Note: Leo Bensemann’s mother, Ruby (1885–1974), was from Irish and english stock — the daughter of James (Jim) Arnold and Sarah Margaret Fowler. Jim Arnold’s father, James (Leo’s great- grandfather), emigrated from Middleton, County Cork, Ireland, in 1840. His wife, Hannah Ratt, came from Nottingham in england and they married in Nelson in 1847 and settled in Riwaka.Leo’s maternal grandmother, Sarah Fowler, was born in Spring Grove south of Nelson in 1857,the seventh of twelve children. Her parents,John and Mary Ann Fowler, had arrived from england in 1843, the same year as Cordt and Anna Bensemann. Like the Arnolds, they settled in Riwaka, and owned a flax mill, later destroyed by fire. Sarah married Jim Arnold in 1878, and they had five children, including Ruby. Jim fought with the colonial troops against Te Whiti at Parihaka in Taranaki, was injured there and died a few years later. Sarah died in Nelson in 1946.Ruby Arnold, Leo’s mother, was born in Spring Grove in 1885 and died in Nelson in 1974. She was one of eight children and grew up in the Riwaka Hotel known as the Travellers’ Rest, which was owned and run by her parents, from 1887 to 1905. She married Vernon Victor Bensemann at the Presbyterian Manse, Takaka, on 7 September 1910 when she was twenty-five. http://www.press.auckland.ac.nz/webdav/site/press/shared/all-books/pdfs/2011/simpson-fantastica-websample.pdf
Source: S-1633704999 Repository: #R-1697362587 Title: 1841 England Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1841. Data imaged from the National Note: APID: 1,8978::0
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