John BENNETT (1836 – 1900)
Name
John BennettGender
MaleBirthdate
24 March 1836Birthplace
Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, EnglandMarriage(s)
15 October 1862
Puketapu
Elizabeth Bennett
1871
Mary Jane Bennett
Date of death
14 August 1900Place of death
NapierParents
- Samuel Bennett
- Elizabeth Bennett, nee Ragsdale
Partner(s)
- Elizabeth Bennett, nee Shirley (7/8/1840-21/2/1870)
- Mary Jane Bennett, nee Shirley (16/6/1849-4/10/1931)
Children
- Elizabeth Ann Hardy (1863-7/10/1885)
- Mary Gibbons (born 1865)
- Samuel John Bennett
- Stanley Bennett
- Winifred Cato (1873-22/5/1929)
- Charles Bennett (1874-7/7/1950)
- Frank Percival Bennett (1877-8/5/1878)
- Fanny Balharry (1880-8/5/1878)
- Eva Appleby (1887-4/8/1981)
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Biography
Arrived in New Zealand on the “Spray of the Ocean”, 1859
Member of Hawke’s Bay County Council, old Provincial Government, Napier Harbour Board, and Redclyffe, Clive, and Puketapu Road Boards
Hawke’s Bay militia – received New Zealand war medal
Owned ‘‘Newstead”, a farm at Puketapu
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