Sarah Simmonds

• Updated from MyHeritage Match via brother Albert Arthur Ernest Holdaway by SmartCopy: Oct 5 2014, 16:21:45 UTC

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Biography

Sarah was born in 1849 in Maitai, Nelson, New Zealand.<ref name="HoldawayBookp6">Holdaway, Mary, The Holdaway Family: Pioneers of Nelson (Blenheim: Mary Holdaway, 1992), p. 6</ref>

She was the daughter of John Holdaway and Amelia Eyles. On 26 April 1871 Sarah Holdaway and Joseph Henry Simmonds were married. <ref>"New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1896," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-M625 : accessed1 October 2017), Joseph Henry Simmonds and Sarah Holdaway, 1871; citing Marriage, New Zealand, New Zealand, Wellington; registration number1871/5274.</ref>

MARRIAGE.Simmonds— HOLDAWAY— April 26, by the Rev. W. J., Watkin. at the residence of the bride's father, the Rev. J.H. Simmonds, son of Mr. J. Simmonds, of Spring Grove, to Sarah, second daughter of Mr. John Holdaway, of Richmond. <ref> Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 98, 27 April 1871 </ref>

Children born to Sarah and Joseph <ref>New Zealand Registry of Births, Deaths and MarriagesOnline search</ref> : 1878/11008 Amelia Frances : 1878/7386 Edith Marion : 1880/3461 Ella Constance : 1882/3477 Joseph Charles : 1888/3444 Olive Elfrida Plus another son Obituary January 1905 <ref>OBITUARY., Colonist, Volume XLVII, Issue 11243, 28 January 1905</ref>
Auckland, January 27. The many friends throughout the Colony of the Rev. Mr Simmonds, Principal of Three Kings Native Institution, will sympathise with him in the death of Mrs Simmonds, which occurred at her residence, Three Kings, yesterday. The deceased lady was very much respected. She took a deep interest in the work of the Native Institution, over which she and her husband have ably presided for several years. She leaves a family of four daughters and two sons.

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