SAMUEL JOLL FAMILY

Samuel  Joll  Born: 1805 in Calstock, Cornwall, England and died 20 Jun 1879 in New Plymouth (Burial: Te Henui Cemetery, New Plymouth (Row 13 Plot 741.) He married 16 May 1829 in Calstock, Cornwall to Elizabeth Vanderband Treliving who was born abt. 1808.  They boarded the "Timandra" a voyage of 113 days (ships list) with their 5 children and arrived 23 Feb 1842. Samuel cleared their 10 acre farm at Omata, transported goods for income and  later had sections  at Bell Block in New Plymouth. Five more children were born. Elizabeth died 15 July 1882 and  was buried with Samuel. Click each underlined blue link for information about their 10 Children   .

 1.  ANN JOLL was born 21 Jun 1830 in Calstock, Cornwall. She married: 26 Dec 1850 in Wesleyan Chapel, New Plymouth and died 14 Aug 1898 in Motueka, Nelson where she is buried at the  Motueka Cemetery. Her husband Albert Frederick William Wills was born 01 Aug 1823 Calstock, Cornwall (Father James William Wills; Mother Betsy Brooming Rickard) - his family also arrived on the Timandra. A farmer, he died 24 Sep 1896  Holstein Farm, Wills Road, Upper Moutere, Tasman. The family had farmed at Bell Block until the start of the Maori Wars in March 1860 and they were forced to evacuate to New Plymouth then in August 1860 the family resettled to Nelson where they farmed at Upper Moutere. Below, the Wills family 13 children:

Elizabeth Rosaline Wills  Born  21 March 1852, N Plymouth; Died 02 Feb 1892

ii Albert Stanley Wills Born: 30 Oct 1853; Died 09 Mar 1907

iii Thomas John Wills Born: 27 Jul 1855 Mangoraka, Taranaki; Died 14 Dec 1902 Ormondville, Hks Bay

iv Sarah Ann Wills Born  28 Mar 1857 New Plymouth; Died 31 Jul 1909

v James Wills Born 19 Sep 1858 New Plymouth; Died  1949

vi Mary Parnell Wills Born 10 Mar 1861; Died d. 09 Mar 1949

vii Eliza Amelia Wills Born: 1863 N Ply;  Died: 23 Jan 1869

viii David Samuel Wills Born: 28 Feb 1865; Died 29 Sep 1865 Moutere, Tasman

ix Emily Brooming Wills Born 1866; Died 10 Mar 1868 Moutere, Tasman

x Emily Brooming Wills Born 14 Jun 1868; Died  02 Sep 1895

xi David Samuel Wills Born 25 Mar 1870 Moutere, Tasman; Died 05 Jul 1951 

xii Eliza Amelia Wills Born 1872; Died 20 Jul 1944

xiii Laura Isabella Wills Born: 11 Dec 1874; Died 22 Nov 1959 Samuel Joll 1832/1899

SAMUEL JOLL  was born 1832 in Calstock, Cornwall and aged 10 yrs on arrival . He served in the Taranaki Bushranger volunteers against the Maoris in the sixties (he was awarded the New Zealand Medal for service under Fire) The lure of gold took him to Ballarat and Bendigo where he had little luck and then with wagon and bullock team did a roaring trade transporting supplies to diggers on the goldfields.(Source -Taranaki Cyclopedia.) Samuel returned to Taranaki where he married on 10 Jun 1857 at New Plymouth to Elizabeth Langdon Jonas, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Jonas. Elizabeth was born abt. 1837 and the Jonas family emigrated 1841 aboard the "Oriental"  Samuel Joll died on 13 Sep 1899 in Waitara, Elizabeth died 5 Sep 1908 in Waitara - Joll Plot 372. They had thirteen children:

