Research notes compiled by Michele Leggott, Fredrika Van Elburg, Makyla Curtis, Susannah Whaley, Betty Davis and Brianna Vincent, with acknowledgements to Mike Gooch, Ian Leader-Elliott, Kathryn Mercer and others. July 2019. Revised December 2024 by Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson

Prepared for ‘Writing Lines: Emily Harris Letters and Diary Excerpts 1860-1863,’ Emily Cumming Harris in New Zealand and Australia.

Overview

Charles Champagne Des Voeux (1826-1914) married Katharina Sara Angelica Richardson (1829-1895) in 1853 in New Plymouth, NZ. Their children were Charlotte Mary born 1855, Whanganui, and Frederick Henry Arthur, born 1857, New Plymouth.

Charles Des Voeux owned land at Waiwhakaiho near New Plymouth, previously owned by Captain LH Davy (Grey block 126, 145, 146, 165). The property was a farm named Glenavon. It had been purchased from Davy and his sons by Des Voeux’s father-in-law Thomas Watkin Richardson who arrived in Taranaki in 1850. The following year his wife Mary Anne and her two unmarried daughters Katharina and Eliza arrived in New Plymouth on the same ship as Charles Des Voeux. Charles travelled on to Wellington and took a position in the civil service there and later another in Whanganui. He returned to New Plymouth to marry Katharina Richardson in 1853.

The couple lived in Whanganui until shortly before their departure on a year-long visit to England in 1857 after the birth of their second child. On their return to NZ in early 1859, Charles and Katharina took up residence with the Richardsons at Glenavon. They employed Emily Cumming Harris (1837-1925) as a lady companion for Katharina, who was partially paralysed.

During the Taranaki war of 1860-61 Des Voeux was captain of the Taranaki Volunteers mounted escort. His military experience as an officer in Count Radetzky’s 5th Hussar Regiment before coming to NZ was noted in an obituary of 1914. He is likely to have seen action in Northern Italy during his service with the Hussars 1845-51, though this part of his biography has yet to be verified. His older brother Charles Frederick Des Voeux (1825-47) was an officer on board HMS Erebus and died with the rest of Sir John Franklin’s Arctic expedition of 1845. Frederick Des Voeux co-signed the Victory Point Record of 24 May 1847 but there is no further evidence of his survival beyond that date, though a fragment of a woollen shirt with an initialled name tag was recovered at Back River in 1854. Charles and Katharina’s son Frederick was named for his deceased uncle.

The Des Voeux and Richardson families evacuated Glenavon and took shelter in New Plymouth, probably in March 1860. Emily Harris accompanied them and her duties seem to have included caring for Freddy Des voeux, aged 3. Her letters make no mention of Charlotte Des Voeux, aged 4. In 1861, after the deaths of TW Richardson and brother-in-law WC King, Charles Des Voeux took a family party of 8 to Hobart via Sydney, also taking Emily Harris. The family picked up Charlotte, now 5, in Sydney, where she was presumably cared for by relatives or friends before their arrival.

The Des Voeux family, lived in the town centre and the wealthy suburb of South Hobart during the 1860s and early 1870s. Addresses include 138 Macquarie St (1861, 1865, 1867, 1868, 1871) and Holbrook Place (1863, 1864, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875). Mrs Richardson and Mrs Eliza Mary King and her daughters also lived in some of these locations.

The Des Voeux family attended All Saints Anglican Church in South Hobart and were involved in church fund-raising. Charles was often present at Government House, where Thomas and Harriet Gore Browne were in residence from late 1861. He was a founding member of the Tasmanian Club in 1861 and became a Freemason of the Pacific Lodge, Hobart, in 1873. In the early 1870s he had land holdings in NSW and on occasion acted as private secretary to Tasmanian Governor Charles Du Cane.

Des Voeux made annual trips in the 1860s to NZ where he had business interests. He held the mortgage on Edwin Harris’s property (Grey Block 481) between 1859 and 1862. Because of his land holdings he was an elector on Taranaki rolls into the 1880s. Records from the Taranaki Claims Commission 1861-65 show that Des Voeux owned 195 acres at Glenavon, 160 of them in cultivation before the war. Losses of livestock, rent and damage to dwellings at Glenavon are itemised in these records along with the compensation paid out for them.

Emily Harris worked for the Des Voeux family in Hobart as nursery governess and housekeeper until 1865, when she returned to NZ. Her professional biography in the 1906 Nelson, Marlborough and Westland volume of the Cyclopedia of New Zealand states that she received training in drawing during her stay in Hobart. She was photographed by Alfred Bock at his City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth St, probably in late 1861. Charles Des Voeux appears to have delivered the photo to her family in Nelson early in 1862 on one of his business trips to NZ.

Charles Des Voeux, his wife and daughter departed for London in late 1874 and it is unlikely they returned to NZ or Australia. Frederick, aged 17, was not with the family party and may have already begun his military career in England. He rose to the rank of Captain in the 6th Dragoon Guards. Also on the 1874 sailing to London were Mrs Mary Ann Richardson and one of her granddaughters, Miss King.

Charlotte Des Voeux married Samuel Ewing in London in 1879. Frederick Des Voeux married Hylda Henrietta Brooke 1899 in France.

Charles Champagne Des Voeux was the third son of Rev. Henry Des Voeux (1786-1857), vicar of Stapenhill-cum-Caldwell, later chaplain to the Marquis of Anglesey. Charles inherited the family title in 1894 after the death of his brother Henry and became sixth Baronet of Indiaville, Queen’s County, Ireland. In 1914 the baronetcy passed to his son Frederick. The title went to a different part of the family on Frederick’s death in 1937 and was extinguished in 1944 on the death of the ninth baronet at the Battle of Arnhem.

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Chronology: Des Voeux and Richardson families in England, Germany, Austria, New Zealand and Australia

1812, 1822, 1825, 1826
Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900
Henry. Des Voeux
Emmanuel College
Died: Sept. 30, 1857
B.A. incorp. from Dublin, 1820; M.A. 1820. ‘Admitted at a College’ at EMMANUEL, July 3, 1821. Doubtless the Rev. Henry Desvoeux, 3rd s. of Charles Philip Vinchon, 1st Bart., M.P., of Indiville, Queen’s Co., and Woodhall, Yorks.; adm. at Trinity College, Dublin, July 4, 1803, age 17; B.A. 1807. His grandfather, the Rev. Martin Anthony Vinchon De Bacquecourt, who assumed the surname of Des Voeux, and took up his abode at Portarlington, Queen’s Co., was formerly of Bacquecourt, Normandy, and had incurred the [p.285] displeasure of his family by abandoning the Church of Rome. Henry, s. of the Rev. Henry, became 5th Bart.; and his son, Charles Champagne, succeeded as 6th Bart. Henry married (1) 1812, Frances, only dau. and heiress of Daniel Dalrymple, of Barrow, Co. Derby, and had issue; (2) 1828, Fanny Elizabeth, eldest dau. of George Hutton, of Carlton, Notts.; (3) 1839, Julia Grace, dau. of John Denison, of Ossington, and had issue. A Henry De (not Des) Voeux, B.A., is in Clergy List, 1841-6, ‘of Horley Lodge, Reigate, Surrey’; in Clergy List, 1847-55, name only; in 1856 and 1857, ‘of Leamington.’ Died Sept. 30, 1857, in consequence of an accident at Interlaken. (Ancestry.com)

Reverend Henry Des Voeux (1786 – 30 Sept 1857)

Baptism records for three eldest sons:
Nottinghamshire Archives, Church of England Baptisms, 1813–1922
Carlton on Trent, St Mary
Three entries one after the other:
Henry Dalrymple Des Voeux / Born Aug 29 1822 the son of Henry Dis Vieux and Frances his Lady
Fredk Charles Des Vieux / Born Feb 23 1825 the son of Henry Dis Voeux and Frances his Lady
Charles Champagne Des Voeux / Born Nov 26 1826 the son of Henry Dis Vieux & Fran his Lady

Marriage #1:
1 Dec 1812 to Frances Dalrymple (1796–1Jan 1827)
Children include:
Charlotte Jane (2 May 1814–1871)
Augusta Caroline (14 Nov 1817–1874)
Georgiana Mary (19 Jun 1820–Apr 1872)
Henry Dalrymple (1822–20 Jan 1894)
Charles Frederick (23 Feb 1825–1847)
Charles Champagne (26 Nov 1826–11 Mar 1914)

Marriage #2:
3 May 1828 to Frances Elizabeth Hutton (1805–1838)
Children:
Alfred Anthony (baptised 19 Jan 1830–9 May 1904)
George William (Sep 1834–15 Dec 1909)
Edward Bertram (b. 1836)

Marriage #3:
16 April 1839 to Julia Grace Denison (died 1872)

1821-22, 1825
Cambridge Alumni (ancestry)
Name: Thomas Watkin. Richardson
College: TRINITY
Entered: Michs. 1821
More Information: Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Apr. 12, 1821. [Only s. of Thomas, late of Jersey.] Matric. Michs. 1821; B.A. 1825. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Feb. 1, 1822 (‘Thomas Gwatkin’). (Inns of Court.)

1826
Charles Champage Des Vouex baptised 25 Dec 1826. Norwell and Carlton On Trent, Nottingham, England. Father: Henry Des Vouex. Mother: Frances. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (Ancestry.com).

