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Edward William Stafford b. 23rd April 1819 at his grandfather Colonel Patrick D Tytler's house 11 Melville Street Edinbro', bapt. at Bishop Sandford's Chapel Prince's Street 17-May 1819. d. 14-Feb 1901 at 27 Chester Square London, buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. K.C.M.G. in 1879, G.C.M.G. 1887, [migrated to Melborne 11 May 1841 on the Tasmania and arrived Nelson 12 Jan 1843] Elected first Superintendent of Nelson NZ, 1853, Prime Minister of NZ 1856-61, and 65-69 and in 1872.
= 1st Emily Charlotte only child of Colonel William Wakefield & Emily Elizabeth dau:of Sir John Shelly Sidney, Bart [- mss now continues on Page 6] on 24-Sept 1846 at St Paul's Church Wellington New Zealand, she d.s.p.18 Apr 1857
= 2nd Mary dau:of Thomas Houghton Bartley Esq. Barrister Inner Temple, Speaker of House of Representatives, New Zealand at St Barnabas Auckland New Zealand by Archdeacon G.A.Kipling on 5-Dec 1859. d. 23rd Dec 1899 at 69 Chester Square London. Burried at Kensal Green Cemetery.
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[Biography "Edward Stafford New Zealand's First Statesman" by Edmund Bohan 1994]
Sir Edward William STAFFORD , G.C.M.G.-b-(1819–1901).
Landowner and statesman.the following is an extract on him from the New ZealandEncyclopaedia - 1966 it reads as follows
Edward William Stafford was born in Edinburgh on 23 April 1819. His father,Berkeley Buckingham Stafford, belonged to a well-to-do family of County Louth, Ireland; his mother, Anne née Tytler, was a cousin of the Scottish historian,P. F. Tytler. Stafford entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1836, but he did not take a degree. For some time thereafter he lived the life of an Irish country gentleman. All his life he was passionately devoted to horses and he was an accomplished jockey and a skilled performer in other outdoor sports. He arrived in Nelson in 1843 and, with his relatives the Tytlers, took up land which he stocked with sheep. His marriage on 24 September 1846 to Emily Charlotte Wakefield, only daughter of Colonel William Wakefield, Chief Agent of the New Zealand Company, made it difficult for him to identify himself with the grievances of the Nelson settlers against the Company; but he took an active part in the later agitation of the Settlers' Constitutional Associations for self-government
When I was down there I only had a little knowledge on the history of Stafford. I learn't a bit more when I found out my ancestor and two others had been digging a gold mine shaft when it collapsed and killed them all . He left a grieving widow and 3 kids . He came from the gold fields in Victoria Australia. How ever the story of his life is all in the family books. What a story that is . I was the the last one to be given the job of finding his grave . I found the ruins of the batch they all lived in and what I think is his grave . This was to complete his record of his life .( 3 ) Past generations have had a go at it . without success. Ok that's another story. I have to move on -
http://www.familytreecircles.com/stafford-hokitika-west-coast-south-island-nz-32906.html
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1819 - 1901 (81 years)
