NameBranton Charles MASSEY
63
Birth1830, Oldham, Lancashire, England63
Death1876, Auckland, NZ
Spouses
Birth1833, Nottinghamshire, England63,65,66
Death7 Mar 1919, Aratapu, Kaipara, Northland, New Zealand
Notes for Branton Charles MASSEY
Engineer at the sawmill on the Cornwallis Estate, Manukau.
Notes for Penelope (Spouse 1)
The marriage of Thomas Stirrup Webb to Penelope Massey (nee Fisher) is all complicated by the fact that his son, Thomas Webb, married her daughter, Penelope Massey, in the same year! So father and son (with the same names) married mother and daughter (with the same names), which sounds like incest until you realise that the son and the daughter were both from first marriages of the parents.
This was sorted out by Kathy Callaghan (and perhaps also by Joanna McKinnon). Not by me at all.
This Penelope arrived in NZ in 1865 with four children aboard the Andrew Jackson (to join her husband Branton Charles Massey). Her husband was an engineer at the sawmill on the Cornwallis Estate, Maukau. They moved to Te Kopuru in1870. Her husband died in 1876 aged 46. 10 years later Penelope married Thomas Stirrup Webb on 6 Feb 1886.