i Harry Treliving Joll - Born 17 Mar 1858 in Riverdale Farm, Waitara, Taranaki. In 1884 he married Alison Shearer. He took up land first at Waitara where he was a member of the Waitara School Committee and a director of the Waitara Freezing Works, and then near Hawera where they spent some years, before returning to New Plymouth and finally settled in Auckland where he managed a business for Hellabys until his death in 1933. Their children -

a Muriel Isabel Joll (Born 1885 /died 1967) Married: 1907 to James Henry Bocock, who was born 28 Jul 1883 Omata to parents William and Betsey Ann Bocock. James  was a schoolmaster and died Jul 1965 Auckland where he was bur. 17 Jul 1965 Purewa Cemetery. Daughters - Dorothy Jean and Betsy Ann

b Vera Alison Joll Born: 29 Sep 1885 Married: 1919 William Corrie WhyteHarry Jollson of James Heron Whyte, a painter at Waitara died 20 Jan 1965 aged 74 years. Their daughter Raewyn married Ronald Grace - their family Linda, William and ?

c Elizabeth Janet Joll Born: 1 June 1886 Married: 1908 to Archibald McMaster He died 1935 aged 62Y. Elizabeth died 1977 aged 91 and was buried at Purewa Cemetery, Auckland. Son Harry Angus (1908/1976) married Myra Jamieson - family Janet and Susan; Daughter Joan (1911/1989) 

d Shearer Treliving (Bruce) Joll was born: 1887 in Waitara where he was a carpenter. Died: 27 Jun 1952 in Hamilton, Burial: 30 Jun 1952 Hamilton East Cemetery;  *1st Wife of Shearer (Bruce) Joll: Gwladys Evelyn Boscawen , daughter of Lt.-Col. John Hugh Boscawen and Katherine Isabel Hughes - family

(1) Alva Joll married Frederick John Jenkin; Children -  Bruce, Ann and Susan

(2) Torrie Joll married Phyllis Jane Huffam; Children - Gwladys, Brian, Kathleen, Dennis, Patricia, Jeanette and Bruce

(3) Gwendolyn Joll married Charles Holliday - dau Anne;

(4) Hugh Joll married Mary Sullivan

(5) Trevor Townsend Joll married Shirley Sybil Kayser - family Raywin and Clinton; (5) Barbara Alison mar John Andrew Simpson - daus Collen, Lynne and Tania, 

(6) Stanley Desmond Joll married Frances Emily Sherry - daughter Robyn 

Bruce married (2) 28 Dec 1939 to Annie Tibble Gibson  born 5 Nov 1880 Nelson She died 5 Oct 1971 at Hamilton

e Eva Mildred Joll (Born 19 Nov 1888; died 1975) She married August 1912 New Plymouth to Bertram Charles Emery Their daughter Josephine married Harold Heaton. Eva divorced Bertram in 1917 and he died Feb 1958 Auckland. 

f Harry Stanley Joll Born: 19 Nov 1889; Died: 16 Jul 1891

g Elsie Mary Joll (B 29 Jan 1891; D 1971)  Married: 1912 George Frederick Court (B 22 Jan 1879 ) His parents George Court and mother Alice Elizabeth Whitehouse Their family
(1) Molly Court (B 25 Oct 1913 D 6 Aug 1982)  married Richard Eric Cunninghan (B. 25 Jan 1907; D 8 Jan 1967) they had  4 children;  
(2) George Murray* Court (B. 5 Mar 1916; D. 1982)  mar Amelia Joyce Williams - 5 children and
(3) Barbara Court mar Donald Lewis Maunsell Martin - 1 child

Samuel John* Joll Born: 26 Feb 1892 Married: 1916 to Ivy Myrtle Davison Their family

(1) Sydney Joll mar ?  family are i. Dennis and ii. John;

(2) John Joll mar Beverley McLeod daus are  Christine, Phillipa and Jacqueline;

