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John BEAGLEHOLE (1798, brother of William BEAGLEHOLE 1800) married Jane (surname not known) in 1825.

Their son William Henry BEAGLEHOLE (1833)
was born in 1833 at St Austell Cornwall,
and came to South Australia in 1851.
William Henry (a brickmaker and lay preacher) moved to New Zealand
and married Mary Jane ROBERTSON (1837-1913) on January 4th, 1866,
at the Primitive Methodist chapel in Webb Street; Wellington, NZ.
In 1866 there was a Beaglehole listed as a Brickmaker
in Taranaki Street, Wellington, NZ. William Henry BEAGLEHOLE died in 1911.

The ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY has some Conveyancing documents
re land owned by William Henry Beaglehole (1833-1911)
at Kensington, South Australia
William Henry Beaglehole (1833-1910) portfolio included papers
dated 1849-1852 concern land William owned in South Australia
together with letters from Register of Deeds, Adelaide re above.
The portfolio also includes correspondence relating
to William's son Joseph Samuel's employment
and a diary dated 1911 kept during one year as a guide
plus correspondence with his wife Hannah (Biddy) 1914-1936
comprises Holographs, manuscripts, printed mattter and photographs.
There are some letters from his nephew
John Cawte Beaglehole, historian (see below).

Their children: David Ernest (1866),
Edward, Joseph Samuel (1875-1962) and Annie
Mary Jane was born in 1837 to David Robertson, of Scottish parentage.
He studied briefly for the ministry before turning to horticulture
and working as a gardener on a number of estates in England.
He and his wife Ann lived at Bedwell Park near Essendon, Hertfordshire.
Bedwell Park was the home of Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, a religious philanthropist, friend of Dr David Livingstone and founder of
the Evangelical Alliance, which was designed to promote religious freedom throughout the world. It would have been a congenial position for Robertson,
whose surviving letters and gardening diary show a thoughtful man, God-fearing and committed to total abstinence but not without wit.
Ann Robertson died on August 24 1846, a few months after the birth
of a son - he died 10 days after his mother.

The following year David married Mary Walker. There were seven children of this marriage, the two youngest being born in Wellington, New Zealand.
The Robertson family arrived in Wellington, New Zealand in May 1857
on the ALMA. Three months later David Robertson was appointed sexton
at the Wellington public cemetery in Sydney Street,
a position he held for 30 years.
The growing family lived in a small cottage in the cemetery.
David's botanical knowledge brought him into contact with Sir George Grey
and, later, Sir William Jervois. Their second daughter Annie Robertson was married by the Wesleyan minister at Wellington on January 25 1865
to Henry Rudman, a tanner, described by a grand-daughter
as a jack of all trades; they had four sons and three daughters.
   David Ernest BEAGLEHOLE was born on October 08 1866 in Wellington, New Zealand.
   NZ Records show that David Ernest BEAGLEHOLE is issued a Vaccination Certificate in Wellington on Oct 11, 1866.

   David became an accountant for a pharmaceutical firm in New Zealand, and married Jane Butler.
David's children: (name not known), John Cawte (1901), Ernest (1906) and (name not known)
JC's letters to his parents refer to Geoffrey and Keith (possibly JC's siblings).

John Cawte Beaglehole (1901-1971), the historian.
John Cawte Beaglehole was born in his parents' house in Hopper Street, Wellington, on 13 June 1901, the second of four sons of Jane Butler and her husband, David Ernest Beaglehole. David was a serious-minded young man who found in literature the key to that ideal of self-improvement so central to the Methodist teaching of his youth. His mind ranged far beyond his work as an accounts clerk in a wholesale chemist's, and the house where John grew up was filled with books. John's mother was also a great reader, with a passion for Jane Austen, and was musical. The family progressed from Methodism to Unitarianism, John to church organist. On February 17th 1930, J.C. Beaglehole married Elsie Mary Holmes (her parents, Robert Holmes, a prominent banker, and his wife, Mary). He died at Wellington on 10 October 1971, survived by his wife and three sons.

Ernest Beaglehole, 1906 - 1965
Ernest Beaglehole was born in Wellington on 25 August 1906 to David Ernest Beaglehole and his wife, Jane Butler. His father was an accountant for a pharmaceutical firm. A sickly baby, he was delivered at the family home by Dr Agnes Bennett. Ernest attended Mount Cook School and Wellington College. More vital to his education were the intense literary interests of his family. At Victoria University College he initially showed no great promise until Professor Thomas Hunter encouraged him to continue his studies in mental and moral philosophy. He graduated with a first-class MA in 1928. His thesis on propaganda already revealed his distinctive blend of applied social psychology and showed his intense concern with threats to human liberty. Ernest Beaglehole married Pearl Malsin at New Haven, Connecticut, on May 24 1933. They were to have two daughters and two sons, all of whom achieved academic or professional distinction.

   Joseph Samuel (1875-1962) married Hannah (Biddy) and often worked as a tourist guide on the Milford-Te Anau track
    and in the winter season as a parliamentary messenger, a librarian and clerk.
    Following the death of his father William Henry Beaglehole in 1911, Joseph visited Adelaide to enquire re land owned by William Henry
    at Kensington, South Australia

  Annie BEAGLEHOLE - unmarried


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