Thomas Fagan (abt. 1809 - 1860)

Died 16 Aug 1860 at about age 51 in Nelson, New Zealand

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Biography

Thomas Fagan was born about 1809. He was in the police force in Nelson for 17 years prior to his death and a serjeant major for the past 9 years.^[1]

He purchased land in Mary Ann Street, Nelson on 10 February 1852.^[2]

He married Helena.^[3]

He died at Nelson Hospital on 16 August 1860^[4] of disease of the heart aged 51.^[5]

He bequeathed some of his property to his wife and instructed the sale of other property with the proceeds going to his siblings:

• Sarah Holl
• Ann Lyons
• Edward Fagan
• Elizabeth McCaul late Elizabeth Collins.^[6]

In a codile he bequeathed the following collection, known as the Fagan Collection, to the Nelson Institute:

• carved meare (mere?)
• other other carved model canoe head
• Chinese dirk
• a greenstone axe head
• three smaller stone axe heads
• a greenstone boulder
• a stone carving tool
• four greenstone eardrops
• a small piece of greenstone
• a whale's tooth (left by Captain Cook with a native in Queen's Charlotte Sound)
• two natives music pipes
• six ivory eardrops
• five blanket pins
• jaw and tusks of wild boar
• manuka fishhook
• eight fishhooks various
• two pieces fishing apparatus
• shackle for a caw caw's legs
• a large spear twisted
• four smaller spears
• two walking sticks
• two tomohawks
• and any other maori weapons or curiosities that might be found in or about my house or premises at the Port Nelson.^[7][8]

The Fagan collection was donated to Nelson Museum by the executors of Thomas's estate in 1862.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NENZC18600818.2.6
2. ↑ "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-1D9R-GH?cc=1865481&wc=4BCL-7YT%3A1045248801%2C1045258701 : 15 October 2015), Nelson Court > Probate records 1856-1890 P306, P325, P320, P324, P292-P334 surnames E-F > image 17 of 344; Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office.
3. ↑ "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-1D9T-28?cc=1865481&wc=4BCL-7YT%3A1045248801%2C1045258701 : 15 October 2015), Nelson Court > Probate records 1856-1890 P306, P325, P320, P324, P292-P334 surnames E-F > image 21 of 344; Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office.
4. ↑ "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-1D9T-FJ?cc=1865481&wc=4BCL-7YT%3A1045248801%2C1045258701 : 15 October 2015), Nelson Court > Probate records 1856-1890 P306, P325, P320, P324, P292-P334 surnames E-F > image 24 of 344; Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office.
5. ↑ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18600911.2.7
6. ↑ "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-1D9R-N8?cc=1865481&wc=4BCL-7YT%3A1045248801%2C1045258701 : 15 October 2015), Nelson Court > Probate records 1856-1890 P306, P325, P320, P324, P292-P334 surnames E-F > image 27 of 344; Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office.
7. ↑ "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-1D9R-T1?cc=1865481&wc=4BCL-7YT%3A1045248801%2C1045258701 : 15 October 2015), Nelson Court > Probate records 1856-1890 P306, P325, P320, P324, P292-P334 surnames E-F > image 28 of 344; Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office.
8. ↑ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18610816.2.7
9. ↑ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18620812.2.11