Edward Roe Sr. (abt. 1793 - 1876)

Ancestors

Husband of Amelia (Lawrance) Roe — married 6 Feb 1820 in St Martin in the Field, Westminster, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 29 Mar 1876 at about age 83 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Biography

(sic) Edward Roe arrived into Wellington, New Zealand in 1840. with his wife and family, on board the ship Gertrude", landing on Petone beach. The family resided for a time in raupo whares until they were transferred to Thorton Baracks ...

It was said that Edward was born in 1802. He passed away in 1876. as reported in the Evening Post on the 29th of July 1876: there reported to be 80 years of age

Then from Canterbury telegrams he is reported to be aged 84 year. If in fact he was born in 1802 as implied by the Immigration Registrar he was 39 yrs then he would have been 74 years of age at his death

Proprietor of Barrett's Hotel - Lambton Quay, Wellington in 1858

Two more children were born to Edward and Amelia. I suspect that they were daughters but no information has come forth to my knowledge

Linked to Wakefield family

The New Zealand Gazette and Britannia Spectator, August 29, 1840

Wellington's first newspaper was printed in London before the embarkation of the New Zealand's Company's first ships to Petone. Samuel Revans, a merchant, speculator, and printer of some notoriety, had skipped Montreal, Canada in the wake of the Papineau Rebellion. When he arrived down under, he quickly established The New Zealand Gazette, which was initially the voice of his employers and highly dependent on their goodwill for advertising revenue to keep the operation solvent. As Revans flexed his muscles in the new colony, however, he had several differences of opinion with the New Zealand Company and the paper went through a number of sea-changes. It was renamed The New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator in November 1840, and in October 1844, under the able management of Edward Roe, became the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian.

Edward Roe was an experienced printer and stationery and later ran a stationery business from Barretts Hotel from 1850 to 1856. He retired to Christchurch where his daughter married Edward Jerningham Wakefield, in 1863

A commentary on Edward Roe from his Obituary notice from the Evening Post:

From Canterbury telegrams, we learn that Mr. Edward Roe, a very old colonist and one of the Wellington pioneer settlers, died yesterday morning at Christchurch at the mature age of 84 years. Mr. Roe who was a printer by trade came out to Wellington in the Gertrude some 36 years ago, and so some time was overseer of the New Zealand Gazette, which was published by Mr. Revens in this city. Subsequently, he carried on the business as a stationer and bookseller for some time, in the shop in Lambton -Quay now occupied by Mr. Marriott. Afterward, he took Barrett's Hotel, and kept that establishment with much credit and popularity for nine or ten years, relinquishing it ultimately to settle on a farm at Karori, whence finally he moved to Christchurch, where he continued to reside until his death. Mr. Roe was universally and deservedly liked and respected.

There is conclusive evidence that Edward and Amelia Roe came to New Zealand in 1841 on the Gertrude ... But speaking to the people holding the archives in Wellington they were unable to confirm that they or should I say that Edward and Charles & E came out on HMS Adelaide ...

edit - He arrived on the Gertrude in 1841 [unsigned]

The other Roe family that came out in 1841 that being William and Frances it is suggested that William and Edward were brothers and was the son of Samuel and Susannah Turner ... but he is not seen in their family as a son on another Ancestry site...

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