John Carne Bidwill (1815 - 1853)

Born 5 Feb 1815 in Exeter, Devon, England

Ancestors

Died 16 Mar 1853 at age 38 in Tinana, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

Biography

John Bidwill is Notable.

John was born in 1815. He was the son of Joseph Bidwill and Charlotte Carne. He passed away in 1853.

Extract from The Streets of My City, Wellington, Page 69

The elder brother of Charles Robert Bidwill, John Carne Bidwill, visited New Zealand in 1839 and 1840 and in 1841 published Rambles in New Zealand . He was the first person to climb Ngauruhoe, since the Maoris avoided it because of tapu [sacred space and not to be entered]. Though engaged in mercantile pursuits in Sydney, he was an ardent botanist, and to a large extent instrumental in founding the Sydney Botanical Gardens. A New Zealand timber tree, the Libocedrus bidwellii (kaiawaka) is named after him. In the forties, he owned land in Wellington at Point Halswell and in Murphy Street. He never married and died in1953 at thirty-eight.

Sources

• The Streets of My City:Wellington, New Zealand Author F.L.Irvine-Smith, Published in Wellington 1948
• England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

John Carne Bidwill Gender Male Baptism Date 11 May 1815 Baptism Place St. Thomas, Exteter, Devon, England Father Joseph Jr. Mother Charlotte Wilmot FHL Film Number 916844 Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22

• John Carne Bidwill

Birth Date 1815 Birth Place Exeter, England Death Date Mar 1853 Death Place Tinana, Maryborough

• Bidwill of Pihautea: The life of Charles Robert Bidwill, Author, William Edward Bidwill & Airini Elizabeth Wooodhouse , Publisher, Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd , Publisher Date , 1927.

John Carne Bidwell (1815-1853)

• An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

www.teara.govt.nz/1966/B/BidwillJohnCarne/BidwillJohnCarne/en

• Australian Dictionary of Biography

www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010092b.htm