Catherine Preece

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Preece

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Catherine

Given address

Waikuku

Sheet number

259

Town/Suburb

Waikuku

City/Region

Canterbury

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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Will Esler Posted: 30 May 2017

Catherine PREECE nee TRUMPER b. ca 1856 d. 1909. Catherine arrived on the same ship 'Huntress' in 1863 as her future husband John Morgan PREECE. They married married 22 March 1878. Her family, like John's is recorded as coming from “Salop” = Shropshire. The TRUMPERs lived, like John, near Woodend, north of Christchurch.
Catherine and John were on such close terms that couple’s first child was born less than a month after their wedding. They had 9 more children, all born in Canterbury.
"Preece's Rd" just north of Pegasus is named for this family. They moved to South Taranaki in about 1901. In 1911 the family moved to Kaponga in Northland. John's newspaper obituary is startlingly inaccurate.

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