Emily Bland

Signed family name

Bland

Signed given name

Emily

Given address

Greenstreet

Sheet number

283

Town/Suburb

Ashburton

City/Region

Canterbury

Notes

The 1893 electoral roll confirms Greenstreet

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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Maurice Halder Posted: 15 Jun 2012

Emily Bland from Ashburton was my great-grandmother's sister. She was widowed when her husband accidentally shot himself in 1886 and as a result took over the management and running of the station they owned, Orton Green, on the Methven Road in Canterbury. She faced some opposition to this being a woman but apparently made a success of the undertaking. She is remembered as being a figure that was larger than life and full of spirit and enthusiasm. She was also fascinated by new technologies such as photography and is fondly remembered creating photographic studios under Victorian tables to the delight of her nephew. It is disappointing that few of her photographs however survive.

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