(3) Jocelyn Joll mar Alec Draper - family John and Jan

Harry Langdon Joll Born: 8 Apr 1893 Died: 1963 in Drowned Ak Harbour

Cecil Murray Joll Born: 24 Dec 1897; Married: Mary Eileen Ferguson 1930 in Epsom Parish Church

k Margaret Hope Joll  Born: 13 Sep 1899; Died 1955

l Constance Adelaide* Joll Born: 13 Dec 1902 Married Greenlane Congregational Church in 1927 to Edison Percy Gifford (B 1899 Hunterville D. 1969). She was bur 23 FEB 1984 Purewa Cemetery

ii Thomas Langdon Joll Born: 24 Mar 1859 in Waitara He was proprietor of  the largest number of privately owned butter factories in New Zealand, at Okaiawa; and represented his province in the football field against the Englishmen, when Taranaki defeated them. Died: 01 May 1908 in Wellington Burial: May 1908 Okaiawa Cemetery. Married 1888 to Louisa Newsham Born: 12 Feb 1855 in New Plymouth (Father: Thomas Newsham Mother: Mary Louisa Lethbridge) she died 13 Jul 1922 at Wellington - burial on 16 Jul 1922 Plot 50 at Okaiawa Cemetery. Thomas's statue in T L Joll Park. commemorates his achievements. 

 Their son Bruce Langdon Joll was born: 23 Oct 1891 Okaiawa and died 23 Jul 1945 at Rama Road, Manaia. He married at Trentham Military Camp on 04 Dec 1917  Armorel (Rel) Ethel Raine who was born: 01 May 1894 at Nelson (Father: Cyril Norman Raine; Mother: Alice Maude) Rel died 29 Apr 1990 at Quinton Park Rest Home, Auckland and was buried 13 May at Okaiawa Cemetery. They had 2 daughters - June who married Dr William Watt and Rosemary who was wife to Robert A Johnstone, a solicitor of Waipawa.

iii Elizabeth Kate Joll was born 15 Sep 1861 in New Plymouth New Zealand She married Robert Hugh Cameron in 1884. (father - Duncan Hugh Cameron, b. 8 Nov 1829, Glasgow , Mother Mary Ann Woolnough, b. 22 Mar 1840 ) Robert was a farmer out of Hawera and their nine children were - 

Hugh Duncan Cameron   Donald Cameron   Evelyn Clara Nautilus Cameron    Margaret Jean Cameron  Robert Dudley Cameron    Ruby Violet Cameron    Stewart D'Arcy Cameron     Vida Joyce Cameron   
Alexander Douglas Samuel Cameron 

iv Eva Jane Joll was born 13 Nov 1862 in New Plymouth. She married Apr 1892 in New Plymouth to Matthew Thomas Drown,  the son of Richard Drown and Frances Smale and was born April 8, 1858 in Pillaton, Cornwall, England. In  April 7, 1873 he emigrated to Australia and in 1884, resettled in Hastings, N Z where he was an orchardist and died there in 1953. Eva (she died 12 Oct 1916) and Matthew had two sons

(1) Leslie Herbert Drown (b. Sept. 26, 1897, Hastings; d. May 14, 1976 at Hastings) was married in 1930 to Marie Louise Eleanor Hughes (b. 29 December 1906 - d. 1997)  Their family were i. Clifford Drown who took his mother's name of Hughes and married Edna Taylor - their son Steven Taylor Hughes; ii Bruce Drown who married Robyn Waite - sons were Christopher, Timothy and Peter; iii. Trevor Drown who married Yvonne Thompson - family were Darrel, Reece, Andrea and Fiona and iv, Glenda Drown.

