Samuel PRESTNEY\Eliza GIBBONS (MRIN:00043)

Samuel PRESTNEY (RIN: 00388), son of John PRESTNEY and Rebecca MAYES , was born 28 April 1836 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. He married Eliza GIBBONS 15 September 1856 in St.Matthews, Bethnal Green, London. He died 29 May 1897. Eliza GIBBONS (RIN: 00117), daughter of Thomas GIBBONS and Susan GIBBONS , was born 1837 in Foxearth Essex. She died 1915 in Rangiora, Christchurch, New Zealand.

1. Alice Maud PRESTNEY (RIN: 00380)
2. Arthur PRESTNEY (RIN: 00381)
3. Edward PRESTNEY (RIN: 00382)
4. Eliza Emma PRESTNEY (RIN: 00383)
5. Ellen Eliszabeth PRESTNEY (RIN: 00384)
6. George PRESTNEY (RIN: 00385)
7. Harriet PRESTNEY (RIN: 00386)
8. Samuel PRESTNEY (RIN: 00389)
9. Stephen Alfred PRESTNEY (RIN: 00390)
10. Thomas PRESTNEY (RIN: 00392)
11. William John PRESTNEY (RIN: 00393)

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Notes for Samuel PRESTNEY:

Birth: 28 April 1836 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.
Death: 29 May 1897.

Samuel emigated to New Zealand on 24Sep 1856 on the OLIVER LANG. Arrived Wellington 19.12.1856. On the day of their marriage they took out two bills or promissory notes (No. 718 & 719) for 20 pounds each. Theystayed in the Hutt Valley, now part of greater Wellington, for two years, however, they must have fallen on difficult times because in 1859these bills were still listed as owing in the Votes & Proceedings of the Wellington Provincial Council 1859. By 1864 financial difficultiesresolved they settled in Rangiora, Canterbury in the South Island. Here Samuel took up farming, presumably successfully as he lived on his farm with his large family until he died of a strangulated Inginal Hernia. He collapsed day after operation.

Notes for Eliza GIBBONS:

Birth: 1837 in Foxearth Essex.
Death: 1915 in Rangiora, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Eliza Gibbons was born 5 Dec. 1837 at Foxearth, Suffolk. Her childhood was spent
in the Suffolk area of England, mainly Sudbury, Nailand, Foxearth region.
Haven't got their wedding certificate but Samuel Prestney and Eliza married 15
Sept. 1856 at St Matthews, Bethnal Green, London. Sailed to NZ 24 Sept. 1856.