Henry Nunweek, 1826–1914?> (aged 88 years)
- Name
- Henry /Nunweek/
- Given names
- Henry
- Surname
- Nunweek
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rush. Bought land in Christchurch.Later gave
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some of the land to the council. They turned it
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into a park now called NUNWEEK PARK.
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Death
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father |
1799–1872
Birth: 5 February 1799
26
— Bingley, Yorkshire Death: June 1872 — Bingley, Yorkshire |
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mother |
1804–1844
Birth: 23 December 1804
— Bingley, Yorkshire Death: 2 January 1844 — Bingley, Yorkshire |
Marriage | Marriage — 24 December 1821 — Bingley, Yorkshire |
4 months
elder sister |
1822–1901
Birth: 23 April 1822
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17
— Unkera Bingley Yorkshire Death: 16 April 1901 — Thwaites nr.Keighley Yorkshire |
21 months
elder brother |
1824–1841
Birth: 20 January 1824
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19
— Unkera Bingley Yorkshire Death: 20 December 1841 — Thwaites nr.Keighley Yorkshire |
2 years
himself |
1826–1914
Birth: 26 March 1826
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— Unkera Bingley Yorkshire Death: 19 September 1914 — Christchurch, New Zealand |
5 years
younger brother |
1830–…
Birth: 10 October 1830
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— Unkera Bingley Yorkshire Death: Australia |
3 years
younger brother |
1833–1895
Birth: March 1833
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Death: 30 December 1895 — Keighley, Yorkshire |
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younger sister |
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younger brother |
1843–1907
Birth: 8 November 1843
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38
— Morton Banks Riddlesden Keighley Death: 1907 — Riddlesden Keighley Yorkshire |
himself |
1826–1914
Birth: 26 March 1826
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— Unkera Bingley Yorkshire Death: 19 September 1914 — Christchurch, New Zealand |
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Marriage | Marriage — 8 August 1852 — Macclesfield |
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5 years
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Source citation
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Citation details: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d6-d1-d3.html
Text: MR. HENRY NUNWEEK, Harewood Road, Riccarton, was for thirty-two years a member of the Riccarton Road Board, and for twenty-six of these he never missed a meeting. He also served on the Riccarton Licensing Committee for ten years, and was a member of the Harewood Road school committee for eighteen years. Mr. Nunweek, who was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1830, arrived at Lyttelton by the ship “Joseph Fletcher, in 1856. He worked at road-making for the Government, and, in 1861, went to the Otago goldfields, where he and his party took up a claim, which, for the first day's work, yielded the five partners about £40 per man. The leader, an old Australian digger, attempted to frighten Mr. Nunweek and his mate away, so that the rich claim might be shared by the others. Thereupon Mr. Nunweek offered to settle the matter by physical force, and then the others wisely decided to let “Ginger” alone, lest he should “hammer the lot of them.” Thereafter the claim was amicably worked until it “petered out.” On returning to Canterbury Mr. Nunweek invested his capital in his present fruit farm, twenty acres of which he bought from the Government; afterwards he increased the area to 105 acres. This farm has prospered wonderfully. With the assistance of his three sons and a number of labourers, Mr. Nunweek harvests some large crops, for which he finds a ready market, although there was a time when he had to wheel his peaches by the ton to the pig-troughs, because there was no demand for them. In 1902 Mr. Nunweek visited the Old Country; and, while there, he journeyed into Kent to see what improvements on the colony's fruit-growing methods were there in vogue. After much consideration he came to the conclusion that the New Zealander has not much to learn from the English fruit-grower, and he states that he can grow more fruit on one acre of his land, than they were growing on three acres in Kent. Mr. Nunweek was married at Macclesfield, Cheshrie, before leaving England the first time, and has a family of three sons and two daughters. |
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