Robert Aldworth (abt. 1836 - 1921)

Born about 1836 in Frilford, Berkshire, England

Descendants

Died 21 Jul 1921 at about age 85 in Marton, Rangitikei, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

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Biography

Robert was born about 1836. He passed away in 1921.

Sources

• Tubney Parish Register. findmypast without scan, from Berkshire Archives, D/P133/1/2

Marriage date: 22 October 1862. By licence. Denomination: Anglican

Bridegroom: Robert Aldworth, bachelor, gentleman, of full age, of Tubney, son of William Aldworth, gentleman

Bride: Mary Elizabeth Alice Louise, spinster of Tubney, of full age, daughter of John Wright, Captain 3rd D N S

In the presence of: William Hayard Aldworth, Sarah Anne Blandy, William Kingston Mott, Mary Blandy

• Oxford University and City Herald, 1 November 1862, page 9. findmypast

MARRIAGE.

October 22, at Tubney by the Revs. William Butler and Francis Kewley, Robert Aldworth, Esq., of West Haybourne, Berks, to Alice, only child of the late Captain Wright, Bombay Army, and granddaughter of the late Adam Blandy, Esq., of Kingston House Berks.

• 1871 Census: Household 142, Grove House, Civil Liberty of West Hagbourne. GBC_1871_1272_0203. findmypast

Robert Aldworth head, mar, aged 34, Farmer of 460 acres employing 21 men, 5 boys, 10 women, born at Frilford Berks

Alice Mary Aldworth daughter, aged 7, born at West Hagbourne, Berks

Sarah Blandy Aldworth daughter, aged 1, born at West Hagbourne, Berks

Frances A Aldworth sister, Unm aged 17, born at Frilford, Berks

& 4 servants

• Birth Registration: William Hayward Aldworth, mother’s maiden name: Wright, born 4th quarter 1871 in Wallingford district, Berkshire, England, vol. 2C page 308. findmypast

• The Tablet, 18 March 1893, page 16. findmypast

MARRIAGE.

FAIRFAX-CHOLMELEY – ALDWORTH. – On January 9, at the Catholic Church, Wanganui, N.Z., Roger Fairfax-Cholmeley, second son of the late Captain Fairfax-Cholmeley, R.N., of Brandsby Hall and Gilling Castle, Yorkshire, to Alice Mary, only daughter of Robert Aldworth, Esq., of Silverhope, Marton, N.Z.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132782753/robert-aldworth

Burial in St. John’s Anglican Church Cemetery, Marton, Rangitikei District, Manawatu-Whanganui, New Zealand

Inscription clearly legible on photograph of gravestone

ALDWORTH

of Silverhope

SARAH BLANDY DIED 15th JULY 1884 AGED 14

JOHN DIED 3rd OCT. 1885 AGED 21

ADAM DIED 21st JUNE 1886 AGED 11

MARY ELIZABETH ALICE LOUISE DIED 11th NOV. 1907 AGED 69

ROBERT DIED 21st JULY 1921 AGED 85

Inscription on older gravestone for Robert Aldworth. It is a bit damaged, but the inscription is still clearly legible:

IN

LOVING

MEMORY

OF

ROBERT ALDWORTH

OF SILVERHOPE

DIED 21ST JULY 1921 AGED 85.

Newspaper obituary copied from the findagrave entry:

Obit taken from the Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, 25 July 1921:

The late Mr Aldworth, who died at Bell Block on Friday, was born in 1836 at Trilford, Arlington, Berkshire, England. He was a member of a sporting family, and began hunting on a Shetland pony before going to Marlborough College in 1847. When he left school he began hunting regularly with the Old Berks hounds, and he kept it up till he left in 1882 for New Zealand. On arrival in New Zealand he settled at Silverhope, and his home there was one of the best known trysts in one of the best New Zealand hunting districts, where the country takes a lot of doing, and where the settlers breed the right class of horses for long, strong, and trying tasks, such as are met with at average meets of at the Rangitikei hounds (says the Wanganui Chronicle). For years he managed the Silverhope estate of 6400 acres, which at one time was all bush. The late Mr. Aldworth was the first Justice Of The Peace Appointed in the district, and he had filled the office of president of the Marton Jockey Cub and vice-president of the Rangitikei Hunt Club for a number of years. He leaves two sons and a daughter: Mr Robert H Aldworth, the well-known judge at race meetings, Mr William Aldworth, and Mrs Cholmeley of New Plymouth to mourn their loss.