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Marriage: Children:
  1. George Meredith: Birth: 10 Aug 1860 in Kakaku, Canterbury, New Zealand. Death: 10 Feb 1907 in Kakaku, Canterbury, New Zealand

  2. Catherine Anne Meredith: Birth: 3 Jan 1862 in Kakahu,South Canterbury,New Zealand. Death: 16 Mar 1942 in Waimate,South Canterbury,New Zealand

  3. Athol Richard Meredith: Birth: 23 Jun 1863 in Kakaku,Pleasant Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand.. Death: 11 Oct 1946 in Strathmore, Taranaki, New Zealand

  4. Jessie Meredith: Birth: 12 Sep 1864 in Kakaku, Canterbury, New Zealand.. Death: 25 Jul 1961 in Stratford, Taranaki,New Zealand

  5. Marion Meredith: Birth: 30 Jun 1866 in Kakaku, Canterbury, New Zealand.. Death: 8 Aug 1951 in Timaru,South Canterbury,New Zealand

  6. Christina Meredith: Birth: 14 May 1868 in Kakahu,Waimate,South Canterbury,New Zealand. Death: in England

  7. Eva Meredith: Birth: 18 Dec 1869 in Kakahu,Waimate,South Canterbury,New Zealand. Death: 17 Apr 1946 in Edinburgh,Scotland

  8. Alice Meredith: Birth: 3 Jun 1871 in Kakahu,Waimate,South Canterbury,New Zealand. Death: 10 Apr 1949 in Bangor,County Down,Northern Ireland

  9. James Meredith: Birth: 28 Mar 1873 in Georgetown, Canterbury, New Zealand. Death: 29 Oct 1873 in Timaru, New Zealand

  10. Eliza Meredith: Birth: 29 Sep 1874 in Temuka, South Canterbury, n.Z.. Death: 24 Apr 1875

  11. Charles Meredith: Birth: 12 Dec 1876 in Kakahu,Waimate,South Canterbury,New Zealand. Death: 13 Apr 1960 in Cambridge,New Zealand

  12. Samuel Ernest Meredith: Birth: 2 Oct 1877 in Kakahu, Canterbury, New Zealand. Death: 4 Dec 1944 in Palmerston North, New Zealand

  13. William Edward Meredith: Birth: 20 Dec 1878 in Kakahu, Canterbury, New Zealand. Death: 30 Mar 1965 in Taumarunui, New Zealand

  14. John Thomas Meredith: Birth: 23 Aug 1880 in Kakahu, Sth. Canterbury, New Zealand. Death: 20 Jun 1954 in Timaru, Sth. Canterbury, New Zealand

  15. Agnes Rosamond Meredith: Birth: 31 Dec 1882 in Kakahu, Sth. Canterbury, New Zealand. Death: 13 Apr 1973


Notes
a. Note:   ldest son, George died 1907) and with my three younger sons. I received the greatest kindness from Mr. and Mrs. Green and family from whom I got the bush, and eventually two of my sons married two of their daughters, and very fine and capable women they were, making excellent wives for Sam and Will, who by this time where settled down to bush life. I may here state that both these sons were educated and were schoolteachers in Canterbury when they left to join me at this mill. 1 never had any worry or anxiety about my daughters, who with a good Mother's help and management fought their own battles and made names for themselves in their own particular lines of business. Two daughters, Eve (Eva) and Alice took up the study of medicine and reached the top of the tree, distinguishing themselves as Doctors in England. Another, Christine, who went to Edinburgh with her two sisters made a business in that city, a Vegetarian Cafe, and made a wonderful success of the undertaking. Marion took up school teaching and, as I have already mentioned, was the first teacher in the school built on the very spot at Kakahu where I pitched the tent for Campbell's two sisters who landed in Lyttleton at that time; Campbell going to meet them while I fixed up tent accommodation. Our son Charles is the High School teacher in Cambridge. I had almost overlooked John if last by no means least. MY eldest son George, my pal of long ago, died at the age of forty ­seven leaving a family of five, one son and four daughters. Jessie married Mr. Kennedy of Stratford and her son is farming in the Taranaki district, who married a daughter of the late Mr. James Craigie of Timaru. My eldest daughter Kate (Mrs. Butcher) of Waimate is the one we are now living with and with whom we hope to end our days, - a good and devoted daughter she has proved to be. God bless her for all her goodness to her parents, as he surely will. George was a Saw Miller and a Quarryman. Cause of Death was :Bronchitis 10 Days,Cardiac Failure Death Notice: Meredith-on Dec 1 st,1918,at his daughters Residence,"Rangi Maru" ",High street, Waimate, Richard Meredith,late of "Rocky Point " Kakahu Canterbury in his 85th year OBITUARY: One of Canterburies fast disappearing band of Pioneers passed away in Waimate, in the person of Mr George Meredith a member of an old Welsh family who arrived in Lyttleton in November 1854 and with the exception of one or two years spent in Taranaki, lived in Canterbeury for 64 years He was one of the early setterlers in Pleasant Valley , Geraldine. He was engaged in Saw Milling for many years, and owned Lime Kilns and Coal Mines on his property at Kakahu. The late Mr Meredith made a large circle of friends,who deaply morn his death He is survived by a Widow(Daughter of the late Mr Daniel Fergusson,at one time clerk to the court at Timaru;Five sons-Athol(Strathmore);Charles B.A.(Cambridge),Samuel and William(Ohura),John (Gore and six Daughters-Mrs Butcher(Waimate),Mrs Kennedy(Tahora),Dr Eva M Clement and Dr Alice M Burn (England),Miss Tina Meredith(Edinburgh)and Mrs Heron(Geraldine)" Born in Crown Street, Finsbury,Shoreditch,London.
Note:   This finishes the seven years I worked in the North Island, half with my eldest son, Athol (e


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