George Septimus Phillips

George Septimus Phillips (1844-1920) was six when he moved to Canterbury with his parents Henry (1805-1877) and Mary Ann, and his siblings Frederick, Henry (18), James (1837-1875), Charles (10), Thomas (1844-1931) and William (1846-1901).

In 1852, Henry Sen. took up Rockwood Station. George bought land near Dunsandel and later at Templeton; James managed Stronechrubie; Thomas managed The Point; and William leased Quail Island.In 1900, George apparently lived in Templeton, William in Hawera and Thomas in Windwhistle.

Source: http://www.firstfourships.co.nz/pics/person.php?pos=gs19

PHILLIPS, GEORGE SEPTIMUS, Farmer, Templeton. Mr. Phillips was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1844, and arrived at Lyttelton in 1850, with his father, the late Mr Henry Phillips, by the “Sir George Seymour,” one of the first four ships.

After about two years in Christchurch Mr. Phillips, senior, took up a run at Selwyn, and he afterwards purchased the Rockwood estate, at Malvern Hills, where he resided up to the time of his death in 1877. Mr. G. S. Phillips was educated at Christ's College, under the late Dean Jacobs, and was afterwards trained to a pastoral life on his father's run. He started on his own account at Dunsandel, and, about 1878, removed to Templeton, where his farm, comprising 183 acres, yields on an average, thirty-five bushels of wheat, and forty of oats to the acre. Mr. Phillips married a daughter of the late Mr. George Ffitch, an old colonist of Templeton, and has a family of one son and three daughters.

Source: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d6-...

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees by SmartCopy: May 26 2015, 6:30:11 UTC

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• Updated from FamilySearch Family Tree via sister Emma Phillips by SmartCopy: May 26 2015, 10:24:06 UTC