Gideon Henderson (1836 - 1918)

Born 5 Dec 1836 in Walls, Shetland, Scotland

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Died 25 Jun 1918 at age 81 in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Biography

Gideon was born in the Shetland Islands in 1836. He was a seafarer and married Barbara Thomson and they had several children. Around 1875 he emigrated with his wife and children to New Zealand, where they settled in Lyttelton. He worked on the breakwater and subsequently acquired a farm where he spent most of the rest of his life. He died in 1918 at Lyttelton and was buried at Lyttelton Cemetery.

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• Source: S500037 Title: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 Publication: MyHeritage Type: Collection Media: 30226 Record ID Number: MH:S500037 Page: http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-30226/scotland-births-baptisms-1564-1950?s=256573901&itemId=1996289-&action=showRecord&indId=individual-256573901-1000168 Quality or Certainty of Data: 4 Data: Text:

  Gideon Henderson
  Gender: Male
  Birth: Dec 5 1836 - Walls, Shetland, Scotland
  Father: William Henderson
  Mother: Agnes Twatt
  Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C11012-4
  System Origin: Scotland-ODM
  GS Film number: 919496

• Sun (Christchurch), 25 June 1918, page 1 via Papers Past Death on 25 June [1918] at the residence of his son-in-law, D. Sinclair, Canterbury Street, Lyttelton, of Gideon Henderson, late of Diamond Harbour, in his 85th year.
• Press, 29 June 1918, page 6 via Papers Past Obituary of Gideon Henderson, and old colonist, late of Pleasant View, Purau, died at Lyttelton on Thursday [27 June]. Born in the Shetland Islands in 1836, seafarer until 43 years ago when he came to New Zealand with his wife and family in the ship Seeker, settling in Lyttelton where he worked on the breakwater until he acquired a farm on the south side of the harbour where he resided until a few months before his death. Wife pre-deceased him by 10 months. Leaves a grown-up family of eight: Mr J. R. Henderson (Ohoka), Mr D. Henderson (Prebbleton), Mr G. Henderson (Charters Bay), Mrs H. Gardiner (Purau), Mrs D. Sinclair (Lyttelton), Mrs F. H. Simpson (Tai Tapu), Mrs A. Dowell (Christchurch), and Mrs P. Dowell (Greymouth).
• Christchurch City Council Cemeteries 149634 Gideon Henderson, death 25 June 1918, burial Lyttleton Public Cemetery, 27 June 1918, block D, plot 0.95-6, age 82.
• Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998 via FamilySearch Probate for Gideon Henderson; Will dated 30 July 1916, Gideon Henderson of Diamond Harbour near Lyttelton, farmer, trustees and executors his wife Barbara Thompson Henderson and Harold Gardner of Purau near Lyttelton. Beneficiaries: wife Barbara Thompson Henderson, children William Henderson, John Robert Henderson, David Henderson, Gideon Henderson, Christina Margaret Gardner, wife of the said Harold Gardner, Mary Agnes Sinclair, wife of Donald Sinclair of Lyttelton, engineer, Barbara Simpson, wife of Francis Stugh Simpson of Charter's Bay, farmer, Eliza Jane Dowell, wife of Andrew Thomas Dowell of Lyttelton, mariner, Ellen Grace Dowell, wife of Peter James Dowell of Lyttelton, mariner, and grandson Albert Edward Mountford Kiddle Henderson. Harold Gardiner was erroneously referred to in the will as "Harold Gardner". Affidavit by Harold Gardiner of Purau near Lyttelton that Gideon Henderson resided at Diamond Harbour and died on 25 June 1918, and was a British Subject born in Scotland.