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Robert Heaton Rhodes and Sophia Circuit Rhodes

[off topic]

Robert Heaton Rhodes born 9 March 1815, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, died 1 June 1884, Papanui, Christchurch aged 69 years, buried St Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery, Papanui, Christchurch, married 16 March 1858, Lyttelton by the Rev. B. W. Dudley, Sophia Circuit Rhodes formerly Latter, born before 19 July 1833, Islington, Middlesex, England, younger daughter of Robert Latter and Sophia Circuit, arrived 31 October 1855 Wellington from London on the "Maori", arrived 18 November 1855 Lyttelton from Wellington on the steamer "Zingari" with her mother and sister Martha Latter, died 16 October 1906, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England aged 73 years, buried St Paul's, Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells. 

Robert Latter arrived from London via Otago on 5 December 1854 Lyttelton on the "Dolphin"[11]. Sophia Latter died at "Elmwood" March 1878 aged 76 years, buried St Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery, Papanui, Christchurch

above - Robert Heaton Rhodes and Sophia Circuit Rhodes photographed by Oliver François Xavier Sarony in Scarborough or Leeds. 

above - Robert Heaton Rhodes and his children Sophia Theodosia Rhodes [Daisy] and Robert Heaton Rhodes, photographed by James Walker, Doncaster. 

The three photographs shown here were taken during a visit to England in 1863 or early in 1864. 

Robert Heaton Rhodes departed from Lyttelton with his wife, three children and one servant on the White Star clipper ship "Shalimar" on 14 April 1863 [1]. The Shalimar had a cargo of wool, amounting to 4480 bales, valued at £111,253. The ship arrived off Land's End on the afternoon of 27 July 1863 [10].

The family returned to Lyttelton via Melbourne early in 1864. They departed Plymouth on 29 February 1864 on the clipper ship "Suffolk" and arrived in Melbourne on 25 May [2]. They departed Melbourne on the s.s. Hero on 9 June and arrived back in Lyttelton via Picton on 21 June 1864 [3]. 

Robert Heaton Rhodes' headstone at St Paul's Church, Papanui, Christchurch.

[photographed 13 January 2005]

St Paul's Church, Papanui, Christchurch.

[photographed 13 January 2005]

Visited Europe 1874-1877 - departed August 1874, returned December 1877:

Lyttelton to San Francisco on the "Ballochmyle" departed 15 August 1874 - Mr and Mrs Rhodes and family and servants (13) [5], [6]. They travelled across the continent by rail, took [a] steamer to Europe, and lived for a year or so at Geneva, where the children went to school [7].

London to Melbourne on the s.s. Northumberland departed Plymouth 2 October 1877, arrived Melbourne 27 November 1877 - Mr and Mrs Rhodes, Misses Rhodes (2), Master Rhodes, three children, and servant [8], [9].

Melbourne to Lyttelton on the s.s. Tararua arrived 7 December 1877 - Mr and Mrs Rhodes, Misses Rhodes (4), Masters Rhodes (2), and servant.

1. Sophia Theodosia Rhodes [Daisy] born 21 January 1860, Purau, reg. 1860/11047, died 8 July 1940 Hanmer Springs, Canterbury, reg. 1940/15986, buried St Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery, Papanui, Christchurch, married 20 May 1879 at St Michael's Church, Christchurch by Bishop Harper, reg. 1879/1303, William Aubrey Willes born circa 1839, second son of William Willes and Sophia Willes of Astrop House, King's Sutton, died 12 July 1924 at Elmwood, Bournemouth aged 84 years

issue:

1a. Margarette Sophia Willes born 1881 King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, died 5 December 1953, married 12 June 1913 Commander Walter Odwin Hutton Lambert, born on 25 June 1887, died on 12 February 1960 aged 72

1b. Dorothy Eleanor Willes born 4 March 1883 Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, reg. 1883/7996 New Zealand

1c. Hubert William Heaton Willes born 8 or 9 December 1885 Brighton, England, died 7 July 1969 Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

1d. Edward Gerald Shippen Willes, born 1888, died 28 February 1889 Deudraeth, North Wales aged 11 months

