Thomas Walton's marriage to Annie PARKER.
I discovered that in 1865 a Thomas WALTON married an Annie PARKER. I looked for the Intention to Marry Notice and found that it was definitely the correct Thomas Walton, who in 1865 was a Corporal in the Taranaki Mounted Corps and had been living at New Plymouth for five years:
Intention to Marry Notice. Archives NZ Ref: BDM 20/10 1865 New Plymouth p.178/299.
Dated 24 October: Thomas Fellows WALTON, bachelor, Corp(ora)l Taranaki Mounted Corps aged 31 years living at New Plymouth, length of residence 5 years, intends to marry Annie PARKER, spinster, daughter of James and Sarah PARKER, (of) Nelson, aged 20 years, living at New Plymouth, length of residence 6 months, at St Mary’s Church, Vivian Street. Name & Relation of Person giving Consent in the case of a Minor: James PARKER, father.
Minister: Rev. Henry Handley BROWN.
Thomas and Annie were married the following day, on Wednesday, 25 October. The marriage certificate listed the witnesses as John L. NEWMAN, publican of the Ships Hotel, New Plymouth and C. BULLOT, a carpenter of New Plymouth.
(Source: 1865 Marriage certificate 1865/5831)
Interestingly, a Sergeant Charles BULLOT served in the Taranaki Mounted Volunteers and a photgraph of him appears in the book The Colonial New Zealand Wars (1986) p.217, the image credited to the Taranaki Museum. Was this the same man?
And at last I have some more questions:
Can anyone tell me anything about the Ship's Hotel?
can anyone tell me anything about the BULLOT family (excluding their military history, please, I know three of them served in Taranaki colonial units).
Is St Mary’s Church, Vivian Street, New Plymouth, still standing? Can anyone provide a history of this church?
Who was the Rev. Henry Handley BROWN?
Manana,
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