1827
Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938
Name:  Thomas Watkin Richardson
Gender: Male
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 6 Mar 1827
Marriage Place: Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Spouse: Mary Anne Whittington
Transcription: Thomas Watkin Richardson of this parish, bachelor and Mary Anne Whittington of this parish, spinster, were married in this Church by licence with Consent of [blank] this sixth day of March in the year 1827, By me, John Wittington Officiating Minister. In the presence of George Whittington junior harriet Whittington, Eliza Whittington. No. 56.

Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898
Thomas Friedrich Richardson
Birth Date 20 Dez 1827
Baptism 10 Jan 1828
Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen
Father: Thomas Watkin Richardson
Mother: Mariane Wittington

1829
Catharina Sara Angelica Richardson
Birth Date: 14 Jan 1829
Baptism Date: 6 Mar 1829
Baptism Place: Frankfurt Main, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany
Father: Thomas Watkin Richardson
Mother: Mary Anne Whittington
FHL Film Number: 341753

1831
Eliza Mary Richardson
Birth Date: 16 Aug 1831
Baptism Date: 29 Sep 1831
Baptism Place: Evangelisch, Offenbach, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt
Father: Thomas Watkin Richardson
Mother: Mary Ann Whittington
FHL Film Number:     1272435

1838
The Gentleman’s Magazine – June 1838
Obituary
Feb. 10. At Dresden, having four days previously given birth to a daughter, Frances, wife of the Rev. Henry Des Voeux.
[Note: refers to Henry DV’s second marriage 3 May 1828 to Frances Elizabeth Hutton (1805-1838)

1839
The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume 11 – June, 1839
Marriages
April
16 – At Marylebone, the Rev. Henry Des Voeux, M.A. Chaplain to the Marquis of Anglesey, to Julia Grace, dau. of the late
John Denison, of Ossington, esq.
[Note: Henry DV’s third marriage 16 April 1839 to Julia Grace Denison (died 1872)]

Charles Champagne Des Voeux (1827-1914) was a son of the Reverend Henry Des Voeux and grandson of the 1st Baronet of Indiaville, Queen’s County, Ireland. The 1st Baronet had been Governor of Masulipatam and Second-in-Council of Madras, India, then a member of the Irish Parliament. Charles Des Voeux spent his early years on the Continent and moved to England in 1839. He lived at Old Burlington Street, London, then Leamington Spa. Des Voeux married Katharina Richardson of Clifton and they had one child Frederick Henry Arthur Des Vieux born in 1857, who became a Captain in the 6th Dragoon Guards and served in the Afghan War of 1879-80.
It seems that the Des Voeux family emigrated to New Zealand in the mid-1850s. F C Green says that the family came to Tasmania after an earthquake in Wellington had caused injury to Mrs Des Voeux. They arrived in Hobart Town in April 1861 seeking a more geologically stable home. The family lived in Macquarie Street opposite Vaucluse Gardens. Des Voeux had an interest in pastoral property in Queensland. Mr and Mrs Des Voeux returned to England in 1872. On the death of his elder brother Sir Henry Dalrymple Des Voeux in 1894, Charles succeeded as 6th Baronet. The baronetcy became extinct following the death of the 9th baronet in 1944.
Sir Charles Des Voeux’s younger brother, a well known 19th century colonial governor, Sir George William Des Voeux GCMG was Governor of Fiji, Newfoundland and Hong Kong, as well as serving in British Guiana, St Lucia and Trinidad.

Notes:
AOT MB2/39/26 p. 106
Debretts Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage 1912, London Dean & Son p. 204
Des Vouex, Sir GW, My Colonial Service in British Guiana, St Lucia, Trinidad, Fiji, Australia, Newfoundland, Hong Kong with Interludes, London, John Murray 1903, Green, FC The Tasmanian Club 1861 – 1961, Hobart 1961 p. 18
(Bennison, ‘Tasmanian Club Original Members Biographies 1861’)

1840
Charles Frederic Des Voeux, Royal Navy 1840-47 (Wikipedia)

HMS Powerful
Des Voeux served under Charles Napier in the Egyptian Ottoman War in 1840.
[Note: Frederick would have been 15]

HMS Cornwallis, 1841
Prior to joining Endymion, he sailed on HMS Cornwallis where he became acquainted with James Fitzjames, who would command Erebus during the Franklin Expedition.[6][7]
[Note: Cornwallis is William Parker’s flagship. Frederick serves with Parker April-May 1841]

HMS Endymion
He then proceeded to China for the First Opium War, serving under William Parker and then aboard HMS Endymion under Frederick Grey.[4] Endymion sailed in Hangzhou Bay and the Yangtze River.[5] During the war, he distinguished himself serving as aide-de-camp to Hugh Gough, the commander-in-chief of the British forces.[4]
[Note: First Opium War 1841-42. Is this when FDV receives an injury that leaves him with a glass eye?]

HMS Excellent
On 1 May 1844, Des Voeux passed his lieutenant’s examination, but was not promoted until 9 November 1846 (in absentia). For several months after May 1844, he served as mate aboard the gunnery ship HMS Excellent in Portsmouth, under Thomas Hastings.[8] Five Franklin Expedition officers last served on Excellent prior to serving in the expedition: Des Voeux, James Walter Fairholme, Robert Sargent (HMS Erebus), John Irving, and George Henry Hodgson (HMS Terror).[9]
[Note: Frederick is 19 when he passes his lieutenant’s examination]

HMS Erebus
During the preparations for the expedition, James Fitzjames selected Des Voeux as mate due to their time together on HMS Cornwallis during the First Opium War.[6] He served aboard HMS Erebus with fellow mates Robert Orme Sargent and Edward Couch. His superior officers were John Franklin, James Fitzjames, Graham Gore, Henry Thomas Dundas Le Vesconte, and James Walter Fairholme.[10] He was one of the officers who posed for a daguerreotype by English photographer Richard Beard before the expedition left.
[Note: Frederick’s glass eye is not visible in either of the two surviving daguerreotypes]

Officers Graham Gore and Frederick Des Voeux signed the Victory Point Record 24 May 1847. In 1859 McLintock named Erebus and Terror Bays on the northwest coast of King William Island, close to where the ships were beset by ice 1846-47. He also named minor bays in each region after officers of each ship. Is there a Des Voeux Bay on King William Island or is Frederick too junior to get a bay? See 1854 for McClintock’s recovery of a fragment of FDV’s woollen shirt, now at Greenwich]

1841
Charles Des Voeux living in a boarding house, Elm House, in Wanstead, Essex, outside of London. Teacher is William Andrew. Teacher is William Andrew, Charles appears to be one of 15 students aged between 10 and 15.

1841 England Census
Essex, Wanstead, District 6. [Wanstead is on the NE outskirts of London in Essex].
Elm House.  [Comes after George Lane].
William Andrew. 35. Teacher. Born in Scotland.
Susannah Andrew. 40. Whether born in same county: no.
Isabella Andrew. 15. No.
George Andrew. 15. Yes.
Helen Andrew. 14. Yes.
Ann Andrew. 13. Yes.
Jane Andrew. 13. Yes.
Margaret Andrew. 10. Yes.
Elizabeth Andrew. 8. Yes.
Frances Andrew. 6. Yes.
Reeve Andrew. 3. Yes.
George Minto. 10. Pupil. No.
Harvey Montgomery. 15. Pupil. Born in Ireland.
*Charles Des Voeux. 15. No.
John Graydon. 15. No.
William Longmore. 14. No.
Charles Longmore. 13. No.
Alexander Hope. 15. Scotland.
Outram [?] Jackson. 14. No.
Edward Baker. 14. No.
James Boswell. 15. Scotland.
Norman Porkins. 15. No.
Fred Howell. 14. No.
Walter Mann. 15. No.
Henry Stone. 15. No.
George Pepper. 15. No.
Plus 2 female servants.

Elm Hall, Wanstead, Essex:
Elm Hall, Wanstead, London
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk

Henry Des Voeux
Warwickshire, Leamington Priors, District 16. Clarendon Square. [Warwick is NW of London, central England].
Henry Des Voeux. 50. Clergyman. Born in Ireland.
Julia [ditto]. 40. Whether born in same county: no.
Charlotte [ditto]. 20. No.
Georgiana [ditto]. 15. No.
William [ditto]. 6. No. [CC’s younger brother, born in Baden Baden. George William]
Edward [ditto]. 4. No.
Plus 2 male and 3 female servants.

[1845] Charles Des Voeux, a cadet at Woolwich, recruited by Emperor Ferdinand of Austria, seven years service with Radetzky Hussars. See 1914 obit: ‘Whilst a cadet at Woolwich in 1845 he was one of the young Englishmen selected by the Emperor Ferdinand for a commission in the Austrian army. His Majesty was desirous of obtaining a certain number of young Englishmen of good birth to serve as officers in his corps d’elite. Sir Charles was posted to the famous Radetzski Hussars, who so distinguished themselves in the quadrilateral and Raverna campaigns.’]

[1848] ‘As a young Englishman he danced the State quadrille at the first ball held after the succession of the present Emperor of Austria, who succeeded in 1848.’ See 1914 obit. Emperor Franz Josef ruled from 1848 until his death in 1916.

