Henry Herbert Wise1

(1873 - 1919)
Father*Henry Aitken Wyse1 b. 1835, d. 1922
Mother*Elizabeth Isabella Walker1 b. c 1844, d. 1911
Henry Herbert Wise was born in New Zealand in 1873.1

He married May Heaney in New Zealand in 1897.2

Henry died on 14 March 1919 in Dunedin, Otago.3,4 He was buried on 16 March 1919 at the Anderson's Bay Cemetery.4
Grave - Henry Herbert WISE and May (nee HEANEY)(1873-1936) Andersons Bay, Dunedin

Family

May Heaney (1873 - 1936)
Children

Citations

  1. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Birth Reg. No. 1873/34645.
  2. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Marriage Reg. No. 1897/350.
  3. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Death Reg. No. 1919/2078, aged 46.
  4. [S420] Dunedin City Cemeteries database, at https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/…, Anderson's Bay Cemetery, block 21, plot 15, reference A19190316.
  5. [S284] Index - New South Wales BDMs online, at https://www.nsw.gov.au/births-deaths-marriages, Birth Reg. No. 1899/23882.
  6. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Birth Reg. No. 1904/331.
  7. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Birth Reg. No. 1909/15699.

Henry Robert Wise1

(1899 - 1991)
Father*Henry Herbert Wise1 b. 1873, d. 1919
Mother*May Heaney1 b. 1873, d. 1936
Henry Robert Wise was born in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, in 1899.1

Henry died in 1991.

Citations

  1. [S284] Index - New South Wales BDMs online, at https://www.nsw.gov.au/births-deaths-marriages, Birth Reg. No. 1899/23882.

Peter Anthony Surtees Wise1

(1934 - 2007)
Peter's birth was registered between July 1934 and September 1934 in Weymouth, Dorset.2

Peter's marriage to Elizabeth Muirhead Odhams, daughter of Geoffrey Charles Odhams and Nancy Muirhead Scott Fergusson, was registered between October 1956 and December 1956 in Newbury, Berkshire. He was a retired Sub-Lt in the Royal Navy and the engagement had been announced in the Times on 31 Aug 1956.1 He was awarded an MBE in the June 1993 Honours List as Senior Administration Officer to the Hong Kong Government Office, London.3

He was widowed on the death of his wife Elizabeth on 4 October 1995.4,5

Peter died on 4 May 2007.6,7

His will was probated in London on 21 May 2008.7

Family

Elizabeth Muirhead Odhams (1931 - 1995)
ChartsThomas Fergusson (c1758-1844) descendancy

Citations

  1. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Marriage: District of Newbury, Vol 6a, p89, 4Q1956.
  2. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Birth: District of Weymouth, Vol 5a, p383, 3Q1934, mother's maiden name HUTCHESON.
  3. [S943] Newspaper - London Gazette, supplement of 12 Jun 1993, page B24.
  4. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Death: District of Reading and Wokenham, Reg. No. C39A, District 3201C, entry 300.
  5. [S677] Index - England High Court of Justice, England & Wales National Probate Calendar, probate Winchester #9552424988Y.
  6. [S6] Newspaper - Times of London, issue of 11 May 2007, issue 69009, p75, Deaths.
  7. [S677] Index - England High Court of Justice, England & Wales National Probate Calendar, probate number 2627875, granted in London.

William Arthur Wise1

(1867 - 1934)
Father*Henry Aitken Wyse1 b. 1835, d. 1922
Mother*Elizabeth Isabella Walker1 b. c 1844, d. 1911
William Arthur Wise was born in New Zealand in 1867.1

William died on 12 July 1934 in England.

Citations

  1. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Birth Reg. No. 1867/28337.

Edith Gwendoline Wish1

(1883 - 1956)
Edith Gwendoline Wish was born in Hampstead, London, Surrey, on 5 June 1883.2,1

Edith's marriage to Howard Clive Barnard, son of Howard Barnard and Sarah Ann Haggis, was registered between July 1910 and September 1910 in Willesden, Middlesex.3

She was listed in the 1921 census at 87 Crescent Rd in Ramsgate, Kent, with her husband Howard; he was a secondary schoolmaster (MA Oxon) a the Ramsgate County School. Their children Edward and Edith were listed as living with them.4

She was listed in the 1939 Register at 54 Grosvenor Rd in Reading, Berkshire, with Howard Clive Barnard; he was Professor of Education at Reading University. Edith Mary Joan Barnard was listed as living at the same address.2

Edith died on 8 March 1956 at 'Dunedin', Bath Rd in Reading, Berkshire, at age 72.5,6

Her will was probated in Oxford, Oxfordshire, on 20 April 1956 with effects of £2948/10/6.6

