Henry Burling
my Great-great-Grandfather
born in London 5th Oct 1807, died at Waikanae, NZ 17th September 1911
at the Otaki Cemetery it says he was 110, as he thought he was, but he was really 103

Sailed from Gravesend, England to 
Wellington on the "London"
arriving on the 1st of May 1842

His statue is in the Maritime Museum 
(in the room that rocks)

His wife was Mary Worsley (as below, with Henry), born 1802. She died 14 August 1864 in Featherston, New Zealand. She was his common law wife at first and they had some children before they married. They arrived in New Zealand 1st May, 1842 with five children and had two more children after arrival in New Zealand. They married 27 January 1839 in Stepney, Spitalfields, London, England.