Radetzky Hussars, peaceful garrisons (Wikipedia)
1839–48 Lodi
1849 Milan

Regiment leaders
1814-1820 Prince Regent George IV of the United Kingdom
1820-1830 King George IV of the United Kingdom
1830-1831 General of the Cavalry Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz
1831-1848 Carl Albert, King of Sardinia
1848-1858 General field marshal Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz

Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
After the outbreak of the revolution in 1848, the regiment was used to quell street fighting in Milan. This was followed by involvement in the battles at Goito. Part of the regiment fought in the Battle of Custozza. The Streifkorps fought at Vicenza, Valeggio and Le sei Vie.
In 1849 a division was set to patrol Borgo San Siro and Vigevano, while another fought at Gamboló and advanced to Romagna.

1849
Frederick Charles Des Voeux
A Naval Biographical Dictionary, William Richard O’Byrne, 1849, p. 282
DES VOEUX (LIEUTENANT 1846) CHARLES FREDERICK DES Voeux passed his examination 1 May 1844; was employed for several months, as Mate, in the EXCELLENT gunnery ship at Portsmouth, Capt Sir Thos Hastings ; and, since 4 March, 1845, has been engaged on a North-west Passage explorative mission, in the EREBUS discovery ship, Capt. Sir John Franklin. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place 9 Nov 1846.

‘Glanavon. A farm of Capt. Davy’s.’
A63.769
Object Detail: Small lithograph depicting solitary two storey farm house in a predominantly cleared landscape (clump of bush to immediate right of house and lower left side of image). Cattle and a horse graze in paddock to left of house. Mt. Taranaki/Egmont and hills in distant background. Printed text below image reads:- GLANAVON [Glen Avon] A FARM OF CAPT. DAVY’S / Published by Smith Elder & Co. Cornhill.” also “Drawn by Mr Good” and “Ford & George Lithographers 54 Hatton Garden”. Housed in folder of cream matting board.
Primary Maker: Good, Ford and George Lithographers
Department: Prints & Drawings/Fine Arts
Media/Materials: Lithograph/Planographic/Print

1850
TW Richardson arrives in New Plymouth by ship Poictiers 30 June 1850. He is 50, a married gentleman in the chief cabin and is travelling solo.
Brett, Henry. White Wings. The Brett Printing Co., 1928.

THE POICTIERS.
The Poictiers, a barque of 500 tons, sailed from London on the 24th February, and arrived at New Plymouth on the 30th June, 1850, in command of Captain Beal. She experienced a stormy passage of 115 days. The cattle and sheep placed on board all died or were washed overboard before reaching the Line, and the passengers and crew suffered for want of food for some weeks before reaching their destination. Four deaths occurred during the voyage. Mr. John James Weston, with his wife and family, arrived by this barque. Mr. Weston was the father of Mr. Henry Weston, the late proprietor of the “Taranaki Herald.” Having some passengers and cargo for Nelson, the barque proceeded on to that port, arriving on July 11th. She then went on to Port Chalmers, arriving on the 6th September the same year. (Brett, p. 144).

Regarding: ARC2001-363 New Zealand Company, Box 6:
Folder 23: Poictier, items 7 and 8: 28 June 1850 – There were only 15 passengers, and the only Richardson is Mr Thomas Richardson, married gentleman aged 50 is listed. He is in the Chief cabin. Children and a woman in the chief cabin are listed individually, so it is not just the heads of households on the list. There was nothing resembling Des Voeux.  I also checked the subsequent folders in the box (later ships) and again, sadly no Richardsons or Des Voeux. (Kathryn Mercer, 23 Dec 2018)
Transcript:
New Zealand Company. (No. 3) Stamp: New Zealand Company Feb 15 [18]50.
List of Chief and Fore Cabin Passengers on board the Ship Poictiers, Thomas Shrubsole Beale Commander, James Eyres Coward Surgeon bound for New Zealand.
Settlement – Name – Trade or Calling – Married or Unmarried, Male or Female, Age.
[…]
New Plymouth – Richardson Thomas – unmarried – 50
[…]
I certify that I have carefully examined this List; and have stated all matters of which it is proper that the should be informed. Signed by Surgeon and Commander.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, 17 July 1850.
The Governor Grey has brought intelligence of the arrival of the Poictiers at Taranaki, after a five months’ passage from England. She had landed some of her passengers at Taranaki and had left that settlement on the 8th instant for Nelson with 125 passengers, the greater part of whom were for Otago.

July 22 – Henry Halse to D McLean.  TWR has bought ‘the old Barracks’ for L165. (Leader-Elliott)

July 29 – Henry Halse to D McLean – TWR living with HH, as a consequence of a falling out with ‘the Horns’ in whose house he was living, he had to find alternative accommodation. (Leader-Elliott)

Margaret Alington (1988): T.W.Richardson, father of Eliza Mary King, was a Justice of the Peace who arrived on the Poictiers in 1850 and farmed in Smart Road at Waiwhakaiho. Henry Halse described him in 1850 as ‘an elderly gentleman, fond of private life, even to solitude, which has made him rather unpopular with those who came out with him; well read, and seen a great deal of the world. He is said to be a man of property.’
Footnote 28: H. Halse to D. McLean, 3 August 1850, McLean Papers, typescript, vol. 8, p. 174, Alexander Turnbull Library.

Wellington Independent, 4 Sept 1850. ‘Taranaki.’ ‘…The arrival of the Poictiers, brought us an accession of some 20 settlers, several of them gentlemen of capital and station…’

1851
1851 England Census.
‘Henry Dee Voenx’
Warwickshire, Leamington Priors.
No. 25. Clarendon Square.
Henry Des Voeux, 64. Head. Clergyman Church of England [two words]. Ireland, Dublin.
Julia Voeux. 57. Wife. Middlesex, London.
*Henry Calrymple Voeux. 28. Son. Fellow of All Saints College. [Notts? Carlton].
Charlotte James Voeux. 36. Daughter. Born Staffordshire.
Georgiana Voeux. 29. Daughter. Born Staffordshire.
+ Butler, Footman, Cook, Lady’s Maid x 2, Housemaid, Under Housemaid, Kitchen Hand.

August 1, Hursthouse reports that the Richardsons embark on the Lord W Bentinck for New Plymouth.  See passenger list below – actually August 11. (Leader-Elliott)

The New Zealander December 13th 1851. Arrival of the Lord William Bentick
*Devereux       Charles                        Bound for Auckland
*Richardson    Mrs                              Bound for Auckland
*2 children

1852
Sir Francis McClintock, ‘Arctic Matters’, The Nautical Magazine, A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs. London: Simpkins, Marshall and Co. 1852.
quoting journal of James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus, 1845:
(p. 161) “Des Vœux I knew in the Cornwallis. He went out in her to join the Endymion, and was then a mere boy. He is now a most unexceptionable, clever, agreeable, light – hearted, obliging young fellow, and a great favourite of Hodgson’s, which is much in his favour besides.”
(p. 164) Wednesday 25th… I have been on deck all day, taking observations. Goodsir is catching the most extraordinary animals in a net, and is in ecstatics. Gore and Des Voeux are over the side, poking with nets and long poles, with cigars in their mouths, and Osmar laughing.

6 Jan 1852 barque Lord William Bentinck arrives in NP with Richardsons and DV. (Leader-Elliott)

Lord William Bentinck.
This barque made four voyages to New Zealand with passengers and cargo. Her first appearance was at Wellington in 1841, as described in the story of Wellington Province; and her second voyage was to Auckland in 1850, when, under Captain Allan; she brought out a good number of passengers, including 48 sappers and miners and four gunners of the Royal Artillery, with women and children. The barque, a vessel of 444 tons, sailed from the Downs on March 26th, and reached Auckland on August 26th, 1850, being then 153 days from the Downs. After landing her passengers and a portion of her cargo, the vessel sailed for Wellington.
The following year the Lord William Bentinck, under Captain Edward Canney, made a second voyage to Auckland. She sailed from the Docks on the 11th, and from Plymouth, where she took on board 40 passengers, on the 14th August, reaching Auckland on the 12th December, 1851.
In 1852 the barque arrived at New Plymouth on the 6th January.

Ian Leader-Elliott 18 Dec 2018:
Here is an answer to your question about the arrival of the Richardson women and Charles DV – from one of my notes.  Source – the McLean correspondence with Halse. You’re no doubt familiar with the problems about the Des Voeux name – no-one seems to have had any idea how to spell it.  So he appears in various sources as De Foe, De Vanse, Devereux &c.
1852 – January 7 – H Halse to McLean:  The barque “Lord William Bentinck” arrived yesterday and landed about 30 people amongst them Mrs. and the two Misses Richardson. I tried hard (acting by proxy) to get a peep at them but couldn’t succeed however I must try again and until then reserve my opinion.  Note – Halse records in a separate letter than Des Voeux was also a passenger on the Lord Bentinck.  (Transcribed passenger list includes a Charles Devereux.)

January 8 – HH to McLean – bad news for Cooper – the youngest Miss Richardson ‘the very one I had cut out for him’ is engaged to de Foe or some such name. (Leader-Elliott)

Wellington Independent January 21st 1852. Arrival of the Lord William Bentinck

Newland journal (17 Feb 1852): The Ship “Fatima” arrived here from Wellington bringing 17 passengers for this place. A Schooner (French) from Sydney bringing a cargo of sheep for a Gentleman named Richardson living at the Waiwaikai.