(2) Ronald John Drown (b. 31 May 1899 d. 2000) married Elsie Rosamond Sunley (b. 1901- d. 1977) in 1928. Their children - i. Gordon Ronald Drown, born Wellington where he married Laurel Martha McNeely - family Marilyn, Kathryn Lynda and Richard; ii. David John Drown born at New Plymouth married to Margaret Rose Trail - their son Craig. iii. Alan Maxwell Drown b. February 3, 1936, New Plymouth d. December 24, 1953, Tangawai Rail disaster

v Mary Caroline Joll  was born 26 Apr 1864 in New Plymouth married Rev. Isaac Elliot in 1896 - He died 1929 aged 66 yrs. Their children were - 

i Gladys Langdon Elliot (B: 20/8/1887; d. 1973); mar John Bertie Murgatroyd (b. 1884; d 1958) Occupation photographer - their dau Joyce Elliott

ii Herbert Isaac Elliot (B: 1889; D. 1967); mar 1919 to Ina Gernhoefer - their family Thomas, John, Bettynora, Lorajean and Barbara  

iii Alison Eva Elliot (B: 1890; ???)

iv Maugerite Annie Elliot (B: 16/2/1891; D.1979) 

v Olive May Elliot (B: 8 Sep 1894; D. 1988) mar Gordon Patrick Fuller  (B. 17/3/1898; D. 1977) Their children - Barry and Margaret

vi Rita Louisa Elliot (B 1/6/1910; D. 1993)

 vi Minnie Joll was born 06 Jan 1865 in New Plymouth. In 1888 she married Robert Tate who was a cartage contractor of Waitara.  Their family were:

 i Varey Clifton Tate (b. 1889; d. 1964); Married 1912 to Mary Ann Gaustad - Their son Maurice Varey Tate mar 1941 to Hilda Lilian Hobman; He died 10/09/1942 WW2 
ii 
Clifford Hudson Tate (b. 8/12/1892; d. 1987); mar 1923 to Grace Walker

iii Harry Stanley Tate (b. 1896; d. 1951); mar 1919 to Gladys Heather Doile

iv Douglas Langdon Tate (b. 18/12/1897; d. 1984); married 1922 Loo Loo Musker

v Phylis Treliving  Tate (b. 23/6/1904; d. 1989); married 1929 to Donald McAllister

vi Cyril Denton Tate (b. 17/5/1907; d. 1973); married 1931 to Dulcie Mervis Munroe

vii Sarah Annie Joll was born 26 Feb 1867 in New Plymouth - she died 1950. In 1899 she married Rev   Frederick William Young - their children were 

i  Margaret Govett Young (b: 15/3/1900; D. 1992) 

ii Grace Langdon Young (b: 29/4/1901; D. 1991) 

iii Edna Lois* Young (b: 10/6/1903; D. 1973); mar 1923 to Mervyn Alfred Moore  (B. 9/2/1900; D 1977); their children Bruce mar Dianne Farrar, Mary Rylance mar Charles John* Chamberlain,  Margaret mar David Baker; Ann mar Arthur Morgan; John mar Pamela Grace and Elizabeth mar Richard Allen

viii Clara Jonas Joll - Born: 10 May 1868 at New Plymouth. She did not marry and died 1932 aged 64

ix William Torrie Joll (b. 4/12/1870; D. 1946) married Isabella Mary Armstrong in 1904. She was born 1874, a daughter of Captain Armstrong - Their family: 

 i Constance Isabel Joll (b 1908 d 1910) 

 ii William Armstrong Joll (1916 - 1960) married Jean Hughes - they had 2 daughters (1) Jennifer mar David Jennings and Margaret mar Norman McColl

x Alice Joll Born: 07 May 1872 in New Plymouth A pupil teacher 1896, did not marry, a singer, she died 1939

xi Ellen Joll Born: 24 Jan 1874 in New Plymouth. She did not marry and died 1945 

xii Matthew John Joll married Catherine (Kate) Wylie in 1892. They had 4 daughtersHerbert Joll Ella, Doris, Ruth Gwendoline and ?

