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Thanks Marie,

Thanks for all your information on MRA's daughter Helen. Somewhere in my information I have noted she was also called Nellie and her son Leslie Frederick Robinson was a known poet and author in Australia.

My Grandmother was Mabel Ashwin who was married to my Grandfather William Keith Preece on the 8th Sept 1898 in Christchurch at Hagley House. I'm planning a trip to the UK later this year to look around the areas where they lived. Do you have any information on where Edward Ashwin is buried in Bidford?

Regards
Max

Hi, Martin Richard Ashwin is also my GGrandfather. I believe he was bankrupted in 1862 and that may have lead to them coming out to NZ.  I have a son Theodore Craven Ashwin born 1855, and a Craven Ashwin shows on the shipping list when they came out to NZ in 1863.  MRA was bankrupted in 1867 and spent 12 months in prison.  In 1879 he bought a Mill in Decanter Bay.
Extract from Decanter Bay from 'Banks Peninsula - People and Places by Ian Menzies - Canterbury Museum
"When the cream of the timber had been cut the mill was sold to M.R.Ashwin and operated further up the valley on land owned by the estate of James Cooke. The nine-roomed house and the mill were destroyed by fire in 1879 in suspicious circumstance. Mrs Ashwin and her son were charged with arson and acquitted in June that year for want of conclusive evidence". I understand the son in question was Martin.
MRA became bankrupt again in 1870. Some time around 1886 they moved to Wairoa in the North Island where his wife Emma Ashwin was a storekeeper and she was bankrupted in 1888. Records show MRA residing in Wellington in 1890 and then Wanganui in 1894 and we know MRA was buried in Hautapu cemetery in Cambridge.
The following is the inscription on the Ashwin headstone
In loving memory of
Martin R. Ashwin
died 28th Feb 1901
aged 69 years
also
Martin E. Ashwin
died 28th Nov 1902
aged 43 years
also Cecil Stanley Ashwin
died 30 April 1904
aged 22 years
also
Emma Priscilla Ashwin
died 2nd May 1916
aged 80 years

Hi
Snap I am also a direct descendant of Martin R Ashwin. His daughter Mabel (May) was my grandmother.


Sailed out on the Sebastopol
Sailed London 17th January 1863 - arrived Lyttelton 21st May 1863
Cabin Passengers            
   
Second Cabin            
Ashwin   Helen         
   Mary         
Ashwin   Sarah E. Wheeler         
Ashwin    Martin         
   Emma         
   Craven         
   Helen         
   Mary         
   Martin         
   Lilly   

I have a note that says Sarah Elizabeth Wheeler daughter of Eliz brother Richard, also came out with them and on this shipping list I think there is an error in the shipping list and it should be Ashwin Elizabeth and Wheeler Sarah E.

Subsequent children or M R A and Emma born in NZ were;
Esther, Jane, Edith, Charles, Manley, Leonard, James, Clara, Mabel, Jessie, Darcy and Cecil - Emma was around 45 when Cecil was born, some family. 
There is also a Sarah E Ashwin born 1862 and died the same year.   

Hi,
The web site below may throw some light on the Rimels and Eliz Wheeler.  I am also trying to trace her husband Edward and his father - with some difficulty.  Eliz obituary states that Edward was from Cockhill House Gloucestershire which I am having difficulty finding and I believe was given to him by his father Thomas?

http://rimellgenealogy.blogspot.com/2006/03/ws-3-john-rimell-1733-1805.html
 
When you ask for more information in her family are you looking for that in NZ or her descendants?

regards