Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

From Journal of the New Zealand Federation Historical Societies, Vol. 2, No. 3, September 1985:

Hugh Sinclair was by no means well-off when he arrived in New Zealand in 1839 in the employ of James Coutts Crawford, latterly of Miramar fame. It was to be some eight or nine years before he could afford to buy land in Wainuiomata and build a house. Two houses in fact; the first was swept away in a flood, so the second was established on higher ground and was called 'Moness'. Here Hugh and his wife Agnes raised their four children, two boys and two girls. As he became established Hugh extended his land holdings to some 2500 acres, and set up a timber mill where he employed some 50 workers. Ten years after settling in Wainuiomata Hugh was able to invite his niece Isabel and her husband John Mcllvride out to join him in this new land, and to assist them in establishing a home he gifted Isabel 25 acres of his property. Here John Mcllvride built a typical one and a half storied house of the period and it was here that Wainuiomata's first Post Office began in January 1870, with John and Isabel's daughter Christina later riding over the narrow winding track which constituted the Wainuiomata Hill Road two or three times a week to collect the mail from Lower Hutt. Christina made this ride from the age of 12 in 1872 until her marriage seven years later

John and Isabella moved into Wellington, to 21 Russell Terrace, Newtown, Wellington, probably in the years between 1896 and 1899, based on references to them selling up in Wainuiomata.