Part 4 plots 76 150 23 jun 2016

Plot 76 SOMERVILLE Hannah nee MAITLAND 1876-1950 Entry from Burial Register:- 73 years -19.3.1950. - grave 76.

Hannah Maitland was born 28 Aug 1876 90 Watson St Glasgow Scotland the youngest child of 3 ( 2 daughters and a son) of Robert Maitland 1851-1916 and Mary Campbell 1853-1884 who came from County Down Northern Ireland.

She died in Raetihi NZ 19 Mar 1950 whilst visiting her son.

Hannah's parents were both born in County Down, Northern Ireland, they being Robert Maitland (1851 - 1916) and Mary Campbell (1853 - 1884). Both died in Northern Ireland. Robert and Hannah Somerville's other 9 children are not buried at Kaukapakapa.

Hannah SOMERVILLE nee MAITLAND 1876-1950

Hannah Somerville 1876-1950

Plot 77 SOMERVILLE Robert 1868-1933 Entry from Burial Register:- 66 years, 12.1.1933 - grave 77

Robert Somerville 1868-1933 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21387, 11 January 1933, Page 1 SOMMERVILLE:- On January 10 (suddenly), at his late residence, Kaukapakapa, Robert, dearly-Beloved husband of Hannah Somerville; in his 66th year. The funeral will leave the residence at 2 p.m. to-morrow (Thursday).

Robert was born 10 Jun 1868 Ballinahonemore, Armagh, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland the youngest child and 3rd son of 10 children of Robert Somerville 1826-1907 and Rachel Latimer 1825-1914 He married Hannah Maitland at 2nd Presbyterian Church Parish of Armagh, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. on 20 Dec 1898 In the Census of 1901 he is farmer of Ballinahonemore, Armagh aged 32 In 1909 Robert journeyed to New York USA from Londonderry aboard the "Caledonia" arriving 6 Dec 1909.

He was 40 his destination was Chicago as stated on entry form to Amercia In 1911 Census he is 42 yrs, farmer, Ballinahonemore, Armagh But on 22 Jan 1912 he embarks aboard SS Turakina from London, bound for Wellington NZ. arriving in April. They arrived with 7 children, all born at Ballinahonemore. They had a further 3 children, born at Eltham, New Zealand.

1914 Electoral Roll for Egmont Taranaki Robert is labourer of Eltham, and Hannah is married of Eltham Rd Eltham.

1919 Electoral Roll for Egmont Taranaki Robert is Labourer of Eltham Rd. Eltham and Hannah married same address.

1928 He is Mill hand of Kaukapakapa and Hannah married of Kaukapakapa 1935 Only Hannah now of Kaukapakapa married.

1946 Eden Auckland Hannah is of Rautangi Rd , widow.

1914 Electoral Roll for Egmont Taranaki They shifted North to Kaukapakpa about 1923-1924 Where he died on 10 Jan 1933.

The father of 10 children. His son Norman Campbell (Plot 75 ) being the only one to predecease him.

Somerville Farmhouse on Kaukapakapa Farm

Robert Somerville having a cuppa break whilst haymaking.

Robert Somerville Funeral 12 January 1933

IN LOVING MEMORY OF ROBERT HUSBAND OF HANNAH SOMERVILLE DIED 10TH JANUARY 1933 AGED 64 YEARS ALO HIS WIFE HANNAH DIED 19TH MARCH 1950 AGED 73 YEARS ALSO THEIR SON NORMAN CAMPBELL DIED 8TH AUGUST 1927 AGED 11½ YEARS

Plot 78 DORMER Sarah Eliza (Sally Sal) 1893-1976 Entry from Burial Register:- 84 years, buried 20.5.1976, died 17.5.1976- grave 78 - daughter of Fred and Mary Dormer (graves 72A & 72B)

Sarah Eliza (Sally Sal) DORMER 1893-1976

Sally was born on 18 August 1892. The third daughter of Frederick Henry and Mary Alice Dormer of Kaukapakapa, her birthplace was in Peak Road on a property which her parents owned, and which her brother Herbert farmed for many years. Sally lived there for most of her life and only moved to Orewa a few years before her death.

This move was responsible for a very enjoyable period in her life as in her many years living in Peak Road, she was a long way from the township and she did not drive. In her new home she was within walking distance of shops and she was also able to join in the social activities which she so dearly loved.

During her working life, Sally was employed in the store of F Dye & Son, Kaukapakapa. In early days their store was not only the grocery butchery and drapery, but was also the Post Office and gum store.

Sally earned the gratitude of the district with her cheerful efficiency and kindly consideration for the women on outlying farms, who were seldom able to come to the store and who had to do all their shopping over the telephone, the wires of which could often be seen strung along ti-tree or other trees.

Every week-day morning Sally mounted her bicycle at the foot of Shanks Road and rode down the unmetalled and sometimes very muddy Peak Road to her work place - a journey of approximately three miles.

After store hours, Sally took an active part in all social events. In later years she was a keen member and treasurer of the Womens Division Federated Farmers which, when she retired, honoured her with Life Membership.

In l960 when the Centennial of Kaukapakapa was celebrated Sally took part in the parade of floats, mounted on a horse.

She dressed in her grandmother’s fifty year old outfit consisting of blouse, skirt, cape and bonnet. She was mounted on a horse in the old fashioned way sitting side-saddle. At this time in her life she would have been in her late sixties!

Although Sally did not marry she was always interested in children.

Her nephews and nieces and children of the district remember her kindly ways.

Sally died on 17 May 1976 aged eighty-four years.

IN LOVING MEMORY SARAH ELIZA DORMER LOVED DAUGHTER OF FREDERICK AND MARY DIED 17TH MAY 1976 AGED 83 YEARS

LOVED BY ALL

Plot 79 HOOPER Charles Henry 1848-1934 Entry from Burial Register:- 85 years -27.3.1934 - grave 79.

Clara and Charles Hooper at their Makarau Farm HOOPER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21760, 27 March 1934, Page 1 HOOPER.—On March 26, 1934. at his residence, Makarau, Charles, beloved husband of Clara Lavis and son of the late Charles Hooper, "Warkworth, aged 85 years, after a long illness. His end was peace. Interment today (Tuesday), at 2 p.m. at Kaukapakapa.

Charles Henry HOOPER born 1 Feb 1848 Templecombe Somersetshire England Emigrated to NZ 26 Sep 1859 on SS Matoaka ( Charles Hooper & Family 6) 20 Aug 1874 married Clara Lavis CLINKARD at Otara Farm Kaukapakapa. He died 25 Mar 1934 Makarau, New Zealand His Occupations Makarau, Kaipara, Auckland, New Zealand Applied for a job as broad axeman at Thomas Clinkard's in Makarau Valley., produced Charcoal under contract to Auckland Gas Company with his brother Alfred, and he farmed at Makarau. In 1917 while managing the

farm of one of his sons, who was away on active service, he was seriously injured. He was driving a spirited horse and was thrown and run over by the overturned gig. He retired from active life.

Charles, Nellie, Tom and Frank Hooper Charles and his brother Alfred, (Plot 80B) produced charcoal under contract to the Auckland Gas Company.

Charles became an expert with the broadaxe - a heavy axe with an offset blade. He was reputed to be able to split a three-penny piece into fairly equal portions, just for fun. Charles married Clara Lavis Clinkard on 20 August 1874. Charles and Clara farmed at Makarau for the rest of their lives. After some years Alfred moved to there as well. Clara was the Makarau postmistress until just before her death on 29th May 1939. Alfred was born on 13 September 1850 and died on 26 May 1940.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 28 August 1914, Page 4 MAKARAU ITEMS (From Own Correspondent) At the conclusion of the Church service on Sunday, the Rev. J. A Lamond, on behalf of the congregation, presented Mr C Hooper, with a handsomely bound hymn-book, as a slight mark of their appreciation of his services as organist during the past fourteen years. Mr Hooper has resigned on account of advancing years.

A surprise party waited on Mr and Mrs C. Hooper on Tuesday evening, and a very enjoyable time was spent.

After a most bountiful supper had been partaken of, Mr W. Gardner thanked Mr and Mrs Hooper for their kindness to the unexpected guests, and three hearty cheers were given them. The National Anthem was sung with much feeling before the company dispersed.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21763, 31 March 1934, Page 14 MR. CHARLES HOOPER A very old resident of the North Auckland district, Mr. Charles Hooper, of Makarau, Kaipara, died this week after a long illness. The late Mr. Hooper was born at Temple Coombe, Somerset, England, 86 years ago and came to New Zealand in the ship Matoaka, commanded by Captain Stevens, in 1859. He spent his youth at Warkworth, moving to the Makarau district about a year after his marriage to Miss C. L. Clinkard, a sister of Mr. C: H. Clinkard, M.P., of Rotorua. Applied for a job as broad-axe man at Thomas Clinkard's in Makarau Valley., he also produced Charcoal under contract to Auckland Gas Company with his brother Alfred, and he

farmed at Makarau. Mr. Hooper was well known as a musician and for 40 years was church organist at Makarau. With two of his sons and a daughter he formed a small orchestra and they played over a very wide area. In 1917 while helping to manage the farm of one of his sons who was on active service, he was seriously injured, and was compelled to give up his music and retire from active life. . He was driving a spirited horse and was thrown and run over by the overturned gig.

He is survived by Mrs. Hooper and six sons and six daughters. There are 41 grandchildren and 18 greatgrandchildren.

1 Henry Alfred (Harry) Hooper b. 18 Jul 1874 died 29 May 1959 2 Thomas William (Tom) Hooper b 8 Sep 1876 Mahurangi Died 3 May 1957 Kaukapakapa 3. Amelia Ellen Hooper (Nellie) Born 10 Jan 1878 Makarau Died 2 Mar 1967 Glen Eden 4 Charles Francis (Frank) Hooper Born 10 Jul 1880 Makarau Died 4 Dec 1960 Tauhoa 5. Julie Annie Hooper Born 10 Sep 1881 Makarau died 23 Mar 1963 New City, Rockland , New York, USA 6. James Samuel (Jim) Hooper Born 11 Dec 1882 Makarau, Died Thames, Coromandel.

7. Alfred Edwin (Fred) Hooper Born 19 Apr 1884 Makarau, Died Auckland 8. Mary Margaret (May) Hooper Born 10 Jun 1885 Makarau Died 31 Dec 1966 Papakura 9 Margaret Louisa Hooper Born 1887 Makarau Died 13 Jul 1906 Kaukapakapa 10 Clara Ellen Hooper Born 10 Sep 1889 Makarau Died Auckland 11. Albert George (Pat) Hooper Born 30 Sep 1891 Makarau, died 5 Oct 1962 Tirau, South Waikato 12. Edith Rachel Hooper Born 29 Dec 1893 Makarau 13 Lucy Ethel (Jane) Hooper Born 17 Dec 1895 Makarau Died 1986 Auckland 14 Florence Mabel (Florrie) Hooper Born 30 Aug 1899 Makarau Died 3 May 1926 Auckland The family was musical with Thomas and Henry playing the violin, Charles the clarinet, Frank the cello and Nellie the piano. Both Henry (1914 - 1923) and Charles (1929-1950) were local body representatives. Henry was an excellent man at working bullocks and had his own team at 14 years old.

Clara Lavis Clinkard was born 29 Aug 1857 in Oxford England, and Died at Kaukapakapa 29 May 1939 Clinkard Family Mr and Mrs Thomas Clinkard and family arrived in New Zealand from England in the year 1864 with a family of 3 children. Another child was born in NZ in 1868. Thomas had been a tenant farmer of Church land in Carsington, and paid his own passage out to New Zealand to take up a Government grant of 40 acres of land on gum ranges between Makarau and Kaukapakapa. However when he saw the land he refused to pay the rates and instead bought land on the Makarau River.

Before taking on this property Thomas Clinkard was head shepherd for Sir John Logan Campbell on the land that is now Cornwall Park, Auckland. The land at Makarau was virgin bush and Thomas proceeded to fell this and till the land. Fortunately he had brought a good range of farm implements from England.

Mary the eldest daughter of Thomas and Ellen married Isaac Glenny, an Ulsterman who was building bridges on the main north railway line in the Makarau district. She used to hep drive the bullock team, which hauled the timber for the bridges. After they were married Mary & Isaac lived in Onehunga and later Isaac was in charge of the train which ran between Onehunga and Auckland.

Clara the second daughter married Charles Hooper, whose family arrive in New Zealand on the ship Matoaka in the year 1859 and settled in the Warkworth district near Mahurangi Heads. . After Clara and Charles Hooper married they settled in the old home at Makarau and her parents lived with them. They reared 14 children to adulthood. Harry the eldest of the family later settled at Glorit. Tom after he married Florence Maxwell bought Cecil Clinkard's land and later purchased the old Hooper-Clinkard home farm. Her he developed a fine dairy farm. This farm, was later farmed by their son Max and subsequently by Max's son Richard. Frank remained in the district. Jim farmed in Makarau for many years and then sold out and went farming at Te Aroha. They retired to Tapu. Fred spent most of his life in bush work amongst the kauri in the north. Pat (Albert) after returning from the World War 1 bought land and farmed at Makarau for many years. They raised a large family and eventually moved to farm at Tirau and retired finally to Matamata.

Cecil, the only son of Thomas and Ellen married Julia a sister of Charles Hooper. Cecil became a Member of Parliament for Rotorua.

Annie the youngest of the Clinkard children, married Frederic Elvin and lived over the hills from Tom Hooper's on the side road off the Kanohi Rd. Their son Harry was killed at Messines in France in World War 1 Their daughter Daisy was well known for her work in the Womens Division of Federated Farmers Kaipara.

The Makarau land was heavy kauri bush with puriri and other native trees intersperse. The kauri timber and gum was the means of livelihood. Pit-sawing, the early method of milling the wood, with one man standing on top of the log and the other standing in a pit of sawdust below the log, was carried on in the area. The Hooper men were renowned bushmen. Their skill with saws, timberjacks and axes and their knowledge of building skid roads for bullock wagons and the use of river dams and floods to float the logs to the mills was sought by many timber corporations from Whangarei to Mamaku.

The Makarau Public Hall was built of kauri sawn on the old homestead. The contract to erect the hall was ₤20 , The contractor sublet this for ₤15 so he made ₤5.

MEMORIES OF MAKARAU…..FROM MAVIS COTTER (NEE HOOPER) I am the eldest daughter of Pat (Albert George) Hooper, youngest son of Clara Lavis (nee Clinkard) and Charles Hooper. My father was one of 14 in the Charles Hooper family. Dad always remembered my birthday, 27th July 1927, as I was born on the day his first lamb was born on his farm. I was also known as “Sis” to the majority of people as I was a sister to seven brothers – Bryan, Charles, John, Robert (Bob), Ron, Ian and Ray. I have a younger sister, Lois.

The Hooper family in the early days virtually had the whole of the Makarau valley under one “Blade of Grass”.

The Makarau school and “Horse paddock” were on the site of the Pat’s original farm. I am not sure if the Hall site was on the farm also but it may have been on the original Clinkard (later Hooper) land. Tom and Florrie took over this original farm and lived above the hall. Horace and Jim each owned some 400/500 acres on land stretching from Manuel’s farm, about two miles from Granny’s home and the hall, which was the centre of most social activities, with the Post Office tennis courts etc. ….up and over the hills in the North, towards the Kaipara Harbour. Their only neighbours were the Woodcocks, Manuel’s and Flynns, all about two miles from the centre. Originally the 1000 bushmen’s camp and the Depression camp were in the centre too.

I was born in the pit-sawn kauri house built by Dad and Uncle Alf Hooper after my Dad returned from four years of battle during the First World War, including Palestine, the Desert where he fought on camels. He had purchased 450 acres of unbroken land prior to the War because he was a member of the Auckland Mounted

Rifles. He left New Zealand in November 1915, returning in 1919. He had cleared enough scrub and bush to feed one cow, prior to leaving and my aunty Edith, his sister, milked and tended, whilst he was away.

As a signalman in the war he was involved in many brave and daring incidents and after one particular battle he was recommended for the Victoria Cross. However this wasn’t possible as all his officers had been killed so he was awarded the next highest honour, the D.C.M. He always maintained he eventually won the V.C. when he married Violet Constance McLean from Kaiwaka, whose parents owned and ran the Kaiwaka Post Office and Boarding House, just as the Hooper’s did in Makarau. It was Mum beautiful handwriting that was read on the Kaiwaka Post Office notice board telling the War news, which was telegraphed by horse and wagon around the district.

Many of Dad’s older brothers and sisters married school teachers who taught at the Makarau School and lived at Hooper boarding house.

Auntie Edith Hooper was engaged to one of these teachers, Kenny White, who was tragically killed in the war.

She ran the exchange and post office and kept the boarding house going as well as caring for grandfather. He was bedridden, as was common in those times, after sustaining an accident with his horse and wagon, after which his broken limbs could not be re-set.

Uncle Tom Hooper farmed across the road from home, adjacent to the Makarau Hall and their cowshed was just across the road from our house. The house is still standing today. He married Florence Maxwell, a teacher at Makarau and their only son Max eventually married Kathleen Dye from Kaukapakapa, another teacher at the school. From what I gather, Harry Manuel and Alf Ranum had “fallen in love” with Florence as pupils of hers at the school but it was Tom who won the hand of this beautiful, elegant lady. I recall her coming home from croquet at Kaukapakapa with daughter-in-law Kath and running up the hill at the age nearly 80 yrs. Their youngest daughter Nessie was postmistress at Makarau while Granny Hooper, as she was known to everyone in the district, and Uncle Alf lived in the original Hooper house after Grandfather Hooper’s death in 1935. Nessie was like our “big sister” until the tall handsome Basil Jones, in his little baby Austin car, (we used to say he didn’t sit in it ….he wore it like a coat!) married her and took her off to the family orchard and farm at Kaukapakapa. I recall her lovely wedding reception in the Makarau Hall and my mother’s pretty youngest sister, Olive McClean, as a bridesmaid.

He survived into his eighties! My mother used to take us to see him and Granny every day and as a treat we were offered a choice of a large variety of acid drops, black balls or changing ball lollies. You name …it was there in a large air-tight jar.

Grandfather was an amazing musician and played the organ, piano, clarinet and violin. Old Mr Titford from Waiwera told me once, when I was a young child, he could even blow a tune on the bullock horns he had mounted on the wall. The Hooper family band was well known in the North and travelled extensively by horseback to play at various community dances. It consisted mainly of Uncle Frank on Cello and violin, Uncle Tom on violin, Grandfather Hooper on clarinet and Aunty Nellie on piano. In later years they always gathered at home at Makarau for an annual reunion of music.

Granny also played the organ and sang beautifully. I stayed with her frequently from when I was eight years old and she told me many stories of going with her mother, Great Granny Clinkard…(Nee Cox) who was a teacher and tutor of the Churchill (of Winston fame) family, to visit their home in Oxfordshire, England.

She remembered the coach coming to pick them up for the journey. Granny also told stories of coming out to New Zealand on the sailing ship Siam in July 1865 and the many varieties of fruit stones, including that of the Cox’s Orange Pippin apple, their own propagated variety and many other English plants and herbs. They planted an orange seed at the house which grew into an enormous tree, but which took 60 years to bear oranges!

However when it did it was loaded and in season it was a treat for the local school to go once a week to Granny’s to harvest with a long pole the delicious oranges….BUT woe betide anyone who dared to try and steal fruit in between those times. That was when I learned…”Right from Wrong” after one such escapade!!!!

To hurt my dear granny left me broken hearted…but I learned a great lesson in NOT touching other people’s property. Granny was loved by everyone and she was always known as “Granny Hooper”.

Great Granny Clinkard (nee Cox) taught in one of the first schools in Auckland before the family moved up to Makarau to start farming on 160 acres , later extended, establishing a large orchard and also opened the original Post Office and Boarding –house in the district. The original homestead farm was named ‘Waitangi’.

Granny’s sister Annie Clinkard (later Elvin) was born in a thatched cottage they first built when they arrived.

She was also nearly one of the first white “cannibal” meals when Maori kidnapped her as a baby, but luckily later was found in a flax bush near the river.

Granny always wore, every day, a large beautiful, red stoned brooch, given her by Great Granny, which had been a gift of the Churchill Family on their departure to New Zealand.

The original home and post office became the social centre of Makarau, and was home to many school teachers and workers. Cliff Brooking and Molly, who was the teacher at the school, were Granny’s last boarders and Molly nursed her in her last stages of her life. She died on the 28th May 1939, two months before her last grand-child Ray Hooper, the youngest of my seven brothers was born in Helensville. The rest of us were born in our original pit-sawn kauri home, now occupied by the Pickett family. Their tennis court at the old place was always very busy, being straight across the road from the Hall.

I recall the excitement when the then Prime Minister, Gordon Coates, came to visit her and to speak in the hall along with Uncle Cecil Clinkard who was the Member of Parliament for Rotorua. He had also been the first Mayor of the town, elected on 27th February 1923. Later a street was named after him for his civic service. He even left a legacy for the maintenance of the famous Blue Baths. His wife Julie Hooper was a sister of Grandfather Hooper. Their son George Clinkard was High Commissioner in Brussels during World War 2 and he was evacuated prior to the defeat of Belgium. He was a survivor when a ship was sunk while escaping and I remember him speaking on the BBC after his rescue.

My mother, Violet Hooper, had been bed-bound with double pneumonia, for several months before Ray was born. This was the start of very indifferent health and later several heart attacks. After one serious attack she was taken by ambulance to Auckland hospital where she remained for six months. Dad had also suffered a heart attack two weeks prior and so he travelled to Auckland with her.

Thus it was my lot, at the age of 15 years, to look after the family, the cooking and washing etc. for several years. I earned my first money at age 22 when I started working in the telephone exchange at Kaukapakapa.

Each weekend, when I wasn’t working, I was back home to catch up on cleaning, cooking gardening and helping to milk. After having to apply for leave every few months to help at home, Dad asked me to leave work as they could not mange at home.

After several months I persuaded Dad to go look for a flat farm down in the Waikato where all seven brothers could be treated equally in a company farm. One thousand acres of hard, hilly country in the north paid a deposit on three hundred and forty acres at Okoroire Railway, near Tirau, out from Matamata – on highway 27.

It was then that I told everyone my name was Mavis and everyone since then has known me as that.

Undoubtedly it was big wrench for Dad who until his big lung illness, found to be caused by a “Bug” caught from camels in the first War, had ploughed from daylight to dark. Mum milked at night and I remember my eldest brother Bryan looked after us younger kids in a large tea chest in the separator room at the old shed.

I recall at about three years old trying to cook an egg. I poured too much methylated spirits into the cooker and it set alight to the kitchen, the flames rushing up the walls. Luckily the copper and rinsing water tubs were full in the washhouse and I can still see Dad and Mr Honey dousing the flames. We all went to sleep at Grandfather Hooper’s that night.

The Honey family worked for Uncle Jim Hooper just over the bridge. They later bought land further up Stony Creek Road - the original name of the road until it was changed later to Burnside. We could never understand why it was changed by someone’s influence that had only lived in the district for such a short time. In hindsight, with the number of Hooper properties covering most of the valley it should have been Hooper Road.

The Makarau Hall was the focal point for all social occasions, farewells to soldiers and more importantly “welcome home” dances, 21st birthdays (including my own) and wedding receptions.

As the hall was just over the road, I could see it every morning from my bedroom window. It was our family’s lot to prepare, decorate and clean-up. Miss Dalrymple at the school had taught us how to cut paper decorations and Chinese lanterns and we used to cut Ponga ferns to place on the walls. Miss Dalrymple was well known of course for her red suits, red high-heeled shoes, red fingernails, red car…and RED FACE…when she used to jump up and down when she became frustrated with the older boys who were still at school. I can also remember Miss Dalrymple trying to drill into the rest of the school that my mother had christened me MAVIS and that was my name …NOT “Sis”. I think she failed, until I changed my name in 1950 when we shifted. By

the way, we always said that “we brought the Ranfurly Shield down with us”, as that was the year Waikato took it off Northland.

I can still remember Charles, John and I pulling around Bob, Lois, Ian and Ray on bags of hay, some times over kerosene soaked sawdust, to polish the hall floor after sweeping out. Then of course we scraped candle wax onto the floor….and polished again. It was the envy of many dancers from other areas when they came to a dance.

I remember in earlier days, prior to when electricity came to the valley, Mum and Dad putting us down to sleep in the ladies cloak room. Of course once a month we used to have a church service in the hall and I remember Granny giving me a half Crown, which was lot of money then, for the plate collection. In fact our whole family was baptized in the hall at the Methodist Church services, probably after a “kitchen evening” that had been held there the night before. It was of course the venue for Sunday school often taken by Bill McLean from Kanohi.

The Great Flood was a disastrous event, when the water was gushing over roads and through Mr Woodcock’s cowshed. It was during this flood that the train was delayed bringing in Nurse Burns to attend my mother at birth of my sister Lois. Dad had to drive through the floods to the station to bring her home and on the way back was caught in the flood on a rise above Woodcock’s cowshed. He had to abandon the car and the two of them had to struggle through the pouring rain across hills and paddocks on the way back.

In the panic of waiting, Jim Mathews went out in search of them and found the car with just the roof showing above the raging torrent. Luckily both Dad and the Nurse both made it through at 1am, while many of the neighbours were out searching by lantern light. All of this tended to have an effect on Dad’s future health.

Three months later was operated on for his lung problem and given only two years to live. Luckily he out-lasted the dire diagnosis.

We enjoyed many of the functions organized by the Woman’s Division of Federated Farmers (W.D.F.F) and I recall a vice-versa dance when Mrs La Page Robbie and her mother, Mrs Collie came dressed as tramps. They never spoke to anyone all night and no-one could guess who they were. That was also about this time when I first “trod the boards”, acting in division plays and skits from the age of about 16. I was the youngest member for several years.

One of the war efforts by the division was making a special quilt on which each member embroidered their initials. e.g. “V.C.H.” All the squares were joined together by Aunty Annie Smith, Dad’s sister, who used to do beautiful handwork. The finished quilt was sent to the Cairo Hospital and the first to use it was a local solider named Jim McAllister who had worked on our farm. Although it had to be shared around he was allowed most time with it. It caused much fun trying to work out whose names the initials were.

One of my Dad’s sad duties during W.W.2 was having to ride four miles to tell a very deaf Mrs Honey that her son Les was missing, believed to be a P.O.W. Others were the visits to Mr Brendon Clark, our teacher. His two only brothers, both Spitfire pilots, had been shot down and were missing. He was also Master of Ceremonies at most of the farewells, kitchen evenings and wedding receptions at the hall.