August 12 – HAW to McLean: EMK to marry WCK:  Of course you know by this time that Willie is engaged to Miss Mary Richardson; but it is said that the marriage will not be yet; as a house is to be built, and all the wedding “braws” are to come from England.  (This doesn’t look right – 1852?) (Leader-Elliott)

August 13 – McLean writes to his wife: Mr W King, whom you saw at Wellington is supposed to be engaged to a young Miss Richardson of this place. (Leader-Elliott)

United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers. New Zealand Pacific Lodge. Wellington, New Zealand.
Date of initiation: 16 Aug 1852. Passing: Sept 29. Raising: Sept 29.
Des Vaux, Charles C. 27 years old. Residence: Wellington. Profession: [Clk, Clerk?] of Bench. Certificates: 31/12/53.

Mr Des Voeux was appointed clerk to Bench at Wellington on 1^st October, 1852 [see 29^th June 1857, Taranaki. Copy of the letter sent to Colonial Treasurer.]

1853
From: Charles C Des Voeux, Wellington Date: 18 January 1853 Subject: Soliciting leave of absence for 6 weeks ‘having made the necessary arrangements for the performance of my duties during such absence.’ Signed Charles C Des Voeux, Clerk to the Bench.. (Archives NZ, R24519819)

Wellington Independent, Volume VIII, Issue 761, 26 January 1853, Page 2
Shipping Intelligence.
SAILED.
January 23, schooner Esther, 54 tons, McGregor for New Plymouth. Passengers—Lieutenant Jones and wife, Mr James Jones, wife, and two children, Miss Lockhart, Mr De Voeux… …

Original Correspondence. TARANAKI HERALD, VOLUME 1, ISSUE 34, 23 MARCH 1853
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ” TARANAKI HERALD.”
Sir,— I learn through your columns that there has been a great stir lately on the subject of land. The cry is itill for land, land, as if there were already hundreds of people in this settlement waiting for land. Of course I do not question the decirubleness of obtaining more land from the natives whenever it can be done ; but at the Same time let us have people preparing or prepared to occupy the land, or I think it might aj well say as it is.
It seems to me that population is our most urgent and immediate want— a reinforcement of steady intelligent English labourers. Few will dispute the want ; the question will be how to supply It. The difficulty is not insuperable Thousands and tens of thousands have been attracted to the opposite shores of Victoria, many of whom are said to be in a destitute condition. It would, therefore, be easy to get an accession to our numbers from thence, and an encouraging opportunity presents itself. Two vessels are shortly expected here proceeding to Melbourne, and if the whole body of the settlers of TARANAKI would heartily co-operate and raise a subscription of £300, one of these vessels might be induced to return here with at least fifty people.
This is only the general idea of the thing— details have to be considered hereafter. I am willing to head the subscription list by a sum of( £20, and several friends are willing to second me. Hoping this matter will be favourably viewed and supported by the settlement at large, I am, Mr. Editor, Yours, &c, T. W. Richardson. Glenavon, March 21, 1853.

Extract from the New Plymouth Church Register of Marriages from Sept 30 1853 to December 31st 1853.
Charles Champagné Des Voeux of Wanganui
Bachelor. And Katharine Sara Angelica Richardson of New Plymouth Spinster were married in the Church by license with consent of Parents the Ninth [?] day of November 1853.
By me George Bayley officiating minister.
In the presence of Thomas Watkin Richardson, Mary Anne Bayley, W C King.
I certify that this is a full correct extract from the register from Sept 30 to Dec 31 1853 inclusive. Henry Govett. Incumbent of N. Plymouth.

MARRIAGE. TARANAKI HERALD, VOLUME II, ISSUE 69, 23 NOVEMBER 1853, PAGE 2
Marriage at the Henui church of Charles C des Voeux to Katharina, eldest daughter of T.W. Richardson of Glenavon.

30^th December 1853. Wellington. Letter from Des Voeux.
‘Having been employed in the Custom House at Wellington during the month of October and part of November last for the purpose of learning the duties conducted with the department of her Majesty’s Customs, to which I had then lately been appointed by His Excellency the Governor, I have now the honor to request you will be good enough to forward my application for some renumeration during that period. I feel myself more justified in bringing this under your notice from the fact that I was obliged to resign the situation of clerk to the Bench at Wellington with a salary of 140 pounds per annum, in order to enter upon the duties I have alluded to, and further that Mr Slackmore [?], who was likewise making himself acquainted with the duties connected to the appointment, received his salary as Chief Clerk to the Colonial Secretary during the whole period his services were required at the Customs House Wellington.’ Signed Charles C Des Voeux, Sub Collector. [Archives NZ IA1 143 1854/4081]

1854
Frederick Des Voeux woollen shirt fragment collected from Inuit by John Rae, Back River, 1854 (Wikipedia)
Inuit from Repulse Bay found various Franklin Expedition artefacts at a camp near the mouth of Back River where many Europeans had starved to death. They traded the artefacts to John Rae in 1854. Among them was a fragment from a plain-woven, cream-coloured woolen shirt with the words “F.D.V. 1845” written in black on the ribbon.[16] Based on the initials on the ribbon, it has been identified as having belonged to Des Voeux.[17]
“Shirt | Royal Museums Greenwich”. Royal Museums Greenwich. Archived from the original on 16 December 2021.
All officers and crew of the expedition were officially declared dead in March 1854.

April 3 – HAW to McLean:  Mrs. Richardson told me yesterday that they are expecting Mr. Des Vana this week. He is coming to look after land in this quarter. Wm. King’s house is to be ready by June, so I suppose there will be a grand marriage there. Some seem to think that he will never open his heart to spend an extra penny on the occasion; at least so thinks his future father-in-law. (Leader-Elliott)

April 18 – W Halse to McLean – Miss Richardson will not sing: ‘Some entertainments are coming off next week, under the patronage of the Freemasons. A concert, at which most of the vocal and instrumental talent of the place will be exhibited, except Miss Richardson, who has been interdicted by the Squire of Brooklands. The next evening a Play, written by that universal genius, A. King; which is to convulse us with grief and laughter. Des Vanse and Captain King are here from Wanganui, on a visit. But they will leave before the concert’. See Taranaki Herald, 18th April, for the opera and the concert. (Leader-Elliott)

23 May 1854. From: S Carkeek, Collector of Customs, Wellington To: Colonial Secretary, Auckland. Recommending half pay be allowed Mr Des Voeux during the time he was learning the duties of his office. (Archives NZ, R23522524)

…Colonial Secretary, Auckland Date: 21 August 1854 Subject: Recommending Mr John Lyle as Sub Post Master at Petre [Wanganui] vice Mr C des Voeux resigned – 1854/2432 (Archives NZ, R23523105)

From: C C Des Voeux, Petre Date: 29 December 1854 Subject: Requesting His Excellency to relieve him from the appointment of Registrar under New Marriage Act. (Archives NZ, R24906378)

1855
January 4: Eliza married Captain William Cutfield King, Henui Chapel, New Plymouth. William Halse writes to McLean on 15th January:  William King is at length married to Mary Richardson. It came off at the Henui, and so secretly, that I knew nothing of it until I was on my way to Pukerangiora with Major Nugent, Vickers, and Henry; overtaking the old Captain on the road to Church. In the evening we dined at Vickers’, where we met Govett, who was not even asked to cross the water with the Richardsons after the ceremony; and report affirmed that the old Captain was similarly treated. Certain it is that he left them at the Church, and went to town. The couple are by themselves at the new house. Neither cards nor cake have issued therefrom. Well, if ever I marry, I’ll have a jollification and no mistake. Dancing without intermission, and plenty of it. It is said that Captain and Mrs. King intend returning to the Old Country, now that Willy is settled. A natural and common impulse with old people, — and young ones if they but had their way. (Leader-Elliott)

GeoNet: M 8.2 Wairarapa Tue, Jan 23 1855
M 8.2 Wairarapa Tue, Jan 23 1855. The 1855 earthquake is the most severe earthquake to have occurred in New Zealand since systematic European colonisation began in 1840. The shock was felt across almost the whole country, and was highly destructive in Wellington (MM 10), and severely damaging in Whanganui and Kaikoura.

