JUBILEE GATHERING OF OLD COLONISTS
ROLL OF PIONEER SETTLERS WHO ARRIVED IN WELLINGTON
HELD 22 JANUARY 1890, WELLINGTON

Our Pioneers Muster Roll
From the Evening Post newspaper of 23 January 1890 p2.

Please note that this is by no means all the pioneers still living in 1890 who arrived in Wellington but just those listed in the above article of the jubilee.

* John William BRYANT was born in Petone on 30 May 1840 after his parents arrived on the Duke of Roxburgh on 7 February 1840.

** According to the IGI Lancelot Holmes was born 25 March 1840 at Brittania or Petone and was the son of James Holmes and Ann nee Armitage.

*** According to the IGI Thomas Rodgers was born 29 February 1840 Petone, Wellington, the son of Charles Rodgers and Cecilia Eliza Herbert.

For other early Wellington births see EARLY WELLINGTON - by Louis Ward. However this book has many errors and ommissions including Louisa Ann HAWKINS born 10 Sep 1841, Wellington.

Also - Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 114, 10 November 1897, Page 4
A book of 46 tickets in the Natives' Association art union was offered by the local branch of the association to be awarded to the oldest native-born New Zealander of European extraction present on the Basin Reserve yesterday. Competitors were in person to record their names and ages, and lodge proof of birth, with the Sports Secretary. The awards were made as follows - Joseph Pudney, aged 57 years 4 months (prize 23 tickets), 1 ; Arthur Thompson, 56 years 10 months 1 day (prize 13 tickets), 2; Miss Heaphy, 55 years 10 months (prize 10 tickets), 3. Other entrants were- Mrs. Harvey, 55 years 7 months; Geo. Tattle, C. W. Brown, and W. F. Cheeseman, 55 years 4 months. Miss Heaphy was born on Anniversary Day in 1842.

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