Referring back to our school days, which were very important to us, we were well served by the character, skills and knowledge of the teachers who taught there. Mr Brendon Clark B.A. taught us Esperanto as a language as he felt would be the future universal language! He extended our knowledge of geography by encouraging us to have overseas pen pals. Brother Ron had an Esperanto pen pal in Liverpool, England, to whom we sent food parcels during the War. They reciprocated by sending us postage stamps for our collections. Mr Clark had majored in English and Maths for his B.A. and was also a wonderful and accomplished flautist and music teacher. He extended my schooling beyond Proficiency as he knew I would be unable to go to secondary school.

Later, after I left school, the roll grew and the school qualified for a second teacher. During the war teachers were in short supply, and Mr Clark sent my reports and marks to the Education Department, to assist him with his teaching of the junior children, as I had done while at school. I was accepted for a short training course as a teacher, but I had to decline this wonderful opportunity as the family could not manage without me because of Mum and Dad’s indifferent health.

Mr Clark’s wife, Veronica, taught the girls singing, played the piano and sang at functions in the hall. Kath Hooper (nee Dye) played at our Church services, farewells etc. and she also accompanied my Dad when he sang and played the violin at functions.

Phyllis Hooper (nee Thompson) was also a talented pianist who coincidentally later taught my mother-in--law, Sarah Cotter (nee Malligan), when they were in Helensville. She also taught my sister Lois.

When I learnt the piano, at about age ten, I had to walk two miles down the road at 7 am on a Saturday morning, to meet Bob Sands with his milk lorry at the corner of the main Kaukapakapa-West Coast road. From there we travelled side roads to Jordan’s Island farm and arrived in Helensville at 9 am. I would have a lesson from Mrs Kelly, the assistant headmaster’s wife, for what was supposed to be an hour. On most occasions, the return milk truck driver, Bob Wenzlick was tooting his horn for me after about a 40 minutes lesson. It was then time to return to Kaukapakapa to pick up mail, bread etc. and deliver them and the empty cans back to all the farms on the side roads. I would eventually arrive home at about 1 pm. After about 18 months, I sadly remember getting a letter from Mrs Kelly from the Helensville Maternity Annex. She had had her third young child and sadly for me was no longer able to teach.

However I played my first public recital on the stage in the Makarau Hall and recall playing “Remembrance” and “Barcarolle”. I was promised a gold watch by Mum and Dad, as a bribe to get me to perform, but I had to wait several years until after the war as gold watches were unavailable until after that period. I still have the watch, which unfortunately does not work now.

Mr Clark taught Bob to play the concert flute, me the piccolo and the rest of the brothers and their school mates flutes and fifes. We annually played a concert in the hall and on one occasion we recorded several pieces that were broadcast over the Auckland radio station, presumably 1YA. He also coached us at chess and sports.

Brother Ron held several cross-country running titles and all of us, girls included, played football and cricket.

The boys used to get Mr Brooking on to politics…and that was the end of normal school work for the day, but he was also a very learned, gracious and hospitable person who boarded Ron when he later attended Mount Albert Grammar in Auckland.

Any children who had sustained injuries at school were brought to our house for whatever medical assistance we could give. I remember Lester Adams being brought over with a broken leg. I asked Lester if it was painful but he said “ No …but it hurts like hell”. Brother Ron had the end of his toe cut off and Kathleen Hooper and I had to take him in to the doctor in Helensville.

Teaching ourselves to swim, by clutching a 4 gallon tin was always a challenge, as was crossing the river by walking on the kauri logs floating in the river below the cowshed. Some of the largest kauri trees were felled in the Makarau district.

I have an early recollection of standing on tip-toes looking out the window looking towards the hall, watching a sow and litter walking down the road, with Mum standing behind me. Suddenly we heard the pheasants start crowing up the valley and everything seemed so still and eerie. My fingers rippled on the window sill and Mum said “There’s an earthquake!” It was just before 11am on the 3rd. February 1931 - the Napier Earthquake. I was always petrified when young if I saw a crack in the ground in the summer. I thought I was going to fall into it.

Having to swim the cows across the river at flood time was another challenge and also the fishing up barrow loads of mullet and kahawai when they were on the “run”. There was quite a skill in going upstream with a net and swimming down with the current.

As we grew up the boys were allowed to go to dances at the hall. It was some time before I was allowed, or had time to go after washing and ironing sometimes fifteen shirts and polishing all the shoes. Of course they all had to look smart for all the girls so my brother Charles would cut the hair of all the local youths. I added haircutting onto my skills list and I even used to do perms for Kath Hooper and set the hair of Veronica Clark, the school teacher’s wife, before the dances.

Another happy event was my 21st birthday in the hall. I had made all the sandwiches with Mrs Geoff Flynn helping me. My eldest brother Bryan assisted by purchasing cakes as I was busy preparing and serving 22 roast meals at home for the many relations and friends, prior to the party. Many of these had arrived on the 6.30pm train. Dad and Bryan had to receive the guests at the hall as I was busy doing the dishes at home.

May Hyde and later Mrs Woodcock helped me design my 21st birthday frock which I made up. The hall was packed and Arthur Stevens and Mrs Keith Kemp from Kaukapakapa were the band. That night I was given, by Aunty Nelly Floyd (nee Hooper), Granny Hooper’s engagement ring, which I treasure. I have since passed it on to my third daughter who has a very similar personality as Granny’s, with a request that it be kept within the Hooper family descendants. It would now be some 120 years old.

In the words of the old TV Series….”There are a thousand stories in the big city… (of Makarau)…and this has been one of them”.

Mavis Cotter, nee Hooper.

10th October 2006

Albert George (Pat) Hooper D.C.M Born 30 Sep 1891 Makarau, died 5 Oct 1962 Tirau, South Waikato

From The LONDON GAZETTE 3 SEPTEMBER 1918

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 6 November 1919, Page 3 MAKARAU A lately attended basket social and dance was held on Friday last at Makarau, A number of friends came in from the surrounding districts, and all spent a most enjoyable time. During the evening Mr F, Dye, of Kaukapakapa, presented Pvte. Pat Hooper with the D.C.M., which that popular soldier bad won whilst away, "Pat" is deservedly popular with all, and the gathering gave him an enthusiastic reception. Pat thanked the friends in a neat speech for their kindness and good wishes,

Plot 80A GREY Marie Irons

Plot 80A GREY Walter James

Plot 80B HOOPER Alfred 1850-1940 Entry from Burial Register:- 89 years, 26.5.1940, grave 80B Alfred Hooper Born 13 Sep 1850 in Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset, England Died 26 May 1940 in Makarau, Kaipara, Nortland, New Zealand New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23667, 28 May 1940, Page 1 HOOPER—On May 20, 10-10. at a private hospital, Auckland, Alfred, Into of Warkworth and Makarau aged 90 years.—At rest. Funeral leaves .Watney Sibun's, 11 a.m., arriving at Kaukapakapa Cemetery 1 p.m. to-day (Tuesday)

Alfred Hooper's worked timber with Bullock teams

Plot 80C HOOPER Clara Lavis nee CLINKARD 1867-1939 Entry from Burial Register:- 82 years -23.2.1939 - grave 80C

Clara Lavis Clinkard was born 29 Aug 1857 in Oxford England, and Died at Kaukapakapa 29 May 1939 Clara was the second daughter of Thomas (Plot 153) and Ellen Clinkard (Plot 153A) married Charles Hooper, (Plot 79) whose family arrive in New Zealand on the ship Matoaka in the year 1859 and settled in the Warkworth district near Mahurangi Heads. . After Clara and Charles Hooper married they settled in the old home at Makarau and her parents lived with them. They reared 14 children to adulthood. Harry the eldest of the family later settled at Glorit. Tom after he married Florence Maxwell bought Cecil Clinkard's land and later purchased the old Hooper-Clinkard home farm. Her he developed a fine dairy farm. This farm, was later farmed by their son Max and subsequently by Max's son Richard. Frank remained in the district. Jim farmed in Makarau for many years and then sold out and went farming at Te Aroha. They retired to Tapu. Fred spent most of his life in bush work amongst the kauri in the north. Pat (Albert) after returning from the World War 1

bought land and farmed at Makarau for many years. They raised a large family and eventually moved to farm at Tirau and retired finally to Matamata.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette , 7 June 1939, Page 7 MRS. C. L. HOOPER After a short illness, Mrs C. L. Hooper, affectionately known to everyone as "Grannie," passed peacefully away at her home, Makarau on the afternoon of Monday, 28th May. Nearly 70 years ago, at the age of 15, Mrs Hooper, came with her parents, Mr and Mrs Clinkard, from England and settled at Makarau, being the first white family in the district. A born story teller, Mrs Hooper, could tell many tale." of the pioneer days, and it was a delight to listen to her.

Throughout her long and busy life she was always ready to do a kind action, and in the early days relieved many a Maori in sickness. She was deeply interested in the affairs of the district and retained her interest to the end, even though for the last few years she seldom left her home. Her chief delight was the children, and she was always thinking of ways to bring pleasure to them. The children of the district will remember her for the prizes she has given them and the oranges they have had from her trees.

Mrs Hooper, was never happier than when among her beloved flowers. The plants themselves seemed to know her touch and would grow and put forth their best blooms to delight her.

Of her family of 14, there are twelve surviving —Mesdames G. E. Smith (Makarau). Hjorth (Dargaville), B. Floyd (Auckland), Savage (Pukekawa), Warner, and Miss E. Hooper, Messrs H. H. (Glorit), T. W. (Makarau).

J. (Te Aroha), C. F. (Tauhoa), I. Great-Barrier Island), and A. G. (Makarau). Her husband predeceased her five years ago. Her descendants number many grandchildren and over 30 great grandchildren.

The funeral was held at Kaukapakapa Cemetery on Tuesday, May 30, when a very large number of people were present to pay tribute to the dear old lady of Makarau—Helensville Star.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 10 April 1914, Page 4 DISTRICT NEWS MAKARAU (From Our Own Correspondent) Mrs C. Hooper, met with a painful accident, on Tuesday last. She was standing on a box to wind the clock in the Post Office, when the box slipped and she fell heavily to the floor, the result being a severe sprain to one knee. Dr Meinhold was in attendance as quickly as distance would allow, and made the sufferer as comfortable as was possible) but it will be some weeks, before Mrs Hooper, will be able to resume her duties in the Post Office. Much sympathy is felt for her by her many friends in the district. Mr Woodcock, who was thrown out of a trap a few weeks ago and severely shaken and knocked about,, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery, and is getting to work on his farm again. *A social was held in the hall on Friday night, the proceeds of which go to the piano fund. There were a good number of visitors from Tahekeroa, Glorit, and Kaukapakapa, and a very enjoyable time was spent. Makarau dances are always popular

Plot 81A TAYLOR Ashes of Mrs J

HAZEL JOAN TAYLOR GOD HAS YOU IN HIS KEEPING IN OUR HEARTS YOU WILL ALWAYS STAY LOVED AND REMEMBERED EVERY DAY

1922 - - - 1982

Plot 81B HOOPER Henry Alfred (Harry) 1874 1959 Entry from Burial Register:- 83 years-29.5.1959 -grave 81B

Henry Alfred (Harry) HOOPER 1874-1959

.Henry Alfred HOOPER born 18 Jul 1874 Died 29 May 1959 Known as Harry.

Harry Married Margaret Fisher Gardner on 23 May 1899 in the Old Parlour of her home at Glorit. she was born in 1876 at Kaukapakapa and died in 1935 at age 59. Known as "Maggie"

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11076, 30 May 1899, Page 1 MARRIAGES. HOOPER—GARDNER.—On May 23, at the residence of the bride's parents, Glorit, Kaipara, by Mr. R. Laing, Henry Alfred Hooper, eldest son of Charles Hooper, Esq., of Makarau. to Margaret Fisher (Maggie), eldest daughter of Charles Gardner,, Esq., of Glorit, late of Glasgow. Australian papers please copy New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11077, 31 May 1899, Page 6 A very pretty wedding took place at Glorit, Kaipara," on May 23, when a large number of relations and friends assembled at the residence of Mr. Charles Gardner, to witness the marriage of his eldest daughter, Maggie, and Harry, eldest son of Mr. Charles Hooper, of Makarau. The ceremony took place at half-past three, Mr. R. Laing officiating clergyman of the district, performing the ceremony, which took place in the large drawing room.

The bride was beautifully attired in a lovely dress of cream silk, trimmed with cream silk lace and pearl trimmings, with the usual train, veil, and I orange blossoms, and carried a lovely bouquet of white flowers and maidenhair ferns. The bridesmaids were Miss Annie Gardner and Miss Smith, of Kaukapakapa, who wore pretty, dresses of cream lustre, trimmed with green silk and cream silk lace, and also carried lovely bouquets.

Mr. T. W. Hooper, and Mr. J. Gardner acted as groomsmen. About 80 guests sat down to a sumptuous repast, which was laid out in the large woolshed, and looked very pretty with its decorations of nikau and ferns. The usual toasts were given and responded to. Subsequently a social was held in the evening, in the large gum store of Mr. Gardner, when songs, dances, and games were indulged in, and was kept up to the wee small hours of the morning. The happy couple were the recipients of many valuable and useful presents.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 25 June 1913, Page 2 District Requirements.

During the past month Mr Gordon Coates, M.P. for Kaipara. has been touring his electorate. He has visited each district to as to gain an intimate knowledge of the local requirements, and this will enable him better to advocate the settlers' interests when in Wellington. He arrived at Helensville on Wednesday, and later in the week visited Kumeu, Taupaki and Riverhead.

At Makarau a deputation of 17 settlers, of which Mr Mc Millan was chairman and Mr H. Hooper speaker, waited on Mr Coates to ask his assistance in getting a goods shed, cattle yards and conveniences at Makarau railway station. It was pointed out that settlers from Mangakura, Glorit, Araparare, Kamokorite Makarau and part of Wainui made this their chief Station. Three years ago a petition was sent in asking for these but nothing had been heard of the matter since. The deputation also asked that should Makarau be made a booking Station.

Another request brought forward was for grants for metalling roads leading to Makarau station.— Mr Coates said he would do everything possible to have an investigation made into various questions brought to his notice and promised to put same before the Government at the earliest opportunity.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 12 November 1913, Page 2 MAKARAU (From Our Own Correspondent.)

The Variety Troupe held an entertainment in the Hall on Friday evening. There was a largo and appreciative audience. Mr H. Elvin made a first-class Interlocutor, and Messrs H. Hooper and F, Elvin gave every satisfaction as Corner men." The following was the programme, with conundrums, etc, between each. item.

First part Shadow chorus, My old Kentucky Home," by the company Opening chorus, We are a band of Brothers, Company; song by Mr Perkins, Take me back to Bendigo; song, by Miss Elvin, Somebody's waiting for me song, by "Bones," "Emily Jane"; song, Mrs E. E. Smith, The old Brass ring song, Mr G, Hooper

Everybody's loved by someone song, by Tambo "Duckfoot Sue" Comic Sketch by the Company. Second part Duet by Mrs E. E. Smith and Mr Perkins Convent Bells song, Mr H. Elvin, Liza had hold of my hand song, Mr White, Island of Dreams sketch by Messrs F.and H. Elvin, Perkins, and H. Hooper duet, by Mrs J Smith and Miss Elvin, The Sunken Cloister character song by Mr H. Hooper , Poor old Joe," with shadow chorus by the company song, Mr G. Hooper ,parody on Sing me to sleep song, Mr Perkins, "Loves old sweet song dialogue, Bashful John's Blunders," by Mrs E. E. Smith, Miss Elvin, and, Messrs H. Elvin, Perkins, and H. Hooper.

The room was then cleared, and a very enjoyable dance followed, and was kept up with vigour till 3 a,m. A. substantial supper was provided and the music for the dance, which consisted of piano, two violins and cornet, was particularly good, being- Messrs C. and T. Hooper , and D. and R. Kopea. All expressed themselves as being well pleased with their evening's amusement.

It is just a year this month since the private Telephone line between Glorit and Makarau was completed. It was predicted by some people that the telephone from house "to house would he the cause of endless quarrels and disagreements, but up to the present such has not been the case on the contrary, it has been the means of bringing friends, who were separated by miles of bad road, within speaking distance of each other. In fact, the ten or twelve families who are so fortunate as to be on the line, are delighted by the pleasure and convenience of the 'phone, and would not be without it -for double the cost.

He served on the Rodney County Council (1914,1915 1916 1917) They had two sons Horace Henry HOOPER born 5 October 1900 in Kaukapakapa he died in 1975 John Briffault HOOPER Born 1909 Kaukapakapa, and he died in 1981 at Helensville

Plot 81C HOOPER Margaret Fisher (nee GARDNER) 1876-1935 Entry from Burial Register:- 59 years, 21.1.1935 - grave 81C IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR MOTHER MARGARET FISHER HOOPER DIED JANUARY 19TH 1935 AGED 59 YEARS; AND FATHER HENRY ALFRED HOOPER DIED MAY 29TH 1959 --AGED 84 YEARS; ALSO BELOVED HUSBAND OF JANET HOWIE HOOPER LOVED PARENTS OF HORACE AND JOHN

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette , 30 January 1935, Page 4 OBITUARY MRS. H. A. HOOPER The death of Mrs Harry Hooper occurred very suddenly at her home at Glorit on Saturday night, 19th January.

Mrs Hooper, who was a daughter of the late. Mr Gardner, one of the first settlers at Glorit, was well known and highly esteemed by a large circle of friends and deep sympathy is felt for her sorrowing relations. About two years ago Mrs- Hooper sustained an injury to her hip by falling and since then has been unable to lead an active life. She leaves a husband and two sons,- Messrs Horace (of Makarau) and John (of Glorit) to mourn their loss.

The funeral took place at the Kaukapakapa cemetery on Monday.

She was the eldest daughter of Charles Gardner (Plot 195) of Glorit who was born 1841 died 1905 and husband of Janet nee Drinnan 1855-1900 (Plot 194)

Plot 82 Vacant But Headstone ?

Plot 83 REDWOOD Horace Shepard 1882-1933 Entry from Burial Register:- 20.4.1933 - grave 83 (no age given) New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 1 REDWOOD.—On April 18. at Thames Hospital (suddenly), Horace S., dearly-beloved husband of Jean V. Redwood, Kerepeehi(sic). Funeral at Kaukapakapa to-morrow (Thursday), on arrival of train at 11,30 a.m. In the 1891 UK census he is of Rhymney, Monmouthshire, Wales aged 9 Horace Shepard Redwood was born in the first quarter of 1882 Bedwelty Monmouthshire England Vol. 11a page 105 son of Dr Thos. H Redwood Physician & Surgeon Durham University M.A. M.D. M.A. and Mary Frances Shepard, but by 1891 Emely A Redwood is his step-mother.

He married Violet Jean Goodwin in 1910 Folio No 6301 1911 Electoral Roll farmer of Woodhill and same year there is a Horace Redwood. of Lyons Ave Mt Albert , Furniture manufacturer.

His father died 21 Jun 1913

IN LOVING MEMORY HORACE BELOVED HUSBAND OF JEAN REDWOOD DIED APRIL 18TH 1933 AGED 51

In Loving Memory Of ROBERT HALL REDWOOD 29-12-1916 - 2-6-1982 Loved Husband of NANCY

IN LOVING MEMORY OF NANCY ALLISON REDWOOD 1917-1999 LOVED WIFE OF ROBERT HALL REDWOOD AND TREASURED MOTHER OF LYN, KEN, JOHN & KAY

In the City and area directory of Auckland Streets 1913 Wises Post Office Directory of 168 Upper Symonds St at Redwood & Co, Furniture dealers In 1917 NZ Army WW1 Reserve Rolls he is of Big Omaha c/- of Mr Meiklejohn, he was listed as a Teacher.

1919 Big Omaha Teacher. wife listed as Violet Jean (nee Goodwin) from marriage index 1910 Folio 6301 Big Omaha, married 1928 Still at Big Omaha as a teacher, Violet Jean, Big Omaha , married His widow was still living in Kerepehi in 1963 Where their son Robert Hall Redwood was a grocer. between 1946 and 1963 along with his wife Nancy Alison, married, when they shift to 49 Gt North Rd Auckland , still as a grocer, By 1969 he is of Monyash Rd Stanmore Bay, grocer. His wife Nancy is of Monyash Rd Manly, married 1978 They are of 24 Melandra Road Stanmore Bay Retired.

Plot 84 JONES Walter Verner 1893 - 1963 Entry from Burial Register:- 70 years -29.8.1963. -grave 84.

Walter Verner JONES 1893-1963

IN LOVING MEMORY OF WALTER VERNER JONES DIED 29TH AUGUST 1963

Plot 85 JONES Annie Mary 1893-1993 ANNIE JONES (nee Webster) 1893-1993 When Annie Webster was born in 1893 although it was the Year New Zealand women were granted Suffrage (the right to vote), no one would have predicted that she would own a motor car, let alone drive it herself. Nor would they have dreamed that she would help found a women's organisation, the purpose of which was to entertain them and give them a campaigning voice in society. In a life which was to span one hundred years, she was to experience unbelievable change.

Her mother Mary, was the daughter of hard working English immigrants to Kaukapakapa; her father, James Webster (Plot 94) was an Irish immigrant. Their farm was part of what is now Keith Willis property, but in 1890, it would support only a handful of dairy cows.

The second in a family of six children, Annie became the eldest When Nellie (Plot 137B) died aged four.

Annie and her next sister Hazel started at Kaukapakapa School together at ages seven and five respectively.

Presumably they had to walk the nearly two miles each way.

When Annie was only fourteen, her mother died (Plot 137A) haemorrhaging after a miscarriage. Hazel was twelve, Gladys nine, Basil eight and Morrie six.

Their father was so grief stricken that he had to take a trip home to Ireland which must have taken months.

Annie was left in charge to milk the cows, run the house and see that her siblings went to school.

Fortunately the children’s grand parents John (Plot 137C) and Ann Morrison (Plot 200) lived only about three miles away.

Four years later Annie married Verner Jones, (Plot 84) a farmer of Kaukapakapa and had her first baby the day before her nineteenth birthday. She was to have two girls and two boys but the younger boy died aged six.(Plot 86) However, all this domestic work did not prevent Annie from joining in whatever social affairs were offering For instance at the Blue Ribbon Temperance picnics she organised the booths. She took her whole family to the District Boxing Day picnics at Red Beach, which were popular around 1920 With Mrs Wyn Jordan (Plot 222) and a few others she founded the Kaukapakapa Women’s Division of the Federated Farmers in 1929, and became the first Treasurer.

Annie was always a very practical person, being adept at cooking and dress making so when her husband bought a Model A, she determined to learn to drive. Women drivers were rare indeed and she was the first in Kaukapakapa.

Soon after Annie made local history when she drove a carload of ladies to Clevedon to hear a speaker by the name of Colonel Adams.

Annie Jones lived to receive a hundredth birthday telegram from the Queen a bouquet from the Mayor and tributes from three surviving children, thirteen grandchildren, forty great- grandchildren and a number of greatgreat-grandchildren.

From a childhood of hand milked cows, draught horses, kerosene lamps and no communications, she saw the advent of large herds of cows milked by machinery, tractors, all-electric homes, telephones, cars and jet planes.

She declared she enjoyed it all.

Compiled by Isla Willis from notes by Joyce Dye 1998

Annie Mary JONES 1893-1993

JONES Basil Verner Ashes added to his parents grave in 2005 JONES Agnes Julia (Nessie) Ashes with husband Basil added in 2006

Plot 86 JONES Dallas Logan 1921-1927 Entry from Burial Register:- 6 years, 23.9.1927 - grave 86

IN MEMORY OF DALLAS LOGAN JONES DIED 23RD SEPTEMBER 1927 AGED 6 YEARS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19750, 24 September 1927, Page 1 JONES.-—On September 23. at the Auckland Hospital. of osteomyelitis. Dallas Logan, darling youngest child of W. V. and A. M. Jones, of Kaukapakapa; aged 6 years 4 months.. Funeral at Kaukapakapa Cemetery tomorrow (Sunday). 3.30 p.m.

Son of Walter Verner and Annie Jones nee Webster

Plot 87 SHANKS Allen William 1888-1965 Entry from Burial Register:- 76 years -5.6.1965. -grave 87

Allen William SHANKS 1888-1965

IN LOVING MEMORY ALLEN SHANKS DIED 5.6.65 ALSO HIS BELOVED WIFE ANNIE DOROTHY SHANKS

DIED 4-7-86

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 12 October 1916, Page 2 The announcement is made (by Echo invitation cards), of the marriage of the daughter of Mr and Mrs Jas. Flynn, Miss Naomi, to Mr Allen Shanks, to take place at Makarau on October 29th Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 11 October 1917, Page 2 A KAUKAPAKAPA APPELLANT. • The interests of the settlers of the " roadless North " were advanced the other day before the Military Service Board, as a. ground for the exemption . of. Allen W. Shanks, road-repairer for the Waitemata County- Council. It was stated that appellant, in addition to assisting his father on the latter's farm, was in charge of contracts for the maintenance of about 50 miles of road in the Kaukapakapa district.

Supporting evidence was given by the engineer and.: Chairman of the Waitemata County Council, the latter stating that appellant was most essential to the carrying out of important work, arid as this required the/ services of a young and strong man, he could not possibly be replaced at the present time. It was further stated that the abnormally wet weather in the earlier part of the year had resulted in many slips and washouts on the roads, and if these were not cleared the roads would be impassable for settlers.. There was a great amount of construction work to be done to bridges and culverts, as well as repairs to the road itself, and it would take all the present season to get this done. Dealing with the personal side of the case, appellant stated that he was the only son at home, two brothers were already on service, and another in camp. The Board granted exemption sine die.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16812, 1 April 1918, Page 1 SHANKS:-March 30. 1918, at Nurse Tanner's, 75. Grafton Road, to Allen and' Naomi Shanks, of Kaukapakapa, a son.

This was Guy Shanks birth notice. In 2015 Guy was living in a Rest home at Parakai.

New Zealand Herald, 22 Nov 2015 Guy SHANKS Death Notice - Auckland, Auckland _ SHANKS, Guy Geoffrey Son of Allen and Naomi Shanks (nee Flynn) and step-son of Dorothy Shanks (nee Straka) passed away on 20th November 2015 at Craigweil House Rest Home, Helensville aged 97 years.

Funeral to be held at 2pm on Wednesday 25th November 2015 at the Simplicity Funerals Chapel, 3232 Great North Road, New Lynn. Shanks Family.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16915, 30 July 1918, Page 7 The appeal of Allen W. Shanks, Kaukapakapa (Mr. H. Skelton), farming a property of 51 acres, and also carrying out road-repair contracts, was reconsidered, leave being granted until November 7. Replying to Major Conlan, appellant said the Waitemata Council was not supporting the appeal, having passed a resolution, following the last hearing, not to support any more appeals. The board said that this went to show that appellant was no longer regarded as essential to the public interest.

