Charles Wiggins

Dallam Towers 1875

Letitia Gore was born 22/9/1822 and Charles Wiggins was born 1829, so she was approx 7 years older than him. Letitia had a son Thomas with Thomas Parr, born on 29/3/1845 and he also immigrated to PN, NZ with his wife Emma Swain (and her daughter Mary Swain b 1864) whom he married in 1865.

When Charles was 19 and Letita 26 in 1848, their daughter Emily was born and then in 1850 their daugther Jane was born. On Christmas day 1851, with a three year old daughter and an 18 month old daughter Charles and Leitita got married, Letitia's son Thomas was now 6 years old.

In 1874, when they had been married 22 years, they decided to sail to NZ, they had their 23rd wedding aniversary on the sailing ship Dallam Tower, and arrived into Wellington on 17 Feb 1875, with Thomas and Emma's daughter Jane, aged 7 (real name Emily Jane Gore 1868-1948). Thomas and Emma finally arrived in Wellington NZ on 4 December 1875 under the name Wiggins with 3 children on SS Avalanche.

Daughter Emily and her husband Henry Gore had arrived in NZ on the Golden Sea, leaving England on 29/1/1874. Daughter Jane and her husband George Parr arrived in NZ on the Salisbury on 19 January 1874, having left in 1873. On 8/10/1893 Jane and George adopted Mary Swain's baby girl and called her Jane Sarah Gore Parr, (Mary would have been 29 years old when she had this baby) Jane married John Albert Clark (1888-1926) son of Isaac Garwood Clark, in 1912 when she was 19 years old.

Emily and Henry had their son Richard Gore on 16 March 1878, just two years before Henry died in 1880. Richard married Edith Maud Clark on 31/8/1904, daughter of Harriet and John Clark and brother of Isaac Garwood Clark.