Magical Mystery Tour: The Rediscovered Life of Thomas Fellows WALTON (1833-1884)

[trish1120]

Hi spades,
I KNEW the name rang a bell.
Just realised I worked on Thomas Fellows Walton for you in January so it is fascinating even more for me now to read this all

[majm]

Agh ...

One of my G G G grandfathers was in the Survey party sent from NSW to NZ back in 1840.  From private family records I note he was surveying in the Taranaki district in August 1840.  

There's a book published in 1878 "The history of Taranaki" by B Wells  (311 pages, and publishers Edmondson & Avery) snippets seems to be available at geggle ebooks, it would have to be out of copyright.  

Fingers crossed that some Kiwi Cormorants can readily find the book instead of standing around looking for a perch .....

Cheers,  JM

 

[majm]

  Full Text, thanks to the Library of the Uni of California, Los Angeles 

http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoftaranak00welliala/historyoftaranak00welliala_djvu.txt

And on the title page I read

" It appears to me to be a noble employment to rescue from oblivion
those who deserve to be eternally remembered, ........" 

PLINY THE YOUNGER.

The Book was published in NZ ....

EDMONDSON & AVERY, " TARANAKI NEWS" OFFICE, 1878.

Agh, Is Spades a descendant of PLINY the Younger 

[majm]

 Rev Henry Handley BROWN
His Obit
Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9797, 8 September 1893, Page 2
............... The deceased has left a numerous family, his sons being Mr Henry Brown, J.P., of Inglewood; Mr John Brown, Mangorei ; Mr Thomas Brown, Mangorei and Mr William Brown, Lepperton; and his daughters Mrs A. Standish, Mrs J. S. McKellar, and the wives of Colonel Russell and Dr. Tomlinson.


It would seem the 16 year old lad who fell on 6 Nov 1860, at The Battle of Mahoetahi was the Rev's son FRANCIS

Taranaki Herald, Volume VII, Issue 344, 5 March 1859, Page 3
March 4.— Eclipse, barque, 254 tons, W. R. Elliot from London. Passengers — Rev. H. H, Brown, Mrs Brown, Henry, Sophia, Francis, Mary, Frances, Caroline, John, Thomas, and William Brown, Miss Mary Nicholson, Elizabeth Patten, Ann Pask, Ellen Pask, William and Ann Ingarells. W. Mc Kechney, agent

Cheers,  JM

[majm]

Rev H H Brown's wife
Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9083, 15 May 1891, Page 2
DEATH.
BROWN.—At Omata, on Thursday, May 14, Sophia Wilhelmina Brown, aged 76.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9084, 16 May 1891, Page 2
The mortal remains of the wife of the Rev H. H. Brown were interred in the churchyard of St. Mary's this (Saturday ) ; afternoon, the Ven. Archdeacon Govett  reading the funeral service at the church, which was crowded, and over the grave.- Mrs Brown, who has been for many years an invalid, died on Friday morning, at her residence at Omata, at the advanced age of 76 years. She came to New  Plymouth with her husband and  family: in the barque Eclipse, arriving here on March 4th, 1859. The deceased lady leaves, besides her husband, four daughters (Mrs Standish, Mrs McKellar, Mrs Russell and Mrs Tomlinson), and four sons, to mourn  their loss.

JM

[majm]

LIST OF NAMES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS.
Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9123, 2 July 1891, Page 13

Includes
BULLÔT  .... wife and family
BULLÔT .... Edward
BULLÔT .... Charles
Arrived 3 Sept 1841 ex Amelia Thompson

JM

[kiwihalfpint]

Hi Trish not like you to miss something ..... haven't seen you for a while

Any more visits planned for out our way?

[spades]

Welcome Trish, 

I intended to PM you and invite you to this topic but with the quake it completely slipped my mind.

Spades

[spades]

I have a book on my shelf, Faber Book of Reportage, which includes Pliny the Youngers eyewitness account of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius, which type now bears his name, a Plinian Eruption (a more recent example is Mt Helens). A riveting story. He was a master wordsmith then and got a lot better. I'm definitely an amateur.

Thanks for the kind words, though, Majm, and for that quote. I'll have a use for it later.

Spades