The 1893 electoral roll confirms -Pukekohe East Franklin electorate.
Biography and image contributed by Jessica Colquhoun.
Annie Hartland (née Morgan) was born in Pukekohe East on 22 September 1867, the youngest of 8 children, to William Morgan and Jane Elizabeth Robinson. Her father was from Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Her mother also emigrated from England, however her exact birthplace is unknown. Her parents married in Auckland, New Zealand, on 27 December 1853.
Annie’s mother Jane passed away after a brief illness at the age of 36 on 18 February 1870, when Annie was just two and a half years old. In December of the same year, Annie’s father William remarried to Rachel Emma Wells. William and Rachel Emma went on to have 10 children of their own, meaning that Annie would have grown up in a large household of 18 children.
Annie married John Hartland on 26 July 1888, when she was 21 and he was 34. Annie and John farmed a large area of land between Buckland and Pukekohe East, near Morgan’s Corner. Nothing more is known of Annie and John Hartland, although they stayed on this farm all their lives. They had nine children: Percival (Percy), Amy, William Edmond (Ted), John Reginald (Reg), Owen Thomas, Hugh Joshua (Huey), Bertha, Raymond, and Sarah Millicent. Their second son, Private William Edmond Hartland, Service Number 12/763, died 25 April 1915 in Gallipoli, aged just 23. He is commemorated at Lone Pine Memorial in Gallipoli, Türkiye.
Annie died on 8 February 1920 at the age of 52. She is buried at the Old Pukekohe East Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph
FindAGrave.
NZ Society of Genealogists Franklin. Suffrage 125, Vol. 1: Women of Franklin on the 1893 Electoral Rolls. 2018.
PapersPast.