xiii Herbert Joll was Born 28th July 1869. Storekeeper and General Merchant, Waitara. This business had been established originally in 1879, and later, for many years was operated in partnership by Herbert and his brother, Harry who was by 1906 farming in the district. The firm imported the first goods shipped direct from London to Waitara and was agent for the Commercial Insurance. Herbert  married Fanny Beeby Biss in 1901 She was born in 5 Sept.1872 at Nelson (Father William Morore Biss;  Mother Louisa Hooper) Fanny died 1946. Herbert retired to Auckland and died 1954 aged  84 years. Their daughter Ruth

3 SARAH  JOLL was born: 1834 in Tavistock, Devon Died: 04 Jul 1887 in Auckland Married: 1855 in New Plymouth, Taranaki to Robert Gilmour They had 12 children.

JOHN HENRY JOLL Born: 1838 in Calstock, Cornwall, England Died: Nov 2 1878 at Havelock. He married 1865 in Havelock North, Hawkes Bay to Fanny Jane Harrison She was born: 1846 N. Ply and died 1929.  Their sons -

Valentine Samuel Joll (Born: Abt. 1866 in Hastings d. 1926) mar 1896 to Fanny Evelyn Fulford. Their  Sons - John Samuel Joll b 1896 and  Alfred Percy b 1902

ii William Joll Born 10 Apr 1868 Havelock died 1947 Ak; Married 1906 to Annie Douglas Wilson  

 iii. John Henry*Joll Born 2 Jan 1870 d 1950 Married 1898 to  Elizabeth Caroline FROBATH

iv Robert Foster Joll Born: May 1872 in Hastings Died infant

v George Treliving Harley Joll born 13 Mar 1874 at Pukahu Hawkes Bay d. 1959 Married 1908 to Ida Maude Evans

vi Alfred Ernest Joll born 1876; Died 1942; Married Mary Phoebe Harrison in 1903

ELIZA  JOLL Born: 1841 in England Died: 24 Nov 1909 in Woodville, NewZealand Married: 26 Feb 1862 in Wesleyan Chapel, New Plymouth to Henry Hawkin

SAMSON TRELIVING  JOLL Born: 1843 in New Plymouth, New Zealand Died: 1909 in Wellington Married (1) 03 Jul 1869 in Residence of William Beale, New Plymouth to Mary Ann Hilbert Born: 1852 in Chatham, Kent Father: Phillip Hilbert Mother: Mary Ann Jarrett

*2nd Wife of Samson Treliving Joll was Mary Jane Atkinson Born: 1847 Married: 13 Mar 1896 Father: Henry Atkinson Died: 30 Sep 1910 in Nelson

THOMAS TRELIVING JOLL Born: 1845 in NZ Died: 1918 Married: 10 Nov 1869 in Wesleyan Chapel, New Plymouth to Ann Langdon Jonas who emigrated to New Plymouth, New Zealand aboard the Oriental in 1841. Their family -

i Winifred May Joll Born: 24 May 1881 in New Plymouth; Married 1907 to Walter Cecil Prime, fire loss adjuster, residing at Napier - Their Children  were Alan Sydney Prime born 1909 and Joyce Huria Prime born 1911

ii Elizabeth Ella Joll Born: 29 Apr 1873 New Plymouth; Mar 1896 to William Pimm - Son Willie Arnold b. 1899

iii Leonard Langton Joll Born: 20 Jun 1877 in Waitara married Lillian Gertrude Edwards. Their son was Walter Noel Joll Born: 29 Aug 1909 in Christchurch

iv Thomas Matthew Joll Born: 1870 merchant of Levin, married Jessie Thompson in 1896 Their children

