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Henry was Born 1807 - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. He was the son of Henry Holland and Phoebe Nusser. The reference was from the England and Wales Census, 1851, [1]
He married Lavinia Cook on 19 October 1835 at Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, England.[3]
They went on to have 15 children.
UK Census Date 1841: Recorded living in Union Street, Leyland, Lancashire, England with his wife and three young children. Also in the household was an Elizabeth Matthews.
UK Census Date 1851: Living with his wife and 10 children in Holland House, Leyland, Lancashire, England. Aged 37. Also in the household was his cousin William Holland who was 21yrs and born at Donington Castle, Leicestershire, and brother Robert Holland.
Occupation: His occupation was Master Bricklayer & Tile & Brick Maker Employing 50 Men & Boys.
His father died in 1853.
Financial difficulties hit the family hard – there were 15 children in the household. Their daughter Susan who was 13 years of age, plus their son George (14 years of age) were put to work and went to live with their uncle Robert Holland. Susan was employed as a Cotton Piecer in the Cotton Mill. The older siblings would have already been working – probably for Henry in the Brickworks.
He was declared bankrupt in the late 1850's in Leyland. Life would have be tough for the family, particularly the younger ones.
Henry and his wife Lavinia made the decision to emigrate from England to New Zealand with some of their children. He then departed for New Zealand in 1860 on the ship Phoenix. (The Phoenix left from Liverpool, England on October 12th, 1859 and arrived in Auckland, New Zealand on February 7th, 1860. Henry obviously left to set up home and work in New Zealand before sending for his family.)
His wife Lavinia and nine of their children followed, traveling on the ship Romulus. They departed Gravesend on June 26th, 1861, and arrived into Auckland on 17 October 1862.
Sadly his mother Phoebe passed away in November 1862 back in England, after taking her own life.
He passed away 13 years after their arrival in New Zealand, on 12 May 1875 in Tuakau. He was 68 years old. [4]
Holland.—On the 12th Instant, at Tuakau, Lower Waikato, Mr. Henry Holland, formerly of Leyland, W. Preston, Lancashire, England, aged 68. (NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XII, ISSUE 4213, 15 MAY 1875)
Alexandra Redoubt Cemetery, Tuakau, North Island, New Zealand. Plot: BLOCK REDOUBT. ROW GRAVES. Plot 187[5]
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Categories: Alexandra Redoubt Cemetery, Tuakau, Waikato | Phoenix, sailed October 12, 1859
1. 1814.This ties in with the UK 1841 and 1851 census 2. 1807. This ties in with the NZ gravestone, death and cemetery records. The 1814 date, make sense form the UK records and ties in with his parents marriage in Birmingham, Warwickshire on 29 November 1812 (otherwise his mother would have been under 14 when he was born). [S. Higgins and V Goss tend to support 1814.]
Henry was also involved in the earlier Brickwork's in Auckland NZ. Archeologists plan to start a three-month investigation on the remains of some of New Zealand’s earliest brickwork sites at Hobsonville. "Limeburners Bay is one of the most significant cultural heritage sites in Waitakere and the Auckland region," Waitakere City Council heritage adviser Alina Wimmer says. The entire archaeological site is comprised of the remains of several brickworks established between the 1850s and early 1900s. This includes Carder’s heavy clay pottery works, R O Clark Ltd works, which dates back to the 1850s, and the unmarked Holland brickworks site. "Limeburners Bay is regarded as the birthplace of ceramics in Waitakere before manufacturing shifted to New Lynn," Mrs Wimmer says. "These archaeological sites are of regional significance." {{Goss-1792]]
edited by Val Goss