William John BIRCH (1842 – 1920)

Name

William John Birch

Gender

Male

Birthdate

1842

Birthplace

Pudlicote, Oxfordshire, England

Marriage(s)

1874

Date of death

01 May 1920

Place of death

Thoresby, Marton

Parents

Biography

Arrived in Hawke’s Bay on the “Wild Duck”, January 1860
Farmed at Maraetotara then owned Erewhon Station, Moawhango, with his brother, Azim
Built “Stoneycroft” as a summer residence somewhere between 1875 and 1878, selling it in the early 1890s to Nathaniel Beamish
Adopted sister’s son, William Charles Caccia-Birch (son of Pauline)

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