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Samuel Husband with his wife Ann left behind the life and family they knew in Cornwall, England to make a fresh start in the emerging colony called New Zealand.

Eight of their children did not live long enough to leave Cornwall while the remaining Seven did come and another two were stillborn. A total of 17 children born to Ann!

Other family members came later or sailed to other parts of the English speaking world.
Samuel and Ann now have many descendants in New Zealand as do his brothers and sisters that emigrated at a later date.

This website is dedicated to them, their ancestors and six generations of descendants who now call New Zealand home.

Samuel Husband & Ann Oxnam

                   

Samuel Husband born in Saint Austell’s, Cornwall in 1833. His father Joseph was born in Tywardreath, and his mother Elizabeth Ruby (nee Sowden) was born in Maker and died in Liskeard. About 1853 before Samuel and Ann set sail for NZ, Joseph and Elizabeth moved to St Ive. They appear in the 1861 census as living in Lidcott Mine Cottage, St Ive.