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About Sarah Dilworth (Whitten)
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Birth date unverified.
Married at age 19 to James Dilworth age 22 on 12 Oct 1864 at St Gobhan, Seagoe Parish Church,
Portadown, Northern Ireland. Died 1906 age 58.
Age recorded on marriage certificate (1864) as 19.
Age recorded on birth certificate of daughter Sarah born 22 July 1877 as 28.
Death certificate gives date of death as "on or about the 2nd of August 1906, aged 58"
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Memorial stone states date of death as 22 August 1906 which is incorrect.
Pukekohe & Waiuku Times 6 August 1920 - In Memoriam -
DILWORTH -In loving memory of my dear wife, who passed away on August 2, 1906. Yes, mother is gone, but not forgotten, Nor is the good advice she gave, Sweetest thoughts shall ever linger Around our dear old loved one's grave. Long days and nights she bore in pain, To wait for cure was all in vain. But God alone, who thought it best, Did ease her pain and give her rest —lnserted by her poor old Jim. J. Dilworth.
Franklin Times 2 August 1926
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/FRTIM19260802.2.7
Details as on marriage records for issue of James Whitten, weaver,
(unconfirmed as siblings of Sarah Whitten)
Robert Whitten aged over 21 married Sally Orr aged over 21 on 4 April 1863, daughter of Joseph Orr.
All parties had occupations listed as "weaver".
Elizabeth Whitten aged over 21 married Thomas Hull aged over 21 on 17 Dec 1864,
son of William Hull. All parties had occupations listed as "weaver".
Anne Whitten aged under 21 married James Marshall aged under 21 on 5 Jan 1863,
son of Richard Marshall. All parties had occupations listed as "weaver".
The excerpt below is taken from 'Ganges - the Story of an Immigrant Sailing Ship 1863 - 1865'
compiled by Lloyd Walker.
Chronicles the two Ganges voyages to Auckland, one in 1863 from Gravesend and one in 1864 from Queenstown, Cork. Includes passenger lists and text of a passenger's journal for the first voyage, and a brief history of the settlers from Pollokshaws, Glasgow. The Irish immigrants on the second, disastrous, voyage were part of the Waikato Immigration Scheme and eventually settled around Pokeno, Pukekohe and Tuakau.
Circa 1840, trade routes for tea, wool and later, gold, were the incentive to ship designers to shorten voyage lengths to enhance profits for merchants. The book starts with background history on these designers and ship builders.
It was intended that the passengers on this second voyage would be settled in the Pukekohe - Tuakau - Pokeno areas, but unlike the settlement of the first voyage's travellers, the Government was well behind in its preparations. Surveys had not been completed and lack of finance meant that promised funds for establishment were not readily available.
Because of the sickness on the voyage and the general weakness of the passengers caused by inadequate diet, it was necessary for the immigrants to spend more time than usual at the Onehunga Immigration Barracks where their constitutions could be built up before facing the rigours of pioneer life.
The Superintendent of the Auckland Province who had been so roundly criticised by the press for his inaction in delaying the setting up of the enquiries, was trying hard to redeem himself with the public by taking a personal interest in the immigrants' plight. He wrote to the central Government:
"On the arrival of Ganges, I, Robert Graham, Superintendent, was informed that there had been great mortality on the passage, principally among the children. I consequently desired the Provincial Surgeon (before any of the passengers were allowed to land) to make strict enquiry as to the causes as well as of the nature of the disease. He reported bronchitis and whooping cough. I have further considered it necessary to appoint a Board of Enquiry which report will be forwarded in due course."
"I have further considered it advisable to locate the immigrants by this ship Ganges at Onehunga for a time where the accommodation is good, the water is pure and where medical comforts can be conveniently administered. I have appointed an officer to accompany each body of immigrants up the country to see that their provisions are regularly supplied; also to inspect the labouring the men do and to keep an account of their time."
"A supervising engineer is appointed to visit the several settlements to select the most necessary works and see that they have been efficiently performed. I have found it necessary to appoint two medical men to administer relief to such immigrants as may stand in need of it. I have stationed one at Waiuku, the other at Drury. It is my intention to make immigrants pay their own medical officers, and for the medical comforts, from the commencement of this present month."
