Historical records matching Hon. Henry William Petre
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About Hon. Henry William Petre
Henry William Petre (1820 – 3 December 1889) was colonial treasurer of New Munster Province. He was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 31 December 1853 to 6 November 1860, when he was disqualified for absence.
He was one of the founders of Wellington, arriving in January 1840 on the Oriental (having left in 1839). The Petre family was one of the first and most prominent colonial families of New Zealand; giving their name to Petre Bay, Chatham Island, and originally the town of Wanganui, north of Wellington. Petre returned to England to find a wife. His father sent for Mary Ann Eleanor Walmsley, then 15 years old and brought up in a convent, and the wedding happened in 1842.
Petre lived in the Hutt Valley, and his children were born while living in NZ. With Vavasour and Charles Clifford established a sheep station in the Wairarapa. He returned with his family to England in 1854, however his son Hon Henry William Petre returned and lived in NZ. His first wife died in 1885, and he remarried to the widow Sara Tolme. He died in Essex in 1889.
He seems to have been a man of strange appearance, from the description by his contemporary, the New Zealand social commentator Charlotte Godley: "He is immensely tall and thin and looks like a set of fire irons badly hung together".
His father William Petre, 11th Baron Petre, was chairman of the New Zealand Company. The Petres were an aristocratic family from Ingatestone in Essex, England, and the Wellington suburb of Thorndon was named after their Thorndon Hall estate in England. The family were recusant Roman Catholics.
The architect Francis Petre was his son.
Links and Sources
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- nzetc.victoria.ac.nz
- Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 15 2017, 5:42:15 UTC
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Hon. Henry William Petre's Timeline
| 1820 |
January 23, 1820
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Ingrave, Essex, England, United Kingdom
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| 1846 |
March 1, 1846
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Woburn, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
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| 1847 |
September 8, 1847
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Petone, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
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| 1848 |
September 6, 1848
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Woburn, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
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| 1850 |
1850
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Woburn, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
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| 1855 |
February 1, 1855
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Woburn, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
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1855
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New Zealand
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| 1856 |
October 21, 1856
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Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom
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| 1859 |
March 25, 1859
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Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom
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