More NZ History

Samuel Husband born in Saint Austell’s, Cornwall in 1833.

Samuel’s brothers William Henry Husband born in 1844 and Edward born 1838 founded the Trengrove Wesleyan Sunday school. Edward later came to NZ but William did not.

Yet another brother James was captain of the Wheal Ludcutt silver-lead mine and both William and Edward had worked there.

NZ Connections

The ship the Mongol sailed for New Zealand from Plymouth just before Christmas 23/12/1873. She arrived in Dunedin 2/2/1874 – not bad going. The ship called at Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago.

Listed as passengers were Edward S. Husband 36, Louisa Husband 30, along with Mabel Husband who was 3 years and Ada Husband just 1. All were born in Cornwall.

Edward Sowden Husband lived in Peterborough Street, Christchurch in the 1881 electoral roles.

His occupation is listed as an engine driver.

Women received the vote in NZ in 1893 – first country in the world to acknowledge their voting rights.

There is however no record of Louisa being registered to vote nor has she signed the suffrage Petition that was around at the time. The reason for this is not known.

All passengers were marked as ‘Canterbury Province Colonial Nominated Immigrants’. This was a scheme to assist colonization by the British Government who paid part fare which was around 7 pounds per passenger.

Each person had to be nominated by someone already established in the colony. The program ran from 1871 to 1891.

A George S. Husband came to NZ on the ship the Tiptree leaving England 20/10/1863 and arriving 20/01/1864

He was aged 26 at the time and his occupation is listed as a farm labourer. Elizabeth Jane 29 and Jon Thomas aged just 10 months. By 1881 George is shown in the electoral roles as a fish monger of Victoria Street in Christchurch.

George Symonds Husband born 1837 and Thomas Husband born 1848 were brothers.

Their parents were John Husband (1806 – 1885) and Mary Sowden (1807 – 1880).

Now John had a brother Joseph (1804 – 1861) and he married Mary’s sister Elizabeth Sowden, which brings us back to the link between my ancestor and those of William Husband.

George’s middle name was Symonds and so appears to be the link between these two families because the parents of John Husband and Joseph Husband were, going back one generation, John Husband (b 1770) and Elizabeth Symonds (b 1778) whom appear, along with George and Elizabeth, in my (Grant Husband) pedigree.

It seems to be something of a Husband tradition to give at least one child the mothers’ maiden name.

A Thos Husband aged 25 a miner from St Clear near Liskeard came out with a wife aged 25 and a child aged 2.

Their nominator was listed as George S. Husband. No more is known about him or how, even if, he was related to us.