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- CHILDREN by Henry & Elizabeth
HODGE
- Richard Henry HODGE
- b: 2 December 1862
- m: 1884 age 22years
- d: 1895 aged 33 years
- The eldest of Henry & Elizabeth's
children, Richard was born at Tokenbury, St. Ive, Leskieard, Cornwall.
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- He was 17 when they arrived in New Zealand, and it has been
informed that he began work in the mines when he was only about seven years old.
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- He had no education, but could sign his name. This fact was
discovered when I had the good fortune to view the application form for his marriage.
- After arriving in New Zealand with his family, he with his
father & brothers worked on the Duncan farm and to the best of our enlightenment
continued to do so after his father relocated to Hurleyville.
- In 1884 he married, at the Wesleyan Parsonage in Patea, a Rose
Brown from Nelson. Rose was a sister of Mrs. James Gibbs.
- They constructed their home at Alton while Richard
was earning 6 shillings a day.
- Children of the Marriage were:
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- Richard George b.1885 d.1947 m.
Lucy Mabel ARMSTRONG
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- Edward Herbert b.1886 d.1955 m. Margaret
ARMSTRONG
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- Sarah Winifred b.1890 d.1965 m. John
HURLEY
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- Albert John b.1892
d. 1954 m. Lousia Alicae WEIR
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- While searching records at the South Taranaki Museum in
Patea, reference as found to the death of Arthur William Hodge, - in
1888, age ten weeks.
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- On the death certificate was 'Spina Bifida' and
'Convulsions'. Surely the first Hodge death in New Zealand.
- Richard was reputed to have a strong sense
of humour and was full of pranks in his youth. He served on the Committee of the Alton
school from 1892 till his death.
- Richard died in 1895 of pneumonia after
being indisposed for only six days.
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- Albert John who was only three
remembered bring raised up to kiss his father goodbye while he lay in a 'funny' bed.
- Rose lived on in the house and farmed about
30 acres of land.
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- She did maternity nursing around the community and bought
many of the Hodge babies into this world.
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- The older sons went out to work as they left school, but Albert
John always worked on his mothers farm.
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- Rose always a hard worker, reared Erick
Hodge who remembers her as a strict disciplinarian.
- Henry (her father-in-law) did much to help
the recently widowed Rose, always arriving from Hurleyville to plant and
cultivate her potato crop and to assist with any heavy work.
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- The young Albert John adored Henry
and followed him constantly.
- No photograph of Richard exists, but we are
told that he bore a strong resemblance to his father, Henry.
- Rose died in 1925 while under going surgery
for cataracts at Wellington Hospital.
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- She was virtually blind for some time before, and while her
family knew her sight had been limited, they did not fully realise she had bee practically
blind for months.
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- It was her niece Florence Gibbs who eventually discovered
the fact.
- Both Richard & Rose are buried at
Patea.
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