Family

Howard Clive Barnard (1884 - 1985)
Children

Citations

  1. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Birth: District of Hampstead, Vol 1a, p641, 3Q1883, mother's maiden name not stated.
  2. [S1044] Census - 29 Sep 1939, UK Register, RG101/2033G/003/17, Letter Code: DSIL, Schedule 17.
  3. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Marriage: District of Willesden, Vol 3a, p567, 3Q1910.
  4. [S1259] Census - 19 Jun 1921, UK census, RG15-4477 RD 63, SD 4, ED 14, Schedule 166.
  5. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Death: District of Reading, Vol 6a, p149, 1Q1956, aged 72.
  6. [S677] Index - England High Court of Justice, England & Wales National Probate Calendar, probate at Oxford, to Howard Clive Barnard, university professor.
  7. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Birth: District of Thanet, Vol 2a, p2043, 2Q1912, mother's maiden name WISH.
  8. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Birth: District of Thanet, Vol 2a, p1999, 1Q1914, mother's maiden name WISH.

Kate Fougere Wishart1

(1900 - 1988)
Kate Fougere Wishart was born in New Zealand on 19 August 1900.2

She married John Mark, son of John Mark and Mary Emily Watling Clarke, in New Zealand in 1933.1,3,4

She was widowed on the death of her husband John in 1968.5

Kate died in 1988 in New Zealand.6

Family

John Mark (1901 - 1968)
ChartsStephen Blomfield (c1750?-1809) descendancy

Citations

  1. [S312] Electronic Files - A Robinson, and subsequent correspondence.
  2. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Birth Reg. No. 1900/14030, and Death Reg. No. 1988/53379 gives this birthdate; daughter to Olvyn and Violet Ethel.
  3. [S443] CD - NZ Marriages, CD - NZ Marriages 1836-1956 V2, NZ Registrar General's Folio 6334.
  4. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Marriage Reg. No. 1933/4614.
  5. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Death Reg. No. 1968/32821, aged 67.
  6. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Death Reg. No. 1988/53379.

Mary Witham

(c 1809 - )
Mary Witham was born in Dunmow, Essex, circa 1809.1

She married Thomas Rust.

She was listed in the 1841 census in Felstead, Essex, with her husband Thomas; both were agricultural labourers. Their children Rebecca, Lettis and James were listed with them.2

She was listed in the 1851 census in Southchurch, Essex, with her husband Thomas; he was a carpenter. Their children Rebecca, James, Charles, George, Samuel, William and Susan were listed as living with them.1

Family

Thomas Rust (c 1809 - 1879)
Children
ChartsRust descendant chart

Citations

  1. [S118] Census - 30 Mar 1851, UK census, ED 3 HO107-1777 Folio 321 p16-17 GSU roll 207424.
  2. [S117] Census - 6 Jun 1841, UK census, ED 6, HO107-331-16, Folio 41, p27, GSU roll 241369.
  3. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Birth: District of Braintree, Vol 12, p13, 1Q1838, mother's maiden name recorded as WILLIAM.

Doris Witton1

(1913 - 1978)
Doris Witton was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, on 14 December 1913.2,3
She was listed in the 1921 census at 9 Herschell St in Blackburn, Lancashire, with her father Henry (an out of work painter from the Blackburn Corporation Parks Dept), mother Ann Sarah, Ann's father William Fox (an invalid), sister Evelyn (17, an invalid), brother Harry (14) and a boarder.4

Doris's marriage to John Robert Broadley was registered between October 1936 and December 1936 in Blackburn, Lancashire.1

She was listed in the 1939 Register at 9 Herschell Street in Blackburn, Lancashire, with John Robert Broadley; he was a 1st Super Calendar Asst in a paper mill and a Section Officer in the Auxilary Fire Service. They were living with Doris's mother Sarah and sister Eveline.2

Doris's death was registered between January 1978 and March 1978 in Tonbridge, Kent.5

Family

John Robert Broadley (1913 - 1989)

Citations

  1. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Marriage: District of Blackburn, Vol 8e, p785, 4Q1936.
  2. [S1044] Census - 29 Sep 1939, UK Register, RG101/4231G/023/42, Letter Code: NBOK, Schedule 319.
  3. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Birth: District of Blackburn, Vol 8e, p643, 1Q1914, mother's maiden name FOX.
  4. [S1259] Census - 19 Jun 1921, UK census, RG15-20431, RD 474, SD 5, ED 28, Schedule 173.
  5. [S190] Index - GRO and Office of National Statistics, England & Wales Civil Registration Qtrly Indexes, Death: District of Tonbridge, Vol 16, p2500, 1Q1978, aged 64, birth date 14 Dec 1913.