From: C C Des Voeux, Whanganui Date: 30 January 1855 Subject: Reporting error in his name as inserted in the Commission as Registrar.
Transcript: ‘…commission appointing me Registrar of Marriages for the District of Whanganui which I have now the honour to return to you a mistake having been made in the christian name. I have further to state that the office alluded to so far from being solicited by me is one very much against my inclination and if not too late I have to request you will be good enough to petition His Excellency the officer administering the Government to appoint some other person for the performance of the duties of Registrar for this district.’ Signed: Charles Champagné des Voeux. (Archives NZ, R24906377)

11 June 1855. Birth of Charlotte Mary Des Voux in Whanganui, New Zealand.

1855. Births in the district of Wanganui for the quarter ending 30 Sept.
No. 20
When Born. 1855 June 11
Name, if any. Charlotte Mary
Sex. Female
Name and Surname of Father. Charles Champagné Des Voux.
Name and Maiden Surname of Mother. Catharine Sarah Angelica Des Voux formerly Richardson
Sub Collector of Customs
Signature, Description and Residence of Informant. Charles Champagné Des Voux Wanganui
When Registered. 1855 July 19th.
Signature of Deputy Registrar. [Signature]

From: S Carkeek, Collector of Customs, Wellington Date: 23 June 1855 Subject: Enclosing Mr Des Voeux bond signed Enclosed: – 1855/1374. (Archives NZ, R23523325)

25^th June 1855. Letter From: Charles C Des Voeux, Late Postmaster, Whanganui To: Colonial Secretary, Auckland. Subject: For His Excellency’s sanction for the expense of £2-8-0 for 4 Tarpaulins to cover Mail Bags £1-5 for a Special Messenger. (Archives NZ, R23523327)

November 20, 1855: Birth of Alice Mary King [des Voeux] [Turton]. (Leader-Elliott)

Shipping Intelligence. TARANAKI HERALD, VOLUME IV, ISSUE 173, 21 NOVEMBER 1855, PAGE 2
ARRIVED.
Nov. 18.— Mary Jane, schooner, 40 tons, from Whanganui [sic]. Passengers— Mr and Mrs Des Voeux, and child, Mrs Richardson, F. and S. Old.— R, Brown, agent.
[Note: the Des Voeux and Mrs Richardson arrive in NP just in time for the birth of Alice Mary King, 20 Nov 1855.]

1856
‘Mount Taranaki from Glenavon, 1856, from a watercolour by Caroline Harriet Abraham’
Caroline Harriet Abraham (1809-1877) was a watercolurist and the wife of Bishop Charles Abraham. The Abrahams were close friends of Bishop George Selwyn and his wife Sarah. They lived in NZ between 1850 and 1870. Caroline’s visit to Glenavon may be associated with TW Richardson’s intense Anglican piety in these years.

Watercolour showing the maunga behind some scrub/bush, part of the Auckland Libraries collection
Title: Mount Taranaki from Glenavon, 1856, from a watercolour by Caroline Harriet Abraham
Content partner: Auckland Libraries
Collection: Auckland Libraries Heritage Images Collection
Description: Mount Taranaki from Glenavon, 1856, from a watercolour by Mrs Charles Abraham
Format: Image
Date created: 1850-1859
Creator: Abraham, Caroline Harriet

From: Charles C Des Voeux, Sub Collector, Whanganui To: Private Secretary, Auckland Date: 1 March 1856 Subject: Requesting His Excellency to grant him leave of absence. ‘For the purpose of visiting England on urgent private affairs…I have made arrangements with Major Durie.’ (Archives NZ, R24906375)

Taranaki Herald 22 Mar 1856. Colonial Secretary’s Office
David Stark Durie , Whanganui, appointed Registrar of Marriages for that district during the absence of C.C. Des Voeux.

26 June 1856. Taranaki. Letter from Des Voeux to Private Secretary requesting leave. ‘For the purpose of visiting England on urgent private affairs…I have made arrangements with Major Durie.’ (Archives Nz, R24906371)

2 July 1856. Charles C Des Voeux, Sub Collector, Whanganui to Private Secretary. For his leave of absence to be extended. (Archives NZ, R24906373)

From: C C Des Vaux, Wellington Date: 13 October 1856 Subject: Declaration as to exercise of scrip on behalf of purchases for land at Wanganui. ‘I hereby solemnly and sincerely declare that the undermentioned numbers of Land Scrip issued to the parties respectively [entitled] to the same were exercised by me in the purchase of lands at Whanganui in the Province of Wellington at the sale by auction held at that place on the 24th May 1855 for and on behalf of the said parties.’ (Archives NZ R24432896)

1857
1^st March 1857. Birth of Frederick Henry Arthur De Veux. BDM certificate:
Frederick Henry Arthur. Male. Father: Charles Champagne [could be Des or Du Vœux or Vaux]. Mother: Katharina Sara Angelica Richardson. Occupation of father: Gentleman. Signature, Description and Residence of Informant. Charles Champagne Des Vœux New Plymouth. Registered March 12.

1 July 1857. Charles and Katharina Des Voeux leave New Plymouth for Melbourne by Steamer Zingari

From: C C Des Voeux, New Plymouth To: Colonial treasurer, Auckland Date: For extension of leave as Sub Collector at Wanganui [Whanganui]
‘Taranaki 29 June 1857. Sir / With reference to your letter dated 3 July 1856 in which an additional leave of absence was granted to me for the purpose of proceeding to England I have the honor to report that circumstances beyond my control have prevented me from availing myself of this leave until now and that I shall proceed to Melbourne en route for England by the ‘Zingari’ which vessel arrived in port this morning – as my leave expires on the 31st of October next it will be impossible to carry out its intention in the time still left I have therefore respectfully to solicit that His Excellency’s Government will take the circumstances into their favorable consideration and that any arrangements for the performance of my duties as Sub Collector of Customs at Whanganui may be made without prejudice to my resuming them within such reasonable time as the Governor may think fit. I have the honor to be Sir your most obedient servant C C Des Voeux.’ (Archives NZ, R24906371)

From: C C Des Voeux, New Plymouth Date: 24 August 1857 Subject: Respecting leave of absence and recommending Mr J A Murray to be appointed during his absence.
‘circumstances over which I had no control prevented me until now from proceeding to England. Mrs Des Voeux’s protracted illness and a second attack of paralysis being expected was the chief cause for this delay. However having been strongly urged still to undertake the voyage it was my intention to have proceeded to Auckland hoping there to obtain our sanction to this step – the steamer ‘Zingari’ touching at this port on her way to Melbourne will I trust be deemed a sufficient apology for availing myself of such a favourable opportunity instead of going to Auckland as I had contemplated with a view to personally soliciting your excellency’s permission. I can only further state that a period of less than 18 months from the expiration of my present leave would I fear avail but little towards restoring one who has been so long a sufferer. Under these unfortunate circumstances I entertain a hope that your excellency will allow a locum tenens to perform my duties at Whanganui during this period. I may mention that Mr John Murray the son of Major Murray 65th Reg who was for some time in the Customs Department in Ireland would be willing to undertake their performance for the time specified…’
[CFD notes: Des Voeux’s letter is dated 29 June 1857. Approval is written overtop for August 1857. (Archives NZ, R24906367)

Taranaki Herald 4 July 1857. Shipping Intelligence
Sailed.
July 1. – Zingari, steamer, Millton, for Melbourne. Passengers – Mr and Mrs Des Voeux, Mr and Mrs Latimer and child.

The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.) 28 July 1857. Shipping Intelligence

July 27. – Zingari, s.s., 145 tons, W. N. Milton, from Nelson 25^th ult., via New Plymouth 1^st inst. Passengers – cabin: Mr. and Mrs. Des Vaux, Mr. and Mrs Jones, Mr and Mrs Lattimer, Mr Hale and child. Messrs. Douglas, Caldwell. Bright Brothers and Co., agents.

August 1857. Royal Charter. Destination Liverpool. Des Feux, — Mr and Des, Feux — Mrs. (Outward p*
Passenger lists PROV. Original record kept on microfilm in North Melbourne Reading Room, not digitised.

Death of Rev Henry Des Voeux, 30 Sept 1857, aged 71 years

Reverend Henry Des Voeux’s probate 2 Nov. 1857. (Ancestry.com).
[…] To my oldest son Henry Dalrymple his heirs or assigns absolutely I leave and bequeath my house No 6 at Clarence Terrace Leamington and the provinces there to be annexed…
…I leave and bequeath it to my oldest son Henry Dalrymple his heirs and assigns for ? and their absolute use and benefit also I leave and bequeath all the residue of my property in money securities for all money stocks funds shares in canals Railways Banks insurances companies Bonds and all other securities either in England or elsewhere and all other my personal property not heretofore supposed of to my executors and administrators or the survivor of them upon trust.
[…] whereas freehold property borrowing upon my oldest son Henry Dalrymple at my behest as heir at law of this ? has been sold and disposed of with his knowledge and consent and has procured the sum of three thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds or thereabout I have and bequeath to my said son Henry Dalrymple his heirs and assigns the sum of three thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds sterling to be paid to him out of the personal property I shall leave at my [behest?] before any other of my bequests the same being justly due to him.
[…] One thousand pounds sterling [prior?] to my four sons Charles Champagne Alfred Anthony George William Edward Bertram for their own use provided they or any of them be living at the time of the [bequest] ? ? survivor of me and my said wife…
[…] Also I leave and bequeath to my three daughters Charlotte Jane Augusta Caroline and Georgiana Mary Anne three thousand pounds sterling a ? or to cash and ? out of them…I also leave and bequeath to my two unmarried daughters Charlotte Jane and Georgiana Mary a ? in ? to the sum or sums already bequeathed to them an annuity of one thousand pounds to be equally divided between them out of my personal property…
[…] and bequeath to my son Charles Champagne two thousand pounds sterling Also I leave to my son Alfred Anthony one thousand five hundred pounds sterling Also I leave to my son George William one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds sterling Also I leave to my son Edward Bertram one thousand and fifty pounds sterling Also in the [court? case?] of my son Charles [Frederick] who embarked in the arctic Expedition in the year 1845 being [alive] at the time of my ? I leave to him the sum of three thousand five hundred pounds sterling…
[…] Also should my son Charles Frederick not be living I leave all my bequests to my three daughters and to my son Charles Champagne all that ? property ? by settlement he would have…at my bequest but in which having died intestate [devolves] upon me ? whereas a sum of ? ? after paying expenses to one thousand and fifty pounds or thereabout was paid to me by the Admiralty as ? law of my [dear?] son Charles Frederick presumed to have perished in the arctic Expedition I leave and bequest this sum to my three daughters

