Biographical information provided by Briar Barry for the He Tohu exhibition:
Lavinia Boulcott was born 27 April 1857, in the Hutt Valley, Wellington. The suburb Boulcott in Lower Hutt was named after her father Almon Boulcott, who arrived in New Zealand in 1842 and farmed contested land in the area during the 1840s. A memorial stands on the corner of High Street and Military Road in the suburb. It commemorates eight British soldiers who were killed in action or died of wounds received during a Ngāti Hāua-te-rangi raid on the military post at Boulcott’s Farm on 16 May 1846.
Lavinia married George Arthur Cridland, a farmer, in 1883 in Taita, Hutt Valley, Wellington. They moved to Shannon where they raised their son, Arthur George Almon Cridland
