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Surname: 
Rickleben
Given names: 
Catharine
Given address: 
Cuba Street
Sheet No: 311
Town/Suburb: 
Palmerston North
City/Region: 
Manawatu / Horowhenua

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.

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3 comments have been posted about Catharine Rickleben

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Fay Bint

Posted: 27 Nov 2023

Catherine adopted a girl called Joyce my grandmother, I am trying to find out her birth situation and any information as we don’t know her actual birth name or if indeed she was officially adopted by Catherine

B Sullivan and A Sullivan

Posted: 23 Dec 2020

This is interesting information on the Rickleben Family because...

Augusta Rickleben was our Grandmother and she married Arthur Jones. Becoming a jones. Our mother was Patricia Augusta Jones and her mother was Augusta Rickleben, Catherine and Moritz (Moris) Rickleben's daughter. Our great uncle Allan (Alan) Rickleben lived in our house until his death at Wellington hospital. The Rickleben's hail from Magdeburg, Calbe outside of Berlin, and have Swiss-German Roots.

Shane

Posted: 28 Dec 2019

So proud of my great, great grandmother! She was an independent woman In the 1890’s, and, according to records “a business woman of considerable penetration”.
Catherine Rickleben (née O’Hara) came to New Zealand from Dublin in 1858 aged 14. She married my great great grandfather Richard Hawkswood in 1860 in Auckland. He dies of accidental drowning on the west coast of the South Island (Buller district) in 1870. Catherine, with three young children, including my great grandmother Mary Ann, married again in 1875 - to Morice/ Monty Rickleben. They seem to have had quite separate business interests as she went into, variously, nursing, early childhood care, and later real estate . She was also a boarding house keeper - all the while having a new family of seven children with her new husband. She died in Stratford in 1918 in the influenza pandemic. Rest In Peace