TW Richardson to Bishop Selwyn, 21 Dec 1857 (Kinder Library)
ANG 90-14-26
Taranaki
Mr Richardson Application for Holy Orders
My Lord
Having had the happiness of some little intercourse with your Lordship, tho’ far too little and transient for my good, I am emboldened by it to submit this my case and petition to your favorable consideration the state of spectant [legislation?] which this continuously s….. and the … of ministers of the church of england has long been a matter of deep concern to me and pondering this much in my mind it has exposed [?] whether I could not, in my own … do somewhat, however … to remedy the Evil. And I beg to avenge all truth and sincerity [???]. That I am not influenced by
[p2] any motive of self conceit, or of fancied superiority over my fellow sinner of this  place and I want no …. lament my idea simply is that the Almighty having offered me with service and competency [?] having had a good Education – it might be received by him as a return of duty acceptable to this law – the Church, our Redeemer to glorify and praise his Most Holy Name – by considering myself more especially to his service for the remainder of my days and so be able to do more good to my fellow being than I otherwise could.
To effect this as a [one word] of the Gospel, your Lordship’s Episcopal Sanction at … which I hereby due for [?]
[p3]
Of course I cannot tell whether the peculiar circumstance of the case will be deemed by your Lordship sufficient to warrant or endure you to [one word] many conditions and requirements, which you would very properly invert [one word] in the case of young candidates.
From there E.g. you to demand a Long and complete course of theological studies which at my advanced age, nearly sixty and with very weak eyes, is quite out of the question. However, I can assure you that my whole life has been spent in the perusal of the best books. Some of our elder [divine?] especially J Taylor have been my delight together with our lovely Christian poets. Milton, Herbert, Young, Cowper, etc.
[p4]
I only mention this to evince the bent of my mind. Having now explained my end and motives, it only remains to add my wish that we may speedily see your Lordship in Taranaki where I shall be enabled to offer myself more freely and I hope satisfactorily than I can by letter. In the meantime, I beg to [s…] myself. Your Lordship’s very affectionate and humble servant, T W Richardson.
To the Lord Bishop of New Zealand
Glenavon 21st Dec 1857.

1858
28 December 1858. Mr and Mrs Charles C Des Voeux arrive in Melbourne on the Royal Charter, from Liverpool, England. Recorded on ship’s log, page 15. Travelling alone. (Ancestry, Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passengers Lists, 1839-1923 and Public Record Office Victoria Unassisted passenger lists (1852-1923)).

28 December 1858. Arrived Melbourne from Liverpool. Saloon. Royal Charter
30. Charles C. Des Voeux
” Mrs Des Voeux
” Mrs Rotherham
(Ancestry.com)

1859
Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 7, 22 January 1859, Page 2
ENTERED INWARDS.
Jan 21, steamer Lord Worsley, 290, Johnston, from Sydney
Passengers — Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, family, and servant ; … Mr. and Mrs. Des Voeux and servant

Taranaki Herald, 29 Jan 1859, Page 2, Shipping Intelligence.
ARRIVED. January 23. — Lord Worsley (s.s), 550 tons Johnson, from Sydney via Nelson. Passengers — Mr and Mrs Des Voeux and servant. C. Brown, agent.

Henry Govett to Bishop Selwyn, Easter Eve, 1859 (Kinder Library)
ANG 90-14-45
1859. New Plymouth. Mr Govett [testimonial?] of Mr Wollaston and Mr Richardson.

Henui parsonage. Easter Eve.
My dear lord
I wrote to you about several matters directing my letter to Wellington but I think most likely that you must have left before its arrival. I wish now however especially to bring before you for your consideration the question of Mr Wollaston’s ordination. From which I have seen of him and from which I have heard from others I believe that he is quite desirous to devote himself faithfully to the work of the ministry [?]. At the Bell Block and the Henui – where he has been engaged among the people he appears to be very much liked and they look forward with pleasure to the thought of his being permanently settled here. I believe he has been guilty of some indiscretions which have operated to his pre-[ink faded]. but I should hope that seeing the [one word] they have thrown in his way already he will be made more careful for the future.
It has occurred to me that if you should be at Auckland on Trinity Sunday you might possibly be willing to ordain Mr Wollaston if the [one word] he should appear to you well qualified.
If you should be willing to receive him Mr W might go to Auckland then [two words] of the steamer which would be a short five weeks time [?].
I believe your lordship is acquainted with Mr Richardson’s wishes to the subject of [ink faded] there anything which [one word] suggest in the way of receiving him as a practitioner for the Holy Orders. He seems anxious to devote the remainder of his life to ministerial work and of course the presence of another clergy here would be a great help to me and enable us to go about more affairs the settlers – which they are now preparing for very much [two words] although at present [one word] much opportunity.
I am very glad that there is some prospect of your being able to share a native [one word] for this district. in the Taranaki district the natives are [two words] especially in the hipe of having an English clergyman.
Mr Brown is a great acquisition [ink faded] to work vigorously Omata and Tataraimaka. We are very much pleased with him.
Please send my regards to Mrs Selwyn
My dear lord, yours faithfully, Henry Govett

Henry Govett to Bishop Selwyn, 11 Apr 1859 (Kinder Library)
ANG 90-14-46
[Note: ink has faded along margin, hand writing is hard to make out so transcription is only approximate.]
1859. New Plymouth. Mr Govett on Mr Wollaston and Mr Richardson.

Henui Parsonage
April 11th
My dear lord. I beg to acknowledge with many thanks your kind letter of welcome to Mrs Govett and my [two words] return to Taranaki. We are now mostly well settled in our home, and after [two words] to work upon our regular duties.
There seem to be many things all at once requiring attention. Mr Brown I believe has decided to taking a lease of Brook Wood [ink has faded at margin] and living there, as it is the only available house in the neighbourhood. I recommended him if he could to take it at first for the year only – that he might be more free – but i believe Mrs [..lley] having expended [?] a good [one word] of money there – is rather assuming his doing so.
[At present?] it is arranged that [after?] the morning service at Omata [three words] afternoons … Omata bush and Tataraimaka [?] [one word] in England. I told him that I did not think he could count upon more than 100t. [one word] as stipend and as there [one word] stand just now. I don’t … that a larger sum could be spared. Mr Wollaston has called upon [one word] and entered upon his affairs – he is naturally very upset to leave a fixed position [one word[ But of course as you have [one word] the motion of testimonial [one word] in some degree referred to myself. I must [two words] little hine – to harm what his [one word] are – and what the parsonage and intentions of [two words] are about him.
I don’t see that anything can be done about the guarantee until the return of Mr Hirst who has interested himself [one word] about church matters on the Hua district.
I believe Mr Richardson has made you acquainted with his wishes [ink faded one or two words] ordination. He seems very earnest and desirous as he says to spend the remainder of his days in the service of God. I doubt very much whether the feeling towards him would be very favorable [?]. But still I am not aware that anything could be brought forward against him [one word] prepositioned to his character. I believe that for the last four years he has learned much more lessons and [one or two words] of religion and is activated entirely by good motives in proposing himself as a candidate [one or two words] I believe aware that the purposes giving his help [one word] any wish for stipend [one word]/
I am very glad that you have been able hold your first meeting with regard and I heard that the measures adressed will be in the most part acquirable to pone word] and [one word] to the church.
Believe me… my dear lord, yours faithfully, Henry Govett.

48 Letter. Henry Govett to G.A. Selwyn. Henui Parsonage, June 11 [1859] 4 p.
re Wollaston’s departure for Auckland, insufficient funds to support 3 clergymen, demand for Maori prayer books, plans for Richardson to remain a Lay reader “for some time longer”, and for the extension of the church building.

22 June 1859 Des Voeux holds mortgage on Edwin Harris property Grey 481

Consecutive Number of Instrument: 736
Day, Hour, And Minute of Instrument: June [23] 1859. 3 o’clock pm
Nature of Instrument: Mortgage
Date of Instrument: June 22 1859
Where Recorded: R1. [579]
Reference to Sub-division: [Blank]
Signature of Party or Authorised Agent: [Thomas Standish] Grouped signature with above]
*736 Harris to Des Voux. Mortgage 22 June 1859
[Taranaki Land District] Deeds Register Book R12, pp. 187-88. Archives NZ (R22848274). BAPP 23518 W5750 /41.

51  Letter. Meyrick Lally to G.A. Kissling. Taranaki, Dec. 14, 1859. 1 p. re licence to allow Thomas Richardson to officiate at services as a layman.

