlesex, and his occupation was artist. Also at that address was his daughter Ethel who was a science mistress. I have not been able to find the date of his death, but he would have died in England. His 2 brothers Samuel Webb and Thomas Stirrup Webb came to N.Z. Samuel was a pottery manufacturer in Stoke on Trent (Webb and Walters also Webb and Co). William's mother also came from generations of pottery manufacturers.

I have many books that he illustrated, such as Bible stories for children and poetry books. William's son Wilfred Mark Webb OBE wrote books on nature study, which his father illustrated. Wilfred wrote ‘Heritage of Dress’ and 2 volumes of ‘Eton Nature Study’ (text books for Eton College). William's illustrations of insects etc. in the text books are in very great detail. I have found some of William's pictures on the internet. There are 5 in the Bridgeman Art Library and 1 on the Christopher Wood Gallery site. Also on many poster sites his picture ‘The Collared Thief’ can be found. art.com lists many of his paintings that have come up for auction. I found a list of some his paintings in a book at the library in ‘The Royal Academy Exhibitors’ He must have done over 30 painting in his lifetime. Somewhere in N.Z. there is an original painting done by William J. Webbe of 2 of my relatives. The painting has been damaged in a fire but me and many of my relatives have copies of it.

LIST OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY W J WEBB…

Jennie Shelley, the artist’s his great great grandniece has kindly shared the list of books illustrated by him with readers of the Victorian Web.

6 books printed by Raphael Tuck and Sons…

The 23rd Psalm The Influence of Beauty by Keats Feld Blumen (poetry in German) Bluen Botschaft (poetry in German) Homes of England by Mrs Felicia Hemans

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The Sower and the Seed by Helen Marion Burnside Other books for adults The Holiday Train by Frederick Longbridge A Journey from Cornhill to Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray The Children’s Friend 1893 Eton Nature-Study And Observational Lessons (2 volumes) by M.D. Hill and Wilfred Mark Webb Heritage of Dress by Wilfred Mark Webb Illustrated Natural History by W G Ridewood The Friendly Visitor Bible stories for children Bible Stories and Pictures by James Weston and D J D Bible Pictures and Story" (New Testament) by James Weston and D J D Bible Pictures and Stories (Old and New Testament) by D J D The Beautiful Story Charming Bible Stories Young Folks Story of the Bible Old Testament Stories by Robert Tuck

PAINTINGS BY W. J. WEBB

The White Owl, 1856 Perch on a River Bank A Plough Team outside Jerusalem, 1879 Other known paintings, places where exhibited, and current location A Hedge Bank in May, British Institution, 1855 Cattle and a Frame, a sketch, British Institution, 1856 Strawberries, British Institution, 1860 Lambs, British Institution, 1860 Early Lambs, British Institution, 1861 A Rabbit, British Institution, 1862 Street in Jerusalem, British Institution, 1863 Ploughing on Mount Zion, British Institution, 1864 The Lost Sheep 1864: Manchester City Art Galleries Twilight (currently at Christopher Wood Gallery) The Collared Thief William also illustrated his son’s books. His son was Wilfred Mark Webb.

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SHORT BIOGRAPHY WILFRED MARK WEBB OBE DATES: 1870'S / EARLY 1950'S

Webb was a naturalist, archaeologist and photographer. During World War 2 he worked for the government, deciphering enemy codes. He founded the Selbourne Society, which promotes natural history and owns 200 acres of ancient woodland in Perivale. Following his death, his second wife Daphne gave some of his collections to the University of Reading.

Gunnersbury Park Museum… The ancient Egyptian objects in the museum are flints collected by Wilfred Mark Webb and Frederick Sadler. There is no indication that these objects come from known excavations.

Wilfred Mark Webb's house in Hanwell Middlesex The Hermitage

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W J WEBB PAGE FROM ETON NATURE STUDY. I HAVE MANY CHILDREN'S BIBLE STORY BOOKS BY W J WEBB

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Hi Roger I had heard of that Journal. I don't have that one. The books I have of Wilfred Mark Webb's are: The microscope and it's uses. Heritage of dress Eton Nature Study part one and two. The 2 books were illustrated by his father W J Webb Jennie

JOURNAL OF MALACOLOGY

A PARAGRAPH OR TWO OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE INCLUDED BY OUR SAMUEL WEBB WRITTEN ABOUT THE WEST COAST SHELLFISH ’THE TOHEROA’…

The end of 1895 will see the completion of the fifth year of the publication of the Journal of Malacology, which has now reached its fourth volume, the parts issued in 1892 and 1S93 forming Volume II.

Judging from the gratifying letters received from time to time, the present volume in no wise falls short of its pre- decessors, and as Acting Editor, I must sincerely thank those members of the staff on whose efforts the success of the JoL'KXAL has been largely dependent, as well as the literary and artistic contributors during the year. The care expended by the printer on the production of the work should also be made mention of.

It is contemplated that after this number, the Bibliography should be put into the hands of ^Ir. E. R. S^'kes, who has kindly offered to superintend the whole of the work in con- nection with this department.

Nothing more remains to be said except to express the hope that in iSg6 still better work ma}- be aimed at and accomplished.

Wilfred Mark Webb.

Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S. 15 Current Literature ...... •• 19.39.60,77

Editors' Notes ...... 31,52,68,86

The Toheroa and its Enemies . . . . Samuel Webb 67

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THE TOHEROA AND ITS ENEMIES…

There is a bivalve found on the coast (Wairoa) called Toheroa : it is found in the sand on the shore only where fresh-water runs across the beach. When the tide rolls in, the animals anchor themselves by a long tongue and the shells stand up in the sea-water " you may see them like tulips in a garden-bed. The birds of the shore are ready, and every now and then, down one drops, catches a Toheroa and rising up fifty feet or so, drops it on the hard sand and follows quickly to find the shell smashed, but often another sea-gull is there first and they have an argument about the matter.

There is also a fish called ‘Schnapper’ which makes a business of catching the bivalves, the fish come in shoals to where the Toheroas are found, and you can see their tails sticking up like grass in a field as they gulp down the poor things. These Schnappers are furnished with a pair of jaws like a stone-crusher, and boys and men catch them with a line and strong hook baited with a Toheroa and good they are to eat. TheToheroas are dug out like potatoes, and though they have many enemies they must increase very, very fast, for two inches below the surface there is often a layer three or four deep. The Maories go with pack 10 horses to fetch them.

10 SAMUEL WEBB,ROCKVALE, WHAKAHARA, JUNE EIGTH, 1895. [IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO LEARN THE SPECIFIC NAME OF THE BIVALVE. " ED.]

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