Samuel and Mary Trumper

Maria and Samuel Stone

Maria b: 30 Mar 1851 in Hope Bagot, Shropshire, England to parents Samuel Trumper and mother Mary nee Tolley. Her family immigrated to Canterbury on the "Huntress in 1863. Maria d:16 Feb 1898 at Kaiapoi.

She mar: 17 Aug 1875 in Kaiapoi, Canterbury Samuel Stone Jnr. he was b: 1842 England to parents Samuel Stone (1810-1897) and Sarah nee Johnson (1816 – 1891)
Press; 9 Nov 1897: On Monday, Mr Samuel Stone Snr., a farmer in the Woodend district for upwards of 36 years, died at his son's residence, Wilson's siding, Ohoka. He was born St Martins, Birmingham, England on 1807 to William Stone and Mary Donall. Samuel was from Birmingham, aged 26, wife Sarah 25, their dau. Elizabeth 5 and baby Samuel and landed in Nelson 31 December 1842 on the ship "Prince of Wales", and was among those who, after planting potatoes, were compelled, through shortness of provisions, to dig them up again owing to a dispute between the Imperial Government and the New Zealand Company and settlers were almost reduced to starvation. He was also in the district at the time of the Wairau massacre. He mar: 13 Aug 1930 He leaves a grown up family to lament his decease, which took place at the advanced age of eighty seven.

Samuel Jnr was an infant when his family immigrated to Nelson and his childhood years were at Waimea, Richmond. They moved from Nelson to Woodend in 1856 and Samuel is listed as farming there in 1866-7. At this time, the country was covered with flax, raupo, and scrub, and there were no roads when he first settled in the district.

(1901 Src: Canterbury Cyclopedia): Ohoka is a settlement on the Kaiapoi-Bennett's branch line of railway. It is a flag railway station nineteen miles distant from Christchurch, and stands at an elevation of seventy feet above the level of the sea. The village has a hotel, store, bakery, and smithy, and the local post-office is conducted at the baker's shop. There are several churches, and the educational wants of the district are provided for by the Flaxton main school, which adjoins the Wetheral railway station, a mile nearer to Kaiapoi. The district is devoted to agriculture, and sheep and dairy farming.

Samuel is remembered by having a street named after him at Kaiapoi and his descendants owned land and farmed this area and at Wilson’s Siding. Samuel Jnr d: 1930 in Ohoka, Christchurch, 88yrs

Samuel and Maria Stone's family:

1 Albert Henry Stone (b: 1876 d: 1944) mar: 1907 to Annie Topp (b: 1884 d: 1977) Their children:

i William Leslie Stone (b: 1908 d: 1982)

ii Vera Evelyn Stone (b: 1910 d: 1970) mar: 1947 David Shearer

iii Olive Myrtle Stone (b: 1913 d: 1960)

iv Albert Lawrence Stone (b: 1917 d: 1961) mar: Dorothy Thompson

v Florence Muriel Stone (b: 1919 d: 1970)

2 Charles Samuel Stone (b: 1878 d: 1968) WW1; Farmer at Hinds; mar: Harriet Mason (b: 1887 d: 1974)

i Harriet Mason (b: 1928 d: 1930)

ii Leslie Murray Stone (b: 1931 d: 1984)

iii Frederick John Stone (b: 1928 d: 1930)

3 Leonard James Stone (b: 09 Dec 1879 at Woodend; d: 1949 in Ashburton) mar: 1908 to Lottie Louisa Cattermole daughter of John CATTERMOLE and Ada Emily PARIS. Their family are:

i Samuel John Stone (b: 1909; d: 1973) mar: Elsie Finlay Harrison

ii Eric James Stone (b: 1914)

iii Ada Emily Stone (b: 1916; d: 1916)

iv Lily Louisa Stone b; 1917; mar; Edgar David Hill

v Emily Maria Stone (b: 1920 in Ashburton; d: 1988 in Christchurch) mar: William John Reesby (b: 1917 d: 1988)

4 Lily Evaline Stone (b: 1881 d: 1951 mar: Frank Preece (b: 11 April 1876 son of Fanny and Thomas Preece, Riccarton; d: 1947) Their family:

i Rosie Elizabeth Preece (b: 1905)

ii Emily Jane Frances (Jinnie) Preece b: 1906; d: 1982)

iii Hayley Frank Preece (b: 1910; d: 1980)

iv Avis Evelyn Preece (b: 1916; d: 1983)

6 Walter Thomas Stone (b: 31 May 1884 d: 12 Jun 1961 in Christchurch) mar: 1930 Edna Emmeline Sleight (b: 6 Mar 1904; dau. of Edwin Sleight and mother Ellen Inch; d: 14 Jun 1973)

7 Horace Hilton Stone (b: 19 May 1886 in Ohuka, Kaiapoi; d: 29 Sep 1966 in Te Papapa, Auckland) mar: 1906 Rhoda Rose Mardon (b: 1887; d: 1949)

i Alfred Thomas Hilton Stone (b: 1906; d: 1980)

ii Constance Rhoda Annie Stone (b: 1907; d: 1932)

iii Lilian Maud Stone (b: 1908; d: 1911)

iv Monica Mary Josephine Stone (b: 1911)

v Tom Mardon Stone (b: 1913; d: 1979)

vi Doreen Stone (b: 1919)

vii Margaret Stone (b: 1920)

viii Hilton Horace (Toby) Stone (b: 1923 d: 1984)

*2nd Wife of [7] Horace Hilton Stone: mar: 09 Jun 1949 to Margaret Alice* Carlson (b: 1878; d: 1986)

8 George Leslie Stone (b: 1888; WW1; d: 1977)

9 Rosie Maria Stone (b: 1890; d: 1950) mar: Frederick George Downing. Family are:

i Grace Downing (d: 1940)

ii Harold Ernest Downing (b: 1913 d: 1938)

iii Lily Maria Downing (b: 1919 d: 1972) m: Victor Chapman

iv Beatrice Jane Downing (b: 1921 d: 1987) m: Ron Cheffings

10 Erick Nelson Stone (b: 1892; d: 1892)

11 Ernest Edward Norberg Stone (b: 30 May 1895 in Ohoka, Canterbury; d: 26 Sep 1960 in Christchurch) mar: 14 Jul 1927 to Alice Alma Sleight (b: 15 Oct 1897 dau. of Edwin Sleight and mother Ellen Inch; d: 25 Jun 1972 )Their daughter;

i Edna Noreen Stone (b: 1929)

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