Thomas Reid Dodson (1808 - 1898)

Born 19 Jan 1808 in Bristol, England

Husband of Ann (Matthews) Dodson — married 1830 in Brinkworth, Wiltshire, England

Husband of Elizabeth (Thomas) Dodson — married 1844 in New Zealand

Descendants

Died 26 Aug 1898 at age 90 in Dodson's Valley, Wakapuaka, Nelson, New Zealand

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Biography

Thomas Dodson lived in Wakapuaka, Nelson, New Zealand.

Thomas was born in 1807. Thomas Dodson arrived in New Zealand with the Nelson Expedition ship, Will Watch in 1841. His wife and family followed him later, arriving on the ship Lloyds. After his first wife died in 1843, he married 2nd Elizabeth Northam, a widow of one of the victims of the Wairau massacre of the same year. A daughter (Isabella) was born in 1844.

The birth registrations of their (unnamed) children are recorded as

1849/2646 ;

Henry 1851/2613 ;

George 1853/3025 ;

Arthur 1855/4586 ;

Elizabeth 1858/7076

The family lived at the top of Dodson's Valley. Thomas Dodson was a well known figure in the community being a member of the Nelson Provincial Council, the Suburban North Road Board, the Suburban North Committee of Education, and other bodies.

He passed away in 1898 age 91 ^[1] and is buried at Wakapuaka Cemetery in Nelson ^[2]

AN OLD SETTLER. Another of the now fast disappearing band of "Expedition" men died at Nelson a few days ago. Mr Thomas Dodson, of Wakapuaka, who died in his ninety-second year, landed in Nelson (the "Mail" states) in November, 1841, from the barque Will Watch, one of the three vessels forming the expedition sent out from England by the New Zealand Company, under the command of Captain Wakefield, for the purpose of founding the Nelson settlement. Mr Dodson was one of the first members of the Loyal Nelson Lodge of Oddfellows, and in later years he occupied a seat in the Provincial "Council. For a long time past he resided at Wakapuaka, where a valley bears his name, and until lately he enjoyed good health, in spite of his advanced age. His death was due to an attack of bronchitis following influenza. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
   • NZ Death registration 1898/3761
2. ↑ Burial : DODSON THOMAS - Wakapuaka Cemetery, Nelson 28/08/1898 aged 90 years - Nelson District Council Burial records WKCE02010_F -
3. ↑ The Star 2nd September 1898 page 3, Issue 6273, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18980902.2.61.3

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