52  Letter. Meyrick Lally to G.A. Selwyn. Taranaki, Dec. 15, 1859. 7 p.
re his request to George Kissling for a licence for Thomas Richardson as Lay reader, and Wollaston’s continued breaching of church discipline in preaching from manuscript sermons

19 December 1859: Birth of Constance Ada King [Roope] [Mullens]. (Leader-Elliott)

1860
Tasmanian Assessment and Valuation Rolls (Hobart)
Friday, February 10, 1860
138 Elizabeth Street Occupier: Alfred Bock Owner: John Mather, Valuation: 60. Description of property: House and shop On Page 1953
138 MacQuarie St. Occupier John Burnett. Owner: James Priest, Valuation: 90. Property description: Dwelling-house and land Page 207

Taranaki Herald 10 Mar 1860. Journal of Events
The services of a mounted escort of volunteers was accepted by the Commanding Officer, and C. DesVoeux, Esq., received the appointment of supernumerary Captain of Militia to enable him to take the command of them. This force is mostly arnwl with a sword and revolver. […] Punctually at four the advance sounded, and the column marched off in slow time, and with the guns and baggage tran and rear guard could not have been lesb than half a mile in length. Sixteen mounted settlers under Captain DesVoeux escorted the baggage. [Note: If Des Voeux is based in New Plymouth by 10 March, it seems likely his family has evacuated Glenavon and is living in town. The evacuees are Thomas and Mary Ann Richardson, Katharina, charlotte and Freddy Des Voeux, and Emily Harris.]

Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1413, 20 March 1860, Page 3
LATEST NEWS FROM TARANAKI.
By the Overland Mail, we have received Taranaki papers up to the 10 th inst.,from which we extract the following
Sunday, 4th March… The services of a mounted escort of volunteers was accepted by the Commanding Officer, and C. Des Voeux, Esq., received the appointment of supernumerary Captain of Militia to enable him to take the command of them. This force is mostly armed with a sword and revolver. A considerable number of the settlers were spectators of the unusual scene, and many were the speculations as to the probable effect of so large a force (above 400 including officers, engineers, and artillery) would have upon the natives whose misconduct had led to the proclamation of Martial law in Taranaki.

Edwin Harris to Donald McLean. New Plymouth, 21 Mar 1860
New Plymouth
March 21st
Dear Sir
As it is probably [probable?[ I may not be able to see you personally, I have thought it best to write you to ask if you have any influence in obtaining from the governor, with whom I am unacquainted some employment more fitting (professionally or otherwise) for an old servant of the Government than that of a private in the Militia.
I am still able to map & draw as when we were first acquainted and could certainly render more efficient service professionally than as a fighting man. Should you wish to see me, I will call on you. But we are at present living at the Henui opposite Dr Wilsons.
I remain
Dear Sir
Yours [two letters, Le?]
Edwin Harris

MS letter to Donald McLean. Written in New Plymouth, 21 Mar [1860]. 2 pp. ATL. MS-Papers-0032-0326.

Taranaki Herald 24 Mar 1860. Journal of Events
(Te Kohia, 17 March) and 20 Mounted Volunteers, under Captain DesVoeux.
Sunday (18 Mar). — Every body on the look out for news.’ During the day, to the intense dissatisfaction of every one, the mounted escort returned with the intelligence that the pa had been evacuated by the rebels.

Taranaki Herald 24 Mar 1860, p. 3.
THE WAR [From our own Correspondent, Camp, Waitara.]
On Friday evening it was reported to the Officer Commanding the Forces that Wiremu Kingi’s natives had erected another pa on the land purchased from Teira. Early on Saturday morning the Land Purchase Commissioner, Mr Parris, was sent to ascertain whether or not it was within our boundaries. It was found to be two chains within the boundary, and about four from the Devon line. Soon after it was reconnoitred by one of the mounted escort, who reported that it was a very strong pa, with double palisading, ditch, and galleries. A letter was addressed to the natives by Col. Gold ordering them to move off the Queen’s land, and warning them of the consequences of refusal. This they would not even receive. Subsequently, Col. Gold resolved to destroy the pa with the rockets and 24-pounder howitzers. At half-past twelve, three companies of the 65th Regt. under the command of Col. Gold, assisted by Lieut. Col. Sillery, Captains Paul and Barton, 65th Regt., and 6 Subalterns; 6 sailors from H.M.S. Niger, under Lieut Wells, with a rocket tube; 2 sergeants and 17 men Royal Artillery, with 1 12-pounder and 2 24-pounder howitzers, under Lieut. McNaughten, 9 Sappers and Miners, under Lieut. Mould, and 20 Mounted Volunteers, under Captain Des Voeux. This force passed along the Waitara road within range of the pa unmolested, where Lieutenants McNaughten and Mould were despatched with the mounted escort to find a suitable position for the guns and rocket tube. They fixed upon a little mound at the distance of 750 yards from the pa, from whence, so soon as the artillery and troops reached the position, a fire was opened, upon which the natives danced a war dance, hoisted their fighting flag, and returned the fire from the three faces of the pa. From the pa being placed in a hollow at the head of a gully, at first a few of the shells and rockets fell short, but the range was ascertained and the practice was excellent, the shell and rockets exploding in the pa and raising clouds of dust and smoke. After a short time it was found that the distance was too great. The Mounted Volunteers were extended on the right to threaten the enemy’s line of retreat, and soon exchanged shots with some natives stealing up the gully to the pa, one of whom was wounded in the back and toppled over.
Journal of Events
(Te Kohia) and 20 Mounted Volunteers, under Captain DesVoeux.
August 8 – Brooklands raided and interior pillaged
August 10 – WCK Woodleigh had been occupied and pillaged.  WCK went out with volunteers to salvage goods.  One trip successful.  Second abandoned.
August 19 – Diary of Events reports that Richardsons, Kings, Shuttleworths and Mrs Smith’s homes are occupied by the enemy.  ‘Friendly natives’ defecting to the enemy.
August 24 –  A force of 100 brings produce from Richardson’s to NP, for commissariat.
August 28 – 300 more evacuated to Nelson.  Planned to evacuate all settlers wives and children.
August 31/Sept 1 – Woodleigh burned.
September 11 – Mercury (Aust paper) reports that TW Richardson’s house at Waiwhakaiho was pillaged by Maori and stripped of lead. Obviously for making bullets. Wai is a location named after the river Wai, now a suburb of New Plymouth. Richardson’s farm was ‘Glen Avon’ which is likewise now a suburb of New Plymouth. (Leader-Elliott)

Taranaki Herald 15 Sept 1860. Journal of Events
(attack on Huirangi, 11 Sept) […] and 20 men of the mounted escort under Capt. DesVoeux. […] Later in the day the mounted escort, under Captain DesVoeux, returned, and from them we have the following particulars of the proceedings of the expedition after leaving Mahoetahi.

Taranaki Herald 13 Oct 1860, Continuation of Journal of Events
Tuesday, Oct. 9. — Weather fine. The expedition to Kaihihi left town this morning between 7 and 8 o’clock, and will encamp to-night at Tataraimaka. The force comprises the following […] 82 of the Militia and Volunteers, under Captain and Adjutant Stapp, Capt. Richmond, Lieuts. Hirst, Webster, Hammerton, Jonas, McKellar, Ensign Standish ; 14 of the Mounted Escort in command of Capt. Des Voeux ; 150 of the Native Corps in charge of Messrs Parris, Good, Carrington, and Wills.

Taranaki Herald 10 Nov 1860. Journal of Events.
(Mahoetahi, 6 Nov) Major Herbert, Captains Brown, and Atkinson, Lieuts. Morrison, Messenger, Hammerton, Webster, and 120 men of the Militia and Rifle Volunteers (30 of the former and 90 of the latter) ; Captain Des Voeux and 20 of the mounted volunteers.

Taranaki Herald 29 Dec 1860. Journal of Events
(Attack on Matarikoriko) 12th Regt. — Capt. Miller, Lieuts. Lowry and Mair, Ensign Hurst, and 86 men ; 65th Regt. — Colonel Wyatt, Capts. Bulkeley and Strange, Lieuts. Urquhart, Whitbread, Toker, Wvixon, Pennefalher, White, Lieut, and Adjutant Lewis, Ensign Butler, and 322 men ; Naval Brigade — Lieut. Woods, Midshipman Home, and 24 men ; Lieut. Talbot and 30 men (65th) to join the force from Bell Block ; Mounted Volunteers — Captain Des Voeux and 11 men ; Militia and Volunteers — 3 captains, 3 subalterns, and 80 men.

1861
Taranaki Herald 12 Jan 1861 [Saturday]
DIED,
On the 8th instant, Thomas Watkin Richardson, Esq., J.P., aged 60 years.

Emily Harris to Sarah Harris 14 Jan 1861 [Monday]
Since writing my last letter poor Mr Richardson has breathed his last. After long and great suffering he died as quietly as a child going to sleep. I have been and am still exceedingly busy about the mourning.
Mr Richardson was buried on Friday, Mr Des Voeux came up from the Waitara for a few days, he returned yesterday.