Gretchen (Kerekini) Wohlers

(1853 - 1935)
Father*Johann Friedrich Heinrich Wohlers b. 1811, d. 1885
Mother*Eliza Hanham b. c 1812, d. 1891
Gretchen TRAILL (nee WOHLERS)(1853-1936) in 1928
Gretchen (Kerekini) Wohlers was born in Ruapeke on 31 January 1853.1

She married Arthur William Traill in Ruapuke on 1 January 1878.2,3

Gretchen died on 11 July 1935 in Ringa Ringa, Stewart Island, at age 82.4 She was buried at the Ringa Ringa Burial Ground.5

Family

Arthur William Traill (1852 - 1936)
Children

Citations

  1. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Birth Reg. No. 1853/1126.
  2. [S443] CD - NZ Marriages, CD - NZ Marriages 1836-1956 V2, NZ Registrar General's Folio 814.
  3. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Marriage Reg. No. 1878/824.
  4. [S542] Index - New Zealand BDMs online, at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/, Death Reg. No. 1935/21454, aged 82.
  5. [S750] Southland District Council Cemetery database, at https://www.southlanddc.govt.nz/my-southland/cemeteries/…, Wohlers Memorial.

Johann Friedrich Heinrich Wohlers

(1811 - 1885)
Rev. Johann F H WOHLERS
(1811-1885)
Johann Friedrich Heinrich Wohlers was born in Bucken, Hoya, on 1 October 1811.1 and was baptised on 16 October 1811 in Bucken.1

He married Eliza Hanham in New Zealand on 21 September 1849.2

He signed a will dated 10 December 1881 in Invercargill, Southland, in which he willed all his belongings to his wife Eliza and named her as sole executrix.3

Johann died on 7 May 1885 in The Neck, Stewart Island, at age 73.3 He was buried at the Ringa Ringa Burial Ground.4

His will was probated in Invercargill, Southland, on 3 August 1885 with Eliza Hanham appointed executrix of an estate whose inventory showed bank accounts amounting to £1356/19/9 (less bills of £404), furniture and household goods, 500 sheep, 45 shares in South NZ Finance & Loan Building and Agency Co., and three land-holdings at New River.3

The following biography was compiled by his gt-grand-daughter, Sheila Traill: "Johann Friedrich Heinrich Wohlers, known in New Zealand as John Frederick Henry Wohlers, was born on 1 October 1811 at Mahlenstorf, a village several miles from Bremen in north Germany. He was the son of Johann Gerd Wohlers, a farmer, and his second wife, Margareta Adelheid Ahlers. Young Wohlers was sent to school at nearby Hoyerhagen and while there he lived with his maternal grandmother. On a visit to Vilsen he picked up a German translation of a religious tract and decided to become a missionary. Encouraged by fundamentalist Christians in Bremen, he attended the Hamburg school of the North German Mission Society from 1837 to 1842, and was ordained in August 1842.

On Boxing Day 1842 he embarked on the emigrant ship St Pauli , with three other mission trainees, J. H. Trost, J. F. Riemenschneider and J. W. C. Heine, bound for New Zealand. The immigrants' arrival in Nelson in June 1843 coincided with the Wairau confrontation. Wohlers was one of the few Europeans in sympathy with the Maori involved. The CMS missionary C. L. Reay, the Wesleyan missionary John Aldred, and Wohlers's colleague, Heine, were already established in Nelson, so Wohlers shared with other German immigrants a demoralising attempt at self-supporting farm work in the flood prone Moutere district, while awaiting an opportunity to set up his own mission. In March 1844 he accepted Frederick Tuckett's invitation to sail on the schooner Deborah in an expedition to find a site for the proposed New Edinburgh (Dunedin) settlement. At Port Cooper (Lyttelton) in April he met the chief Tuhawaiki and discussed the possibility of a mission in the south. On 17 May 1844 Wohlers began his 41-year residence on the small island of Ruapuke in Foveaux Strait.

Wohlers's new parish took in, besides Ruapuke's half dozen small villages, all the Stewart Island coastal settlements and those on the other shore from Bluff to Moeraki. Pastoral visits were made on foot and by open whaleboat. The mission enjoyed considerable mana. Ruapuke was without strong leadership after the death in July 1844 of Tuhawaiki, and welcomed the missionary for whom that chief had long been asking. Wohlers set about learning the Maori language and becoming acquainted with local customs. In 1846 he built a church and in 1848 was joined by an assistant, Brother Abraham Honoré, from Jutland. His workload increased in 1849 when he accepted appointments as deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages for the district of Foveaux Strait, and officiating minister under the Marriage Ordinance.