1 Elsie Stanhope Joll (Born:7/2/1897) mar 1937 Robert John Jeffs

2 Frank Percival Joll (Born: 3/7/1898; D 1954) mar 1924 Caroline Frances Whitaker; Farmer Hastings

3 Eric Langdon Joll (Born: 4/8/1899; D 1966 Levin) mar 1928 Ivy Ann Boulton

4 Rachel Winifred Joll (Born: 18/3/1901; D 26/2/1940 Hamilton) mar 1924 George Thomas Monk 

5 Harold Thompson Joll (Born: 4/7/1902; D 20/12/1956 Whangarei) mar 1930 Mabel Eliza Smith

6 Norman Hedley Joll (Born: 30/12/1903;D ) mar 1928 to Mary Caroline White  

7 Gordon Lewis Joll (Born: 27/2/1905; D. 1960) Draper of Levin Mar 1940 Margaret Ina Botwright

vi Ernest Treliving Joll Born 1879 mar 1921 Emily Rose Hard

MARY PARNELL JOLL Born: 01 Sep 1847 in New Plymouth, Taranaki, Married: 1878 in West Clive, Hawkes Bay to John Somerville Ballantyne, schoolmaster

ELIZABETH  JOLL Born: 21 May 1850 in New Plymouth, New Zealand Died: 03 Aug 1912 in NSW, Australia Married: 12 Dec 1878 in At the home of Samuel Joll, Devon St, New Plymouth to Samuel Driller who was born abt. 1842 He died Sep 1908 in Gisborne. Their family - 

Leslie-Driller marriage

i Matilda (Millie) Vanderland Driller - Born: 1877 Died: 26 Mar 1943 in Auckland Married in 1903 to Henry (Harry) Stokes Leslie (Wedding photo above) He was born: 1876 ( Mother was Jane Harris; Father John Stewart Leslie) His occupation - Traveller for J Wiseman and Sons; He died 13 May 1965 in Auckland where they had lived first in Mt Eden and then Henderson. They had 3 daughters

a Vera Hilda Leslie - Born: 25 May 1904 Died: 05 Jul 1991 in Auckland married 1933 to Eric George PALTRIDGE who was born: 12 Sep 1901; Died: 06 Jan 2002 in Auckland

b Verna Jane Leslie - Born: 11 Aug 1905 Died: 1977; Married: 1937 to Henry Holborow Born: 21 Oct 1906 (Father: Percy Coles Holborow Mother: Emily Florence) Died: 2005

c Avis Bertha Leslie - Born: 18 Oct 1914 Died: 2007 Married: 1945 to Samuel James Luxford Born: 09 Jan 1913 Died: 15 Oct 1980 in Auckland - their daughter Robyn married John (Jack) Robinson

ii Hilda Mary Driller - Born: 1886 Died: 16 May 1966 Auckland; Married: 1912 to Benjamin George Edmund Climo He was born 05 Sep 1890 at Hillgrove, NSW; (Mother - Jane Overstone Hill, Father Ben Cook Climo) Died: 26 Dec 1917 in Etaples, Belgium, WW1. Their daughter:

a Lois Climo born 10 October 1913 Died 2003 married Victor Edward Hogg Born: 05 Jul 1903 He died: 1975. Their sons:

1 Cyril Hogg married to Gail Hick

2.  Ross Hogg married to Jane Hutton

*2nd Husband of Hilda Mary Driller - married: 1921 to William Arthur Nathan Lockwood Born: 2 Dec 1885 Hunua Auckland (Mother Helena; Father Thomas James Lockwood) Died: 16 Dec 1968 Middlemore, Auckland

iii Francis Summerhays Driller Born: 1884; Died 1964 Married 17 Jul 1907 to  Lillian Edith Duck Born 1886 Died 1963 and buried at Akatarawa Cemetery. Their daughter Marjory Frances Treliving Driller was born 4 Jun 1909 and married 1935 to Norman Trevor Sowryiv George Treliving Driller Born: 6 August 1882; Died 1975 

10 DAVID  JOLL Born: 13 Mar 1852 in New Plymouth New Zealand Died: 13 Mar 1865 in St Germans Square, New Plymouth aged 13 years, Burial: Te Henui Cemetery, New Plymouth Row 13 Plot 741

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