Thomas Bevan, Snr.

Thomas was an infant aged 2 years when he emigrated with his parents Thomas Bevan and Mary Beaven and 6 siblings on the 'Lady Nugent' which sailed from Gravesend on 10 October 1840 and arrived at Port Nicholson (Wellington) on 17 March 1841. His mother died at sea, off Tasmania, and a child was born and died at sea. His brother Henry, aged 11, also died at sea.

Thomas was actually 4 years old [he was born in 1836]; his brother William was 2 years old when the Bevan family emigrated to NZ.

Thomas Bevan Snr. (author), born in 1836 was married in Otaki in 1858 to Hannah Ransfield. Her parents were James Ransfield and Erena Ngawehenga. (See OHS V2 page 44-45 and V5 page 44). There were at least 13 children but there are 11 adult family tree branches from these two. The family home was at Manakau. Source: http://www.bevan.family.name/html/nz_bevan.html