Plot 87 SHANKS Annie Dorothy nee STRAKA 1905- 1986 Dorrie was a close friend of Naomi's and was a live-in house help and nurse- maid for the children being in attendance for Malcolm and Lyle's birth and confinements. When Naomi died shortly after giving birth to Nona, Dorrie stayed on as housekeeper for Allen. Family criticism forced Dorrie to leave and go to the Mater Hospital for nursing training. From where Allen persuaded her to return and marry him .The wedding took place 9 July 1927 Raising quite some eyebrows at the time .As Naomi had only died some 4 months prior.

However Allen had Baby Nona only 3 weeks of age when her mother died. Guy the eldest was barely 9, Malcolm 4½, and Lyle 2½.

I remember spending school Holidays in the 1940s staying with Allen, Dorrie, and Gavin James then in his 80s. (wbs) IN LOVING MEMORY ALLEN SHANKS DIED 5.6.65 ALSO HIS BELOVED WIFE ANNIE DOROTHY SHANKS DIED 4-7-86

Dorothy (Dorrie) SHANKS nee STRAKA 1905- 1986

Jack Straka with his Bullock wagon (Dorrie's father)

SHANKS Lyle Allen 1924-2009 Lyle passed away 5 Jan 2009 and his ashes were added to his father and step-mother's grave in 2012.

SHANKS Lyle Allen. 14 October 1924 - 5 January 2009. Husband of the late Mary Christine (nee McGregor). Dearly loved father and father in law of Anne and Philip (Newcastle Australia), Allen and Gail (Wellington), Ian (Wellington) and Christine (Auckland). Grandfather of Nick, Sebastian, Luke, Julian, Dillon, Zack, Isabelle and Morag. You will be in our thoughts forever. Patron and Life Member of Poneke Football Club and former President of Wellington Rugby Football Union (1983). Messages can be placed in Lyle's on line tribute book at www.tributes.co.nz or sent to PO Box 14-064, Kilbirnie. In lieu of flowers a donation to The Poneke Old Boys Charitable Trust can be made at the service or posted to P O Box 14 064 Kilbirnie. There will be a walk past the Poneke Football Club with Lyle on Kilbirnie Green at 10.00am on Friday 9 January (all welcome), followed by a service to celebrate his life at The PIPC Church, cnr Daniell and Constable Streets, Newtown at 11.00am, thereafter private cremation at Harbour City Crematorium, Kilbirnie. Harbour City Funeral Home FDANZ Tel 04-387-8301 www.funerallink.co.nz • Published Thursday, January 08 2009 • First Published Wednesday, January 07 2009 Poneke to farewell club patron The Dominion Post SAD FAREWELL: A funeral today will return Lyle Shanks to the touchlines of Poneke Football Club, his casket carried by players around the club's main field.

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So today Lyle Shanks will return to the touchlines of Poneke Football Club, his casket carried by players around the club's main field before pausing outside the clubrooms he helped build, for a final tribute.

Mr Shanks, the club patron and a life member, died on Monday, aged 84, of cancer.

The rugby club will remember him with a traditional "walk past" at Kilbirnie Park before his funeral at the Pacific Islanders' Presbyterian Church in Newtown.

Friends and family will then return to the clubrooms for the "after-match".

"He would just love that," his son Allen said. "He was very passionate about his rugby and he loved Poneke rugby club."

Mr Shanks joined Poneke in 1947, when, working for the Health Department, he was transferred to Wellington. Four years later, he became a part of the club's golden history, helping his team win the Jubilee Cup. He was club secretary and treasurer while still a player, and played a key role in moving the club from Hataitai to Kilbirnie.

Even while holidaying overseas, Mr Shanks would get in touch with senior coach Richard Watt before every game, his son said.

"He would send Richard a text every morning of a game, with some sort of instruction - 'watch the Marist guys because they're good at this or that'.

"He knew every single guy in that club, even right up to this season."

Those who knew him said rugby was just one part of the man. Mr Shanks was an RAF pilot in World War II, helped build the family home in Hataitai and was responsible for hospital funding and policy for the Health Department.

He was secretary of the Higher Salaries Commission, and also worked for Allen's company, Allied Movers. For close to 10 years he was New Zealand's resident commissioner in Niue.

With his partner, Dame Margaret Bazley - a member of the Waitangi Tribunal and the Commissioner for the Inquiry into Police Misconduct - he would holiday at Riversdale, on the Wairarapa coast, diving for paua.

"He was a man of many parts," Allen said. "He had a wonderful life, really."

The club is expected to be out in force today. Players will take turns carrying his casket around the field.

Club chairman Duncan Garvie considered Mr Shanks his "second father".

"He was definitely joined at the hip to the club. He knew every one of the players.

"He would always go up after the game and have a word to them, shake their hands. He had a common touch, he knew all their names. And they all knew him."

Lyle Allen Shanks A conformist only in his public life PETER KITCHIN - The Dominion Post Last updated 10:14 05/03/2009 LYLE SHANKS: The life-long public servant believed he did some of his best work as resident commissioner on Niue.

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Lyle Allen Shanks: Born Helensville, October 14, 1924; married Mary McGregor (dec) 2 daughters 2 sons; partner of Margaret Bazley; died Wellington, January 5, 2009, aged 84.

Rain gear and gumboots sat well with Lyle Shanks - and at least as well as smart suits and leather shoes.

He was a senior public servant for much of his working life and, while the formalities of public life required a measure of conformity, he allowed no such rules to constrain his private one.

He was an earthy individual with a keen sense of fun, as accomplished in a fishing boat, in rugby circles and his vegetable garden as he was in heavyweight state deliberations.

Mr Shanks grew up in rural north Auckland. He was a son of hard-pressed farmers in the midst of the Depression. When he was a youngster, his mother died after giving birth to a sister, and he was raised by his stepmother, to whom he was eternally grateful.

There was a striking quality to him. The virtues of fraternity and good- neighbourly endeavour sat well on his shoulders. That did not make him a goody-good type or nosey meddler. He was too well grounded for that and, significantly, he held lifelong friendships.

He paid his neighbourhood dues through the Poneke Rugby Football Club, as a player (and a member of the Jubilee Cup-winning team in 1951), office bearer, life member from the age of 34 and all- round toiler.

That the club is a pivot for social order in hundreds of eastern suburbs families is due in no small part to him and the example he set.

He would have denied it; his clubmates and their families would not. Before his funeral service, his casket was carried on a circuit of Kilbirnie Green, the club's home ground. He had been a leading figure in securing the site after years in Hataitai.

His day job spanned a career of public service, beginning with a clerical cadetship in the Health Department at Whangarei in 1941.

The fresh-faced dux from Helensville High School, where he was head prefect and captain of the First XV, was on the bottom rung of the state's employment ladder.

By the time he retired in 1984, he was a qualified accountant and senior administrator in the hospitals division of the Health Department. In between, he had transferred from Whangarei to Wellington and, among other things, been an inspector in the Public Service Commission (predecessor of the State Services Commission); and a senior administrator with the Island Territories Department and its resident commissioner at Niue from early in 1962 till 1968 when he was recalled to the Health Department post.

He was also tapped for other important work, including being appointed secretary to the parliamentary select committee set up in May, 1958, to look into the establishment of a national library.

On his retirement, he was appointed secretary of the Higher Salaries Commission, and from 1989 worked with his elder son.

His public service career was interrupted in 1943 when he signed up with the air force. He qualified as a pilot, completed advance training in Canada and was posted in 1944 to the RAF, where he ferried Lancaster bombers and did training for gliders to be towed to battlefields.

Mr Shanks considered he did some of his best work as resident commissioner on Niue, where he had to be the island's government while helping pave the way for self-government. He remained close to the Niuean community, which officiated at his funeral at the Pacific Islands Presbyterian Church in Newtown.

He was diagnosed with cancer in December. He spent his last evening in the company of family members and Poneke stalwart Richard Watt poring over club photos and memorabilia.

His wife died before him. He is survived by his partner, Dame Margaret Bazley, and his two daughters and two sons.

Sources: Dominion Post library, M Bazley, D Garvie, A Shanks and others.

Plot 88 SHANKS Mrs Allen (Naomi Flynn) 1888-1927 Entry from Burial Register:- 40 years, -3.3.1927 -grave 88

Naomi Shanks nee Flynn 1888-1927

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 2 November 1916, Page 2

WEDDING AT MAKARAU. The wedding took place on Tuesday, October 24, at the residence of Mr and Mrs J. Flynn, of their daughter Naomi to Mr Allen Shanks, son of Mr G. Shanks of Kaukapakapa. The ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. Father Kelly, took place at noon, in the presence of a large circle- of friends and relations. The bride wore a becoming navy blue costume, with a pretty white hat and veil. She was attended by her sister, Miss M. Flynn, who wore a pretty creme frock and mob cap with touches of pink, and Miss E. Shanks, (sister of the bridegroom), who was attired in a dainty frock of white embroidery and mob cap. The bridegroom was attended by his brother Mr G. Shanks, as best man, and Mr G. Flynn as groomsman. After the ceremony guests to the number of sixty sat down to a sumptuous wedding breakfast, a feature of which was the handsome cake made by the bride and iced and decorated by Mrs T. W. Hooper. After the customary toasts had been given and responded to, the party dispersed, many leaving by the afternoon1 express. The young couple drove to Kanohi, where their future home will be. They carry with them the good wishes of all.—[Own Correspondent]

Allen Shanks and Naomi Flynn wedding 1916

IN LOVING MEMORY

NAOMI SHANKS DIED 18TH MARCH 1927

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19575, 2 March 1927, Page 1 SHANKS.—At Auckland Hospital. Naomi Shanks, dearly-beloved wife of A. Shanks. Kaukapakapa; aged 40 years. Funeral at Kaukapakapa, 11.30 a.m.. tomorrow (Thursday).

Plot 89A GOULSBRO (nee EAST) Mary Jane 1899-1922 Entry from Burial Register:- 73 years, 6.9.1922 - grave 89A

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY JANE GOULSBRO (NEE EAST) DIED 4TH SEPTEMBER 1922

AGED 73 YEARS SAFE IN THY FATHER'S HOUSE New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18192, 11 September 1922, Page 1 GOULSBRO.—On September 4. at her daughter's residence. Mrs. H. Mumford, Kaukapakapa. Mary Jane Goulsbro (nee East. late of Pukekohe: aged 73 years Interred Wednesday. September 6. at Kaukapakapa.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 769, 12 September 1922, Page 4 MRS GOULSBRO Another of the fast thinning band of old identities passed away at Kaukapakapa in the person of Mrs Goulboro (sic). nee East, at the ripe age of 73 years. The deceased lady was very well known in Pukekohe in the early days, and there are many in various parts of the district who will remember her and regret her passing.

Mother of Mrs Mary Hannah Mumford (Plot 125) nee Geraghty New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18197, 16 September 1922, Page 1 The Family of the late MRS. M. J. GOULSBRO (nee East) wishes to thank all sincere sympathisers for condolence, gifts of flowers, wreaths, and valuable assistance in their sad bereavement.

Plot 89B SHANKS Gavin James 1860-1953

Gavin James SHANKS 1860-1953 Entry from Burial Register:93 years -17.8.1953 - grave 89B Eldest son of Gavin Brash Shanks (Plot 51 ) and Elizabeth nee Leckie (Plot 52)

Came to NZ with his parents in 1863. on the "Cairngorm" from Gartliston Farm near Coatbridge Lanarkshire Scotland.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 53, 3 March 1921, Page 12 WAITEMATA. DOG REGISTRATION ACT. Notice is hereby given that the Waitemata County Council has fixed the fee to be payable under the said Act for the registration of any sheep or cattle dog In the County for the year 1921 at 2/6. and the fee for all other dogs at 10/ each. The following persons have been appointed Registrars of Dogs under the said Act for the districts within the County set opposite their respective names:—.

GAVIN J SHANKS, of Kaukapakapa, for Kaukapakapa Riding. 'Notice is hereby given that the respective residences of the above named have been appointed registration offices within the County for the purpose of the said Act. H. DAY, Chairman.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18478, 15 August 1923, Page 1 IMPOUNDED in the Kaukapakapa Public Pound by the Ranger, for trespassing on the Kaukapakapa Road l Draught Gelding, bay, with white face, aged, no visible brand. If not claimed, and expenses paid,; to be sold by special order on SATURDAY, August 18. 1923, at .12 o'clock noon.— GAVIN; SHANKS. Poundkeeper.

Published 26th May 1948 in a Warkworth Newspaper Readers, old and young alike, will recognise the smiling face of this week's "District Personality. He is‘ Mr. Gavin. Shanks, for over; eighty-three years a, resident of Kaukapakapa and a well known figure in this and neighbouring districts.

- Mr Shanks was born on July 17th 1860, at Cott Bridge (sic. =Coatbridge ) near Glasgow and left Scotland at the early age of three, when his father and grandfather emigrated to New Zealand in the Corramgoram ( Cairngorm) They arrived during the Maori Wars, and immediately upon landing in Auckland Mr Gavin Shanks, senr., and his father-in-law Mr, John Leckie, were handed rifles and sent out to the Block house at Otahuhu in an attempt to prevent the Maoris from invading the town.

To every immigrant over the age of twenty-one who had paid for his or her passage to the colony the N.Z. Government granted forty acres of land, and under this scheme Mr. Shanks father and mother received eighty acres of unimproved land at Kaukapakapa. Following the settlement of the Maori Wars, Mr. Shanks senr.(Plot 51), finding that conditions in Auckland were in a state approaching starvation, came to Kaukapakapa to work his allocated land. His family followed later, travelling by steamer to Riverhead, and from there to Kaukapakapa by bullock wagon,

At that time there were five or six other settlers n Kaukapakapa - Mr. Andrew Bonar, Capt, Dawson .(Plot 184),, and Mr G Dye .(Plot 164A), to name some of the early pioneers. There were two Maori settlements, one at Waitangi and the other at Makarau.

The Shanks family's first home was a weatherboard house owned by Messrs Walford and Gibbs, two early settlers in the district. Later Mr Shanks father built their own home out of timber felled and pit sawn in the then abundant kauri bush.

There were nine children in the family, and the two eldest, Mr Shanks and his sister, were taught for some time

by Mr. John Bonar .(Plot 10B), brother to Mr Andrew Bonar, Kaukapakapa's first J.P. and postmaster, who came to their home two or three days a week. However Mr Shanks received the greater part of his education in his teens when he attended a night school held by the late Mr, Rikys during the winter months; Mr George Murray, .(Plot 36A), a fellow-scholar, later conducted the school.

Work began for Mr. Shanks at an early age, and for twenty-five years bush work and gum-digging were his occupations Those were the days of thickly clad hills where Kauri trees a plenty were to be found, and Mr Shanks told our reporter that he had done every type of bushwork from squaring a log to driving a team of bullocks. He remembers the days when home-made butter fetched 4d to 6d a lb., and eggs were delivered to the timber workers camps in kerosene tins, at 6d per dozen. The latter twenty-five years of his life, before he retired, Mr. Shanks spent road-contracting.

Unwittingly, our reporter asked if he had been employed by the Main Highways Board, whereat this hardy old pioneer, who has never lost his sense of humour, chuckled and said, "There wasn't a Main Highways Board in those days-—-you, see, we, didn’t have any main highways!‘ Tracks worn by bullock teams, ,horses and the Maori settlers were our highways" Working as foreman for the County Council and the Road Board, Mr. Shanks spread the first metal on our now familiar high-ways and by-ways. As young man he shared his present residence, “Barnegee," with Captain Thompson, .(Plot 175), to whom it belonged.

When the owner died, Mr Shanks received the property and the house, which has been his home ever since. Mr and the late Mrs. Shanks, who before her marriage was Miss McLeod eldest daughter of the McLeods .(Plot 154B & C ), of Hafton Estate, raised a family of eight children, six of whom are still living. On May 3rd 1943,

they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary. Mr Shanks has sixteen grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.

Every phase of Mr Shanks life story symbolises the various stages of Kaukapakapa's progress. An entire book could be written from the stories of almost forgotten episodes of Kaukapakapa's early history as told by Mr. Shanks. Descriptions of the three flax mills, which used to stand in Kaukapakapa; stories of boyhood associations with the Northern Maori chief, Horo Mori; tales of the nine long years when the Kanohi Tunnel was under construction, and Mr Shanks had a sub contract to clear the track ahead of the tunnel; accounts of the floods which rose as high as the old Post office, and in particular, of the flood which caused the collapsing of the tunnel as it was nearing completion; a description of the school and the dissension over its site were all among Mr Shanks' recollections of young Kaukapakapa.

Mr Shanks has for many years taken an active part in the social life of Kaukapakapa. In his youth he was a cricket enthusiast and on his horse would travel with other members of his team to take part in interclub matches against Warkworth, Silverdale and Helensville. In addition to being captain and secretary of the cricket club, he was a member of the Kaukapakapa Spots Club, which existed until after the Great war, and held various executive positions on it.

For over thirty years Mr Shanks was an active member of the school committee. In his latter years bowls have been his particular interest; since the bowling clubs inauguration twenty-one years ago, he has been a member, and was among the foundation members who formed working bees to prepare the greens.

Mr Shanks has won several bowling tournaments and still enjoys a game twice a week in the season.

Readers will agree that a more full and interesting life, spanning most of the years of our district's history could hardly be imagined. Our tribute and best wishes go this week to Mr. Gavin Shanks pioneer and oldest resident.

"Eighty-eight in July and still going strong, is a splendid record, we think!

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 103, 3 May 1943, Page 5 DIAMOND WEDDING MR. AND MRS. GAVIN SHANKS A gathering of relatives and family friends is being held to-day to celebrate the diamond wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Gavin Shanks. They were married at Hafton House, Kaukapakapa on May 3, 1883. Mr. Shanks, who is 83, arrived in New Zealand with his parents at the age of three, and the family settled in Kaukapakapa. Mrs. Shanks, who is 80, was formerly Miss Jessie McLeod, daughter of Mr. and Mrs .John McLeod, at one time licensees of the Henderson Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Shanks have always taken a keen interest in all district affairs, and Mr. Shanks is still an enthusiastic member of the local bowling club. Of a family of five sons and three daughters, six still survive, and there are 15 grandchildren.

In the Pre War 1 Kauri Bushmen's Association Roll of Members as listed in "The Story of the Kauri" by A H Reed Gavin Shanks is listed as a member. Estelle (a grand-daughter) believes Gavin James was supposed to marry a Maori Princess thus entitling the family to obtain more land. Young Gavin must have had other ideas..

Gavin was actively involved over many years on the Kaukapakapa School committee, and various community projects, he with his brothers and sons was active in the Bowling Club, and lived all of his NZ life in Kaukapakapa.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF JESSE SHANKS DIED 4TH JAN. 1944 AGED 82 YEARS WIFE OF GAVIN SHANKS DIED 17TH AUG. 1953 AGED 94 ----------- ----------

Plot 89B Entry from Burial Register:-

81 years, 4.1.1944. grave 89B

SHANKS Jessie nee McLEOD 1862-1944

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24783, 5 January 1944, Page 1 DEATHS SHANKS. On January 4, 1944 (suddenly), at her late residence, Kaukapakapa, Jessie, dearly-loved wife of Gavin Shanks, and loving, mother of Agnes, Allen, Laura, Guy, Bill, Evelyn and the late John and Ernest; in her 82nd year. Funeral will leave the residence at 11.30 a.m. to-morrow (Thursday) for cemetery MARRIAGES. New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6710, 21 May 1883, Page 4 Shanks -McLeod. On May 3, at Hafton House, Kaukapakapa, by the Rev. Mr. Somerville, Gavin eldest son of Gavin B. Shanks, Esq., of Roseneath and nephew of the Rev. W. S. Shanks. M.A., parish minister, Maryhill.

Glasgow. Scotland, to Jessie, eldest daughter of John McLeod. Esq., late of Henderson. Glasgow papers please copy.

Plot 89C SHANKS John Gavin Thompson 1884-1920 Entry from Burial Register:-

36 years, 11.10.1920 - grave 89C

John Gavin Thompson SHANKS 1884-1920

Rfn John Gavin Thompson Shanks 21541. Rifle Brigade. Died of sickness 9th October 1920. Aged 36 Son of Gavin and Jessie Shanks of Kaukapakapa, Auckland. Served on the Western Front 1916-17.

Saw active service in WW 1 and was "pretty crook" when he returned home. He was not popular at "Muirhead" the day he tried to bring some beer up to the boys at John L's as a celebration of his return from the War. Although John L was partial to a drop at the KKK Hotel, alcohol was not welcome on his property

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 6 September 1917, Page 2 DISTRICT NEWS. KAUKAPAKAPA. OWN CORRESPONDENT | WELCOME HOME Last Monday a welcome home was given to Private J. Shanks who after nearly a year's service at the front has returned wounded. A good many residents braved the elements, and a most enjoyable evening was spent. Songs were contributed by Mesdames Goodwin, Bellini, and instrumental music by Miss Sinclair. Mr Dye, in welcoming Private Shanks, on behalf of the district, referred to the fact that the old soldier was in danger of being forgotten. m . Private Shanks briefly responded, and thanked all for the hearty welcome. ,Though convalescent, Private Shanks is still under medical care, and is at present in hospital at Rotorua.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 14 October 1920, Page 2 SUDDEN DEATH The death occurred at the Auckland Hospital on Sunday last of Mr John Shanks, a well-known Kaukapakapa resident. Deceased was 36 years of age and was a returned soldier, having seen two years active service. An inquest was conducted on Sunday at Auckland, by Mr W. R. McKean, S. M. Evidence was given that the deceased was admitted last Wednesday suffering from a swelling in the lower abdomen. An operation was decided upon and the patient was given an anaesthetic. He collapsed almost immediately, and although heart massage and other remedies were resorted to for half an hour, he failed to rally. Dr D.N.W. Murray, who conducted the post-mortem examination, said death was due to dilation of the heart following pleuritic adhesion of the lungs and a psoas abscess. Every care and precaution had been taken. The coroner returned a finding in accordance with the medical evidence, no blame being attachable to anyone.

The funeral took place at Kaukapakapa on Tuesday afternoon last, when a good number of residents and relatives paid their last respects to the deceased soldier. Rev. Butterworth conducted the service at the graveside 21541 RFM. J.G.T.SHANKS RIFLE BRIGADE DIED 9- 10- 1920

N.Z.E.F.

AGED 36 YEARS

Plot 90A Entry from Burial Register:-

CLEAVER Helen nee WHIGHAM 1893-1930 43 years, 26.11.1936 - grave 90A

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22587, 27 November 1936, Page 1 CLEAVER:-—On November 20, at the residence of John Naughton, Kaukapakapa, Helen Whigham Cleaver, beloved sister of Jean Naughton. Funeral leaves above residence 11.30 a.m. to-day Helen Whigham was born abt 1893 in Liberton Midlothian Scotland 3rd daughter of 5 children of David Whigham 1858-1930 and Helen Todd O'Hara. 1861-1922 At the age of 8 in 1901 she was residing at Duddingston, Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland.

Her sister Jean Veitch Whigham (Plot 107A)

SACRED TO THE MEMORY Of HELEN CLEAVER Beloved Mother of Dorothy Died 29th Nov 1936 Aged 43 years REST IN PEACE

Plot 90B KINLOCH Agnes Elizabeth nee Shanks 1886-1964 Entry from Burial Register:68 years -8.6.1954 - grave 90B

IN LOVING MEMORY OF ROY KINLOCH DIED 24TH AUGUST 1957 AGED 81 YEARS ALSO HIS WIFE AGNES ELIZABETH DIED 8TH JUNE 1954 AGED 68 YEARS AT REST

Agnes Elizabeth Kinloch nee Shanks 1886-1954 Eldest daughter of Gavin James Shanks (Plot 89B) and Jessie nee McLeod. (Plot 89B) Sister of John Gavin Thompson Shanks (Plot 89C) Allen William Shanks (Plot 87) and Ernest Alexander Shanks (Plot 240) She married Roy Kinloch in 1910 at her parents home "Barnagee" New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14323, 19 March 1910, Page 1 KINLOCH--SHANKS.--On February 16, 1910, at the residence of the bride's parents. Barnagee Kaukapakapa, by the Rev. J. Mackie, Roy, sixth son of E. B. Kinloch. Three Kings, to Agnes Elizabeth.. eldest daughter of Gavin Shanks Kaukapakapa.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 20 November 1912, Page 3 KAUKAPAKAPA The Euchre evening held in Kaukapakapa last week was fairly attended, and the games were Mrs. Kinloch and Mrs R. Drinnan tied for the ladies prize, the former winning the cut off, and secured a nice ornament, Mr W. H. Goodwin won the gentlemen's prize, a nice tie. The School Concert is to be held on Friday evening next.

Plot 90C KINLOCH Roy 1876-1957

Roy Kinloch 1876-1957

Entry from Burial Register:-

82 years -24.8.1957 - grave 90C

1900 & 1905 Electoral Rolls he is a farmer of Richardson Rd Mt Roskill

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14323, 19 March 1910, Page 1 KINLOCH--SHANKS.--On February 16, 1910, at the residence of the bride's parents. Barnagee Kaukapakapa, by the Rev. J. Mackie, Roy, sixth son of E. B. Kinloch. Three Kings, to Agnes Elizabeth.. eldest daughter of Gavin Shanks Kaukapakapa.

In the 1916 Wises Directory Roy Kinloch is listed as Veterinary Surgeon In 1918 Kinloch. Roy, dairy farmer, Kaukapakapa. is called up for military service in the ballot for the Auckland District.

1911 Electoral Roll for Kaipara he is married and is listed as a farmer Kaukapakapa, and still in 1935 Kaipara Roll.

His brother Richard Percival was a Veterinary surgeon at Huapai, and another brother Frank was farming there.

