Biography contributed by Wendy Napier-Walker
Mary Hayton was born Mary Glenn c 1820.
On 4 December 1863 she married William Hayton in New Zealand.
In 1866 William Hayton was issued a land grant, Oamaru Section 10, Block XXII.
On 21 May 1868 William was charged with 'beating his wife the previous evening. William stated his wife had frequently taken a knife to him. The Sergeant of Police stated he was in the habit of beating his wife'. He was fined pounds 5 or one-months imprisonment. His wife said that she had hoped he would go to prison.
Following the Waimate bush fire in November 1878, William Hayton gave evidence at the Timaru Supreme Court on 25 June 1879 in the case George Court v Michael Studholme, he stated that he had been in Waimate 22 years and had been living behind the Hunt and Jeffery’s Old Mill. His house had burned down on the evening of 15 November.
In the 1881 electoral roll, William is recorded as having one acre part rural section 4312 hut and garden, Waimate.
William died on 24 July 1902, age 84 years and is buried in the Waimate Old cemetery, Free Ground, Row 44, Plot 000236. His grave is unmarked.
Mary died on 3 October 1906 in Waimate age 86 years and is buried in Timaru cemetery, General Section, Row 32, Plot 47. Timaru Council records record her name as Mary Hayter.
After Mary’s death the South Canterbury Hospital Board report notes that a small piece of land she transferred to the Board in 1889, becoming available for disposal on her death. She had been a recipient of charitable aid.
Sources
NZ DIA Marriage Index 1863/4860 Mary Glenn/William Hayton
North Otago Times 19 April 1866 page 2 Supplementary – Land Grants
North Otago Times 22 May 1868, page 2
Timaru Herald 26 July 1879, page 2
NZ DIA Death Index 1902/5801 William Hayton
Findagrave – William Hayton
NZ DIA Death Index 1906/7068 Mary Hayton
Timaru City Council online cemetery database – Mary Hayter
Lyttelton Times 26 October 1906, page 4
Waimate Historical Society : Dempsey Research Centre