"Application has been made by a number of the immigrants for an advance of a supply of timber to the amount of ten pounds in value for each family. I believe that some such promise was held out to them by the General Government. As the winter season is fast approaching, I shall be obliged by your informing me on this subject at your earliest convenience. Application has also been made by the immigrants to be supplied with rations on Sundays free of cost. Surveyors are busily engaged in marking off land for the immigrants who will be placed in possession with the least possible delay."
Two and a half months were spent in the Onehunga Immigration Barracks before the passengers were felt to have recovered sufficiently from the ordeal of the voyage to take the next step in their journey. By this time considerable tension had arisen between the Central Government and the Provincial Governments over the Waikato Immigration Scheme. The Land Wars had drained the country's coffers to desperate levels, and this, combined with the world wide recession, encouraged the national politicians to off-load as many financial responsibilities as possible onto Provincial Governments. The Waikato Immigration Scheme they saw as a suitable project to wash their hands of, and transfer the onus to the Auckland Provincial Government for its organisation.
Robert Graham had agreed to administer the Scheme but only on behalf of Central Government and when the proposal was aired that the Local Government should accept all responsibility, correspondence between the Superintendent and the Colonial Secretary became quite bitter with accusations flying on both sides. It was not long before the Auckland Provincial Government found itself with full responsibility.
It was not until well into May, with the autumn winds blowing and the days and nights giving a portent of the weather to come, that the immigrants gathered together their families and their meagre possessions, embarking once more, this time not on a clipper ship like Ganges, but on the little cutters which plied the stormy, unpredictable Manukau Harbour. Their destination was Drury, a small settlement south of Papakura, where until recently, the 65th Regiment had been billeted during the latter stages of the Waikato Land Wars and where commencement by the Military of the construction of Great South Road through to Queen's Redoubt in Pokeno had begun. Here, huddled in sub-standard temporary buildings vacated by the Army, with few facilities and less comfort, they waited for instructions to travel to the land for which they had left family and friends behind in the 'Old Country' which by now, they would be wondering why they had ever left.
Finally the day came when they were told to move. Although the Great South Road was more or less passable to Pokeno, there was no road formed to Pukekohe where many of them had been granted their land. Tuakau was also not able to be reached by anything but a track through the bush. With the few bullock carts available to carry the heavier equipment, the ragged column of immigrants set off to claim the 'promised land'.
However the following few months were to be a time of uncertainty and worry. The survey of sections was far behind the requirements of the settlers. Some were sent to Pokeno where they were accommodated in barracks and set to work on the Pokeno-Tuakau road. This at least gave an income to tide them over albeit temporarily.
Those who found themselves at Pukekohe and Tuakau were in a much worse position. They had to live in tents supplied by the Military, a supply which eventually fell well short of requirements.
Winter was fast approaching before surveys were completed and dissatisfaction amongst the immigrants was reaching breaking point, with the lack of suitable accommodation as the main cause of frustration. Finally the Central Government agreed to give married men ten days rations and single men seven days while they built whares for themselves and their families. There was no sawn timber available so trees were felled and split into slabs which were used for the walls. Rough shingles were split for the roofs but they were very inefficient, letting in a good deal of rain. The story is told of one pioneer whose family was drenched at the first rain. He then realised he had shingled his roof from top to bottom instead of bottom to top.
These whares were only marginally better than the tents, but for many, were the first homes they had ever owned, thus representing an asset they would never have been able to realise in the 'Old Country'. Slowly the land was cleared; crops were planted and harvested, shops and businesses were established and life took on a permanent character.
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Sarah Dilworth (Whitten)'s Timeline
| 1846 |
July 9, 1846
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Portadown, Armagh, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
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| 1865 |
July 2, 1865
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Pukekohe West, Auckland, New Zealand
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| 1867 |
May 19, 1867
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Pukekohe West, Auckland, New Zealand
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| 1869 |
June 8, 1869
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Pukekohe West, Auckland, New Zealand
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| 1871 |
July 30, 1871
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Pukekohe West, Auckland, New Zealand
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| 1873 |
July 9, 1873
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Pukekohe West, Auckland, New Zealand
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| 1875 |
July 5, 1875
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Pukekohe, Auckland, New Zealand
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| 1877 |
July 22, 1877
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Pukekohe, Auckland, New Zealand
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| 1879 |
October 10, 1879
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Pukekohe, Auckland, New Zealand
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