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Stephen HUTCHING (1834-1919)

Stephen Hutching

Quick Facts

Born:
Bef 11 May 1834 Ongar, Essex, England
Christened:
11 May 1834 Ongar, Essex, England
Parents:
William HUTCHING and Anne BROWN
Marriage:
Maria STAINES 11 Oct 1857 Ongar, Essex, England
Children:
  • George Reuben Hutching (21 Dec 1858 - 14 Jun 1936)
  • Arthur Alton Staines Hutching (1860 - Abt 1874)
  • Phoebe Hutching (5 Jan 1864 - 14 Mar 1927)
  • Artemus Stephen Hutching (8 Feb 1867 - 30 Aug 1951)
  • Aristachus Paul Hutching (1 Feb 1869 - 5 Apr 1918)
  • Alpheus Ariochi Hutching (9 Jul 1871 - 14 Nov 1920)
  • Albert Featherston Hutching (9 Jan 1874 - 28 Sep 1965)
  • Alton Arthur Staines Hutching (3 Dec 1878 - 9 Aug 1883)
  • Acton Adolphus William Hutching (24 Apr 1881 - Bef 16 Nov 1967)
  • Ada Maria Hutching (17 Sep 1883 - 26 Jan 1964)
  • Frances Winifred Horne Hutching (Abt 1895 - 13 Oct 1970)
Died:
16 Jan 1919 Woodville, New Zealand
Buried:
18 Jan 1919 Old Gorge Cemetery, Woodville, New Zealand 1

Notes

General Notes

Noted events in his life include:

  • He worked as a gardener in Penge, , Surrey, England.
  • He emigrated to New Zealand Per Ship "Helen Denny", on 9 Aug 1873 from England. He arrived in Wellington on Nov 22, 1873.
  • He had a residence after 1875 in Woodville, New Zealand.
  • He owned property of 20 acres, worth £120 in 1882 in Waipawa, New Zealand. 2
  • He was a member of the Baptist church in England. Upon his arrival in New Zealand, he worshiped in the Methodist church in Woodville, due to the lack of a Baptist Church there. He was buried as a Baptist.
  • He had an estate probated in Palmerston North, New Zealand Court Probate #21 Will on 18 Feb 1919.

Biographical Notes

Stephen, Maria and their then 6 children emigrated to New Zealand, arriving in November 1873. Maria must have then been 6 months pregnant with Albert. They eventually made their way up to Woodville, joining Stephen's 2 younger brothers, George & James. Albert was born in Featherston, so they must have arrived in Wellington.

from The Farthest Promised Land, by Rollo Arnold, page 314.

'George Hutching... was one of three brothers of Essex origins, who arrived in Wellington as assisted immigrants in October and November 1873. George, a 25-year-old labourer, with a wife and infant daughter, and James, a 23-year-old bootmaker with his wife Ellen, 19, arrived on the E.P. Bouverie, and immediately transhipped to a coastal steamer owned by Brogdens, sailing for Napier. By January 1875 the two brothers had saved enough to purchase a block at the sale of Woodville land. Shortly afterwards they tramped through to see their purchase, and that autumn they again swagged to Woodville to carry out a bush-felling contract. (Woodville Jubilee Souvenir, 1877-1937, 1937, p.71) Shortly thereafter, James Hutching began to practise his trade in Woodville. A settler who arrived to fell bush in 1876 recalled the boot repairing shop of "Jimmy Hutchins" -"simply a calico fly rigged up on poles in front of a tent in which he and his wife lived and in this calico boot palace Jimmy would sit mending old shoes and whistling lively tunes all day long." (ibid, p 75). On 25 May 1876 a newspaper correspondeent reported that timber for a four-roomed house and shop to be occupied by James Hutching, bootmaker, was ready on a section belonging to Mr Carr, surveyor. (Hawke's Bay Herald, 30 May 1876, p.6) Meanwhile George and James had soon been followed to New Zealand, and on to Woodville, by their older brother, Stephen, a 39-year-old farm labourer with a wife and six children. Stephen had been working as a gardener at Penge in Surrey, and of the testimonials for his immigration application had been supplied by a local magistrate, J. Broomhall. On Christmas Day 1876 Broomhall, on a visit to New Zealand, passed through Woodville on the stage coach. When the coach stopped to deliver a bag at Stephen Hutching's cottage, a brief reunion took place. Broomhall reported that Stephen Hutching
"pointed with pride to his twenty acres of land with the cottage on it his own freehold, and to chickens and ducks in abundance, and, if he have not now, he will soon have pigs, cows and a good farmyard . . . Mrs Hutchins was not so jubilant as her husband; she experienced the loss of the Christian advantages of Penge Baptist Tabernacle, but if the Rev. John and Mrs Collins would emigrate and open a tabernacle in the Seventy Mile Bush Mrs Hutchins would be as satisfied as is her husband.
"A mile further on the road I observed a sign-board, James Hutchins, boot and shoe maker, and out came James, equally pleased as was Stephen . . . The brothers recounted some of the difficulties which had beset them, and which are incidental to all emigrants, but the experience was beneficial and now each rejoiced over them, and are strong men, able to hold their own." (J. Broomhall, Fragments from the Journal of J. Broomhall, Esql, J.P., lll, London, 1877, p.29)'

Source Citations

  1. NZ Death Certificate.
  2. Return of the Freeholders, 1882.