In the 1950 Wises Post Office Directory he is listed as Vet. In 1957 Rodney Electoral Roll he is of Peak Rd Kaukapakapa, retired. (Agnes was not listed)

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 13 January 1921, Page 2 Clearing Sale at Kaukapakapa FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1921 THE undersigned have received instructions from MR ROY KINLOCH, who is giving up dairying solely on account of ill-health, to sell the whole of his valuable HERD OF DAIRY COWS, consisting of M Choice Jersey-Cross Dairy Cows, in cult to Jersey Bull, and due to calve again August-September 1 Jersey Bull 15 Calves (including 13 Heifers and 2 Bulls* 1 Berkshire Sow and litter of 10 2 Berkshire Sows, close to farrowing 1 Berkshire Boar 3 Killable Pigs Sale at 11.30 a.m. Luncheon Provided. NOTE.—The Auctioneer would draw special attention to this choice herd of cows as the returns for the month of November average £4 10s per cow. A conveyance will meet the Auckland express at Kaukapakapa at 10.30 on the morning of sale. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. W. AUSTIN, Agent.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19725, 26 August 1927, Page 2 Acclimatisation Societies and Others Interested.--Pheasants for sale, guaranteed healthy birds. Roy Kinloch, Kaukapakapa.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20305, 12 July 1929, Page 2 PHEASANT. —Wanted to exchange young Cock, Mongolian breed; also want to purchase pair of gold Pheasants.—Price, Roy Kinloch Kaukapakapa New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22079, 8 April 1935, Page 2 PHEASANTS. Golden, Silver and Amhurst.— Roy Kinloch Kaukapakapa Phone No. 114K, Helensville.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22695, 6 April 1937, Page 4 GUN Dog wanted, retrieve land and water ---Roy Kinloch Kaukapakapa.

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24322, 10 July 1942, Page 1 PHEASANTS for sale. —R. Kinloch, Kaukapakapa

IN LOVING MEMORY OF ROY KINLOCH DIED 24TH AUGUST 1957 AGED 81 YEARS ALSO HIS WIFE AGNES ELIZABETH DIED 8TH JUNE 1954 AGED 68 YEARS AT REST

Plot 91 BUCKLEY Thelma Ruby nee JAGGS 1904- 1976 Entry from Burial Register:72 years -10.8.1976, died 6.8.1976 - grave 91 - wife of T W Buckley

IN LOVING MEMORY OF THELMA RUBY TRAGICALLY KILLED 6TH AUGUST 1976 AGED 72 YEARS AND HER LOVED HUSBAND THOMAS WOODINGTON BUCKLEY DIED 6TH JANUARY 1977 AGED 68 YEARS LOVED MUM AND DAD OF MARY LOVED MUM AND DAD-IN-LAW OF RORY TREASURED GRAN AND POPPA OF DONNA AND DEBBIE

Born 9 May 1904 in NZ. Her mother Annie nee Hudson, from a founding family of Pollock, Awhitu Peninsular.

Her father Alfred Ernest Jaggs,.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 98, 27 April 1944, Page 1 JAGGS—On April 26, at a private hospital. Alfred Ernest, late of Auckland Stevedoring Co., Ltd., loved father of Myrtle (Mrs. F. V. Burkett. Wanganui) and Thelma (Mrs. P. W. Buckley. Ihakaru (sic) (Makarau ?wbs), and brother of W. Jaggs, of Auckland; aged 68 years. A service will be held at the Epiphany Church, Karangahape Road, to-morrow (Friday) at 2 p.m.. funeral then leaving for the Waikumete Cemetery.

Her death in 1976 was tragic according to the tombstone.

Plot 92 Entry from Burial Register:-

BUCKLEY Thomas Woodington 1908-1977 Husband of above -grave 92 (12.11.1976) no other details

IN LOVING MEMORY OF THELMA RUBY TRAGICALLY KILLED 6TH AUGUST 1976 AGED 72 YEARS AND HER LOVED HUSBAND THOMAS WOODINGTON BUCKLEY DIED 6TH JANUARY 1977 AGED 68 YEARS LOVED MUM AND DAD OF MARY LOVED MUM AND DAD-IN-LAW OF RORY TREASURED GRAN AND POPPA OF DONNA AND DEBBIE

Plot 93 Entry from Burial Register:-67 years, -29.8.1952.

- grave 93.

Plot 94 WEBSTER James 1871 - 1936 Entry from Burial Register:- 65 years - 3.10.1936 -grave 94.

In Loving Memory Of JAMES BELOVED HUSBAND OF SARAH J WEBSTER DIED 3RD OCTOBER 1936 AGED 65 YEARS ______

WEBSTER JAMES MORRISON (MORRIE) 5-7-1901 TO 1-5-1972 WIFE LAURA MARION 16-61899 TO 25-7-1984 BOTH CREMATED YOUNGER SON OF JAMES AND MARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22552, 17 October 1936, Page 20 MR. JAMES WEBSTER The death has occurred of Mr. James Webster, of Mount Albert, at the age of 65. Mr. Webster was born at Panmure and at the age of 20 took up a block of land at Kaukapakapa. He retired 12 years ago after farming his two properties at Kaukapakapa. and took up residence at Mount Albert. Mr. Webster was an active member of the Mount Albert and Kaukapakapa bowling clubs. He is survived by his wife and five children of a former marriage There are 18 grand-children and one great-grandchild.

Born in Panmure, N.Z. in 1871 and died 3rd October 1936 He married his first wife Mary Elizabeth Morrison in 1891. She died 1907 Their children were Nellie 1892-1896 (Plot 137B ) Annie Mary 1893-1993 (Plot 85) Hazel Cilicia 1894 Gladys 1898 Basil John 1899-1960 (Ashes scattered in Churchyard) James Morrison 1901 (Plot 94)

Plot 95 ARMSTRONG Amelia Entry from Burial Register:-sister of Sarah Webster -10.12.1956 - grave 95

( Plot 137A)

Plot 96 BRUCE Myra Elizabeth 1908-1996

Birth Jun 4 1908 Auckland, New Zealand.

Death May 16 1996 Auckland New Zealand Wife of Stanley Gordon Bruce Parents: William Howie Drinnan (1854 - 1937) Amelia May Shanks Drinnan (1877 - 1963) Spouse: Stanley Gordon Bruce (1908 - 1982) SiblingsWilliam Keith Drinnan (1899 - 1987) Ethel May Drinnan Day (1903 - 1955) Myra Elizabeth Drinnan Bruce (1908 - 1982)

Winifred Gladys Drinnan Reed (1910 - 1968) Jeffrey Gordon Drinnan (1912 - 1953) Passed away (peacefully) A service will be held at Lagoon View Funeral Home 3 Lane Panmure 11.30 a.m.

Monday thereafter interment at Kaukapakapa Cemetery Peak Rd .Buried on top of her Mother & Father. Her late husband's ashes are with her. Myra was deaf, from childhood.

Plot 96 BRUCE Stanley Gordon 1908-1982 Born 24 Feb 1908 Taniwha Huntly He was a farmer , Stock agent and Pig Buyer. and died in Auckland Public Hospital 19 Jan 1982 , Ashes buried with his wife in 1996 and cremated.

Plot 96 DRINNAN William Howie (Bill) 1855-1937 Entry from Burial Register:- 83 years, 18.5.1937, grave 96.

Bill DRINNAN 1855-1937 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22738, 26 May 1937, Page 16 OBITUARY MR. W. H. DRINNAN The death has occurred of Mr. W. H. Drinnan. of Kaukapakapa, in his 83rd year. Mr. Drinnan was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in I855. and with his parents came to New Zealand in the ship Commodore Perry in 1860. He set up a business as a storekeeper, timber merchant and farmer at Kaukapakapa, his farm being part of the Waikahikatea estate. Mr. Drinnan is survived by his widow, two sons and three daughters. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 127, 31 May 1937, Page 3 MR. W. H. DRINNAN. Mr. W. H. Drinnan, whose death has occurred, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1855.

He came to New Zealand with his parents in the ship Commodore Perry in 1860 and was educated in Auckland.

He settled at Kaukapakapa, where he was engaged in business as a storekeeper, timber merchant and farmer, his farm being part of the Waikahikatea estate. During the 20 years that he was engaged in the timber trade he shipped direct to Great Britain several million feet of timber. He took a keen interest in various local activities.

In 1898 Mr. Drinnan married a daughter of the late Mr. Gavin B. Shanks. formerly of Glasgow. He is survived by his widow, two sons, Messrs. Keith and Jeffrey Drinnan (Kaukapakapa), and three daughters, Mrs. J. Day (Albany). Mrs. S. Bruce (Taniwha) and Miss W. Drinnan (Kaukapakapa,)

Plot 97 DRINNAN Amelia May nee SHANKS 1877-1963

Amelia May DRINNAN nee SHANKS 1877-1963 Entry from Burial Register:86 years, -30.11.1963 -grave 97

IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM HOWIE DRINNAN DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF AMELIA MAY DRINNAN DIED 18TH MAY 1937 AGED 82 YEARS AT REST ALSO HIS DEARLY BELOVED WIFE AMELIA MAY DIED 30TH NOVEMBER 1963 AGED 86 YEARS SADLY MISSED

Birth notice New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4852, 5 June 1877, Page 7 SHANKS.—On Tuesday, May 1. 1877, at Roseneath, Kaukapakapa, the wife of Gavin B. Shanks, of a daughter.

Amy as she was known, started at Kaukapakapa school in 1884 and was also among the oldest ex-pupils attending the 1956 celebrations. On 25th May 1897 at the age of 20 she married at Kaukapakapa. She is described as having "dark brown hair, dark brown eyes and olive skin, good looking , rather short and plump, with a happy go lucky nature", Devoted to family life, a housewife and mother to the family of 5 children. Amy died on 30th Nov 1963 , aged 86 , of a sudden heart attack , at the home of her daughter Myra at Te Kauwhata.

Both Amy & Bill are buried at Kaukapakapa Methodist Churchyard.

Her married sister (whom she resembled closely) Janet (Jessie) Howie RIKYS came and stayed with the Drinnan's when visiting Kaukapakapa New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10770, 3 June 1898, Page 6 PERSONAL ITEMS. Our Kaukapakapa correspondent writes: —A very pretty wedding took place on Wednesday, May 25, at the residence of Mr. James Drinnan, (Plot 190), the contracting parties being Mr. William Howie Drinnan, third son of Mrs. Drinnan, (Plot 189), and Miss Amy Shanks, fifth daughter of Mr. Gavin B. Shanks Roseneath, .of this place, both being the son and daughter respectively of two of our very earliest settlers. The bride looked very nice, being tastefully dressed in white, figured silk, trimmed with pearl lace. The bridesmaids, Misses Jeanie and Jessie Shanks, sisters of the bride, also looked very pretty, being attired in cream crepon. The groomsmen were Mr. James Shanks (Plot 237), and Mr. Reginald Rikys, The nuptial knot was tied by the Rev. Mr. Steele, of Otahuhu, after which a happy company of about 40 all told sat down to the wedding breakfast.

The newly-married pair drove' to Helensville in the afternoon to catch the four o'clock afternoon train for Auckland, thence to Sydney for their honeymoon trip. Before leaving, hearty wishes for their future happiness were expressed by all. The usual tokens of good luck were showered in abundance on the happy pair as they left..

WEDDING of William DRINNAN & Amelia May SHANKS - Kaukapakapa 1898 taken from PAPERS PAST 17 June 1898 (italics are my additions wbs) The marriage of Miss Amy SHANKS (Amelia May 1877-1963), fifth daughter of Mr Gavin Brash Shanks (1828-1909 ) (Plot 51), Roseneath, Kaukapakapa, and Mr William Howie DRINNAN (1855-1937), third son of Mrs Drinnan (Plot 189), of the same district, was celebrated on Wednesday, May 25th.

The ceremony took place at the residence of Mr James Drinnan (Plot 190), , and was witnessed by a large

gathering of relatives and friends.

The Rev. Mr STEELE, of Otahuhu, officiated.

The bride looked charming, and was attired in a tasteful and handsome bridal dress of white figured silk, trimmed with lace and pearl trimmings. Misses Jessie and Jeannie Shanks acted as bridesmaids, and wore pretty dresses of creme crepon. Mr James Shanks (Plot 237), and Mr Reginald RIKYS attended the bridegroom.

After an excellent wedding breakfast the happy couple drove to Helensville, to catch the afternoon train for Auckland, thence to Sydney to spend their honeymoon. Both bride and bridegroom are very popular in the district where they have spent their lives, and their nuptials occasioned a good deal of interest and excitement among a wide circle of friends. The wedding presents were both numerous and valuable.

In the 1950 Wises Post Office Directory she is listed as farmer

Plot 98A DORMER Herbert 1897-1982

IN LOVING MEMORY OF HERBERT DORMER LOVED SON OF FREDERICK AND MARY DIED 19TH OCTOBER 1982 AGED 85 YEARS FRIEND TO ALL

DORMER

Plot 98B HOOPER Janet Howie (Jinnie) nee GARDNER 1881 - 1975 Entry from Burial Register:- 95 years -died 2.11.1975 -grave 98C - widow of Henry A Hooper (grave 81B) Janet Howie (Jinnie) nee GARDNER b 1881 In KKK died 1975 KKK Married Henry Alfred Hooper in 1937 Folio 09128

Plot 99A

RUTH SAUNDERS (nee Shanks) 1933-1999 It was a far cry from the sparsely populated green countryside of New Zealand to the hot crowded Indian cities where Ruth was to spend most of her working life. Born in 1933, the eldest child and only daughter of Tom and Ella Shanks five children, Ruth had a secure, orderly childhood in Kaukapakapa. She attended Helensville Primary School and then Helensville District High School.

Ruth Saunders nee Shanks 1933-1999

Ruth was always a very studious girl. On the school bus she was more inclined to be reading a book than talking to the boys - the chief diversion of her girlfriends. Although she was considered very steady reliable, a quick wit indicated her intelligence and sense of fun. In sixth form year she was Dux of the school and won the Kane Cup for Oratory.

Auckland Teacher’s Training College was her next step. While studying there in 1951 and 1952, she also took several subjects part time at University Always an enthusiastic Girl Guide, Ruth was a Sea Ranger in her Training College days. As a young teacher she was a Girl Guide leader.

Her first teaching positions were at Helensville where she was a probationary assistant, then at Kaukapakapa and next at Whareora near Whangarei.

Feeling that teaching was not her ultimate career, Ruth entered the Bible Training Institute in Auckland. This was followed by a one year course in Melbourne.

In February 1960 she set out for a very different life in India. The Church Missionary Society sent her to Vijayawada in Andrha Pradesh (Province). Here she studied the local language while acting as the assistant Warden in a hostel for two hundred girls. Most of the day she had to speak Telugu which was intended, but fortunately the warden was an English woman so in the evenings she could speak English. It was also fortunate that the Principal of the Bishop Azariah High School for Girls was Molly Mullen from Christchurch. It was considered an excellent school and had a thousand pupils. Later, Ruth became warden of the hostel as well as running Girl Guides, and teaching hand crafts.

The climate in Vijayawada was very trying for a New Zealander. The hot season was from March to May and the temperature could reach 120°F in May A holiday in the Nilgiris Hills was a brief respite before the monsoon season from mid June to October, which was also trying. Only the glorious weather from November to February reminded Ruth Of her home country.

In 1961 John Saunders, an accountant from England arrived to be assistant treasurer of the Diocese Office.

About a year later he became the treasurer. John lived in the Diocese compound and Ruth lived in the school compound but they met socially and at prayer meetings In 1963 they were married in the chapel of the girls’ hostel at Vijayawada. The Bishop conducted the service with the vows in English and the singing in Telugu. The couple moved into a bungalow next to the hostel so that Ruth could continue her work. Frequently they would just sit down to a meal when a voice at the door would call “Aunty”. This indicated a problem at the hostel and without hesitation off Ruth would go. She genuinely loved the children and gave herself totally to the hostel work. They loved her too as she had a real gift for relating to them.

After Ruth and John had their first son, David, they shifted into a bungalow in the Diocese Compound Ruth's diverse duties included entertaining itinerant church leaders such as the Bishop, and organising the Mothers’ Union, while also helping part time at the hostel. After their first furlough in New Zealand Ruth and John returned to live in the Diocese Compound where their home was a guest house for many national Christian workers and missionaries who came to stay. Visitors felt blessed by Ruth’s ministry of hospitality and she was gifted at putting everyone at ease.

The arrival of a second son Paul coincided with the family’s furlough in New Zealand, so he was born in Helensville.

In 1972 John handed over the treasurer’s job to an Indian colleague.

His new position as business manager of the South India Council for Child Care meant a move to Bangalore further south. Here a third son, Stephen, was born Ruth was busy training hostel wardens and helping with church work besides caring for three young sons.

In I980 the Saunders moved back to Vijayawada where John returned to the Diocese office, and Ruth ran a new second hostel for one hundred and twenty girls in the compound where she worked initially. After four years there, the Saunders returned to New Zealand where they spent two years in an Anglican mission house in Kohimarama.

Finally they bought a home in Mt Albert along with Ruth s recently widowed mother. Her return to New Zealand did not mean that Ruth retired. She worked strenuously for the Bible College of New Zealand (the former Bible Training Institute). She was a member of the national council of the Church Missionary Society and the local committee and organised the Society's promotional material in the Auckland Region. She was actively involved also with the Mothers Union, and in particular took a lead in promoting missions interest. At her church at Blockhouse Bay, she continued her ministry to the children in the Sunday School . She was encouraged that her sons Paul and Stephen have also this vision for missions as they both work full time for Global Task which is an interdenominational mission.

After a life of service to her Lord and many organisations, it is sad that Ruth died of cancer aged only sixtyfive. She is buried in the Kaukapakapa Methodist Cemetery with numerous Shanks relatives of three previous generations Compiled by Isla Willis, from notes by John Saunders 1999

Plot 99B Reserved Ian Drinnan

Plot 99C Reserved Murray Drinnan

Plot 100 Reserved Warwick BRUCE SHANKS

Plot 101 Entry from Burial Register:-

DRINNAN Jeffrey Gordon 1912- 1953 41 years, 9.9.1953 - grave 101

Winifred & Jeffery Drinnan (Twins) IN LOVING MEMORY OF JEFFREY GORDON DRINNAN DEARLY BELOVED SON OF A.M. AND THE LATE W.H.DRINNAN DIED 9TH SEPTEMBER 1953 AGED 41 YEARS AT REST

Plot 102 DRINNAN Sarah Violet Lily nee WHYTE (Sally) wife of Robert Gordon

Plot 103 Reserved Richard Bright

Plot 104 George James WRIGHT 1918-2006

Plot 105 Robert George McCracken 1923- 2004

In Loving Memory of

Robert George McCRACKEN born Te Puke 8th Dec 1923 Died 7th June 2004 Aged 80 years.

Dearly beloved husband of JOYCE Loved father of ANNE,SHIRLEY, ALLAN & GRAHAM Rest in Peace

Plot 106 NAUGHTON John (Jack) 1876-1956 Entry from Burial Register:- 78 years, 30.1.1956. -grave 106 Born 18 Mar 1876 Kanohi New Zealand Died 1 Sep 1956 Auckland NZ. Son of William Naughton & Mary nee Lennon who were interred at Helensville. they came from Athlone, Roscommon, Ireland.

Plot 107A NAUGHTON (Jane) Jean Veitch nee WHIGHAM 1897-1946 Entry from Burial Register:- 48 years, -13.6.1946 - grave 107A. Born 19 Mar 1897 Edinburgh Scotland Died 13 Jun 1946 Helensville.

Sister of Helen Cleaver nee Whigham (Plot 90A)

IN LOVING MEMORY OF JEAN VEITCH NAUGHTON DIED 13TH JUNE 1946 TIME MOVES ON BUT OUR MEMORIES LAST

Plot 107B NAUGHTON David Alan 1926-1944 Entry from Burial Register:- 18 years, 16.8.1944. -grave 107B

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

ALAN DEARLY BELOVED SON OF

JOHN AND JEAN NAUGHTON BORN 30TH OCT 1925 DIED 14TH AUG 1944 AGED 18 YEARS SOME TIME WE WILL UNDERSTAND

REMEMBERED BY HIS FELLOW WORKERS NAVAL STORES DEVONPORT TIME ROLLS ON BUT OUR MEMORIES LAST

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24974, 17 August 1944, Page 1 Alan, beloved only son of Jack and Jean Naughton, and brother of Helen and Dorothy, Kaukapakapa; aged 18 years. Funeral will take place at Kaukapakapa Cemetery at 2 p.m. tomorrow (Friday).

Plot 107C OSBALDISTON Elizabeth nee Russell 1861-1942 Entry from Burial Register:80 years -15.2.1942 - grave 107C

Elizabeth Osbaldiston nee Russell 1861-1942 Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 39, 16 February 1942, Page 1 OSBALDISTON-- On February 15 at Auckland. Elizabeth. loved wife of the late Thomas Osbaldiston late of Kaukapakapa: aged 80 years. Funeral will leave Kaukapakapa Presbyterian Church after a short service at 1.30 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday) for Cemetery.

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24201, 17 February 1942, Page 1 OSBALDISTOM.—On February 15, at Auckland. Elizabeth. -loved wife of the late Thomas Osbaldiston late of Kaukapakapa, and mother of Alex and Russell; aged 80 years Funeral will leave Kaukapakapa Presbyterian Church after a short service at 1-30 p.m to-day (Tuesday), for cemetery

IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOMAS-----------

ALSO ELIZABETH

OSBALDISTON DIED 10TH MAR. 1937 AGED 73 YEARS

BELOVED WIFE OF THOMAS OSBALDISTON DIED 15TH FEB. 1942 AGED 80

Plot 107C Entry from Burial Register:-

73 years -10.3.1937 - grave 107C

Alexander Russell, Thomas, David Russell, and Elizabeth Osbaldiston about 1900 IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOMAS----------OSBALDISTON DIED 10TH MAR. 1937 AGED 73 YEARS

ALSO ELIZABETH BELOVED WIFE OF THOMAS OSBALDISTON DIED 15TH FEB. 1942 AGED 80

Tom Osbaldiston 1930s

Plot 108A

Entry from Burial Register:-

HUCKLE Daisy Elizabeth nee DAGG 1886-1934 48 years -25.4.1934 - grave 108A

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 96, 24 April 1934, Page 1 HUCKLE:-—On April 24, at Kaukapakapa, Daisy, the beloved wife or J. Huckle. Funeral will leave residence at 11 a.m. to-morrow (Wednesday), for Kaukapakapa Cemetery.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21785, 27 April 1934, Page 1

BEREAVEMENT NOTICES HUCKLE:-—Mr. ,J. Huckle and Family wish to thank all kind friends and relations who sympathised with them in their recent sad bereavement r also for letters, telegrams, flowers and emblems.

Daisy was born October 1884 in NZ. Her parents John Dagg and Fanny Delahay She married Albert Henry Probert 9 Jan 1907

Yet another of Feilding's young and popular couples (writes the Feilding correspondent of the Manawatu Times), have joined the happy state of connubial bliss. The marriage was solemnised yesterday at the Wesleyan Church, by the Rev. Beecroft, the contract In 1911 Albert is a grocer of Manchester Street and Daisy is Warwick St Feilding, married, as they were in 1914 In 1919 She is at 3108 King St Hastings Hawke's Bay, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand where her husband Albert H is a salesman She mothered 2 children Phyllis Probert and Arthur Edgar Probert born Oct 1907 in Feilding, he died 1975 and in 1949 was a framer of Puhoi She must have divorced Mr Probert as she marries John Huckle in 1932 as Daisy Elizabeth Probert Folio 1107 Daisy Elizabeth Probert of 136 Grey St Onehunga, married from the 1928 Electoral Roll for Manukau John was born in Bedfordshire England Apr 1881 he married Emily Annie Scott at St Mary Acton 25 Jun 1910 In 1911 they lived at Wendover Buckinghamshire. and in 1919 they emigrated to NZ from Southampton in 1928 at age 47 he was living at "Wendover" Quadrant Rd. as an engineer in the Manukau Electoral Roll.

Emily had died in Jun 1926 and was buried in the Mangere Cemetery she was 50.

He married Daisy in 1932 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21796, 10 May 1934, Page 20 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A PUBLICAN'S LICENCE. I, JOHN HUCKLE Kaukapakapa, do hereby give notice that I desire to obtain, and will, at the next Licensing Meeting, to be holden at Dargaville on the 7th day of June, 1934, apply for a Certificate authorising the issue of a Licence for the House situate a Kaukapakapa, and known by the sign of the Kaukapakapa Hotel, containing l4 rooms, exclusive of those required for the use of the family. Name of Owner, Peter Ganley. Dated at Kaukapakapa ,the 5th day of May, ,1934. JOHN HUCKLE, Applicant.

He died 8 Dec 1960 in Auckland and was buried in the Mangere Cemetery 12 Dec 1960

Plot 108B

ANDERSON Frank 1922 ( 6 months ) Entry from Burial Register:-

6 months, 17.6.1922 - grave 108B.

Plot 108C Entry from Burial Register:-

Edward Clark HENLEY 79 years, -15.7.1920 - grave 108C

IN LOVING MEMORY OF E.C.HENLEY DIED 13TH JULY 1920 AGED 84 YEARS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 438, 8 April 1865, Page 6 Henley Edward Clark, Kaukapakapa. freehold, house and allotment at Springbank. Newton, in the occupation of John W. Henley, attested by R J Creighton In 1916 Wises Directory he is listed as Carpenter of Kaukapakapa

Plot 109 EDWARD CLARK HENLEY 1840 – 1920 Edward Clark HENLEY was born 9 August, 1840, at 189 South Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, the fourth child of the Reverend John and Mary HENLEY (nee CLARK). His siblings were Thomas, John, Marianna, Eliza and later, Morris. There may have been another daughter who died young as there is an obscure reference to a child dying in a book about John senior. His father John was a Wesleyan minister who wrote the hymn ‘Children of Jerusalem’, published in the Methodist Hymnbook, and the family shifted frequently from parish to parish throughout his father’s lifetime.

Edward’s parents were passionate Christians who dedicated their lives to serving God and those in the communities that they were sent to. John worked hard in each parish to which he was assigned. He was very concerned for the spiritual and physical wellbeing of his parishioners, and not afraid to speak of his love of God, and of the need of humans to acknowledge their need of Him, even to the point of being ridiculed on occasion. He was an encourager and highly respected amongst his family, colleagues and parishioners.

Father John had poor health from a number of causes over the years, and finally in May 1842, at the age of 42, he died of consumption, leaving his 37 year old wife a widow, with 6 children, the youngest of which was 5 months old. At the time of his death he and Mary had moved to be near the sea (a ‘cure’ for consumption) at Melcombe Regis, in Dorset. The rest of the family remained behind in possibly Sheffield. Edward was just 1 year and 9 months old.

Following her husband’s death, Mary became a teacher and school mistress in Melcombe Regis. The 1851 census recorded that Edward was a 10 year old scholar living with his mother, sister Marianna, and brother Morris. Living with the family at this time were three others listed as ‘scholars’ and a servant.

As the sons of a Wesleyan minister, Edward and his brothers were entitled to be educated at or Wesleyan/ Methodist schools. The boys all attended Kingswood School, which was located initially in Bristol until it outgrew the site, when it moved to nearby Bath. Edward was at the school from 1851 – 1856, aged 11 to 16.

In 1861, aged 20, Edward boarded with a family in Handsworth, Staffordshire. He was working, but his occupation is not known – possibly machinist.

