Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Notes for Thomas Webb
Died just before his sister Charlotte (according to her obituary), so sometime before 1934.
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His obituary: New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21651, 17 November 1933, Page 14.
The death occurred last night after a brief illness of one of the few remaining pioneer settlers of Northern Wairoa. Mr. Thomas Webb, who landed with his parents at Auckland in February, 1863, by the ship Gertrude. Soon after his arrival deceased's father. Mr. Thomas Stirrup Webb, took up land near Aratapu, which he farmed successfully until 1878, when he divided the property among his sons. Deceased farmed his portion until he retired to live at Dargaville in 1924. Born in Bilston, Staffordshire, in 1850, deceased was in his 84th year at the time of his death. In 1886 he married Miss Penelope Massey, of Auckland. Mr. Webb took a keen interest in local body affairs. He was at one time chairman of the Te Kopuru School Committee, a member of the old Marsden-Kaipara Hospital Board, a member and chairman of the Hobson County Council, district coroner, a director and guarantor of the Northern Wairoa Co-operative Dairy Company, and a member of many other local and district institutions. He is survived by his wife, one son, Mr. T. Clifton Webb, solicitor, of Auckland, and two daughters, Mrs. S. 0. Barker, of Dargaville, and' Mrs. H. Culpan, of Wellsford.
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His son Thomas Clifton Webb became a well-known politician, and has an entry in the Te Ara Dictionary of National Biography.
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His obituary: New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21651, 17 November 1933, Page 14.
The death occurred last night after a brief illness of one of the few remaining pioneer settlers of Northern Wairoa. Mr. Thomas Webb, who landed with his parents at Auckland in February, 1863, by the ship Gertrude. Soon after his arrival deceased's father. Mr. Thomas Stirrup Webb, took up land near Aratapu, which he farmed successfully until 1878, when he divided the property among his sons. Deceased farmed his portion until he retired to live at Dargaville in 1924. Born in Bilston, Staffordshire, in 1850, deceased was in his 84th year at the time of his death. In 1886 he married Miss Penelope Massey, of Auckland. Mr. Webb took a keen interest in local body affairs. He was at one time chairman of the Te Kopuru School Committee, a member of the old Marsden-Kaipara Hospital Board, a member and chairman of the Hobson County Council, district coroner, a director and guarantor of the Northern Wairoa Co-operative Dairy Company, and a member of many other local and district institutions. He is survived by his wife, one son, Mr. T. Clifton Webb, solicitor, of Auckland, and two daughters, Mrs. S. 0. Barker, of Dargaville, and' Mrs. H. Culpan, of Wellsford.
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His son Thomas Clifton Webb became a well-known politician, and has an entry in the Te Ara Dictionary of National Biography.