Edward Boulton (1818 - 1897)

Born 18 Jun 1818 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Died 2 Dec 1897 at age 79 in Pauatahanui, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand

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Edward Boulton is Notable.

"Edward Boulton and Thomas Wilson established the first inn at Pauatahanui in 1847. Thomas Wilson was a whaler and had operated the Te Korohiwa Station ('Coalheavers') in Titahi Bay before the hotel was established. In 1859 the inn was destroyed by fire and Boulton built a second hotel on the same site. At this time the partnership between Wilson and Boulton was amicably ended... The first school lessons in Pauatahanui were taken by John James Waldergrave in 1855 at Edward Boulton's hotel."^[1]

"The Boulton family was well established in the Paremata/Pauatahanui area with... [father] Edward Boulton whaling in the Mana area as early as 1837." ^[2]

"Although trading came to be much more important, some residual shore whaling continued during the first years of the infant colony. In 1843 the "Purrirua" station took 60 tuns, and 24 tuns and 25 cwt of baleen in 1844. These were the product of perhaps only two right whales in 1843 and one in 1844, very small returns for a season even if, as seems likely, the men were usually engaged on other activities and were in essence only whaler-men part-time and "on call". In 1845 Edward Boulton ran the station at 'Purirua' with 18 men in two boats but took only 18 tuns of oil and 15 cwt of baleen. In 1846, the Porirua station took even less, just a paltry 1 1/2 tuns, or under 400 gallons. By that time, whale bones and other whaling debris extended all along the shore from the whaling station to the streams at Plimmerton and Taupo pa...

From his humble beginnings, Thoms had become a wealthy man. As early as 25 November 1840, he had made out a document that begins "In the name of God, Amen, I Joseph Toms, ... do make and publish ... my last Will ... ". He left all his financial assets and his dwelling and its equipment to his second wife, Maria Boulton. He left a whaleboat and a larger schooner boat to his son George, a whaleboat to his son Thomas, and all his land at "Sawyers Bay" to his brother-in-law Thomas Boulton." ^[3]

The last two years of his whaling operations pretty well ruined Toms, so poor was the return. The sheers for handling the whales at Paremata were situated between the point and the old barracks, near a fence which now (1913) runs down to the water. There was a jetty there in those days; it is also shown in a plan dated 1852. On this plan Boddington’s accommodation house is marked near the jetty. One Andy Green kept an accommodation house at the Point after Geordie Bolt’s time, and in still later days Bolton had a similar place there. Brett’s Early History of New Zealand reproduces some pictures of this and other places round the harbour."^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "History of Pauatahanui" & Images
2. ↑ Plimmerton: 'They followed their hearts'"
3. ↑ 'Joseph Thoms: Sealer, Whaler and Trader of Porirua', by Rhys Richards;The Stockade; Volume 36; 2003, pp. 16-27 (quoting Wakefield 1845; Dieffenbach 1843; McNab 1913 p.298; Millar 1971; Richards 2002 p.25).
4. ↑ "PORIRUA – AND THEY WHO SETTLED IT", by Elsdon Best.

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