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- William John Bassett
From Downpatrick to New Zealand
By John Bassett
Extracted from Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Volume 3, Canterbury
(Article include picture of him and his wife)
W.J. Bassett, farmer, "Meadowbank", St. Andrews. Mr. Bassett was born in 1861 in Downpatrick, Ireland, and was educated in his native land and in New Zealand, where he arrived in the ship "Blairgowrie" in 1875. Mr. Bassett was for two years engaged in business in Christchurch, and afterwards bought "Stormont", which was originally part of the Woodstock run, in the View Hill district, North Canterbury. The property contains 1144 acres freehold and 240 acres leasehold, and the permanent improvements include a fine dwelling-house of ten rooms, large and convenient outbuildings, garden and orchard sheltered by a well-grown plantation. It is fenced and subdivided with twenty-two miles of fencing, is wellwater by natural springs and creeks and has produced good crops of turnips and rape. A large number of crossbred sheep and lambs are reared and fattened. Mr. Bassett afterwards bought "Meadowbank", near St. Andrews, where he now resides. He was married in 1886 to Miss Gilchrist, and has two sons and two daughters.
Wednesday, April 7, 1886
Marriage
Bassett-Ghilchrist on 24 March at the residence of the bride?s mother, by the Rev. H. Williams, William John Bassett, Stormount, View Hill, to Caroline, third daughter of the late Hugh Gilchrist, Grange Cottage, View Hill, West Oxford.
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1859 - 1945 (85 years)