In mid-March 1862 with older brother John (aged 25 ) and younger brother Morris (aged 21), Edward set sail for New Zealand, leaving Downs, London and arriving in Auckland on 31 July of that year. Their ship was the Royal Charlie, a barque of 435 tons. All three brothers were listed on the passenger record as being farmers and it is not known what scheme, if any, they came out under.

The brothers made their way to Kaukapakapa, where they settled. Edward apparently lived on his own, remaining unmarried, while Morris later married. John eventually moved to Wellington, becoming a reader in the government printing office, before returning to England where he remained until his death.

The 1865 Electoral roll lists Edward as having land at Kaukapakapa, and in the year 1866-1867, it records him as residing at Kaukapakapa but also having land at Springbank, in the Newton electorate. It was occupied by ‘W’ Henley, which is probably his brother John whose middle name was William. Also in the 1866-1867 year, the Electoral roll lists Edward as having land in upper Queen Street, in the Auckland East electorate, with ‘premises in his occupation’. He had a Crown Grant in March 1867. Subsequent Electoral Rolls list Edward as being a farmer, although his death certificate records him as being a carpenter.

Edward was an active member of the Kaukapakapa community as an auditor for the Kaukapakapa North Highway District for a number of years, and was a trustee for the Kaukapakapa Public Library, and the Children’s Free Library. He was elected to the school committee in 1881. He is mentioned a number of times in newspaper articles as participating in community meetings.

After having lived in New Zealand for 28 years, Edward died aged 79, on 13 July 1920, in the Avondale Mental Hospital, after having poor health for a number of months.

Entry from Burial Register:-

BECHER Permanes Neil 1921 ( 7 weeks) 7 weeks - 30.4.1921 - grave 109

Plot 110 BECHER Andrew Peter (Gunner) 1918-1942 Entry from Burial Register:24 years - 8.8.1942 - grave 110 New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24348, 10 August 1942, Page 1 BECHER. —On August 8, 1942, at Auckland Hospital, Gunner Andrew Peter Becher, dearly-beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Becher, and loved brother of Herbert, Kaukapakapa; aged 24 years. The funeral will take place at Kaukapakapa Cemetery 2 p.m. to-day (Monday) 1938 Electoral Roll farmhand of Kaukapakapa

IN LOVING MEMORY OF GUNNER ANDREW PETER BECHER DIED 8TH AUGUST 1942 AGED 25 YEARS. R.I.P.

Plot 110 Entry from Burial Register:-

BECHER Mrs Andrew (mother of above ) -6.5.1921 . - grave 110

Plot 111

HALL James 1852-1937 Entry from Burial Register:-

85 years or more, 21.2.1937 - grave 111

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22659, 22 February 1937, Page 1 HALL.—On February 21, at his. late residence, Kaukapakapa, James hall; aged 85 years Funeral will leave the residence at 12.15 p.m. to-day (Monday) for Kaukapakapa Cemetery.

1896 Waitemata Electoral Roll James Hall Kaukapakapa farmer, freehold, part 18 Kaukapakapa and dwelling

Plot 112

Entry from Burial Register:-

WRIGLEY Bernard 1887-1920 33 years, -6.7.1920 - grave 112.

Bernard was born abt 1887 in Oldham, Lancashire England. and married Mary Brooks there about 1908.

According to the NZ Army WW1 Reserve Rolls 1916-17 he was from Matiere Central King Country between Ongarue and Ohura. Where he is still listed as a Labourer in the 1919 Waitomo Electoral Roll. Mary his wife is listed as Waimiha. He died 4 July 1920 in Kaukapakapa and the death. registerd at Helensville.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 15 July 1920, Page 3 DISTRICT NEWS. KAUKAPAKAPA (From our own Correspondent.)

Last Sunday there passed away at Kaukapakapa Mr Bernard Wrigley. Although only comparatively a new settler, Mr Wrigley had made himself popular with those with whom he came in contact. For some time past he suffered from attacks of bronchitis, and a few days before his death, was forced to take to. his bed. Although

medical attention was obtained, he passed peacefully away on Sunday, 4th. A widow and four children have been left to mourn his loss. A sad feature of his death is that neither Mrs Wrigley nor her late husband have any relatives at all in New Zealand. The funeral took place at the Kaukapakapa cemetery on Tuesday last.

Bernard died in 1920 leaving 4 children Bernard Wrigley travelled to New Zealand in 1910 from London to Auckland on the Matatua where he is listed as a Plumber.

The children I have located are Alice Wrigley 1909-1998 Who was born in Oldham, Lancashire England 29 Dec 1909 and died 11 August 1998 in Stratford. New Zealand , the widow of Arthur Vincent Rose from Southland who died in Stratford 1966 aged 60.

Bernard Wrigley 1915-1941 Born 1915 in NZ and died in Crete 20 May 1941 buried Regional unit of Chania, Crete, Greece. NZ Army 5256 Thomas James Wrigley 1916-1942 Born 1916 NZ and died 28 Jun 1942 in Egypt, buried El Alamein Matruh Egypt. NZ Army 5257. . His youngest was a Girl named Mary born 16 January 1919. She was less than a year old when her Father died and her Mother Mary was unable to care for her so she was adopted by William and Mary Ann Stevens ( Plot 133 & 134 ) and was brought up as their youngest child.. On 10 May 1941 she married Douglas Gordon Seed and lived across the road from the Stevens farm. She had 6 children and died 15 Sept 1973.

His widow remarried James INGLES in 1923 and was living in Stratford in 1928 She died in New Plymouth 23 Aug 1954 aged 65 Her parents were listed as Noah Brooks and Mary Ellen nee Wales, formerly Wrigley, now Brooks. and I wonder if maybe Bernards' Mother married Marys' father ??????

Plot 113 MCGIBBONY Laurance 1827-1901 Entry from Burial Register:standing

Kaukapakapa, 74 years -26.8.1901 - grave 113 - a gum digger of 25 years

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11743, 27 August 1901, Page 5 An old man named Laurance McGibbony, a gum digger, was found dead in his bunk in his whare at the "Peak," about five miles south of Kaukapakapa on Saturday last, by Mr. Robert Drinnan's carter when delivering Stores on the gum-field. The body was brought to the Bridge Hotel, where an inquest was held on Sunday afternoon, before Mr. R. Sinclair and a jury of six, of whom Mr. Robert Drinnan was chosen foreman, when the following particulars were obtained:—It appears that when Smith, the carter, got to the place where he usually delivered deceased's stores he called out for deceased to come and fetch them. Getting no reply he went to the whare and found deceased dead in his bunk—having died apparently as he had gone to sleep. On making inquiries of his mate, W. Doherty, Smith learnt that deceased was all right on Thursday morning. 22nd inst. But not seeing anything of him for the two days Doherty thought deceased had gone into the settlement. Deceased was a native of Ireland, a single man. had no relatives in the colony, and was 74 years of age at the time his death, and was in receipt of the old age pension to the full amount. He was at onetime a soldier in the 18th Royal Irish, and came to the colony with that regiment in July, 1863. He had been gum-digging in -and about this district for the last 20 years. The medical evidence went to show that deceased died of old age, and a verdict accordingly was returned.

A typical Gun digger's whare.

Plot 114 Entry from Burial Register:-

PAYNE Child Stillborn child, Kanohi, -11.5.1893 ( or 1895) - grave 114

Plot 115 Entry from Burial Register:-

DALTON John 1821-1891 Makarau, 70 years, 17.7.1891 - grave 115 - an old bush man

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, morning News, and Echo.

THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1891. The causes by which John Dalton came by his death were inquired into at Kaukapakapa Friday last. Mr Sinclair was coroner, Mr M. C. Henley, foreman of the jury, who numbered six.

The deceased lived with a mate named Palmer at Kakanui, and worked for Mr Barlow, a farmer of the district.

On Wednesday last, the 15th instant, the two men returned from work together, and had tea. About two hours after deceased was seized with violent pains in the stomach. His mate administered hot tea and medicine, and this treatment appeared to afford relief. Next day Palmer went to work and when he returned Dalton was dead.

Dr. Gault said death was due to inflammation of the bowels. Dalton was 74 years of age. He had, it is stated, two sons and one daughter by a native wife. The verdict was returned in accordance with the evidence.

THE New Zealand Herald AND DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS. THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1891 An inquest was held at the Kaukapakapa Hotel on Friday, the 17th Inst., before Mr. Robt. Sinclair and a jury, of six, of whom Mr. M. C. Henley was foreman, to inquire into the circumstances connected with the death of on old man named. John Dalton,, who died suddenly in his whare at Kakanui, near Komokoriki, about eight miles north of Kaukapakapa, on Wednesday last, the 14th inst. The following are the particulars, as given at the inquest:—It appears that deceased was employed at farm work by Mr. Barlow, of Kakanui, and was living in a whare some little distance from Mr Barlow's house in company with another man named William Palmer. On returning from work the two men had tea together of which deceased partook heartily. About two hours afterwards he complained. of severe pains in stomach and bowels, His mate made him some warm tea and gave him some medicine, and some time after he seemed to be somewhat relieved. Palmer went to work about three

p.m., and when he returned about five the same evening he found deceased was dead in his bunk. Dr Gault, of Helensville, was called, and stated that the cause of death was acute Inflammation of the bowels, in accordance with which the jury returned their verdict deceased was an Englishman, 74 years of age, and is said to have been married to native woman, and to have-two sons, named John and George-Dalton respectively living at Mercury Bay, and one daughter married to a patternmaker at Napier. He is also believed to have a sister in Sydney.

Plot 116 Entry from Burial Register:-

DRINNAN Stillborn 1896 Child of Robert and Sarah (Plot 146 C and 147 ).

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10060, 21 February 1896, Page 4 DRINNAN.—On January 7, at her brother-in law's residence, Parnell, the wife of Robert Drinnan, of Kaukapakapa, of a daughter (stillborn),

Plot 117 Entry from Burial Register:-

RIX Mrs George 1824-1864 40 years, Kaukapakapa - 1864 - native. Grave 117

The first burial in the cemetery When in 1864 Mrs Rix, wife of the first mail carrier, died, her body was laid to rest in a far corner of the Churchyard because the cemetery Reserve at the corner of Peak & Holroyd's Roads ( of 10 acres) was too far

removed from the settlement. This set a precedent and consequent burials followed with the result that the district cemetery developed in the Churchyard leaving the original Cemetery Reserve undeveloped and in its original state to this day (1981)

Plot 118 Entry from Burial Register:mail carrier.

RIX George 1804-1882 Kaukapakapa 78 years - 29.3.1882 - grave 118 - from Lynn, Norfolk, 18 years

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6375, 24 April 1882, Page 2 Our Kaukapakapa correspondent writes I regret to have to record the death of our much-respected mail carrier, Mr. George Rix, at the advanced age of 77. Mr. Rix was a native of Norfolk, England, and was one of the oldest settlers in the colony. he cam- out to Adelaide in 1837 and came down to this colony in a schooner the following year, landing in the Kaipara. Some years later he met with an accident, which deprived him of the use of his left arm. In those early days he spent most of his time with the Maoris, and subsequently was engaged by the late Bishop Selwyn as a hand on board the missionary schooner. After remaining several years in that service, he finally settled in Kaipara. He came to Kaukapakapa long before any settlement by the white people had taken place. he was a great favourite with the Maoris, and when Tamati Davis sold his land to Mr. David Sheehan he reserved Mr. Rix the right to remain on a portion of the land as long as he lived. Some twenty years ago a house was built on that portion, and there he has lived ever since till the time of his death on the 28 March. He has carried the mails for this district for the last twelve years, he was of a genial and kindly disposition, and I believe that few, if any, ever saw him out of temper. He always had a pleasing word or tale, to tell, and always in a polite and respectful manner. He was buried on the 29th March, when a large gathering of all classes took place to pay their last tribute of respect to his memory.

NZ Death Index George Rix Death Date Apr-May-Jun 1882 Registration Place Helensville Otago (sic.) New Zealand Folio Number 529 (Should be Waitemata not Otago wbs )

In the 1853-1864 Northern Division 1862>Auckland>NZ Electoral Roll He is listed Rix George Kaukapakapa south, household, has no household qualification.

1870-1871 Auckland> Waitemata> NZ Electoral Rolls Rix George Kaukapakapa household, Kaukapakapa dwelling The entire listing is crossed out with a handwritten note transferred to Rodney. as many were in this Roll.

1875-76 Auckland>Waitemata> NZ Electoral Rolls Rix George Kaukapakapa household, Kaukapakapa dwelling

Plot 118C Entry from Burial Register:-

OSBALDISTON Frank Bruce 1920-1971 51 years -24.12.1971 - grave 118C - son of Ralph & Violet (Plot 202 & 201 ) 69394 PTE. F. B. OSBALDISTON N.Z. INFANTRY DIED AGED 23.12.1971 51 YEARS

Plot 119A DAVIES Richard Noah 1852-1907

In Loving Memory Of R N DAVIES died 12 January 1907 aged 65 years

Davies Richard Noah freehold Kukutanga Island Farmer portion Kukutanga Island also his brother John Breese Davies and Andrew Francis Davies from 1890 Waitemata Electoral Roll.

In 1928 Andrew Francis is of Gordon Rd Northcote with no occupation. whereas in 1880-81 he is a freehold settler of part Kakutanga (sic) Block Makarau 162 acres . John Brees (sic) ditto. and Richard Noah is ditto but ascribed 163 acres.

According to Alan Jordan (Plot 236) The Davies Bros, were Boat Builders, and built the home on Jordan's Island selling the property to James Byrt and Harriet Jordan in 1901

Plot 119B CASH Martin Entry from Burial Register:-age unknown - 30.8.1890 - grave 119 - Old Gum digger

Plot 119C OSBALDISTON Alexander Russell 1893- 1964

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

ALEXANDER RUSSELL OSBALDISTON DIED 3RD OCTOBER 1964 AGED 70 YEARS.

Entry from Burial Register:-

70 years, -3.10.1964 - grave 119C.

Alexander Russell Osbaldiston 1893-1964

Plot 119C OSBALDISTON Norah nee WATSON 1907-1995

Ashes interred with her husband in 2002.

Plot 119C

OSBALDISTON nee DAW Mrs Sarah 1857-1940 2nd wife of Wm

From burial register:- 82 years, 11.3.1940 - grave 119C Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 60, 11 March 1940, Page 1 OSBALDISTON:—On March 11, at the residence of her step-daughter, Mrs. R. Mouat, 9, Queen's Parade, Devonport, Sarah, loved wife of the late William Osbaldiston, in her eighty- third year. Funeral will leave the chapel of H. Morris, Limited, at 2 p.m. to-morrow (Tuesday) for Kaukapakapa Cemetery.

Was this the Miss Daw who attended William (Plot 205 ) and Janet's (Plot 136C) wedding in 1883. ?

Plot 120 COX Mrs Maria nee WALKER 1849-1912 Entry from Burial Register:-

63 years, 14.4.1912. grave 120

Maria Cox nee Walker Born 2 November 1849 New Windsor, Berkshire, England Married James Eli Cox 14 April 1869 at St Matthews Church, Brixton, Surrey England., and in 1871 they were living at Lambeth London She died 13th April 1912 at Kaukapakapa.

From the NZ Online Death Records Surname: Cox, Given: Maria, Date of Birth/Age at Death: 63Y (B:~1849) Death: 13/04/1912 Detail Reg. Number: 1912/4206

James Eli Cox

In Loving Memory Of MARIA DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF JAMES ELI COX WHO DIED 13TH APRIL 1912 AGED 63 YEARS. UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY

Her husband James Eli Cox died in 1935 and is buried at Waikumete Cemetery 21 April 1935 Wesleyan D Row 7 Plot 18 It appears they must have emigrated to Hawkes Bay NZ about 1873

1. James Eli Cox Birth 11 Oct 1870 in Brixton, Surrey, England 2. William George Cox Birth 02 Jul 1872 in 21 Hardness Rd, Brixton, Surrey, England Death 20 Jan 1954 in Tokonui Hospital 3. Emily Agnes COX Birth 09 Jun 1874 in Waipawa, New Zealand Death 27 Dec 1959 in Napier, New Zealand 4. Alice Amelia Cox Birth 19 Feb 1876 in New Zealand Death 08 Aug 1918 in Makeretu, Takapau, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand 5. Albert Henry Cox Birth 22 May 1878 in Ormondville, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand Death 16 Sep 1943 in Pahiatua, New Zealand 6. Ellen Elizabeth Cox Birth 12 Mar 1880 in Ormondville, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand Death 12 Feb 1929 in District Hospital, Marrickville, NSW, Australia 7. Lottie Cox Birth 08 Oct 1882 in Ormondville, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand Death 13 Sep 1968 in Hawera, New Zealand 8. Selina Cox Birth 14 Dec 1884 in Norsewood, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand Death 17 Jul 1970 in Tauranga, New Zealand 9. Fanney Cox Birth 07 Apr 1887 in Ormondville, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand Death 18 Aug 1967 in Mairangi Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 10. John Joseph Cox Birth 30 Aug 1889 in New Zealand Death 14 Aug 1959 in Tokonui Hospital, New Zealand 11. Charles Berty Cox Birth 18 Mar 1891 in New Zealand Death 30 Oct 1966 in Auckland, New Zealand 12. David Cox Birth 08 Oct 1893 in Mt Bruce Rd, Masterton, New Zealand Death 03 Oct 1945 in 21 Remuera Rd, Newmarket, 1050, New Zealand In 1885-1886 Hawkes Bay Electoral Roll for Waipawa he is listed as freehold of Ormondville, Labourer Waipawa Bush section 113.

1890 Hawkes Bay Electoral Roll for Waipawa Waipawa he is listed as freehold of Ormondville, Labourer Waipawa Bush section 113.

1896 Manawatu-Wanganui Electoral Roll for Pahiatua James Eli Cox snr, Makairo, Farmer, residential.

1905-1906 Wellington Masterton as James Eli Cox senior of Mangaraupiu is a farmer.

1911NZ Electoral Roll Wellington Masterton as James Eli Cox senior of Mangaraupi is a farmer.

1911 NZ Electoral Roll Northland, Kaipara, James Ely Cox snr Kaukapakapa Farmer and Maria Cox Kaukapakapa, married. (This appears to be her first listing in the Electoral Rolls ) New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17157, 10 May 1919, Page 11 James Eli Cox;-settler, of Auckland, was adjudicated a bankrupt, on the petition of John McCarrol! (Mr. F. W. Thorne).

Wairarapa Age , 22 May 1919, Page 5 BANKRUPT FARMER James Eli Cox;-a settler, has furnished a schedule to the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy at Auckland showing unsecured creditors £95. Secured creditors are given as £7828 7s 8d, and the estimated value of the security given is valued at £7200, which leaves a deficiency of £628 7s 8d, and brings up the total liability to £723 7s 8d. The only asset shown is £400, stated to be due bankrupt on a transaction in property. In his statement as to

the cause of bankruptcy, it is set forth that up to 1908 the bankrupt was a successful sheep and cattle farmer in the Wairarapa. He sold out on account of failing health and bought a farm at Kaukapakapa, paying cash for it and the stock. Two years ago he exchanged that unencumbered property with a land agent for another one, which was heavily encumbered. He was unable to live on the return from this property. He was now left destitute Previous to coming to Auckland he never owed a shilling.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17584, 24 September 1920, Page 7 BANKRUPTCY SITTING. DISCHARGES AND ADJUDICATION. A sitting in bankruptcy was held yesterday at the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Cooper. Applications for discharge were granted in the following cases —Collingwood Hargreaves (Mr. Butler), Arthur Edmond Thomas (Mr. Could) James Eli Cox, Edwin James Arnold (Mr. Mahony).

Plot 121 Reserved D Cox snr.

Plot 122 OTTO Gwendoline 1912- 1916 Entry from Burial Register:Kaukapakapa, 3½ years. 3.2.1916 grave 122.

IN loving memory of LITTLE GWEN DIED FEBRUARY 2ND 1916 AGED 3 YEARS 7 MONTHS. FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 31, 5 February 1916, Page 12 Kaukapakapa. Gwendoline Florence, the dearly beloved daughter Mr and Mrs A. O. Otto, late of Auckland aged 3 years and 7 months Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 February 1916, Page 4 A CHILD'S DEATH. ACCIDENTALLY SCALDED. An inquest was held yesterday at Kaukapakapa, before Mr. E. Thurlow- Field, J.P., Acting-Coroner, touching the death of a child, Gwendoline Otto, aged three years, from scalds caused by the capsizing of a bucket of hot water. From the evidence led by Constable Driscoll, of Helensville, it appeared that the child was a daughter of Mr. Alfred Otto, recently a land agent at Auckland, who had gone into the dairying industry at Kaukapakapa.

The father's evidence was that between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., on Tuesday, he went into the kitchen of the house to get a bucket of hot water to clean the milk separator. He put the bucket full of water on the floor, and while he was attending to something else the child toddled into the room and got between him and the bucket. Not knowing the child was there, Mr. Otto turned round to pick up the bucket and knocked against the child, who fell down, and by the fall upset the bucket of scalding water over her arms, shoulders and hips. First aid was at once given, and Dr. Meinhold, of Helensville, was summoned and arrived at the farm within an hour, but despite all care the child died at 1 p.m. the following day. After hearing the doctor's evidence, the jury (Mr. E. Leach, foreman) returned a verdict that death was due to accidental scalding, followed by shock. The jury added a rider, expressing deep sympathy with the parents, who were new arrivals in the district.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20938, 30 July 1931, Page 1 OTTO.--On July 29, 1931, suddenly, at his residence, 56. Onslow Road, Epsom, Alfred Oscar, dearly-loved husband of Laura May Otto; in his 60th year. The funeral will leave the above address to-morrow (Friday), at 2.15 p.m., for Hillsborough Cemetery.

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24462, 21 December 1942, Page 1 OTTO.—On December 19, 1912, at Auckland Hospital, Laura May Otto , Meadowbank Road, Remuera, beloved wife of the late Alfred Oscar Otto, and dearly-loved mother of Connie, Beverley, Vernon Charles (overseas), Lionel, and Noel; aged 65 years.- At rest. Funeral leaves , Alfred, Arthur Holmes and Son's Parlours, McColl Street, Newmarket, for Hillsborough. to-day (Monday). 2 p.m.

Plot 123 OTTO N

Entry from Burial Register:-

Kaukapakapa 5 weeks -no date given - grave 123.

Plot 124 DAVIES John 1842-1919 Entry from Burial Register:-

77 years -4.9.1919 -grave 124

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17258, 6 September 1919, Page 1 DAVIES. —On September 2, at Mount Rex, Helensville. passed peacefully and hopefully into rest John Brees (sic) Davies; aged 77 years. Long resident in the Kaukapakapa district, he stood high in the esteem of many sorrowing friends, who sadly miss him Son of Mary Breese Davies (Plot 156) Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 5 February 1913, Page 2 TENDERS- FLAX CUTTING TENDERS for the right to cut Flax on Wakatiwai and Glencoe farms, will be received by the undersigned. Tenders Close at noon on WED NESDAY, February 12th, 1913. For particulars apply to Davies' Bros, Mt. Rex, or JOHN KELSO, Kaukapakapa.

Plot 125 MUMFORD Mana Rose 1905-1906

Mana Rose Mumford: Born 1905, died 1906 aged 8 months. Fourth of six children of Edward Andrew Mumford (b. Auckland 1872, an older brother of Henry James Mumford) and his wife, Jane Wright. The 190506 electoral roll states he was a labourer living in Kaukapakapa. In 1916 he was given a suspended sentence for failing to pay maintenance. He died in 1920. Apparently some of the children were placed in an orphanage.

Jane remarried, to Patrick Cronin, and I believe had two more children.

Plot 125 MUMFORD Mary (Minnie) Hannah nee GERAGHTY 1876-1936 Entry from Burial Register:60 years -6.10.1936 grave 125 Daughter of Mary Jane Goulsbro ( Plot 89A)

Plot 125 Entry from Burial Register:-

MUMFORD Henry James 1880-1962 83 years, 14.3.1962 - grave 125 ( 2nd burial).

MUMFORD IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY HANNAH DIED 7TH OCTOBER 1936 AGED 60 YEARS; HENRY JAMES DIED 14TH MARCH 1962 AGED 82 YEARS; LEWIS GORDON DIED 9TH NOVEMBER 1919 AGED5 YEARS. AT REST.

Henry James Mumford, Mary (Minnie) Hannah nee Geraghty and Children Edna, Sylvia and Mervyn MUMFORD Henry James born January 1880 in Auckland NZ. Died 14 March 1962 in Wairoa Gisborne. His wife Mary Hannah Geraghty whom he married in 1913 died on 6 October 1936 aged 60.

Henry (Harry) James Mumford and Mary (Minnie) Hannah Mumford (nee Geraghty).. They had four children.

Henry was a farmer in Kaukapakapa. His father, a tailor who lived in Auckland, was born in Tasmania, the son of a transported convict. Henry’s mother, Elizabeth Margaret Lewis, was born in Auckland on 9 June 1846. Her parents, Edward William Lewis and Maria Lewis, came to NZ with the 58th Regiment, arriving in March 1845.

NZ Electoral Roll 1905-1906 for Kaipara He is a gum digger their is a William Mumford Tailor ( Father 18441914, who was a Tailor or possibly brother William John 1869-1938) an Edward Andrew Labourer (brother) a Jane married (Edward's wife nee WRIGHT) and an Alice Maud spinster (his sister) In 1911 Electoral Roll he appears in the Manukau Roll as C/- Mr J Young Great South Rd Ellerslie as a a labourer. William the Tailor is now at Panmure, Florence a sister is also at Gt South Rd. Ellerslie.

1928 Kaipara Electoral Roll Mumford Henry James, Kaukapakapa, Farmer Mary Hannah, Kaukapakapa, married.

1935 Kaipara Electoral Roll Mumford Henry James, Kaukapakapa, Farmer Mary Hannah, Kaukapakapa, married 1938 Kaipara Electoral Roll Mumford Henry James, Kaukapakapa, Farmer Leslie Mervyn Kaukapakapa, Farmer

Sylvia May, Kaukapakapa, spinster.

Henry's mother New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12600, 14 June 1904, Page 1 MUMFORD:- On June 13, at-the Auckland Hospital, Margaret, the dearly beloved wife of William Mumford (late of Wellington-street), aged 58 years. The funeral will be announced later.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 141, 14 June 1904, Page 8 Or. June l3th, at the District Hospital, Margaret, the dearly beloved wife of William Mumford , late of Wellington-st.. in her 58 th year. The funeral will leave, her son in law's residence. Crummer Rd.. for O'Neill's Point. Wednesday, at 1.30 p.m. Deeply regretted. Friends please accept this intimation.