2. Sir Robert Heaton Rhodes KCVO KBE GCStJ VD born 27 February 1861, "Epworth Grange", reg. 1861/10838, died 30 July 1956 aged 95 years, "Otahuna", Tai Tapu, reg. 1956/21015, buried St Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery, married 20 May 1891 at St Mary's Anglican Church, Bulls near Melbourne, reg. 2335/1891, Jessie Cooper Clark, born 26 September 1865, Victoria, Australia, died 13 October 1929 "Otahuna", Tai Tapu, aged 64 years, buried St Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery. No issue

3. Edith Mary Rhodes born 22 November or 28 October 1862, "Epworth Grange", reg. 1863/15243 [date of birth incorrectly registered as 22 November 1862], died 17 December 1951, Glenara, Bulla, Victoria, reg. 17527/1952, married 9 July 1888, St Mary's Church, Merivale, Christchurch, reg. 1888/2362 Alister Clark, he died 20 January 1949 aged 84 years. No issue.

4. Amy Clifford Rhodes born 27 February 1865, Purau, reg. 1865/15898, died 27 August 1922 at "Wai-iti", Innes Road, Christchurch, reg. 1922/7162, buried St Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery, married 1 February 1893 St Mary's Church Merivale, reg. 1893/317, Edward Dennis O'Rorke only son of Sir George Maurice O'Rorke and Cecilia Mary Shepherd, he died 9 December 1918 at Remount Depot, England as the result of a riding accident.

issue:

4a. Maurice Heaton O'Rorke MC., born 22 February 1894 "Wairenga", Webb Street, Merivale, Christchurch, died 29 September 1974 Christchurch, married 19 September 1923 St John's Church, Hororata, Elizabeth Hope Reeves daughter of Hugh Maude Reeves and Emily Harper [grand daughter of Bishop Harper]

4b. Dennis Clifford O'Rorke MC., born 16 May 1895 at The Pah, Onehunga, Auckland, reg. 1895/14731, killed in action France 24 March 1918

4c. Amy Cecilia O'Rorke born 5 October 1896 at The Pah, Onehunga, Auckland, reg. 1897/14357, died 24 July 1986 London

4d. Robert O'Rorke born 1900, alive in 1923

4e. Edward Brian O'Rorke born 14 June 1901 Fendalton, Christchurch, [architect and interior designer], died 1 March 1974 Essex 

4f. Forbes O'Rorke, killed in action in Greece 1942 aged 34 years, married 1932 Letty Martyn Williams

5. George Edward Rhodes OBE, born 13 or 18 July 1866 Hawkesbury, reg. 1866/19810 [registration of date of birth shows 13 July, newspaper notice shows 18 July], died 8 March 1936 at his residence "Beverley," 43 Clyde Road, Riccarton, Christchurch aged 69 years, reg. 1936/15241, married 26 November 1890 at St Mary's Church, Timaru by Bishop Harper, reg. 1890/3267, Ellen Laura Amy Perry only daughter of Arthur Perry, Beverley, Timaru, she died 24 November 1931 at "Matata," Cave, South Canterbury

issue:

5a. Shona Heaton Rhodes born 7 April 1902, Meadowbank, Christchurch, died 18 August 1999 Timaru, married 14 October 1925 Benjamin Hinds Howell 

6. Emily Gertrude Rhodes born 13 May 1869, "Elmwood", [registration of birth not found], died 22 September 1967 Burntisland, Scotland, married 18 October 1893 St Mary's Church, Merivale, Christchurch, reg. 1893/317, Major Reginald Stanley Hunter Blair, born 18 November 1861, younger son of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, fourth baronet of Dunskey and brother of the Countess of Glasgow, died 11 October 1948 at his son's home, Camsie House, Charleston, Fifeshire, Scotland, [he was thought to be one of the last survivors in the Egyptian campaign - Anglo-Egyptian War - of 1882 [12].

issue:

6a. David Walter Hunter Blair born 22 July 1894, died 6 March 1961 

6b. Alister Hunter Blair born 25 April 1896, died 9 May 1915

6c. Ronald Hunter Blair born 23 December 1898, died 30 July 1968, married Nancy Colbeck of Auckland

6d. Reginald Eustace Hunter Blair born 27 February 1905, died 17 May 1931, drowned at Ceylon

6e. Elizabeth Anne Hunter Blair born 12 June 1909 [Mrs Chatterton]

7. William Heaton Rhodes born 12 May 1870, "Elmwood", Christchurch, reg. 1870/29163, accidently killed 27 October 1894 Oxford University aged 24 years, buried at the churchyard at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire. The grave is at the south-east corner close to the grave of Mrs Waller, the sister of William Aubrey Willes [13].

