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Emma Barnard, dau. of Thomas & Maria Barnard
Emma Barnard was born on the 10th December, 1853 at Bermondsey, London and travelled with her family to New Zealand on the Surge arriving in December, 1855 at Wellington for a stop-over then on to Lyttelton. ![]() ![]() The marriage of Emma Barnard took place on May 12th 1875 at
Christchurch St Lukes Church, to
John Burt (his family and parents Thomas
Burt and mother
Sarah immigrated in 1859 on the "Mystery" to Canterbury.)
Witnesses to their marriage were William Alfred Burt and Ellen Cone (William
and Ellen are John Burts's brother and sister) John's occupation
was a livery stable keeper.
John Burt's Rink Stables
built on Blackett's land, was opposite the post office. It was a long
building and had an elaborately decorated brick and concrete facade
on High Street. It ran back from the road with stalls and loose boxes for
about forty horses on either side of a carriage-way leading back to a cart
park in the rear. Horse sales were also held in these
stables. The Tuesday Rangiora market
day was always extremely busy as several hundred farmers,their
families and farm workers came into the town, the turn-out depending on
the weather, the season and the importance of any particular
sale - the livery stables provided parking for their carts
and water and forage for their horses. The day began in the
early hours of the morning as shepherds, farm workers and
drovers brought stock in from the farms and arrived shortly
after day-break in High Street, carefully keeping their mobs apart
and settling them into their pens. Families followed later. When the sale
began, the auctioneers, accompanied by their clerks and yardmen, worked
their way across the yards, balancing on the planked tops of the The livery stables not only provided
shelter and parking for carts and horses but also employed grooms to wash,
brush and clip horses while their owners conducted their business in town.
Some stablers undertook the breaking of horses to harness and saddle while
one or two offered veterinary care, even surgery. Their main side-line,
however, was vehicle-hire of drays, buggies, traps, drags,
four-in-hand, dog carts, cabs, gigs and saddle horses. They also provided
transport for wedding parties, funerals and picnics. As well, all the
hotels had stables. The Tuesday sale-day, was also a very busy day for the
blacksmiths for if horses had to be shod or repairs made to carts and
harness this was the time to have it done and, as the morning advanced,
the smiths' yards would fill with horses, tied up wherever there was room.
None of the blacksmiths lived wholly by shoeing - they made and
mended wheels and saddles there - a number of craftsmen working in their
own small workshops - one sadler was John Burt's nephew, Frederick Cone
Back row: Left to right - Gilbert
Ernest, Gertrude, Albert Thomas; Edward John; his wife Alice (nee
Hornibrook); Alfred Norris; Alice Maria; Lawrence Wilfred
The Star
report: 19 March 1894: Rink Stables. By 1919 John is a farmer of
Bath St, Rangiora and later he and Emma retired to 160 Redruth Avenue in
Christchurch where he did gardening in retirement. He died aged 73
on 19th August 1921 having spent 50 years in New Zealand. He is buried in
Bromley Cemetery Block number: 34; Plot number: 111
Emma lived at 160 Redruth
Avenue, Spreydon, Christchurch and survived John by 17 years.
She died on Monday, 26 June 1933 and is buried
in Sydenham Cemetery Block number 6H; Plot number 67
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