William Mumford, Henry's father died in Ellerslie Auckland on Jun 1914. Run over by a train whilst asleep on track.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15627, 5 June 1914, Page 1 DEATHS. MUMFORD-On June 4. 1914, accidentally Killed at Ellerslie William Mumford , late of Panmure aged 74 years. The funeral will leave his daughter's (Mrs. Young's residence The Brae, corner Great South Road and Rockfield Road. Ellerslie. for O'Neill's Point Cemetery, on Sunday. June 7th at 3 p.m.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 131, 4 June 1914, Page 8 FATE OF AN OLD MAN BODY FOUND ON RAILWAY LINE. (BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The mangled body of William Mumford, an old man, a resident of Panmure, was found on the railway line near Ellerslie. He had evidently been run over by a train.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 13 August 1913, Page 3 KAUKAPAKAPA The erection of a telephone wire between Wainui and Kaukapakapa, which the Government refused to proceed with a few weeks ago as being an unpayable proposal, has now been provided by the enterprise of the settlers.

The necessary posts were given by Mr F. Dye, and the work undertaken by the settlers themselves, and the result will be a great benefit to the district.

At a recent euchre party Mr Harry Mumford , received a silver mounted umbrella from the footballers of* Kaukapakapa, to mark the occasion of his marriage. Mr Koller (secretary) made the presentation. The latter also received a case of pipes from the club members, Mr. F. Dye making the presentation. On behalf of local wellwishers the latter also presented to Mr and Mrs Mumford , a handsome dinner set. Bright and appropriate speeches to the occasion were made, which were responded .to in an appreciative manner. There was a large attendance for the dance which followed, and a most enjoyable time was spent.

In 1914 Kaipara Electoral Roll. he is back at Kaukapakapa as a farmer.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17313, 10 November 1919, Page 1 MUMFORD.—On November 9. 1919, at the Auckland Hospital, Lewis Gordon, dearly. loved eldest son of Harry and Minnie Mumford ,of Kaukapakapa, aged 6 years. The funeral will leave the Kaukapakapa Railway Station on the arrival of the 10 50 a.m. train from Auckland, to-day (Monday).

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 13 November 1919, Page 3 SUDDEN BEREAVEMENT,

A painful sensation was caused here this week, when it was learned that the little six year old son of Mr and Mrs Mumford had passed away. Lewis was a bright little fellow, and in the early part of the week attended school as usual, seeming to be in ordinary health and spirits. He became ill about the middle of the week, and medical advice was sought. On Saturday last a decided change for the worse was noticed, and Dr. Meinhold ordered his immediate removal to the hospital. The poor little chap was taken by car to Auckland, where in spite of all that medical skill could do, he rapidly sank and died on Sunday. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon at the local cemetery, Rev. F. C. Pace reading the burial service. A pathetic feature of the service was the attendance of the school children, with whom Lewis was deservedly popular. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents and their family New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17328, 27 November 1919, Page 1 MR. AND MRS MUMFORD and Family. Kaukapakapa. wish to thank all kind friends who so kindly helped and sympathised with them in the sudden loss of their darling little son, Lewis also for telegrams, letters, cards, and beautiful floral emblems received.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18192, 11 September 1922, Page 1 GOULSBRO.—On September 4. at her daughter's residence. Mrs. H. Mumford , Kaukapakapa. Mary Jane Goulsbro (nee East. late of Pukekohe: aged 73 years Interred Wednesday. September 6. at Kaukapakapa.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18197, 16 September 1922, Page 1 MUMFORD.—In loving memory of Leslie Gordon, who died of wounds received in France on September 17.

1917. Ever remembered. —Inserted by his loving brother and sister in-law, H. and M. Mumford Kaukapakapa, In 1928 Kaipara Electoral Roll He is a farmer at Kaukapakapa and his wife Mary Hannah married. as also in 1935 Auckland Star , Issue 111, 13 May 1935, Page 3 A farmhand, Leslie Mervyn Mumford , (a son) aged 17, employed by Mr. K. Drinnan, of Wainui Road, Kaukapakapa, suffered a fractured thigh when the motor cycle he was riding collided with a motor truck in Wainui Road on Saturday evening. He was brought to Auckland by St. John ambulance, and admitted' to the Auckland Hospital.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22544, 8 October 1936, Page 1 MUMFORD.—On October 7, at her residence, Kaukapakapa, Mary Hannah, dearly beloved wife of Henry James Mumford ;age 60 years. Funeral will leave her late residence at 2.30 p.m. to-day (Thursday) for Kaukapakapa Cemetery. Friends please accept this intimation. . In 1938 he is listed as farmer, and Sylvia May Mumford a spinster ( a daughter) and a Leslie Mervyn Mumford Kaukapakapa, is a farmer (a son)

Plot 126 BLACKMOORE Mary 1913-1920 Entry from Burial Register :-6 years, 13.1.1920 - grave 126.

Plot 127C BECHER Infant of Andrew John 1919 ( 2 days) Entry from Burial Register:- 2 days, -3.11.1919 - grave 127C

Plot 127A KINLOCH Child

Entry from Burial Register:-child of Roy - grave 127, transferred to 80Csic I think this should be 90C (wbs) No other details

Plot 127A

Entry from Burial Register:after the date.

MUMFORD Lewis Gordon 1913-1919 6 years, 10.11.1919 - grave 127A ( The words "grave digger error" are written

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo , 13 November 1919, Page 3 SUDDEN BEREAVEMENT, A painful sensation was caused here this week, when it was learned that the little six year old son of Mr and Mrs Mumford had passed away. Lewis was a bright little fellow, and in the early part of the week attended school as usual, seeming to be in ordinary health and spirits. He became ill about the middle of the week, and medical advice was sought. On Saturday last a decided change for the worse was noticed, and Dr. Meinhold ordered his immediate removal to the hospital. The poor little chap was taken by car to Auckland, where in spite of all that medical skill could do, he rapidly sank and died on Sunday. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon at the local cemetery, Rev. F. C. Pace reading the burial service. A pathetic feature of the service was the attendance of the school children, with whom Lewis was deservedly popular. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents and their family

MUMFORD IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY HANNAH DIED 7TH OCTOBER 1936 AGED 60 YEARS; HENRY JAMES DIED 14TH MARCH 1962

AGED 82 YEARS; LEWIS GORDON DIED 9TH NOVEMBER 1919 AGED 5 YEARS. AT REST. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17328, 27 November 1919, Page 1 MR. AND MRS MUMFORD and Family. Kaukapakapa. wish to thank all kind friends â– who so kindly helped and sympathised with them in the sudden loss of their darling little son, Lewis. also for telegrams, letters, cards, and beautiful floral emblems received.

Lewis and Edna Mumford

Plot 127B Entry from Burial Register:-

CHILD of J H COLGAN 1912 ( 4 days) 4 days, -16.7.1912 - grave 127B.

Plot 128A McLEAN Archibald Murdoch Lee (Murdoch) (Reserved) He is possibly buried in new cemetery

Plot 128B Entry from Burial Register:Burial)

MCLEAN Hope nee Mason 1900-1976 75 years - died 19.2.1976 - grave 129B - widow of William L.J.McLean (2nd

IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM LACHLAN JOHN MCLEAN LOVED HUSBAND OF HOPE DIED FEBRUARY 1ST 1974 IN HIS 74TH YEAR. SO LOVED SO MOURNED. ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS BELOVED WIFE HOPE DIED FEBRUARY 19TH 1976 IN HER 76TH YEAR. IN GOD'S KEEPING AT REST WITH THE LORD

Born 1900 Died 1976 in Northcote Wife of William Lachlan John McLean

Plot 128B MCLEAN William Lachlan John 1900-1974 Entry from Burial Register:McLean.

74 years died 1st, buried 4.2.1974. - grave 129B - son of Lachlan John

Born May 1900 Verna House Auckland Died 1974 Kaukapakapa and buried 4 Feb 1974

William Lachlan John (Bill) McLean 1900-1974

Plot 128C

MCLEAN Margaretta Fossett nee LEE 1874 - 1949 Entry from Burial Register:75 years, -18.11.1949 - grave 128C.

MARGRETTA (GRETA) McLEAN (nee Lee) 1874-1949 Born May 1874 in Newton Auckland NZ and married Lachlan John McLean on 25 Jan 1899 at Kanohi. She died 18 Nov 1949 At age of 7 she won 3rd prize for sewing, and was in the same class as her cousin Robert Lee Mary Jane Lee's daughter Greta was only sixteen when her mother died and she had to work very hard assisting her father. She married Lachlan John McLean who had been born in Scotland and had come to the area to work with the contractors building the railway tunnel north of Kanohi.

Greta and Lachlan settled on a portion of her father's farm at Kanohi which they farmed for many years. They milked cows, and made butter stamped with a scotch thistle which was sold to a shop in Helensville, at a premium price for top quality. They also sold fruit from their orchard and grew potatoes for sale.

Life was very busy and with the arrival of William Lachlan John in May 1900 and Florence Mary in May 1901 the work load increased. Kenneth Wilson was born in 1909 at the nursing home in Garfield Road, Helensville but his mother could not feed him and he was kept there until he died at the age of three months. The sad news came to the store, and Frank Dye rode his horse Starlight’ to tell the family. The children met their new brother for the first time in his white coffin in Severne House Ponsonby Greta was a refined person, very strict when necessary and with a great determination to adhere to what she believed was right and proper.

A faithful churchgoer, she would never miss a service at St Cuthbert’s When in her seventies and in poor health she would walk the several miles there, if all other means of transport failed.. She is buried in Kaukapakapa Methodist Cemetery with her husband, her parents, Mary Jane and William Lee, and other family members.

Ina Stevens (great granddaughter and granddaughter ) 1999

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IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARGRETTA FOSSETT BELOVED WIFE OF LACHLAN JOHN MCLEAN DIED 18TH NOV. 1949 AGED 78 YEARS

Plot 129 Entry from Burial Register:-

MCLEAN Lachlan John 1863-1925 Kaukapakapa, 61 years -3.1..1925. -grave 129.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF LACHLAN JOHN BELOVED HUSBAND OF MARGARETTA F. MCLEAN DIED 1ST NOV 1925 AGED 61 YEARS

ALSO THEIR SON KENNETH AGED 3 MONTHS. THY WILL BE DONE

(SIDE PANEL) IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARGRETTA FOSSETT BELOVED WIFE OF LACHLAN JOHN MCLEAN DIED 18TH NOVEMBER 1949 AGED 78 YEARS (1975 TRANSCRIPT) ( ALSO BILL MCLEAN ONLY A COUPLE OF WEEKS OLD 1974 ) New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19166, 4 November 1925, Page 12 OBITUARY. MR, LACHLAN JOHN McLEAN. Mr. Lachlan John McLean, of Kaukapakapa, died on Sunday, at the age of 61. Mr. McLean arrived in Auckland from Scotland with his parents while an infant. He assisted in construction of the Kanohi-Makarau section of the northern railway line, and with the late Mr. John McLean and Sons, the contractors, in the Waitangi tunnel.

He had been farming in the Kaukapakapa district for over a quarter of a century, and was highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. He is survived by Mrs. Mc- Lean, one daughter, Mrs. T. G. R. Stevens, and two sons, Messrs. William Lachlan McLean and Murdoch McLean. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon at Kaukapakapa cemetery, the Revs. N. O. White, Presbyterian, and Wilson, Methodist, officiating.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1925, Page 8 OBITUARY. MR. LACHLAN J. RESPECTED KAUKAPAKAPA SETTLER. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon at Kaukapakapa of Mr. Lachlan John McLean, who for the past 26 years had 'been farming in that district. The services at the residence and graveside were conducted by the Rev. N. O. White (Presbyterian) and the Rev. Wilson (Methodist). Mr. McLean was born in Scotland 61 years ago, but was brought to Auckland when two years old by his parents, who were shipmates of the late Mr. John McLean, the well known public works contractor, of Auckland. Later deceased was engaged on the undertakings with which the late Mr. John McLean and his sons, Messrs.

Murdoch and Neil McLean, were associated, particularly in the construction work in connection with the extension of the Northern railway from Kanohi to Makarau and the Waitangi tunnel. Deceased, who was held

in the highest esteem, is survived by Mrs. McLean, one daughter (Mrs. T. G. R- Stevens) and two sons (Messrs.

William Lachlan McLean and Murdoch McLean), who are all resident in the Kaukapakapa district.

Lachlan John MCLEAN 1863-1925 and Margretta Fossett nee Lee

Born 18 Aug 1863 in Cathcart Renfrewshire Scotland Son of John McLean (Shoemaker) and Flora McLean nee Murdoch Died 1925 in Kaukapakapa He married Margretta Fosset Lee at Kanohi on 25 Jan 1899 at her father's residence.

Observer, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1049, 4 February 1899, Page 21 KAUKAPAKAPA. A very pretty wedding took place at the residence of Mr Wm. Lee, Kanohi, on Wednesday last, 25th inst, the contracting patties being Miss M F Lee, the only daughter of Mr Win. Lee, and Mr L J McLean, of Auckland.

The bride; who was attired In a very becoming travelling costume, was given away by her father, and was attended by her cousin, Miss Alice Beatty, as bridesmaid. The Rev. Richards officiated, and after the ceremony, the party, consisting of several friends and-relatives, partook of the sumptuous wedding breakfast that had been provided. The happy couple were the recipients of hearty congratulations on all hands

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William Lachlan John McLean 1900-1974 (Plot 129B) Florence Mary McLean 1901-1988 see note (Plot 155C) Kenneth Wilson McLean 1908-1909 (Plot 130 ) Archibald Murdoch Lee McLean (Plot 128)

Plot 130 Entry from Burial Register:Born 1909 Died 1910

MCLEAN Kenneth Wilson 1909-1910 Kaukapakapa 3 months -8.2.1910 -grave 130.

Plot 131 SMITH Charles 1911 Entry from Burial Register child of Chas, 1 week, 0.5.1911. -grave 131. buried with William John Smith

Plot 131 SMITH William John Infant

Plot 132 LEPPER Violet Louise

Plot 133 STEVENS Mary Ann nee BAYLEY 1870-1964 From Burial Register:-96 years, -18.8.1964 -grave 133

Mary Ann ( Pollie ) STEVENS nee BAYLEY 1870-1964 Birth 24 June 1870 in Sebastapol, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Death 18 Aug 1964 in Pakuranga, Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand

Plot 134 STEVENS William (Bill) 1866-1951 Entry from Burial Register:84 years -13.4.1951. grave 134..also BAILEY (sic) Jenny (sic), died and cremated in Melbourne 1960-61- ashes interred under headstone of William Stevens

The Stevens Family "From Cornwall to New Zealand” By the year 1878 the Stevens Family was growing up. there were five sons and three daughters, ranging in age from 20 years down to 4 years. They lived in a small two-storied house on Adit Lane. which was three to four miles from Penzance, along Turnpike Road. With little or no opportunities of schooling. boys of eight years of age would start work. wheeling a barrow in the mines.

Visions of “A New Land of Opportunity" encouraged the Stevens Family to migrate, and having made the big decision they set sail. but struck a storm which landed them back in port ,and it was not until the two eldest sons, Thomas and James. decided that they would go to New Zealand on their own. that their mother agreed to start out again for the “New Land of Promise”. So on the 20th July. I878,they set sail from Plymouth in the ship “May Queen". a pretty little barque of only 736 tons register, under the command of Captain Tatchell

William (Bill) STEVENS 1866-1951 All went well and the voyage to New Zealand turned out to be one of the smartest of the year, only occupying 90 days from Plymouth. and upon the whole, what was generally termed a fine weather passage The “May Queen” was sighted off the coast of New Zealand on Wednesday. the l0th October. by a coastal vessel. and the Auckland port authorities were able to prepare for the advent of her arrival.

On Saturday morning, October l9th. 1878. with the pilot, Captain Bergers, on board, she rounded North Head at 11 a.m. The port officials went on board. Dr Percy. the ship‘s doctor, was able to give a clean bill of health. The various compartments where the immigrants had been housed were examined and found to be such as to call forth the praise of the Commissioners.

The arrival of “May Queen" was quite an occasion in the life of the early Colony. as reference to the “N.Z. Herald“ of Monday. 2lst, 1878. will show. An extract from one of the items published reads: "Messrs Owens and Graham, agents of the ship “May Queen", which arrived from London with 250 immigrants, chartered the Ferry Company steamer, and the first batch of passengers were sent ashore shortly after 3 p.m. A large crowd was on the wharf to witness the landing and it was very amusing to hear the remarks made by the bystanders as to the appearance, etc.. of the strangers.“ On the whole they are a class of immigrants which find ready employment, the young women consisting chiefly of domestic servants while the males are principally farm labourers and should be speedily absorbed in the country districts.

There were 167 English, Xi Irish, l Scot, l Australian.

Summary: 30 married couples. 73 single men_ 57 single women, 30 boys. 21 girls. 9 infants.

Classification: Wheelwrights 3. carpenters 3. domestic servants 38. cook 1. housemaids 3,. tailoress l, shoemakers 3, sawyers 2, shepherds l. butchers 2, dairymaids 7, painters 2, brickmakers 2, printers 1, engine fitters 2, tailor l,. land steward l, railway foreman 1. farmers 3, gardeners 2. ‘farm labourers 62.

A full list of the names of the immigrants is also published. including their Christian names. Among the names of the single men, the name of Charles Shugg is listed.

It is of some interest to note in the same issue of the “Herald” that land was advertised for sale by the Waste Lands Board at £1 per acre (at an earlier date the price was only 10/-).

The Stevens family were temporarily housed at the Albert Barracks in Princes Street and later set up their first home in Union‘ Street. They later made their home in Mary Street. Mt. Eden, where the father of the family found employment with Winstone’s. working in the road metal quarry at Mt. Eden. becoming the Quarry Foreman. The oldest son, Thomas Henry, found a job driving a delivery cart: James got a job on road formation at the lower end of Hobson Street. using a wheelbarrow and pick and shovel. Mary and Margaret got work as housemaids. William worked for a baker in Parnell and later attached himself to the carpentry trade and attended night school. John attended the public school in Wellesley Street. while Elizabeth and Ambrose began at the Grafton Public School in Nugent Street.

It was an entirely different day and age, in many ways, to what we know today. In those early days road making was one of the major tasks. There was no machinery of any kind and all the road metal was cracked by hand, with the wheelbarrow and shovel much in evidence. and the transportation was by horse and dray. Labourers worked long hours, and were paid on the quantity of metal they processed.

There was no public transport of any kind: they walked to and from their home. lf they became unemployed there was no Social Security Department with free doctor, and free medicine. etc. But the new immigrants were well pleased with their prospects in the new Colony.

Thomas. the father of the family, lived to the age of 68 years and died in 1901. His wife Mary lived on in the Mary Street home to the age of 87 years. She died in l9l6. They are both laid to rest in the family plot in the Purewa Cemetery at Remuera. Auckland. The direct descendants of the family now number over 360.

William (Will) STEVENS was born in Cornwall 29 Aug 1866 and died in Kaukapakapa 13 April 1951

Will followed the carpentry trade and when work was scarce he went over to Melbourne where he met Mary Ann (Polly) Bayley, a daughter of Charles Bayley, whose family lived in Greenwich, England.

He was a carpenter by trade, who in earlier life as a ship’s carpenter experienced some thrilling encounters with natives, when shipwrecked on cannibal islands. Polly was a sales girl in one of North Melbourne’s leading drapery and importing businesses. After their marriage they started in a fruit and greengrocer business in Errol Street. North Melbourne, in I892. Two years later they returned to Auckland where they purchased the "Yorkshire" Fruit shop in Victoria Street West, from Thomas Snow for the sum of £30 and occupied the living quarters above the shop.

At a later date a second business was opened in Khyber Pass Road and the family occupied a house in Claremont Street for a time. and later lived in the quarters above the Khyber Pass Road shop. Meanwhile, the fruit and vegetable shop was sold, Some time later the grocery business of Mr Weatherspoon in Victoria Street, was acquired.

Both grocery businesses prospered. The Victoria Street grocery shop was disposed of and a shop in Mt. Eden Road was purchased from brother Tom, who had moved his grocery business further down Mt. Eden Road. opposite the Boston Road intersection. The old shop was reorganised as a double fronted shop and refitted. and was reopened as a drapery and fancy goods business with Polly in charge, and the family living upstairs. ln I910 the fortunes of Will and Polly with their five sons and one daughter took a rather drastic change. Will‘s state of health. and five sons requiring a future, necessitated a. sweeping change. A big decision was made. which must have taken some courage. as well as some faith for it was good-bye to Mt. Eden and the city life, we are off to the farm. in August of that year an advance party consisting of two sons.

William aged 16. and Thomas aged 10, with two horses and a spring cart, crossed the harbour by paddle steamer at 8.30 a.m. bound for the farm at Kaukapakapa where they arrived at 8.30 p.m. in the evening riding a horse each bare-backed, leaving the cart in a gum hole along the way.

Having disposed of the grocery business, Will took over the farm in September, while Polly and the rest of the family followed in December. Some very real pioneering was to be their lot. The family of the previous owner did not vacate the house on the date of settlement, but continued in occupation. Will and the boys boarding with them. But prior to the arrival of Polly and the family, the old farm house was burned to the ground. Using some of the burnt roofing iron from the ashes a temporary shelter was hastily erected, which served as bunk house for the boys at night. and as dining room at meal times. cooking being done in the wood range which still stood in the chimney stack among the ashes. Will was fortunate enough to procure a small canvas tent which he and Polly used as sleeping quarters.

The struggle went on for months and finally the frame of a new house slowly came into being, and as soon as the roof was on, and there was enough flooring laid to hold a. bed the family moved in, and it was some years later before the house was finally completed. Will soon gained the confidence and respect of the neighbourhood. and in 1924 his efforts to establish a public school in the locality were successful. and he became the chairman of the school committee. One of the first items on the agenda was to find a name for the school and after several suggestions were considered, the chairman's recommendation was agreed to, and both the school and the district became known as “Waitoki”. With a public building now available Will and Polly gathered the settlers together for regular church services and Waitoki became a regular preaching place of the Kaukapakapa Methodist Home Mission Station. As the sons married the farm was divided up and after many years Will and Polly retired. They lived for a time at Mt. Eden. then at Matamata. and finally came back to Waitoki where Will died at the age of 84 years, and was buried in the Methodist Cemetery at Kaukapakapa, Polly lived to the age of 95 years.

Their children were: William Charles Henry, Harry Bayley, Thomas Gilbert Reginald. Albert Edward Victor, Arthur James Gordon, Ivy Blanch and Mary.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF MARY ANN STEVENS WHO PASSED AWAY 13TH APRIL 1951 AGED 84 YEARS; ALSO HIS BELOVED AND DEVOTED WIFE MARY ANN WHO PASSED AWAY 18TH AUGUST 1964 AGED 95 YEARS. FOR EVER WITH THE LORD.

LOVING REMEMBRANCE JENNIE.

The Jennie Bayley whose ashes are buried with William and Mary Ann Stevens was actually Mary Jane Bayley b circa 1871 Sebastopol, Victoria, Australia. She was the 4th child of Charles Bayley and Catherine nee Cole and a younger sister to Mary Ann. She never married and had no children.

Plot 135 MARKS Fanny nee Sadler 1841-1925 Entry from Burial Register:84 years, 5.4.1925 - grave 68 Mrs Fanny nee Sadler Born 20 Feb 1841 Wem Shropshire, England Died3 Apr 1925 Waimauku N.Z.

Fanny Marks nee Sadler 1841-1925 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18991, 13 April 1925, Page 10 OBITUARY. MRS FANNY MARKS. The death occurred at. Waimauku recently of an old Kaukapakapa pioneer, Mrs. Fanny Marks, widow of the late Mr. Henry Marks. Mrs Marks was born in Shropshire, England, in 1841, and arrived in New Zealand with her husband in 1864.

After a stay of two years in the Bay of Islands they settled in Kaukapakapa, where her husband took up land. After the death of her husband Mrs. Marks made her home some ten years ago with her daughter at Waimauku. Mrs. Marks is survived by her two daughters, Mrs. It. McMillan, of Avondale, and Mrs. C I Watts, of Waimauku. and one son, Mr. T. H. Marks, of Waiuku. There are 16 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.

FANNY MARKS (nee Sadler) 1841 -1 925 Fanny Sadler was born in Shropshire in 1841the daughter of William and Ann Sadler, her father being a farmer.

Orphaned at an early age (although she had at least one brother ) she grew up in her grandfather’s household in their comfortable homestead in the village of Quina brook, Shropshire, and learned all the housewifely accomplishments expected of country girls.

In due course she was wooed and won by Henry Marks, a young bachelor from a nearby district They married and were later blessed by the arrival of a daughter, Edith Ann. In common with many young people of that time, the couple (who were the writer's maternal grandparents) felt the lure of the colonies, and on Trinity Sunday 1861 they set sail in the good ship Annie Wilson for New Zealand. There followed a wearisome

journey of more than sixteen weeks duration, during which Fanny was so continuously seasick that she had to rely on fellow passengers to care for her baby.

Finally arriving safely in Auckland they settled into lodgings and Henry tramped the streets looking for work.

During the two years that they were in Auckland the family was extended by the arrival of a second daughter Lucy Hannah.

They decided to try their fortunes elsewhere, and set out for Kaukapakapa. Travelling by boat up the Auckland Harbour, they disembarked at Riverhead, and traversed the next fourteen miles on foot, the journey taking two days, seven miles to Ararimu where they stayed the first night, then the rest of the journey on the second day.

As Henry had to carry their supplies and Fanny was carrying baby Lucy, little three-and a half year old Edith had to walk the whole distance.

Their first home was a nikau whare, where they lived until it was destroyed by fire. They then moved into a house, owned by Captain Wyatt on the edge of the Pukanui River while a new home was being built This new house was on Boatshed Hill so named because it was next to the river where Charles Simcock carried on a boat building business.

Once in their new home, a garden and fruit trees were planted. Grandpa drove the first cow for the little family all the way from Remuera, but that and a second one were lost in the bush.

Grandma (Fanny) had, of course, to bake their bread, and she also made butter, selling it for 6d a pound. The skills learned in her English home stood her in good stead. She made candles with a mould, and dried apples in the sun. An expert knitter, she was able to read while her needles clicked, and she was an excellent seamstress, later teaching sewing at the local school. Times were hard, and when her husband’s ward-robe became depleted she cut up sheets to make trousers for him. Happily she had brought a generous trousseau, including sixteen dresses!

Three more babies were born into the household - Thomas, Nellie and Fanny - with kind neighbours filling the role of midwife each time and no doubt helping to care for the family. In the unsettling days which followed the Land Wars, there were some alarming incidents. One evening when Fanny and the children were sitting in the dusk, the door opened and in walked six Maori warriors who had presumably come up the river in a canoe.

