Biography contributed by Bernadette Siebert.
Elizabeth Hare was born in 1871 in Kaeo, the fourth daughter of Joseph Hare who arrived from Ireland in 1865 on the Lancashire Witch and his second wife Hannah nee Taylor. Theirs was a large, blended family who lived and farmed in Kaeo, Northland. The Hare family are recognised as introducing the Seventh Day Adventist doctrine to NZ. Elizabeth’s mother Hannah funded the building of a number of sailing ships on the Kaeo River. In 1892 the Hare brothers built the first petrol engined craft, the ‘Neptune’ at Kaeo.
On January 11, 1893, at the residence of the bride's parents, Kaeo, Elizabeth married, Edwin Roby Brighouse, fourth son of Thomas and Sarah Brighouse of Dovedale Farm. Edwin and Elizabeth lived in Whangaroa, where Edwin worked as a contractor, and where they had seven children:
- John Stanley (1894 -1969)
- Minnie Unita (1896 -1987)
- Harriet Edwina (1897 -1986)
- Richard Taylor (1899 -1984)
- Joseph Ward (1902 -1980)
- Dulcie Elizabeth (1909 -1984)
- Rowena Mary (1911 -2004)
Son John served as a lance-corporal at the Western Front during World War 1. Just after John returned home, his father Edwin died of influenza in November 1918, aged 48. Five years later, in 1923, Elizabeth married widower Daniel Daily Hayes, 30 years her senior. He had been a bush contractor at Whangaroa before taking up a farm at Waiuku. Daniel died in 1930 and in his will, he left personal and household articles, a house and three acres and 2000 pounds to Elizabeth; and the farm and other property to be sold and divided amongst his children still living. The whole being worth 20,000 pounds.
Elizabeth is the daughter-in-law of #375 Sarah BRIGHOUSE Kaeo, and sister-in-law of #375 Lizzie BRIGHOUSE, Kaeo
Sources
- PAPERS PAST New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9132, 24 February 1893, Page 4
- PAPERS PAST Northern Advocate, 1 April 1930, Page 4
- PAPERS PAST New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25115, 31 January 1945, Page 1
- The Story of the NZ Brighouse Family
- Personnel File John Stanley
- Intentions to Marry Whangaroa 1923
- Archway probate Daniel