The fifth child of Joseph and Hannah, Herbert was born in Christchurch. The family had moved to Wellington and them to Waipawa before he was of school age. After commencing his schooling at Waipawa he would have missed a year after the family settled in Woodville until the school opened there.
We learn from various published accounts, including his obituary, that he was a carter (carrier), and was a familiar and welcome figure to many of the pioneer settlers, as he packed in stores to the various camps and outlying farms before the days of roads and bridges in the area.
He was somewhat renowned for his strength in those days, although he was a man of no great stature. He did not enter actively into local politics but was for a number of years a member of the Makomako School Committee, and for several of these was chairman. He was also a director of the local Creamery Co at Makomako.
After Herbert's marriage to Eliza, they lived in Grey Street Woodville, where their first three children Alfred, Leonard and Horace were born and the other four, Doris, Roy and Leo and Ethel were born at "Rose Farm" Makomako where Herbert lived until his death.
Rose farm of 146 acres, was section 19 of the Woodville-Mangahao special settlement block. Herbert took it up about 1895, and after carrying out some improvements including the building of the first five rooms of the nine-roomed house that stands today, the family was able to shift there from Woodville.
By Athol and Betty Sowry. Leeds to Woodville
Married Eliza Thomas 15th June 1892, Free Methodist Church, Mangatainoka, New Zealand
Died at 'Rose Farm' Makomako near Ballance, New Zealand.
We learn from various published accounts, including his obituary, that he was a carter (carrier), and was a familiar and welcome figure to many of the pioneer settlers, as he packed in stores to the various camps and outlying farms before the days of roads and bridges in the area.
He was somewhat renowned for his strength in those days, although he was a man of no great stature. He did not enter actively into local politics but was for a number of years a member of the Makomako School Committee, and for several of these was chairman. He was also a director of the local Creamery Co at Makomako.
After Herbert's marriage to Eliza, they lived in Grey Street Woodville, where their first three children Alfred, Leonard and Horace were born and the other four, Doris, Roy and Leo and Ethel were born at "Rose Farm" Makomako where Herbert lived until his death.
Rose farm of 146 acres, was section 19 of the Woodville-Mangahao special settlement block. Herbert took it up about 1895, and after carrying out some improvements including the building of the first five rooms of the nine-roomed house that stands today, the family was able to shift there from Woodville.
By Athol and Betty Sowry. Leeds to Woodville
Married Eliza Thomas 15th June 1892, Free Methodist Church, Mangatainoka, New Zealand
Died at 'Rose Farm' Makomako near Ballance, New Zealand.
The fifth child of Joseph and Hannah, Herbert was born in Christchurch. The family had moved to Wellington and them to Waipawa before he was of school age. After commencing his schooling at Waipawa he would have missed a year after the family settled in Woodville until the school opened there.
We learn from various published accounts, including his obituary, that he was a carter (carrier), and was a familiar and welcome figure to many of the pioneer settlers, as he packed in stores to the various camps and outlying farms before the days of roads and bridges in the area.
He was somewhat renowned for his strength in those days, although he was a man of no great stature. He did not enter actively into local politics but was for a number of years a member of the Makomako School Committee, and for several of these was chairman. He was also a director of the local Creamery Co at Makomako.
After Herbert's marriage to Eliza, they lived in Grey Street Woodville, where their first three children Alfred, Leonard and Horace were born and the other four, Doris, Roy and Leo and Ethel were born at "Rose Farm" Makomako where Herbert lived until his death.
Rose farm of 146 acres, was section 19 of the Woodville-Mangahao special settlement block. Herbert took it up about 1895, and after carrying out some improvements including the building of the first five rooms of the nine-roomed house that stands today, the family was able to shift there from Woodville.
By Athol and Betty Sowry. Leeds to Woodville
Married Eliza Thomas 15th June 1892, Free Methodist Church, Mangatainoka, New Zealand
Died at 'Rose Farm' Makomako near Ballance, New Zealand.
We learn from various published accounts, including his obituary, that he was a carter (carrier), and was a familiar and welcome figure to many of the pioneer settlers, as he packed in stores to the various camps and outlying farms before the days of roads and bridges in the area.
He was somewhat renowned for his strength in those days, although he was a man of no great stature. He did not enter actively into local politics but was for a number of years a member of the Makomako School Committee, and for several of these was chairman. He was also a director of the local Creamery Co at Makomako.
After Herbert's marriage to Eliza, they lived in Grey Street Woodville, where their first three children Alfred, Leonard and Horace were born and the other four, Doris, Roy and Leo and Ethel were born at "Rose Farm" Makomako where Herbert lived until his death.
Rose farm of 146 acres, was section 19 of the Woodville-Mangahao special settlement block. Herbert took it up about 1895, and after carrying out some improvements including the building of the first five rooms of the nine-roomed house that stands today, the family was able to shift there from Woodville.
By Athol and Betty Sowry. Leeds to Woodville
Married Eliza Thomas 15th June 1892, Free Methodist Church, Mangatainoka, New Zealand
Died at 'Rose Farm' Makomako near Ballance, New Zealand.
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