Silently they proceeded to examine the contents of the room and, after completing their tour of inspection, silently departed.

In the Marks home strict observance of Sunday as a day of rest was adhered to, shoes being cleaned on Saturday, and secular news papers put away on the Sabbath. Though Henry was a ‘dyed-in-the-wool’ Anglican the family regularly attended the Methodist Sunday School and Church, walking several miles over rough roads.

Changes came as the family grew. Edith taught at Kaukapakapa School and subsequently married Frank Dye who owned a thriving general store on the banks of the Kaukapakapa River. They had three children.

Lucy married Robin McMillan , who was a carpenter and bridge builder.

They lived at Kanohi and Makarau and reared a family of seven children.

Thomas married Alice Jeffries from Helensville and kept a store at Ahuroa and later at Tahekaroa. They had five children.

At a local function Nellie met a young Englishman, Charles Watts, who had come out to seek his fortune in New Zealand after serving in the South African War. They married and had one child (Molly Watts). Nellie’ s sister Fanny never married and became an invalid in middle life.

In the later years of her life Fanny (mother) was lovingly cared for by her family, her husband having died many years before her in 1906 She died in 1925, and the couple lie side by side in the Kaukapakapa Cemetery.

“Their bodies are buried in peace but their name lives on in generation after generation” Ecclesiastes Ch 44 v 14 Sirach 44 v 14 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) Molly Watts, (granddaughter) 1993

Plot 136A MARKS Miss Fanny 1871-1915 Entry from Burial Register:-

Kaukapakapa, 43 years, -no date given - grave 136A.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15857, 2 March 1915, Page 1 DEATHS. MARKS-0n February 26. at the Auckland Hospital Fanny Elizabeth. second surviving daughter of the late Henry Marks, Kaukapakapa, and Mrs Marks Waimauku Interred at Kaukapakapa on February 28 Born 10 Jan 1871 Kaukapakapa died 26 Feb 1915

Plot 136B MARKS Henry 1834 -1906 MARKS Henry Born 4 May 1834 Marylebone London Died 23 Dec 1906 Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 303, 28 December 1906, Page 5 .Mr Henry Marks, an old resident of Kaukapakapa, died at his residence on Sunday morning after a three months' illness. He came to New Zealand during, the time Of the Maori wars and resided at Kaukapakapa for 40 years: He leaves, a widow, three daughters and a son, and was 72 years of .age at the time-of his death. The funeral was. largely attended.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13371, 28 December 1906, Page 4 Our Kaukapakapa correspondent writes: —The district has lost by death one of its oldest and most highly esteemed settlers in the person of Mr.' Henry Marks, who passed away at his residence on Sunday morning last, alter an illness of three or four months' duration. Deceased came to the colony from England during the Maori war, and spent a few years in Auckland and the Bay of Islands district,, afterwards settling here, where he has resided for over 40 years. For a great many years he was clerk and rate collector for the local Road Board, and also acted as returning officer, at Parliamentary elections. At the, time of his death the deceased had reached the age of 72. He leaves a widow, three daughters, and one son. The funeral took place on Monday, and was largely attended.

Plot 136C OSBALDISTON Janet Marion nee CAMERON (Mrs W) 1861-1913 Entry from Burial Register:July grave 136C Observer, Volume 6, Issue 147, 7 July 1883, Page 252 The marriage of Miss Cameron, of Auckland, to Mr William Osbaldiston, (Plot 205) of Kaukapakapa, was solemnised by the Rev. David Runciman at the residence of the bride's parents, Scotia Place, Upper Queenstreet. There were a number of guests present, and the bride looked extremely pretty, dressed in cream Egyptian cloth, trimmed with satin veil of Brussels net, and wreath of orange blossom. Miss Agnes Shanks (Plot 190) acted as bridesmaid, and wore a dress of pale cream, trimmed with lace. In the evening the bride's parents entertained a number of friends, and dancing was kept up till an early hour. There were several very pretty costumes in the room some of the most noticeable were worn by the following ladies Miss Daw, pink sateen, black lace polonaise Miss Henderson, pink skirt, black velvet body Miss Reid, pale blue cashmere Miss Hodge, fawn lustre Mrs Philip McLeod, fawn silk Mrs Cameron, mauve silk, white trimmings. Mr Frank Deacon discharged the duties of M.C. very efficiently. Miss Shanks was the acknowledged belle. Another marriage will soon take place in the district. their children were: 1884 - 1923 Ralph Cameron Osbaldiston - Ralph married Eva Elizabeth BARTLEY (1882-1963) in 1915 1885 - 1955 Margaret Osbaldiston - Margaret married Walter James DAVEY (1877-1945) in 1907 1887 - 1964 Stewart John Osbaldiston - spouse not found 1888 - 1958 Elsie Elphine Osbaldiston - Elsie married Arthur Frederick BARTLEY (1887-1968) in 1914 1893 - 1981 Ivy Flora Marion Osbaldiston

- Ivy married John Thomas TODD in 1931 1895 - 1905 Gordon Cameron Osbaldiston - Gordon died aged 10 (Plot 205) 1898 - 1973 Mabel Osbaldiston - Mabel married Edwin Rawi MOUAT (1898-1972) in 1922

Plot 137A WEBSTER Mary Elizabeth nee MORRISON 1877-1913

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 189, 9 August 1913, Page 12 Mary E. Webster, who passed away at Kaukapakapa l0th August, 1907. We often sit and think of thee When we are all alone: For memory is the only thing That grief can call its own. Inserted by her daughters Annie and Hazel.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15683, 10 August 1914, Page 1 WEBSTER.— sad but loving memory of our dear daughter, Mary Elizabeth Webster. who fell asleep in Jesus at Kaukapakapa, August 10, 1907. 0! Sacred hope, 0! blessful hope, Which Jesus' grace has given; The hope when days and years are past, We shall meet our dear one in Heaven. —Inserted by her loving parents, J. and A, Morrison. (Plot 137C & Plot 200) WEBSTER.—In loving memory of our dear mother, Mary E. Webster, who passed away at Kaukapakapa, August 10, 1907. Some of us remember, some of us forget; But mother and her kindness is not forgotten yet.

—Inserted by her loving children, Gladys. Basil and Morrie.

Plot 137B

Entry from Burial Register:and Mary (Plot 137A

WEBSTER Nelly 1892-1896 Kaukapakapa, 4 years, - 5.5.1896 - grave , plot 137 - Child of James (Plot 94 )

Nelly Webster 1892-1896

Plot 137C MORRISON John 1836-1925 Entry from Burial Register:-

88 years, -30.8.1925 - grave 187

IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN BELOVED HUSBAND OF ANN MORRISON WHO PASSED AWAY AT ST. HELIERS BAY ON 28TH AUGUST 1925 AGED 89 YEARS AND OF HIS BELOVED WIFE ANN MORRISON WHO DIED 26TH NOVEMBER 1928 AGED 75 YEARS. ASLEEP IN JESUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 287, 2 December 1903, Page 5 OLD COLONISTS REUNION. There was a very interesting gathering on November 26th at the residence of Mr John Morrison, Kaukapakapa at whose kind invitation the surviving passengers of the ship Queen of the Mersey met to celebrate the arrival

of that vessel on the 26th of November, 1863, with 120 passengers, in excellent health, after a Voyage of 117 days. During the 40 years that have intervened death has made great inroads amongst their number. On the names of those being mentioned, and their many qualities enumerated, the .passengers present rose to their feet as a loving tribute to their memory. Those of the passengers unable to be present through sickness or otherwise sent apologies and congratulations. A sumptuous repast was provided., and the afternoon was spent in inspecting the farm of about 250 acres, some 30 acres of which are laid out in a fine orchard. The evening was passed very pleasantly by the party recalling incidents of the long and pleasant voyage, interspersed by songs, recitations, and musical selections. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the host and hostess for their hospitality,, and the proceedings, concluded by all present loyally singing the National Anthem. The names of those present are as follows: —Miss Milne, Queen-street, Auckland; Mrs Choyce, nee Miss Milne, Queen street, Auckland; Mrs T. A. Bennett, Kawakawa; Mrs Robinson, nee Miss Danby, Waikumete; Mr John Morrison, Kaukapakapa, Mr J. William Morgan, Newmarket; Mr F J. Bennett, Queen street, Auckland; Mr Joseph Williams, Kopu; Mr George Williams, Kopu; Mr Walter Fricker, Ponsonby; Mr Arthur Ennes, Upper Thames; Mr Richard Davies, Mount Rex. (Plot 119A) 1905-1906 NZ Electoral Roll Kaipara. Morrison John, Kaukapakapa, farmer, freehold 7 to 9, 250 acres.

In the 1916 Wises directory He is listed as Orchardist.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16819, 9 April 1918, Page 6 Houses and Land for Sale. at A NICE Little farm of about 60 acres for Sale; half-mile from station: good metalled road; 6 acres Dougherty, in full bearing: 13-roomed House, nearly new; good office, houses, and ll conveniences; well worth inspection; cheap on account of old age.—J. Morrison, Kaukapakapa.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 211, 7 September 1925, Page 8

KAIPARA PIONEER. MR. JOHN MORRISON. One of the early settlers in the Kaukapakapa district, Mr. John Morrison, died at his residence, Long Drive, St. Helier's Bay. Born in Inniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, Mr. Morrison arrived in Auckland in November 1 1863, being one of the settlers who came out under the 40-acre system. Mr. Morrison had a farm of 100 acres [ 1896 freehold Lots 7 to 9 etc 350 acres from 1896 Electoral Roll ] at Kaukapakapa and underwent many hardships in the early days. Ultimately he developed a very successful apple orchard. He retired some years ago and came to live in Auckland. Deceased is survived by his wife.

Plot 138

CARROL Mary J C

Entry from Burial Register :-Kanohi, 2 years, grave 138 - child of Mr Carrol, lineman.

Plot 139 FLYNN Evalene 1903 ( 2 months) Entry from Burial Register:-Kanohi, 2 months, 27.4.1903 - grave 139

Plot 140 MUMFORD M A M A written on cemetery plan, but no M A Cemetery Headstone Book has M.R. and M.H. plus 4 men.

Plot 141 HOOPER Margaret Louisa 1887-1906 New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13231, 17 July 1906, Page 7 KAUKAPAKATA. I REGRET to report the death of Miss Margaret .Hooper,: third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Hooper, of Makarau, and grand-daughter of Mrs. Clinkard, one of the earliest settlers in. the Kaipara district,. The deceased, who was 19 years of age, injured her hand with a fishbone, on Monday and died suddenly on the following Friday from blood poisoning. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved family, by their many friends in the district The funeral took place at Kaukapakapa on .Sunday afternoon. The service at the grave was conducted by the Rev. W. H. Speer.

Plot 142 HOOPER Florence (Mrs T W Hooper) nee MAXWELL 1874-1961

HOOPER Florence (Mrs T W Hooper)

Entry from Burial Register:-

87 years, -14.8.1961. - grave 142.

1874-1961

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11118, 18 July 1899, Page 6 A Makarau correspondent writes: —A pleasing ceremony took place at the Makarau school last week, when the late teacher was presented with an album and looking- glass by the parents of the scholars. Miss Maxwell was teaching three years at Makarau, and was very popular and much liked by the children. We are not to lose her, as she has married a settler, Mr. T. W. Hooper, and we trust they will be a long time with us, and .every-one joins in wishing them happiness and prosperity

Plot 143 HOOPER Thomas William (Tom) 1876-1957

Tom and Florence 28 Jun 1899 . Thomas William (Tom) Hooper born 8 Sep 1876 Mahurangi and died 3 May 1957 at Kaukapakapa.

Tom bought Cecil Clinkard's land and later purchased the old Hooper-Clinkard farm. Here he developed a dairy farm. This farm was later farmed by their son and subsequently by Max's son Richard he married Florence Maxwell born 1875 died 1961 New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11104, 1 July 1899, Page 1

HOOPER—MAXWELL.—On June 28, 1899, at the residence of the bride's mother, College Bond, Auckland, by the Rev. R. P. Macnicol, Thomas William, second son of Charles Hooper, Esq., Makarau, and grandson of the late Thos. Clinkard (late of Oxford, England), to Florence, fourth daughter of the late John Maxwell, late of Glasgow. Home papers please copy.

He was chairman of the local school committee in 1914 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21894, 1 September 1934, Page 19 WOMEN'S DIVISION Makarau.—Mrs. R. Osbaldiston and Mrs. Betteridge, president and vice-president of the Kaukapakapa branch, addressed a gathering of ladies on the aims and work .of the division and a branch was formed at Makarau, Officers elected were as follows: —President- Mrs. T. W. Hooper; vice-president, Mrs. Max Hooper,; secretary, Mrs. E. R. Dunn.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 253, 25 October 1934, Page 12 WOMEN'S INSTITUTES. MAKARAU As this was the first meeting held since the branch was formed, the president, Mrs. T. W. Hooper, gave a short address, and read the rules governing meetings. Amusing competitions, "Peeling a Potato Blindfolded," and Things in the Kitchen," created much interest.

They had 4 children 1. Charles James Maxwell Hooper 1900-1988 2. Annie Lydia Hooper born MT Eden 1902- died Pukekohe 1983 3. Alice Florence Clinkard Hooper 1905-1989 4. Margaret Marion Hooper 1909New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19958, 29 May 1928, Page 5 ENGAGEMENT. The engagement is announced of Kathleen Alice, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Dye, of Kaukapakapa, to Charles James Maxwell, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hooper, of Makarau, North Auckland.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21894, 1 September 1934, Page 19 WOMEN'S DIVISION Makarau.—Mrs. R. Osbaldiston and Mrs. Betteridge, president and vice-president of the Kaukapakapa branch, addressed a gathering of ladies on the aims and work .of the division and a branch was formed at Makarau. Officers elected were as follows: —President- Mrs. T. W. Hooper, vice-president, Mrs. Max Hooper; secretary, Mrs. E. R. Dunn.

Charles James Maxwell Hooper 1900-1988 Memories by Charles James Maxwell (Max) Hooper at 1979 Hooper Family Reunion.

The people next door are pulling down a 50 year old shed and a few day ago burnt some Kauri timber --an unforgettable smell which started a few memories I shall never forget as a barefoot boy of about 9 years ( 1910 ) following behind a big Kauri log being pulled by some 30 yoked bullocks. It was really a hot summers day and the friction that the weight of the log caused started small fires in the fern and undergrowth. The smell of burning Kauri ----Nice !!!!

It is a marvellous sight to see a well trained and well driven team of bullocks. Even more interesting to see them being broken in. That is something you will never see now. You will never experience a night in a bush camp either. A nikau whare warm in cold weather and nice and cool in the heat of the summer. It is wonderful going to bed at night on a bunk of Mungi-Mungi ( mingi-mingi) -- I'll bet you don't know what that is --- more comfortable by far than your modern mattress.

Go to sleep watching the fire dying down in the big open fireplace. Then to be awakened at about 3 a.m. and follow a a line of men down to the skids and watch them load the logs on a timber train. You will never see men use timber jacks, nor the big logs they manoeuvred with them, then back to the camp for a huge "brunch" of meat and vegetables and "spotted dog". It was a great sight to see a timber dam tripped and the logs shooting away down the river to be collected at the basins where they were made into a raft and towed away by launch to the mill in Helensville, A couple of my highlights occurred when I was quite young --18 months old I am told. I was given my first dog and I went with my father shooting kaka. He used an old muzzle loading gun and while he was doing the shooting I was put on the head of a fallen Kauri tree. Eighteen years after, while I was felling the bush, I recognised the place at once.

Another of my early memories is being put to sleep behind the piano while the Hooper orchestra played for dances. A very particular one being at Puhoi where their Anniversary Day coincides with my Birthday.

Like most boys I enjoyed fishing and in particular, spearing flounder down the river with Florrie, an Aunt, but only10 months older than myself and certainly the ring leader in most of our escapades. We did not enjoy our fishing the day we found a skull and bones---said afterwards to be a Maori.---in a cave in the river bank. Then the day we found a mob of big crayfish. We thought they were too dangerous to catch by hand, so Florrie hit on the idea of getting Uncle Alf's hard hitter hat. Of course we had to put holes in it so the water could run out and the crays stay in. I got the hiding! Another time we got into trouble, was the day Granny Clinkard died. Florrie and I were caught playing marbles outside her window! These are some of the highlights of my childhood.

Perhaps I had better put a few low ones.

One of the first I remember and probably the worst, was when Fanny - my first dog - died and had to be buried.

Also there was hardly a week went by that I didn't cry myself to sleep with toothache or earache. I always seemed to have stone bruises waiting to be opened or just opened. The worst one was when the rest of the school was taken to Auckland and saw the warship "New Zealand". The years until about 1924 were the days of horse and I can't remember learning to ride. It seemed just as natural as walking and jolly sight easier. I can of course remember having a lot of spills but only 3 serious ones. Two of them after being especially forbidden to ride my father's particular horse. One spill probably had a little influence on my sporting life. I fell on the point of my right shoulder and ever since have been unable to throw a cricket ball more than a few yards, so I was made wicket keeper for the team .

In those days, a horse was what a motor car is today- not only a means of transport but also a status symbol.

The old people used to say that a man only had one good horse and one good dog in his lifetime, but I must have been extra lucky, because I have had two really good horses, and a number of go dogs.. Mind you, we needed both horses and dogs for work as well as play. For a couple of years, Dad was the agent for a stock firm and had to drive cattle to both Helensville and Warkworth sale yards. Both horses and dogs needed to be good for that job. We also needed good draught horses too for the very necessary work of breaking in the farm, Dick Hooper was the last to leave Makarau and has gone back close to the original Hooper farm.

Memories by Annie Lydia Hooper at 1979 Hooper Family Reunion When Florence Maxwell first went to Makarau to teach, she received her education at Auckland Grammar School, and after leaving she commenced teaching. There being no training colleges available then.

She travelled by train to Helensville and then rode side-saddle to Makarau, virtually on the same route as today's road, but in those day she had to ride through bush and ti tree scrub for much of the way. Board was offered to her in Mrs Clara Lavis Hooper's home, where she spared space with the 14 Hooper children, and Mrs Hooper's mother Granny Clinkard. Sharing a bed and many of her clothes and possessions with the Hooper girls. A very different lifestyle from that in the Maxwell home at Onehunga. Sometimes as she taught she would be startled when she looked up and saw a Maori down from the Kakanui bush, grinning in at the window. None of the Maori children attended her school. This was in the 1890s.

In time she became fond of Tom Hooper, and married him. Life was not easy. A new house had to be built when they were married, but no bathroom or running water. The children would collect water in buckets from the well. Meals cooked on a grate or in the camp oven outside, over a camp fire.. Groceries were ordered from Helensville and came up by train to the station, 2 miles away. At first supplies being ordered only twice a year.

After Florence had made out her order, Tom would check it and always cross some things off the list. There was little spare cash for bought food. The children would walk to the station and carry the groceries back home.

Bread was made using yeast made from potatoes. Apparently the first batch was a miserable failure, and children claimed, that Tom, declared that the cluster of stones on the hill above the house was Florence's first loaves of bread.

Memories by Alice Florence Clinkard Hooper 1905-1989 ( Lal Howe ) at 1979 Hooper Family Reunion.

I think one of my most cherished memories of childhood days in Makarau was rushing out to the end of the orchard to see the Bullock wagons driven, one by our father (Tom ) and one by an Uncle (Fred) We'd hear the squeak of the brakes as they came round the corner and then we'd rush to the stock yard to watch the unyoking and belling of the bullocks. Each bullock having his own individual bell. great fun, and how we liked sitting on old Mouldy's back. he was a gentle old bullock. Another enjoyment was playing cricket -- two kerosene tins for wickets and an old cricket bat from somewhere. What a thrill it was when we arrived at the grand age of 15 to be able to go then to the cricket matches played down on the flat near the river. the meals we used to cook under the row of pine trees, with tables et up and quite a spread.! How good it was if Makarau won --but I'm afraid it wasn't too often.

How lucky we are now --- no boiling of water in tins and boilers on iron bars. No filling kerosene lamps and trimming wicks and cleaning glass chimneys and oh bliss -- no ironing starched collar and table cloths with a "mother potts" iron heated on the wood stove. But we were a happy lot --home made bread, home made butter and swims in the river in the summer -- I mustn't forget the fresh fish we used to catch in the net. I must say I didn't enjoy going across the river with one of my young Aunt's to pull up the net and take out the slippery fish.

I was terrified the boat would capsize and even if I could swim, I always liked to know I could put my big toe on the bottom if I wanted to.

Memories by Margaret Marian Hooper (Fulton) at 1979 Hooper Family Reunion.

Reminiscences Grandfather (Charles) Hooper used to tell us of the time he walked across country -seemly for hours - and then came to the clearing where a nikau leaf thatched roof house had been erected under some karaka trees. He called out and - to use his expression- a buxom and handsome young lady with a teatree broom in her hand came out (Clara Lavis Clinkard ) . he always said it was then and there he fell in LOVE ! Later this young lady became his wife, They used to tell of the olden days when Grandfather would "trek" to Riverhead and "lump" a bag of flour or sugar on his back and "trek" home again. Of the times with the Maoris - when Great Granny Clinkard would help the younger Maori women and later Granny Hooper helped them, and would be repaid by the Maoris telling of different native trees, berries, and fern roots which made good "kai" and medicines. How Great Aunt Mary Glenny - would milk the few cows and tether them and feed them at nights with karaka leaves, of the skimming of the pans of milk, making butter by hand, marked with their own brand, the hand churns, the selling of the lbs of butter to Dye's store, Kaukapakapa and buying goods. Then the old Maori who wanted Granny to "give" him my Dad (Tom) --when a baby --to be reared by the tribe and given Maori lands in payment for Granny nursing his "wahine". I can remember the last of the old timber pit, where a cousin and I used to love to race down the hill, clamber over the logs and jump into the sawdust. One day unknown to us, Grandfather and Uncle Alf were at work there, and we landed in the sawdust. The air went "blue" and we climbed out pretty quick.

All the bullock teams - dad's, Wech's, ( or old Winze, as he was familiarly known), Fred Poynter, Charlie Parker, Harry Manuel - were always a source of delight to all we children. How we used to love to run along behind the bullock wagons, and be allowed to try and turn the handle at the back then hop up for a ride. The "row" in a boat over the flooded river across the "booms" to the camp - which in those days, seemed miles away, thru manuka, ferns and odd native trees - where Stan Hadrill (Old Buck) and his scones and condensed

milk "lived". The excitement, later on seeing the men "dog" the logs and hold them at the "booms" till the launch came from West's Timber Mills at Helensville.

One of the first disappointments in my - if not my cousin's also - young days was "running up to Bakers Bridge" (now (1979) where Honey's live to see the men "trip" the dam to let the flood water bring the logs down the natural creek and river course to the "booms" - we got there just too late! The days of bullock teams are gone, we are the days of the timber work. Watching grandfather and the different Uncles using the timber jacks, and the axes, used to face the logs, taking fine shavings off them and squaring them. With the clearing of the timber the little herds of wild goats, which my cousins and myself used to try and catch with the help of two old dogs, have all disappeared. One thing never goes - our memories of these days - of World War 1, the "boys" who left the district, some never to return - Uncle Pat ( now passed on ) Harry Elvin, paddy Gardner, Mr White ( a much loved schoolteacher) and the Manuel boys, Tom and Bill. then the Queen Carnivals for Red Cross Funds. Aunty Edith being crowned Queen of the Carnival ( twice). A real picturesque scene, interwoven through it all the music, dances, and parties, the memories of being put down behind the piano in the different halls " to go to sleep!"

Music was a part of our life - all the Charles Hooper family seemed to play several instruments, the evenings at Granny's when she would play the organ ( all by ear) and sing; the dances and parties with Aunty Nelly ( piano), Dad and Uncle Fred (Violins) , Uncle Frank ( 'cello) Uncle Harry ( 2 tin whistles and Jews Harp, yes played at the same time!) Grandfather (Clarinet and Flute), the cornet and accordions - we grew up with music even the willow whistles Grandfather made for us as a reward for cutting "spuds" to be planted Ah, well! Memories certainly bring nostalgia of ones "youthful days" back - the "big flood" - and an amusing episode - catching crayfish in grandfather's "hard- knocker hat!"

Plot 144 SMITH Eliza 1843-1907 New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13583, 31 October 1907, Page 1 IN MEMORIAM. SMITH—-Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of Elizabeth Smith, who died at her residence, Kaukapakapa, on. October, 27, 1907; aged 64 years—R.I.P

Plot 145A RAPSON Samuel Sage 1832-1908 New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13812, 27 July 1908, Page 4 KAUKAPAKAPA One of our oldest and most respected residents, Mr. S. S. Rapson, of Ferndale, died on the 20th inst. at the age of 76. Deceased purchased land here about 35 years ago and had done much to wards the advancement of the district. The Rev. A. J. Leach conducted the funeral service, which took place on Wednesday, and there was a large attendance of mourners. A widow and grown-up family of five sons and four daughters survive Mr. Rapson.

Samuel Sage RAPSON 1832-1908 Was born in Camely, Somerset in 1832 his parents were George Rapson 1790-1833 and Phoebe nee Sage 17911853, Samuel was baptized on December 9 1832, in Temple Cloud Camely Somerset.

He lived in 1841, at with widowed Mother Phoebe, brother George & sisters Phoebe & Ann., Cameley, Somerset, England.

1851 Census 1851 Census,he was at Army Private Stonecutter., Woolwich Arsenal, Barracks of the Royal Corps of Sappers & Miners Kent, England.

In October 1853, he was learning the art of minting & machinery maintenance, quartered at Royal mint London (near Tower).

Mar 16 1854 he immigrated to Australia To assemble the mint building & machinery & work for the Sydney Mint on board SS "Maid of Judah" he was not listed as a passenger Sometime in early 1854 he must have been sent to Australia, as we note on April 7 1854, he was having problems with accommodation for Sappers & miners .and must have stayed on ship prior.to the Quarters at Mint being planned, at Fort Macquarie, Bennelong point Sydney.

May 14 1855, The mint was completed and commenced operations On May 15 1855 he was witness at a friends wedding Soldier James Perry who married Sarah Wyatt. This is the first official record of Samuel in Australia.

He married Ellen Quill at St Mary's Cathedral Sydney NSW Australia on 30 Jul 1856 .In 1864 they were residing at Stanmore Enmore Newtown NSW where he was an engineer.