8. Katherine Agnes Rhodes born 20 September 1871, "Elmwood", [registration of birth not found], died 1 May 1872 "Elmwood" aged 7 months, reg. 1872/8188, buried St Paul's Anglican Church Cemetery.

[1] Lyttelton Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1088, 15 April 1863, page 4

[2] The Herald (Melbourne, Vic.),  Thu 26 May 1864, page 3 

[3] Press, Volume IV, Issue 514, 22 June 1864, page 2

[4] Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3863, 8 December 1877, page 2

[5] Press, Volume XXII, Issue 2815, 17 August 1874, page 2

[6] Globe, Volume I, Issue 70, 21 August 1874, page 2

[7] George Rhodes of the Levels and his Brothers, A. E. Woodhouse, 1937, page 206

[8] The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Wed 28 Nov 1877, Page 4 

[9] Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic), Sat 1 Dec 1877, page 14 

[10] Lyttelton Times, Volume XX, Issue 1134, 23 September 1863, Page 4

[11] Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 219, 6 December 1854, Page 5

[12] Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25625, 14 October 1948, Page 6

[13] Press, Volume LI, Issue 8973, 11 December 1894, Page 5

Political Postcards

Westland

Political Postcards

The names on this ballot box refer to Henry Leslie Michel and Tom Seddon.  

[Thomas Edward Youd Seddon was the son of New Zealand's longest-serving Prime Minister Richard Seddon.]

Premier Wyandotte here refers to Joseph Ward, Mi-chel refers to Henry Leslie Michel. The Liberal Party "Chick' is Tom Seddon. 

"Electors. This is ours to bestow, not yours Sir Jo[e]."

Jones, Frederick Nelson

Frederick Nelson Jones
born 4 May 1881 - died 29 August 1962

Sand Yachting - Tahuna, Nelson, N.Z

by Frederick Nelson Jones

[postcard purchased July 2024]

Road and Sea, Nelson, N.Z

by Frederick Nelson Jones

[postcard purchased August 2024]

Nelson from the Zig Zag

by Frederick Nelson Jones

[postcard purchased August 2024]

Nelson, N.Z., Looking West

by Frederick Nelson Jones

[postcard purchased August 2024]

Curran, Henry Grattan

 

Henry Grattan Curran

died 1946

reverse inscription "Tim laying pipes for water Milton"

[purchased July 2024]

Cook Islands

 

[off topic]

Pictured is Mr Ernest Wheeler (second left), the former
 manager of the Are Manuiri, with the three paddles and
spear he was gifted by Cook Islanders. Fourth from left
is Jack Wheeler (son of Ernest Wheeler) who was born
in Rarotonga in 1914.

[postcard purchased July 2024]

Cook Island News

Kiwi family returns Cook Islands artefacts gifted to their forefather
Thursday 15 June 2023 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Art, Features

A visiting New Zealand family yesterday returned Cook Islands artefacts owned by their forefather, entrusting them to the Cook Islands Library and Museum Society for future generations of Cook Islanders.

Nestled along the drive of Makea Tinirau Road is the Cook Islands Library and Museum Society, a private organisation dedicated to the preservation of the history and culture of the Cook Islands, entirely run and funded by resilient volunteers whose passion for the country has kept many of the artefacts for posterity.

Pictured is Mr Ernest Wheeler (second left), the former
 manager of the Are Manuiri, with the three paddles and
spear he was gifted by Cook Islanders. Fourth from left
is Jack Wheeler (son of Ernest Wheeler) who was born
in Rarotonga in 1914. CILMS/23061419

Yesterday morning, Cook Islands artefacts – a spear and three paddles – were gifted to the Society by the Wheeler family from the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. The family is on holiday in Rarotonga.

The artefacts were owned by the late Ernest Wheeler who was the manager of the Are Manuiri (now Banana Court) in the 1920s. He lived in Port Chalmers and United Kingdom before coming to the Cook Islands.

Jean Mason, curator-manager of the Cook Islands Library and Museum Society, said Linda Wheeler – the widow of Trevor Wheeler (1945-2013) who was the grandson of Ernest Wheeler – made the arrangements to gift the items to the Society.

