Captain James Smith Cross

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About Captain James Smith Cross

GEDCOM Note

James came to Nelson, New Zealand, on the "Whitby", leaving London on 27 Apr 1841, arriving in Wellington on 8 Sep 1841 and arriving in Nelson on 5 Nov 1841. See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/Whitby.htm for more detail.

Born Deal, Kent, probably in 1817. Married to Elizabeth. To NZ 1841. Settled in Nelson. Piloted the first mercantile vessel into Nelson Harbour (the Clydesdale') in 1842. By 1852 had established a partnership with Alexander Mowat in the Middlehurst Run in Upper Moutere. See Nelson notables 1840-1940', by M D Lash (1992).

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