Gervase Roughton

Gervase is from Sarah's first marriage and was known as Gervase Roughton, no name change and came to NZ with the Ratt family. Christened 4 May 1828 Arrived Nelson on the "Clifford" Sailed Gravesend 18 December 1841. He came with his mother Sarah Ratt and stepfather George Ratt and George's family

Mr. GERVASE ROUGHTON , sometime of Spring Grove, was born in Nottinghamshire. England, in 1828. He came to New Zealand with his parents in the ship “Clifford,” which landed them in Nelson early in 1842. Mr. Roughton first lived on the Nelson beach, where he and his mate pulled ashore the first white man that was drowned in the Nelson harbour. In 1843 he moved with his parents up to Brightwater. Mr. Roughton helped to drive the first flock of sheep to Blenheim, to Birch Hill run. He was there when a man, named Coward, was drowned while crossing the Wairau river—the first event of its kind connected with the colonisation of the district. About two years afterwards he returned to Nelson and bought fifty acres of land in the Waimeas, where he engaged in fruit and hop-growing. In 1855 he married a daughter of Mr. White, who came out to New Zealand in the “Olympus,” and had two sons and one daughter. Mr. Roughton died on the 25th of June, 1904.