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Catherine MESSER

Female 1840 - 1898  (57 years)

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Died (George WOOD)
Died (Catherine MESSER)
James A WOOD (1886 - )
Catherine Messer WOOD (1880 - )
Margaret WOOD (1878 - )
George WOOD (1872 - )
Robert WOOD (1869 - )
John Alcorn WOOD (1866 - )
Married George WOOD
George WOOD (1844 - 1919)
Catherine MESSER (1840 - 1898)
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   Date  Event(s)
1840 
  • 22 Jan 1840: 1st Wellington Settlers
    The New Zealand Company’s first settler ship, the Aurora, arrived at Petone to found the settlement that would become Wellington Settlement. Named after the first Duke of Wellington, the victor of the Battle of Waterloo, the new town was part of the New Zealand Company’s systematic model of colonisation developed by Edwin Gibbon Wakefield. Central to his scheme were packages of land comprising a town acre (0.4 ha) and an accompanying 100 country acres (40 ha). There were 1100 one-acre town sections in the plan for Port Nicholson. By the end of 1840, 1200 settlers had arrived in Wellington.
  • 6 Feb 1840: Treaty of Waitangi
    The Treaty of Waitangi is a treaty first signed on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and Maori chiefs (rangatira) from the North Island of New Zealand. It has become a document of central importance to the history, to the political constitution of the state, and to the national mythos of New Zealand, and has played a major role in framing the political relations between New Zealand's government and the Maori population, especially from the late-20th century.
  • 16 Nov 1840: NZ becmes a colony
    New Zealand officially became a separate colony of the United Kingdom, severing its link to New South Wales. North, South and Stewart islands were to be known respectively as the provinces of New Ulster, New Munster and New Leinster. William Hobson had been appointed Britain’s consul to New Zealand in 1839. He was instructed to obtain sovereignty over all or part of New Zealand with the consent of "a sufficient number" of chiefs. New Zealand would then come under the authority of George Gipps, the governor of New South Wales; Hobson would become Gipps’ lieutenant-governor.
1842 
  • 1 Feb 1842: 1st Settlers arrive Nelson
    The Fifeshire arrived in Nelson Settlement on 1 Feb 1842 with immigrants for the New Zealand Company’s first settlement in the South Island. Several thousand settlers arrived in Nelson within a few months.
1845 
  • 1845—1872: New Zealand Wars
    The New Zealand Wars were a series of armed conflicts that took place in New Zealand from 1845 to 1872 between the Colonial government and allied Maori on one side and Maori and Maori-allied settlers on the other. At the peak of hostilities in the 1860s, 18,000 British troops, supported by artillery, cavalry and local militia, battled about 4,000 Maori warriors. Over the course of the Taranaki and Waikato campaigns, the lives of about 1,800 Maori and 800 Europeans were lost, and total Maori losses over the course of all the wars may have exceeded 2,100.
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  • 12 Feb 1851: Gold is discovered in New South Wales.
    On February 12, 1851, a prospector discovered flecks of gold in a waterhole near Bathurst, New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Soon, even more gold was discovered in what would become the neighboring state of Victoria. This began the Australian Gold Rush.
  • 1 Jul 1851: Victoria separated from NSW
    In 1851 Port Phillip District separated from New South Wales and renamed itself the Colony of Victoria. As a result of this a Legislative Council was formed to govern the new Colony of Victoria. The first Legislative Council consisted of 30 men, 10 appointed directly by the newly appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Victoria, Charles Latrobe. The remaining 20 men (no women were allowed) were elected to office by wealthy land owners. At this point in time only people who owned a significant amount of land were allowed to vote. In 1855 the Colony of Victoria gained self-governance from Britain
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  • 17 Jan 1853—1 Jan 1877: NZ Provinces
    On 17 January 1853, New Zealand was divided into six Provinces (Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, Otago), though there were soon secessions (Hawkes Bay 1858, Marlborough 1859, Southland 1864-1870, Westland 1868). Each province kept the revenue earned from the sale of their Crown land, and were responsible for encouraging immigration to their area. The provinces formally ceased to exist on the 1 January 1877 and local government was then vested in elected borough and county councils.
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  • 24 May 1854: 1st NZ Parliment
    New Zealand Parliament's first sitting in Auckland occurred on 24 May 1854. Auckland was to be the colony’s capital city (and home to Parliament) for the next 10 years. The colony’s first elected parliamentarians, all 37 of them, were sworn in, making their oaths of allegiance to the Crown in the person of the acting governor, Colonel R.H. Wynyard.
  • 3 Dec 1854: Battle of the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat.
    On 30 November 1854 miners from the Victorian town of Ballarat, disgruntled with the way the colonial government had been administering the goldfields, swore allegiance to the Southern Cross flag at Bakery Hill and built a stockade at the nearby Eureka diggings. Early on the morning of Sunday 3 December 1854, when the Eureka Stockade was only lightly guarded, government troops attacked. At least 22 diggers and six soldiers were killed. The rebellion of miners at Eureka Stockade is a key event in the development of Australia’s representational structures and attitudes towards democracy and egalitarianism.
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  • 6 Jun 1859: Queensland separated from NSW
    Queen Victoria granted approval and signed Letters Patent on 6 June 1859 to establish the new Colony of Queensland, separate from New South Wales. On the same day, an Order-in-Council gave Queensland its own constitution. Queensland became a self-governing colony with its own Governor, a nominated Legislative Council and an elected Legislative Assembly.