Wohlers's arrival at Ruapuke coincided with the decline of the whaling industry. Pakeha seamen, who had originally settled on Codfish Island with Maori women, had become boatbuilders and vegetable growers in small settlements on both shores of Foveaux Strait. They supplemented this work with seasonal whaling and, occasionally, sealing. Wohlers noticed that those villages with Pakeha men had more children, and that the children were healthy in comparison with the offspring of Maori partnerships. This he put down to the well-ordered households insisted on by the Pakeha men, and the addition of potatoes and greens to the local diet. He longed to see the Foveaux Strait children educated, but it was to be many years before this goal was achieved.

Wohlers's task was not easy. At times he came close to leaving the mission and hiring himself out as a farmhand; the North German Mission Society, though enlightened in its unsectarian policy, offered practically no financial support to its migrant missionaries. Hamburg businessmen who had formed a colonising society based on the New Zealand Company's programme had given the mission officials an unrealistic view of colonial New Zealand. The missionaries were trained in the useful arts and received a sound general education as well as doctrinal instruction. It was expected that the Lord would provide.

Wohlers needed assistance in the practical aspects of mission life: he sought a wife who would support him in his work, and provide him with companionship. He married Eliza Palmer on 21 September 1849 in Wellington. She was the widow of Richard Woodcock Palmer, a carpenter, whom she had married on 27 September 1838 at Bridport, Dorset, England. She had arrived in New Zealand with her first husband on the Slains Castle in 1841 and had acquired fluency in Maori language. Baptised on 6 September 1812 at Bridport, the daughter of Hannah Hinde and her husband, William Hanham, a labourer, she was an accomplished dressmaker, kind, pious, firm and severely practical, an ideal helpmeet for Wohlers who needed someone with 'the courage of a Rebecca…and the mind of a Martha'. Eliza Wohlers's domestic skills soon made life on Ruapuke more comfortable for all the inhabitants, and Wohlers's health, which had suffered during the early years, improved. Souls aside, the Wohlers undoubtedly saved lives. Eliza Wohlers was kept busy with medicine chest, scrubbing-brush and broom, caring for and counselling people in their own homes, and taking orphans and other needy youngsters into her own. This work she later shared with her daughter Gretchen, also known as Margaret, born at Ruapuke on 31 January 1853. 'I think they love us all', she wrote to the North German Mission Society.

In 1868 a government-funded native school opened on Ruapuke Island, and Wohlers, his wife and daughter were in charge of it from 1870 until 1884. Earlier attempts to establish a mission school had met with mixed fortune. Wohlers always loved learning better than farming, but nevertheless he succeeded in introducing a payable wheat crop to Ruapuke. In this he was greatly helped by ploughs and other equipment donated by his old friend Frederick Tuckett. In education and agriculture Wohlers's contribution was not of lasting benefit. After his death Ruapuke's population declined: the school closed, and much of the land gradually reverted to scrub. His enduring legacy was a huge body of manuscript and published writings. He left, in reports to Germany and letters to W. B. D. Mantell and F. Tuckett, a full account of life and lore in the south. He corresponded with Julius Haast on scientific matters and sent specimens of fauna to the Canterbury Museum. Often Wohlers wrote down Maori traditions and mythology and in some cases arranged for their publication. He provided George Grey with some of the information used in Polynesian mythology. He also wrote an account of his life, Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben , which was published in German in 1883 and in English in 1895 as Memories of the life of J. F. H. Wohlers .

It is difficult to assess the impact of Wohlers's religious teachings on the Maori. There was no word for 'hope' in the local dialect; the dying, formerly left to themselves with a cold potato and a drink of water, may well have felt that Wohlers's 'lieber Gott' had something to offer. Whatever the case, when Wohlers himself died at The Neck, Stewart Island, on 7 May 1885, those he left behind were inconsolable. Eliza Wohlers died 6½ years later, on 14 December 1891, at Thornbury, Southland. Husband and wife are buried at Ringaringa, Stewart Island, across the water from Ruapuke."5

Family

Eliza Hanham (c 1812 - 1891)
Child

Citations

  1. [S95] Birth - Johann Friedrich Heinrich Wohlers (1 Oct 1811).
  2. [S443] CD - NZ Marriages, CD - NZ Marriages 1836-1956 V2, NZ Registrar General's Folio 371.
  3. [S800] National Archives - NZ Archives (Archway), Dunedin probate record, Item R22106746, Agency DAFG, Accession D328, series 9071, box 319, record 204, images 268-282, digital folder no. 102239449.
  4. [S750] Southland District Council Cemetery database, at https://www.southlanddc.govt.nz/my-southland/cemeteries/…, Wohlers Memorial.
  5. [S288] Book - Dr Claudia Orange General Editor Dictionary of NZ Biography, Vol 1, 1992, Compiled by Sheila Natusch (Traill), updated 4 April 2003, URL: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/.