Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

Area 8 Block A Row 5 Plot 9

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Selected Plot Summary
Plot Karori 55 J PUBLIC
Size 6'0"
Deed No 55364
Purchaser MCILVRIDE
Deed Reg No 29 MC
Purchase 2 May 1900

Date 23 Dec 1899
FD/Custome WILSON J & A
Name MCILVRIDE, ISABELLA
Address RUSSELL TCE
Age 66

Date 13 Feb 1906
FD/Custome WILSON
Name MCILVRIDE, JOHN
Address 21 RUSSELL TCE
Age 72
Occupation Farmer
Enclosed by a concrete wall; Inscription

Entering from the main entrance, the graves are a sort way directly in, then up to the left, within an area of other similarly aged graves.

New Zealand Mail 28 Dec 1899, p 28

Death: McIlvride - on 22 December, at Russell Terrace, Wellington, Isabella McGregor, beloved wife of John McIlvride, aged 66 years.

1893 Otaki Electoral Roll Isabella McILVRIDE, Married woman, Wainuiomata John McILVRIDE, Farmer, Freehold land, Wainuiomata Katherine Elizabeth McILVRIDE, Spinster, Wainuiomata

New Zealand Mail 28 Dec 1899 p28c Death: McILVRIDE - On 22nd December, at Russell Terrace, Wellington, Isabella McGregor, beloved wife of John McIlvride, aged 66 years.

John and Isabella came to NZ on the ship Oliver Lang, both aged 24. The ship departed Gravesend, England on 5 June 1858 (other sources have shown this variously as 15 June and 18 June), with the couple in steerage, to Wellington. Arrived 18 Sep 1858 Wellington.

The Oliver Lang was a 2,200 tonne ship, and on this voyage it carried 60 cabin and 240 steerage passengers, with captain being Capt. Mundle.

During the trip, there was one death and one birth, during the quick passage of 85 days.

Left Gravesend on 5 June 1858.

Anchored in the Downs and passed Plymouth on 25 June 1858.

At latitude 20 south, longitude 24 west, a minor collision with the Hamburg barque Shon, from Santos, bound for Hamburg. The figurehead and part of the Shon's jib-boom were left on the Oliver Lang's deck, and a few stancheons and covering boards from the Oliver Lang were carried away.

Captain Mundle then boarded the Shon to make sure all was alright and that it was not taking on water.

The Oliver Lang did not sight any land after leaving the English Channel until D'Urville Island on 17 September 1858.

Thirty of the passengers were bound for Canterbury, eight for Nelson and the remainder for Wellington.

Wellington Independent, Volume X, Issue 1313, 22 September 1858, Page 2 had a listing of the passengers, with John and Isabella shown as "J. McKeride and wife".

There was one report that the ship was driven ashore by a gale while in Wellington, but was expected to be got off easily and without damage.

1893 Otaki Electoral Roll Isabella McILVRIDE, Married woman, Wainuiomata John McILVRIDE, Farmer, Freehold land, Wainuiomata Katherine Elizabeth McILVRIDE, Spinster, Wainuiomata

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.