The Cook Islands Library and Museum Society are grateful for any old and authentic Cook Islands artefacts that are returned to the country of origin, says Mason.

She said that many of the items have been cared for by families of the ancestors that first took them away and the descendants who inherited the items have put a lot of faith in the Society to continue to take good care of the items for the benefit of future generations of Cook Islanders.

“The Cook Islands Library and Museum Society always takes seriously its main purpose for existing, which is to enable the survival of the country’s material cultural heritage for the benefit of future generations,” said Mason.

Tim Buchanan, president of the Society, said that they have been the recipient and custodians of many authentic Cook Islands artefacts.

“Objects from before and after European contact are among our collection,” Buchanan said.

“The Society are grateful to the Wheeler family for thinking of us and for going to the trouble of repatriating these items gifted to their forefather. Items that are now artefacts from those early colonial days of our history.”

The Wheeler family from Aotearoa New Zealand gifted
Cook Islands artefacts (three paddles and a spear) to the
Cook Islands Library and Museum Society. 23061418

The Cook Islands Library and Museum Society is a private, non-profit organisation that was founded in 1963.

Buchanan said: “Although the Society is an autonomous, non-profit organisation, we did benefit from Government support up until 1992.”

“That support was withdrawn by the Geoffrey Henry Government of the day in a pique of anger over being denied full control of the Society and the grounds gifted for their purposes by Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki.”

The Society now mostly survives with individual and corporate donations and volunteer labour.

“It is our sincere hope that current and future governments will again assist us with this custodial duty, in recognition of the importance of preserving the tangible objects of our history,” said Buchanan.

Cook Islands News

unknown photographer

 

United Bowling Club, Christchurch Champion Rink 

1913.

Arthur Stedman [Vice President], Oliver Thomas McManaway [Secretary] , J. Brown, J. Brown , W. Fraser and Isaac Woolf. 

by an unknown photographer

Arthur Stedman was the Manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Christchurch and died in Auckland in 1928. Isaac Woolf collapsed and died while playing bowls in 1943.

unknown photographers

 

postcard purchased August 2024

reverse inscription "226 Antigua Street, City Chch"

by an unknown photographer

postcard purchased 2024

A house at an unknown location by an unknown photographer

postcard purchased 2024

Cashmere House, Christchurch by an unknown photographer 

[postchard purchased May 2024]

Built in 1909 to designs by Samuel Hurst Seager, Cashmere House was set in a depression atop the Cashmere Hills. Reached via a long driveway which wound its way up the hill, the house overlooked an expanse of trees, lawns and gardens. Within, the house contained more than thirty rooms...

Christchurch City Libraries

A house at an unknown location by an unknown photographer

postcard purchased 2023

A house at an unknown location by an unknown photographer

postcard purchased 2019

A house at an unknown location by an unknown photographer

postcard purchased 2017

unknown house painted by Alfred Robin

painting purchased 2018

Elmar and Ambrose Studios

Elmar and Ambrose Studios

Denzil Alfred Miller 

and

John Thomas Ambrose

209 High Street 

Christchurch

about July 1966 to about 1971

previously Elmar Studios

photographer's reference number C1030-4

[purchased 2024]

182 High Street

Christchurch

about 1971 to about October 1979 [1]

photographer's reference number C322-17

[purchased 2024]

photographer's reference number C322-14

[purchased 2024]

Level 3, 

Stades Arcade

Hereford Street, Christchurch

from about October 1979 to about August 1986

Press, 24 January 1980, page 12

... Near the entrance to the new Shades complex the customer can find Elmar and Ambrose. For quality photography, processing, printing, mounting and framing — this is the shop to visit. Elmar and Ambrose’s retail premises offer a film process service that includes a 10 per cent discount and a free film. But this is only one area of the service offered by the firm. Elmar and Ambrose are the complete professional photographers. All portraits, wedding, commercial, fashion and sporting photos are done by Mr John Ambrose to ensure that the final photo is the result of experience and modern techniques. Mr Ambrose is willing to spend as much time as is necessary on his work in order to create a quality presentation. Personal service, experience and the latest equipment are all available from Elmar and Ambrose. Mr Ambrose constantly attends seminars and courses in order to develop and create photography of today that will last. 

Press, 9 December 1980, page 26

Press, 16 August 1986, page 52

[1] Press, 27 October 1979, page 29