Ellen was born in 1839, in Cork Ireland In 1863, he lived at Weyness Street. Engineer. (in 1856 the Royal Sappers & Miners amalgamated with & became members of the Royal Engineers., Stanmore Sydney NSW. in 1864, he was residing at "Engineer" Royal ?, Stanmore, Sydney, NSW..but later that year relocated to Chewton .Victoria. Australia, from Sydney with his family, where he was a member of the Royal Engineers. They were at Norton Cottage he is an Assayer and shareholder, with Golden Lead Goldmining Co. for the birth of daughter Amy on January 25 1865 . Chewton, Castlemaine Victoria Australia. Where they were still living on April 11 1866 when daughter Edith Vanstone was buried.

Ralph Ernest was born September 15 1867 where he is an Assayer, of Butchers Gully Chewton On February 16 1869 He wife Ellen, and 6 children boarded the SS "Hero" at Sydney, bound for Auckland NZ where they arrived on 24 February 1869 to take up an appointment as Assayer for the Bank of NZ. In 1870 he was residing in Parnell Auckland About 1870 he purchased "The Willows" 416 acres for ₤600.

Samuel Sage RAPSON 1832-1908

Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2434, 16 February 1871, Page 2 The Auckland Herald gives the following account of an accident to the refiner at the Bank of New Zealand:—A most unfortunate accident occurred on Wednesday to Mr Rapson, the refiner at the Bank of New Zealand. This gentleman was occupied on some work with the furnace, when a crucible which he was holding burst, and a quantity of fused gold ran into his boot, burning the side of his foot in a most dreadful manner. Dr Stratford fortunately happened to be passing at the time of the accident, and being called in, proceeded to dress the wound, from which no permanent injuries are at present likely to ensue.

November 7 1871 he is recorded as a member of the Auckland Institute. and February 9 1872 is on the board of directors for Conquering Hero Goldmining Co. In 1872 on 25 July he appears as Assayer giving evidence re specimen stealing Green Harp mine Court Case, in the Police court.

Son Walter is 3rd in 6th class History at Auckland College and Grammar School. Dec 25 1872 and at the Exams and Prize giving of St Joseph's Parnell daughter May is listed.

13 May 1874 he was at "Rutherton Villa" which was near schooling on the Main Rd Parnell. Auckland N.Z. this house they retained for schooling.

In the NZ Gazette of 1878 he, along with Andrew Bonar, Thomas Coates are thought fit to serve the Licensing Court, In the 1880 Electoral Roll of NZ He is a settler of Kaukapakapa freeholding Lot 33

His home "The Willows" Stoney Creek Rd. was destroyed by fire , it was insured by Imperial Co. and a barn was converted for living quarters whilst a new home was built from bricks made on the property "Ferndale" now on Rapson Rd. but accessed from Stoney Creek Rd. for many years.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5840, 5 August 1880, Page 6 KAUKAPAKAPA: BURNING OF MR RAPSON'S HOUSE. A destructive fire occurred here on Sunday evening last, which has left one of our fellow settlers and hi 9 family {Mr. S. S. Rap. son) houseless. The following are the particulars, as nearly as I can learn them. It

appears that Mrs. Rapson and the grown-up members of the family were from home, but Mr. Rapson and a boy about nine years of age. were at home. At dusk on Sunday evening the lamp was lighted, and placed on the table. After this Mr. Rapson and the lad had gone outside to attend to something. When he returned to the house, he found the room in which the lamp was in a blaze. He tried to smother the fire by throwing his coat over it, but the flames had advanced too far. He then ran for water, and tried to drown it out. By this time, however, the fire had got such a firm hold as rendered all efforts in this direction useless. Mr. Rapson then tried to get out some of his furniture, but only succeeded in saving a very small portion of that, so that almost everything, including personal clothing, has been destroyed. Mr. Rapson possessed a good library and some choice articles of furniture, among which were several large and splendid pictures in wool work, the handiwork of Miss Rapson .The nearest neighbour to Mr. Rapson is more than half a mile distant, so that it was too late before assistance was obtained. Two young man. riding home in the evening saw the reflection of the fire and at once galloped to the scene, but before they arrived part of the roof of the building had fallen in. It was fortunate the wind was from the south-west, else the barn and other outhouses would have gone too. The origin of the fire is uncertain, but it is supposed that the lamp must have burst, or that the cat may have got on the table and upset it.— [Own Correspondent, Angus!! 2.]

In Kaukapakapa he took a prominent part in lobbying for better roading and rail access to and through the district.

In 1890 he had 416 acres. Lot 33 &c Where he resided until his death on 20 Jul 1908.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 83, 9 April 1891, Page 2 POACHING IN AUCKLAND. (To the Editor.)

Sir,—Under the above heading you in a recent issue quote from the Acclimatisation Society's report—"Not only are the pheasants shot during the open season by unlicensed sportsmen, but even in the closed season country settlers kill them." Who has more right to kill them than the settler? The birds are bred and fed on his land, they destroy his fruit, grain, and potatoes, sportsmen come on his land without his leave being asked, with dogs who often worry and kill his sheep. The Society, who grant or sell the license, would think the settler insane were ho to send them an account charging them with the sheep killed, yet from a settler's point of view it would not be so absurd. There is a party of surveyors camped in this district, with sporting dogs. Those were caught on a settler's sheep a few days ago they were tied up for a time, but when released went straight on to another settler's flock not two miles distant, and at the two previous camps occupied by this party the settlers in the immediate vicinity had their sheep worried. Again, this Society has introduced sparrows, linnets, finches and other hard-billed birds, who damage our crops. One of my near neighbours sowed a field of oats during this past season. The rain fell before ho could harrow them— the birds took the lot. He had to sow again. These are a few of many charges the settlers have against the Society. Very few of our settlers shoot they have no time for sport; and those who do, use them at their own table or send a brace to a friend. The only exception is that there are rangers appointed by the Society. Two of these I know made a business of it by sending regular supplies of birds to the "Auckland dealers. I see no harm in this if the birds were shot on their own land. The settler has as much right to sell birds off his land as any other stock he rears and feeds. An officer of the Public Works Department, employed on the railway extension to Kaukapakapa, sent thirty-three and a-half brace of duck and teal by mid-day train from Helensville to Auckland on the first day of the season to an Auckland denier. Men with dogs roaming at will, will settle the matter for the Acclimatisation Society by causing the settlers to demand a repeal of the Act, or that the license fee shall become colonial revenue, and the sooner this is accomplished the better for the settler.—l am, etc., S. S. Rapson, Settler, Kaukapakapa.

In the return for Sheep owners 1897-98 He is listed as "The Willows" Kaukapakapa 190 and 197 respectively.

1898 New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10771, 4 June 1898, Page 3 WAITEMATA COUNTY COUNCIL . S. S. Rapson, for a road to connect his property with the new road from Kaukapakapa to Wainui, and offering gravel from his own pit as a contribution to the work; it was agreed that the road was a needful one, but, being a district road, and not under the jurisdiction of the county, Mr. Rapson, was referred to the Kaukapakapa Road Board.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 245, 14 October 1903, Page 2

GRANTS TO NORTHERN ROADS. (To the Editor.)

Sir, —I have been a, constant reader of the "Star" for many years, and know you sympathise with the settlers of the Roadless North. We here are in a similar fix as the Woodhill people, described in Mr Tarrant's letter, but we know who is responsible. Seventy-five pounds was granted for the Wainui-Kaukapakapa station road, and for months past we have been urging our member on the Waitemata County Council to get the work done for which the grant was made, but the excuse was that the engineer was too busy. Some months ago it was reported that the grant had lapsed, and at a Farmers' Union meeting held here 1 asked Mr McCurdy how we should proceed to get it. The Parliament had not met then, and he advised we should communicate with our member, Mr Harding, and Mr Alison, as Wainui settlers are equally interested. It was then decided that the chairman of the Road Board and other members should attend to the matter the next day. Our representative stated that the Waitemata County Council had the money. He was again asked to get the work tendered for, but the same

excuse—the engineer busy. I have been here thirty years and cannot get to the creamery by the railway station.

1 have let my paddocks to a young man who is ready with thirty cows, but he cannot get out with a cart; and another settler living about twenty chains from the creamery cannot get there. His road is a Road Board matter.

The Road Board has plenty of money, but will not use the material at hand. If the Public Works Department would undertake the spending of the grant it would be a boon to us. A worse use of our rates than the way they are expended at present is not possible. We should be glad to see the county road in the Public Works Department. Our rates would then be spent to more advantage.—l am, etc..

SAMUEL SAGE RAPSON, Kaukapakapa.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12499, 19 December 1903, Page 5 Wainui-Kaukapakapa Station Road: Mr. S. Rapson drew attention to the bad state of the Wainui-Kaukapakapa Station Road! and asked for repairs. The; clerk reported authority for the expenditure of the grant had been reapplied for, and it was decided to call for tenders for the work on receipt.

He and wife Ellen were able to celebrate their Golden Wedding at Ferndale Kaukapakapa on 30 July 1906 Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 181, 31 July 1906, Page 8 GOLDEN WEDDING. RAPSON QUILL. On the 30th July, 1856, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. by the Rev. Sheridan. Samuel Sage Rapson, of Somerset. England, to Ellen, third daughter of the late Thomas Quill, of Sydney.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13812, 27 July 1908, Page 4 KAUKAPAKAPA. One of our oldest and most respected residents, Mr. S. S. Rapson, of Ferndale, died on the 20th inst. at the age of 76. Deceased purchased land here about 35 years ago and had done much towards the advancement of the district. The Rev. A. ,T. Leach conducted the funeral service, which took place on Wednesday, and there was a large attendance of mourners. A widow and grown-up family of five sons and four daughters survive Mr. Rapson.

Their were 6 daughters and 5 sons 1. Annie Lydia Rapson 1858-1931 2. Elizabeth May Rapson 1859-1938 3. George Walter Hallet Rapson 1862-1926 4. Violet E Q Rapson 1863 -1898 5. Amy Stanmore Rapson 1865-1954 6. Edith Vanstone Rapson 1866- 1866 7. Ralph Ernest Rapson 1868-1943 8. Leopold Thomas Rapson 1871-1938 9. Harold Arthur Quill Rapson 1873 -1918 10. Frank Edward Rapson 1875 - 1940 11. Elsie Ida Evangeline Rapson 1880 -1934

Annie Lydia RAPSON (Plot 17C ) was born 6 Feb 1858 in Glebe Sydney Australia and Died 30 Aug 1931 in Kaukapakapa she arrived in NZ 4 May 1869 on board SS Tory with her mother and siblings, she was 11.

She married William Henry Goodwin (Plot 17B) in 1885 and settled in a newly built house at "Riverdale"

They had 3 children 1. Jean Goodwin 1885 2. Ivy May Goodwin 1886-1961 3. Frank Russell Goodwin 1888-1960 George Walter Hallet RAPSON (Plot 73) Born 27 May 1862 in Kingston St.George Sydney NSW Australia New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7645, 24 May 1886, Page 2 A very sad accident occurred the other day to Mr. Rapson's eldest son Walter, a farmer at Kaukapakapa, necessitating the removal of his left eye. A younger son, in the act of driving in a staple, accidentally hit it on the slant, which caused the staple to fly off and to strike his elder brother's eye just below the sight, penetrating the eye and/ lacerating the cornea right across. Mr. Rapson sent his son, who was suffering agonies of pain, to town to Dr. Wilkins' for treatment, who found the eye so seriously damaged, and all sight lost, that he advised its immediate removal, in order to prevent any disease extending to his other sound eye. The operation was speedily effected under chloroform.

In 1890 NZ Electoral Roll for Waitemata he is a resident of Kaukapakapa farming. He is also listed in the Waikato Roll Thames District as a teacher resident at Whangapoua. by 1896 he is at Kariotahi, Waiuku, residential as a teacher. and in 1900 on the Bay of Islands Roll as a Teacher resident at Opua.

Here in 1901 he married Emily Mary Morris ((Plot 74) daughter of Antonio Morris 1847-1899 and Jane Lindley Morris nee Goulton 1850-1926.

Emily was born at Whangaroa Northland 11 Jun 1881 and died in Auckland Apr 1971 She and Walter had 6 children 1. Emily Marion Rapson 1902 - 1992 2. Samuel Morris Rapson 1904-1078 3. Ellen Jane Mavis Rapson 1905- 1977 4. Clementine Ruth Rapson 1909-2002 5. Alan Morris Rapson 1912 - 2001 6. Harold John Rapson 1914-1991 Elizabeth May RAPSON (Plot 72C) Did not marry and she died 14 Nov 1938 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23195, 15 November 1938, Page 1 RAPSON:--On November 14, at the residence of her sister, Mrs. R. Drinnan. Elizabeth May, second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Rapson, of Kaukapakapa; aged 70 years. Funeral Kaukapakapa Cemetery tomorrow (Wednesday), at 2 p.m.

Violet Ellen Q RAPSON (Mrs Jones) (Plot 146A ) died about 1898 and the Q most likely Quill Amy Stanmore RAPSON (Plot 150) born 1865 Chewton, Victoria Australia Died 2 April 1954 in Auckland Married Joseph Griffiths in 1883 who died 10 April 1900 Wairoa ( possibly Clevedon) and was buried in this cemetery in plot 149. Her son Reginald at the age of 31 died in 1917 and is buried in Plot 148 by this time his mother was Mrs Robert Drinnan whom she married sometime between 1904 and 1917 Edith Vanstone RAPSON Born March 1866 Chewton, Victoria Australia died 11 Apr 1866 at Chewton Ralph Ernest RAPSON Born 1868 Chewton died 1943 Sunderland

Leopold Thomas RAPSON born 23 Jul 1871 Parnell, Auckland New Zealand. Died 14 Sep 1938, Camely Somerset, England Harold Arthur Quill RAPSON Born 1873 Kaukapakapa Died 1918 Frank Edward RAPSON (Plot 239) born 24th Aug 1875 Kaukapakapa died 18 May 1940 Kaihu, Northland Elsie Ida Evangeline RAPSON born 28 Apr 1880 Auckland NZ died 1934 Inverell NSW Australia.

Plot 145B RAPSON Mrs Ellen nee QUILL 1839-1919 Entry from Burial Register:-

79 years, -14.11.38 grave 72C

Ellen Rapson nee Quill 1839-1919

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 166, 14 July 1919, Page 7 OBITUARY MRS. E. RAPSON. An old resident of Kaukapakapa, Mrs. E. Rapson .died on July 12th at her 5 residence, Gillies Avenue, Epsom. Deceased, who had reached her eightieth year, lived for many years at Ferndale, Kaukapakapa, and the interment is to take place at the cemetery in that district.

Ellen Quill was born 15 Jun 1839 in Cork Ireland And emigrated to NSW Australia arriving 17 Feb 1844 on board the "Neptune" She married Samuel Sage Rapson 30 Jul 1856 St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, NSW, Australia, registration No. 395 in the Australia, Marriage Index 1788-1950 She died in Auckland NZ 12 Jul 1919 aged 80 Folio No 1823

New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 for Ellen Quill

Samuel and Ellen's Golden Wedding 1906 Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 181, 31 July 1906, Page 8 GOLDEN WEDDING. RAPSON QUILL. On the 30th July, 1856, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. by the Rev. Sheridan. Samuel Sage Rapson, of Somerset. England, to Ellen, third daughter of the late Thomas Quill, of Sydney.

Plot 145C SMITH Charles 1835-1911 Entry from Burial Register :-76 years 3.12.1911. -grave 145C.

Plot 146A Entry from Burial Register:Mr. S.S. Rapson (Plot 145A)

JONES Violet 1864-1898 Ponsonby, Auckland, 34 years - 13.4.1898 - grave, part 146 - 3rd daughter of

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 85, 12 April 1898, Page 8 JONES on April 12 at-Kia Ora, Tweed-Street Ponsonby Violet Ellen, beloved wife of Alfred H. Jones, aged 31 years.

Interment, ..at Kaukapakapa tomorrow (Wednesday) The funeral will leave her late residence for railway station at 6 a.m.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10730, 18 April 1898, Page 4 Our Kaukapakapa correspondent writes -Profound sorrow was felt in the district on the 12th inst., when it became known that Mrs. Alfred Jones had died that morning at her home in Ponsonby. The deceased lady was the third daughter of Mr. S. S. Rapson of this district, and until about two and a half years ago, when she was married to Mr Jones, she had lived nearly all her life in Kaukapakapa, and was a great favourite She was an active member of the Literary and Musical Club. She has been in delicate health for some time, and had recently undergone a surgical operation, from which she never rallied. Her remains were brought to Kaukapakapa by train on April 13, and in the afternoon were interred in the burying ground here. A large number attended the funeral. The Rev. E. M. Cowie, from Auckland, read the Church of England Burial Service. The coffin was loaded with beautiful wreaths. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved family.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1896, Page 8 Marriages.

JONES-RAPSON.-On Wednesday. March 4, at Ferndale. Kaukapakapa by the Rev. Geo. Stephenson. Alfred H. .Jones-. Ponsonby Auckland, to Violet, third daughter of S. S. Rapson, Kaukapakapa.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10075, 10 March 1896, Page 6 Kaukapakapa correspondent writes: —A very pretty wedding took place on Wednesday last at Ferndale, the residence of Mr. S- S. Rapson, when his daughter, Miss Violet Rapson, was married to Mr. Alfred Jones, of Auckland. After the wedding breakfast a group of those present were photographed by Mr. Leo Rapson, as a memento of the occasion. In the afternoon the happy pair drove to Helensville and on to Auckland by the four p.m. train. The bride was the recipient of numerous and very pretty presents, and carried with her the kind wishes of a large number of friends.

Observer, Volume XV, Issue 898, 14 March 1896, Page 8 Numerous Auckland friends will be interested to hear of the marriage of Mr Alf. Jones, of Ponsonby, to Miss Violet Rapson, daughter of Mr S. S. Rapson, of Ferndale, Kaukapakapa. The marriage was solemnised at the residence of the bride's parents, a number of relatives and friends being present. The bridal party were subsequently entertained at a splendid wedding breakfast, when numerous congratulatory speeches were made and duly responded to. The newly-wedded couple drove to Helensville in time to catch the afternoon train for Auckland. Mr and Mrs Jones will in future reside in Tweed street, Ponsonby, where Mr Jones has recently erected a pretty villa residence.

In Loving Memory of VIOLET ELLEN beloved wife of ALF H.JONES died 12th April 1898 aged 34 years.

Love me always

Plot 146B DRINNAN Robert 1856-1936 Entry from Burial Register:-

79 years -12.11.1936 - grave 146C

Drinnan's store about 1900 On the left, the Butcher's shop, and on the right the Gum Store, which was originally the first Wesleyan Church built in 1864 and moved away when the new church was built in 1882. Mr Robert Drinnan and family in the foreground

Born 28 Nov 1856 Old Cummock, Ayshire, Scotland Died 12 Nov 1936 Kaukapakapa New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22575, 13 November 1936, Page 1 DRINNAN—On November 12, at Mulisaich, Kaukapakapa, Robert, dearly-beloved husband of Amy Drinnan and father of Leonard, Howie, Mabel and Clarence; born November 28, 1857. Funeral 11 o'clock Saturday.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7744, 16 September 1886, Page 4 MARRIAGES. Drinnan—Smith.—On September 1, 1886 at his mother's residence, Kaukapakapa, Kaipara, by the Rev. R. McKinney, of Mahurangi, Robert. Drinnan, merchant, grandson of the late Laird Lees, Parish of Tarboulton, and of the late Laird Howie, Farn Ford, Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland, to Sarah. oldest daughter of Mr. Charles Smith, Kaukapakapa.—Home papers please copy

In Loving Memory of SARAH ELIZABETH beloved wife of R.DRINNAN who died 18th April 1904 in her 37th year.

R.I.P. also ROBERT DRINNAN died 12th November 1936 aged 78 years At Rest

Plot 147 DRINNAN Sarah nee Smith 1869-1904 Entry from Burial Register:-

Kaukapakapa, 35 years, 21.4.1904 - grave 147 wife of Robert.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12551, 19 April 1904, Page 5 DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM A PATIENT EXPIRES AT THE HOSPITAL. Yesterday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, Sarah Drinnan, a married woman, 35 years of age, died under chloroform at the Auckland Hospital. Deceased, who was admitted to the institution quite recently, was operated upon for internal troubles about 11 or 12 days ago, and yesterday's operation consisted of the removal of a number of stitches. The condition of the patient rendered an anaesthetic necessary, and Dr. Parkes, one of the visiting medical officers, was performing the operation, which only lasted a few minutes, when the deceased suddenly breathed her last. At the time of death the administration of the anaesthetic had ceased, and the unexpected loss of life appears to have been one of those misfortunes over which medical skill, despite all care, has no control. Dr. Walsh was with Dr. Parkes when Mrs. Drinnan, who was the wife of Mr. Robert Drinnan, of Kaukapakapa, died. An inquest will be held at the hospital to-day at noon, before the coroner, Mr. Gresham. inquest was held at the Hospital to-day.

THE INQUEST. Robert Drinnan, deceased's husband, said they had four children. About a month ago his wife wished to come to Auckland to see a doctor about some trouble which she did not then explain to him. She accordingly went to Auckland, and when he next saw her she was in the Auckland Hospital, whither she. had gone on Dr. Lindsay's advice. He went there to take her out, but she begged him to allow her to remain and go through the operation.

The operation was performed, and five days later he again saw her. He then asked the porter to allow him to interview his wife alone, but the porter would not keep other visitors away. Several visitors came while he was endeavouring to talk to his wife, so that he had no opportune ity to discuss her illness or ascertain her wishes.

On a former occasion a year ago he had experienced great difficulty in being allowed to see his wife when she was in the Hospital for goitre in the neck. She complained to him on this occasion of "being starred." The Coroner said that under some circumstances it was advisable not to give much food. Witness added that he was not satisfied with the treatment. Dr. Parkes said he operated on the deceased on April 7th for uterine complaint under an anaesthetic, administered by Dr. Walsh. The operation and patient's subsequent progress were satisfactory. Yesterday morning he proceeded to remove the stitches. The patient was then in a highly nervous condition, and in such a state of muscular rigidity that he found it impossible to remove the stitches, and it was therefore necessary to give chloroform. Dr. Walsh administered this. There was very little struggling on the patient's part, and within five minutes all the stitches were removed. The chloroform was administered with a mask by what is known as the open method, allowing plenty of air. This was generally considered the best method. The patient was breathing normally during the operation, but as soon as she was replaced into her bed she ceased breathing. Artificial respiration was applied for an hour and a-half, with hypodermic injections of ether and strychnine, electric currents, counter irritants, and other methods that would be of service. During the artificial respiration efforts there was indifferent breathing by the patient, but this was never sustained. The pulse continued to beat after the breathing ceased. The post mortem examination showed that the kidneys were diseased, but the heart was normal. To the Coroner: There had been nothing to indicate that deceased would be a dangerous subject for chloroform. He was quite satisfied with the method and manner in which Dr. Walsh administered the chloroform. He thought it possible that the patient's state of nervous dread contributed to the fatal termination.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12555, 23 April 1904, Page 4 There was a large cortege at the funeral or the late Mrs. Robert Drinnan, which took place at Kaukapakapa on Thursday, settlers train the whole of the neighbouring districts attending to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased lady. The coffin was borne to the cemetery by brothers of the deceased, and it was covered with numerous floral emblems. The Rev. Father W. H. Corcoran officiated at the graveside, and at the conclusion of the obsequies referred in feeling terms to the sincere regret felt throughout the district at the death of Mrs. Drinnan, and tendered to the bereaved relatives the heartfelt sympathy of the community.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7744, 16 September 1886, Page 4 MARRIAGES. Drinnan—Smith.—On September 1, 1886 at his mother's residence, Kaukapakapa, Kaipara, by the Rev. R. McKinney, of Mahurangi, Robert. Drinnan, merchant, grandson of the late Laird Lees, Parish of Tarboulton, and of the late Laird Howie, Farn Ford, Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland, to Sarah. oldest daughter of Mr. Charles Smith, Kaukapakapa.—Home papers please copy

Plot 148 Entry from Burial Register:-

31 years - 8.5.1917 - grave 148

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 108, 7 May 1917, Page 10 GRIFFITHS.—On May 5th at Auckland Hospital, after a long: and painful illness. Reginald T. V. Griffiths, beloved husband of Violet Griffiths, beloved son of Mrs R. Drinnan. Kaukapakapa. Interment at Kaukapakapa.

To-morrow (Tuesday), on arrival of train.

Born 1885 Helensville Died 1917 Auckland He was a grocer and in 1914 Resided at Harrington Ave Pukekohe 12 Jun 1911 Married Irene Violet BLOW at Matakohe Settler's Church

In loving Memory Of JOSEPH beloved husband of AMY GRIFFITHS died April 9th 1900 aged 45 years.

At rest . also their eldest son REGINALD beloved husband of VIOLET GRIFFITHS died May 5th 1917 aged 31.

Plot 149 GRIFFITHS Joseph 1860-1900 From Burial Register:-of Wairoa, 45 years, 10.4.1900 - grave 149 - son in law of S.S. Rapson (Plot 145A)

In loving Memory Of JOSEPH beloved husband of AMY GRIFFITHS died April 9th 1900 aged 45 years.

At rest . also their eldest son REGINALD beloved husband of VIOLET GRIFFITHS died May 5th 1917 aged 31.

Plot 150 DRINNAN Amy Stanmore nee RAPSON (GRIFFITHS) 1865-1954 Entry from Burial Register:-89 years, -2.4.1954 - grave 150.

In loving Memory of AMY STANMORE beloved wife of ROBERT DRINNAN and mother of REG, CYRIL and GEOFFREY GRIFFITHS died April 2nd 1954 aged 89 At rest.

Amy Stanmore RAPSON 1865 - 1954 born 1865 Chewton, Victoria Australia Died 2 April 1954 in Auckland. Daughter of Samuel Sage and Ellen Rapson Married Joseph Griffiths in 1883 who died 10 April 1900 Wairoa ( possibly Clevedon) and was buried in this cemetery in plot 149. Her son Reginald at the age of 31 died in 1917 and is buried in Plot 148 by this time his mother was Mrs Robert Drinnan whom she married in September 1906. She was the first President of the Kaukapakapa W.D.F.F. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13279, 11 September 1906, Page 7 KAUKAPAKAPA. An interesting wedding was celebrated on Wednesday last, when Mr. R. Drinnan was married to Mrs. Griffiths, widow of the late .Mr. Joseph Griffiths, and daughter of Mr. S. S. Rapson. The ceremony took place at Riverdale, the residence of the bride's sister (Mrs. W. A. Goodwin), and was performed by the Rev. W. H. Speer. Mr. A. W. Drinnan acted as best man, the bridesmaids being Misses Jean Goodwin and Mabel Drinnan. The happy couple were the recipients of a large number of handsome presents.

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