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  • 23 May 1861: Otago Gold Rush
    The Otago Gold Rush began after Gabriel Read found gold near the Tuapeka River, a tributary of the Clutha River in Otago. The Otago provincial government had offered a £1000 reward for the discovery of "payable quantities" of gold. Read, a prospector from Tasmania, claimed the reward (equivalent to more than $110,000 today) after finding gold "shining like the stars in Orion". His discovery sparked the first major gold rush in New Zealand. The Otago gold rush peaked in the mid-1860s, after which miners left in large numbers for the new West Coast goldfields.
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  • 7 Feb 1863: HMS Orpheus shipwreck
    On 7 February 1863 the Royal Navy steam corvette HMS Orpheus foundered at the entrance to Auckland’s Manukau Harbour. Of the 259 officers, seamen and Royal Marines on board, 189 died in the worst maritime disaster in New Zealand waters.
  • 12 Jul 1863: Waikato Invasion
    British troops invaded the Waikato by crossing the Mangatawhiri Stream, which the Kingitanga (Maori King movement) had declared an aukati (a line not to be crossed). Lieutenant-General Duncan Cameron had crossed the Mangatawhiri Stream with the declared intention of establishing military posts on the Waikato River. Five days later, the first battle of the Waikato War was fought at Koheroa, near Mercer.
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  • 26 Jul 1865: NZ Parliment moves to Wellington
    The New Zealand capital moved from Auckland to more centrally located Wellington on the recommendation of a specially appointed Australian commission. The former Wellington Provincial Council chamber became the new home for Parliament.
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  • 10 Nov 1868: Matawhero Massacre
    The Matawhero Massacre was Te Kooti’s utu (revenge) for his exile to the Chatham Islands and subsequent events. In the middle of the night, around 100 men, 60 on horseback, forded the Waipaoa River and moved quietly towards Matawhero. By dawn, they had killed about 60 people of all ages in the Pakeha settlement and adjacent kainga (Maori settlements). Some were shot, but most were bayoneted, tomahawked or clubbed to avoid alerting their neighbours.
12 1873 
  • 1873—1876: Vogel Immigration and Public Works
    The Vogel Era - New Zealand adopted in the 1870s an assisted immigration and public works scheme inaugurated by Colonial Treasurer then Premier Julius Vogel to develop the country and to relieve the slump of the late 1860s; to be financed by borrowing overseas. His "Great Public Works Policy" resulted in a large increase in migrants and provision of many new railways, roads and telegraph lines. The population rose from 248,000 in 1870 to 399,000 in 1876.
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  • 19 Dec 1879: NZ Universal Male Suffrage
    Universal Male Suffrage was introduced to New Zealand with the Qualification of Electors Act. The Act extended the right to vote (or electoral franchise) to all European men aged over 21, regardless of whether they owned or rented property. This reform, known as universal male suffrage – or, at the time, as 'manhood suffrage' – helped transform New Zealand’s politics in the late 19th century. Maori men had been granted universal suffrage in 1867, to vote in four special Maori seats.
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  • 29 Apr 1881: Tararua shipwreck
    On a voyage from Port Chalmers to Melbourne, the Tararua struck a reef off Waipapa Point, Southland, at 5 a.m. on 29 April. A passenger swam ashore to raise the alarm, but the rough sea made it too dangerous to take people off. The ship began to break up, and the passengers climbed the rigging. They hung on until 2.35 a.m. the next morning, when those on the beach heard piercing shrieks. By daybreak the ship had sunk, and bodies were floating ashore. Of the 151 passengers and crew on board, 131 were lost in the worst civilian shipwreck in New Zealand waters.
15 1882 
  • 15 Feb 1882: 1st Frozen Meat Export
    The first frozen meat shipment was exported from New Zealand on 15 February 1882 aboard the Dunedin. The ship had been fitted with a coal-powered Bell Coleman freezing plant, which cooled the entire hold to 22 degrees celsius below the outside temperature. About 5000 carcasses were on board the Dunedin when it sailed from Port Chalmers to London. The new technology ultimately enabled the owner-operated (family) farm to become the standard economic unit in rural New Zealand for the next century.
16 1886 
  • 10 Jun 1886: Tarawera eruption
    On 10 June 1886 the volcanic Mt Tarawera, south-east of Rotorua, erupted spectacularly, killing perhaps 120 people and burying the famed Pink and White Terraces on Lake Rotomahana.
17 1893 
  • 19 Sep 1893: NZ Universal Female Suffrage
    Universal Female Suffrage in New Zealand was achieved when a new Electoral Act was signed into law in 1893. New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. The passage of the Act was the culmination of years of agitation by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and other organisations. As part of this campaign, a series of massive petitions were presented to Parliament; those gathered in 1893 were together signed by almost a quarter of the adult female population of New Zealand.
18 1894 
  • 29 Oct 1894: Wairarapa shipwreck
    On 29 October 1894, in a heavy fog, the liner Wairarapa steamed into cliffs on Great Barrier Island, about 100 km out from Auckland, and sank with the loss of 121 of its 251 passengers and crew. SS Wairarapa was a New Zealand ship plying the route between Auckland, New Zealand and Australia.