New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007
Name: Thomas Watkin Richardson
Birth Date:     abt 1801
Death Age:    60
Death Date:   8 Jan 1861
Death Place: New Plymouth
Burial Place: Taranaki, New Zealand
Cemetery:      St Mary’s Anglican

91  Letter. Henry Govett to G.A. Selwyn. Taranaki, Jan. 18 [1861?] 4 p. counsels against visit “in the present state of bitter feeling among the settlers”, expresses wish to visit Auckland to “see my boys”, news re Mr Wilson’s efforts in getting the Waikato Natives to agree to certain terms, discussion with Mr Chilman “on the subject of the 1000 pounds in the Union Bank”, election of Mr Horne and Mr Gillingham as lay delegates for the Diocesan Synod, visit from “the Bishop of Wellington on his way to England, we hear from him that Mrs Selwyn is about to pay a visit to England by the Robert Laws, “heard heavy firing today at the Waitara but no news has come of the results”, death of Thomas Richardson.
February 8: W C King killed
House at Brooklands, Captain Henry King’s model farm burned.

12 Feb 1861 Des Voeux resignation from Taranaki Militia, accepted 4 March
[Correspondence regarding Taranaki Militia – complaints, resignations, recommendations for captain – officers: Morrison, Good, Des Vaux, McKellar, King] 1861-1863. (Archives NZ, R24478141)
Militia Office / Taranaki / 12th September 1862.
Sir,
I have the honor to forward copies of the resignation, and acceptance of the same of both Des Voeux’s rank of Captain in the Taranaki Militia; [?] General orders No598 Camp Waitara 2nd March 1861, also with great regret / resignation of Lieut McKellar of the Commission in the Taranaki Militia, and resignation from Ensign Good of his rank as Ensign in the Taranaki Militia, the latter states he never received on parchment as Ensign. I enclose copies of Provincial gazette shewing the appointment of Alex King as Supernumary Lieutenant in the Taranaki Militia, which was done at the request of Colonel Gold who desired to have his services as Aid-de-Camp. Whatever they have been in that capacity, I have no hesitation in saying he is not fit in any way to do duty as an officer with the Militia. When Captain Des Voeux sent in his resignation Major Herbert suggested that Lieut A. King should have temporary command of the Volunteer Mounted Cavalry stationed at Waitara, the General sanctioned the arrangement, but the men said if Lieut King was placed in charge they would leave the Mounted Corps and join their respective Companies, to avoid the difficulty Major Herburt recommended Serjeant Greenwood for a [Cornetry] to take the Command, whose name I now placed on the back of your memo at the bottom of the Ensigns.
The two Senior Ensigns were never absent from duty one day during the late hostilities, are very promising officers, and I consider it would be a great injustice to them to place Lieut King over them.
In reference to my recommendation of Liet Good for a Commission to one of the vacant Captancies, I see no reason to alter it, moreover Lieut Morrison who urges his claims has a civil appointment under the General Government, which takes up all his time, for which he is little fitted than a Captaincy, & for which he gets a salary higher than the pay of a Captain.
I recommend that Senior Ensign William [Bazine?] Messenger of the Taranaki Militia be appointed to the Lieutenancy vacant by the resignation of lieut mcKellar. He has been present in most of the engagements with the enemy where he has always behaved with great coolness and bravery
I have the honor to be
Sir / Your obedient / Humble servant / Charles Brown / Captain / Commanding Taranaki Militia

Taranaki 12th February 1861
Sir,
In consequence of recent family afflictions and the illness of my children I am anxious to leave the Colony without delay and have therefore the honor to request you will be good enough to submit the resignation of my Commission for the acceptance of His Excellence the Governor and further to solicit the Major General Commanding to grant the leave of absence until such time as an answer can be received from Auckland.
I have the honor / Charles C. Des Voeux / Captain Mt Volunteers
(true copy)

Camp Waitara / 15th February 1861
Sir,
I refer to your letter of the 13th inst, I am directed to inform you that leave of absence can be granted to Capt Des Voeux of the Taranaki Militia until such time as his resignation has been accepted or an answer received from His Excellency the Governor of the Colony.
The application tending the resignation of his Captain’s Commission will be forwarded to His Excellency by the Major General Commanding the Forces.
I have the honor to be / Sa James Paul / Major of Brigade
(True copy)

New Plymouth / 4th March 1861
His Excellency having been pleased to except [sic] of the resignation of Captain Des Voeux of the Taranaki Mounted Volunteers, this officer is struck off the strength of the force from this date.
By Command
[Sa?] R?. H. Cox – Lieut ? Regt / Acting ? ?
(True copy)

Harris, Emily Cumming. MS copy of letter to parents Sarah and Edwin Harris, Nelson. Written in New Plymouth, 20 Feb 1861. Death of WC King, plans to leave for Hobart. Breaks off mid-sentence. Copying date unknown. Puke Ariki. ARC2002-190. Box 1, folder 3. Fascicle 1, pp. [23]-[26].
[…] Mr King’s untimely death has made a great and sudden change in all the plans. It was his often expressed wish that if he died that his wife should leave New Plymouth with the children, which she will do as soon as she arranges matters a little. Mr Des Voeux has given up his commission and intends going to Sydney by the next mail steamer and from thence to Van Diemen’s Land to Hobart Town with Mrs King & Mrs Richardson but perhaps not all together. Mr Des Voeux’s first wish and intention was to take me. He afterwards thought of going to Wellington, then if I liked he would have taken me there on his way and tried to get me another situation and if he could not, send me on to Nelson, so Mrs Des Voeux told me. I then went to Mrs Dingle and made her an offer of taking her children to Nelson. But she could not make up her mind to part with them, she strongly recommended me to open a school here, she said that I should be certain to get plenty of scholars. I felt very much inclined to try and consulted Mrs Standish about it and she was of the same opinion. Mrs Dingle also offered me a home for a few weeks. They live in part of Richard Brown’s house, but where to get a school room is the great difficulty.
Mr Des Voeux again determined to go direct to Sydney & Mrs Des Voeux again asked me to go with them but she did not seem to be very earnest about it. I was so little inclined to accept her offer that Mr Des Voeux thought it necessary to speak to me one evening. He spent an hour pointing out the advantages while I opposed the disadvantages, he was I saw thoroughly in earnest, he said he was quite surprised at my hesitating, he thought I would have been glad to see a little more of the world. But the stumbling block how to get back again. Mr Des Voeux said that the move that he was about to make was a very expensive one and that after taking me there he could not afford to send me back. But I said If after you are settled in Hobart Town you should find some one you like better & I had not the means of returning? He replied that he would never do any thing so unjust.
After some further consideration he said first he would give me ten pounds towards returning then that he would pay half & also that when the war is over he [manuscript breaks off]

Return under provisions of “The Cattle Ownership Ordnance, 1862,” shewing the number of Horses, Neat Cattle, and Sheep owned by Charles C. Des Voeux between 22nd February, 1860, and the 13th March 62
Cattle
Looney John Joseph, Grey Block, farmer (buys 8 cattle March 1861)
Skinner Thomas Kingwell, New Plymouth, butcher (buys 12 cattle, March 1861)
Horses
“Vesta” – female – 6 years – none [brand] – By – Ba – By – B – By – none – Driven away by the rebel natives in April 1861 – this was a valuable nearly thoroughbred mare
“Lofty” – female – aged – none – By – Bk – By – Bk – By – Driven away by the rebel natives in April 1861
Gelding – aged – G – Bk – G – W – G – Sold – 1861 – an officer of H M 12th Regt –
(Archives NZ, R26113223)

Taranaki Herald 16 Mar 1861. Shipping Intelligence
ARRIVED
March 12. — I.C.R.M.S.S. Victory, 501 tons, Toogood, from the Southern Settlements.
SAILED
March 12.—I.C.R.M.S.S. Victory, Toogood, for Sydney. Passengers— C. C. DesVoeux, Esq., Mrs Des Voeux and child, Mrs Richardson, Mrs W. C. King and 2 children, Miss Tyhurst, Miss Harris, Miss Penwarden.
[Note: Frederick Des Voeux is 3. No mention of Charlotte Des Voeux, 5]

Harris, Emily Cumming. MS copy of diary fragment or letter to unknown recipient. Undated. Describes departure of Des Voeux, King and Richardson families from New Plymouth 12 March 1861 aboard Inter Colonial Royal Mail Steam Ship Victory bound for Sydney. Begins and breaks off mid-sentence. Copying date unknown. Puke Ariki. ARC2002-190. Box 2, folder 5. Fascicle 1, pp. [27]-[28].
I left. Mr Brewer took charge of my three important baskets much to my relief and carried them down to the saloon. Mr Brewer came on with D. McKellar.
The first thing we did was to choose our cabins. There were two ladies’ cabins with six berths in each. Mrs Des Voeux, Freddy & myself with two other passengers & the stewardess occupied one cabin. It was a very small room choked up with boxes & carpet bags. You may fancy how awkward it was, in the morning we were obliged to get up one after the other. The first thing we did was to put the children to bed and then we went up on deck for the odour of the cabin was intolerable. I never could make out what it was, oil or paint. When I went down to the cabin again the vessel was fairly on her way. The dreadful noise and motion of the screw soon made me feel very angry disgusted and ill. I went to bed to prevent myself from being sick. In bed it was not much better, the vessel seemed to be an immense churn & I a lump of butter continually thumped about in it while the waves splashed like gallons of buttermilk.
But to get up the next morning was no easy matter. It was an effort to dress myself & then to dress Freddy and help Mrs Des Voeux who although not sick was worse than useless with her lame arm & leg. Freddy & I at last managed to crawl upon deck and then down again to breakfast. It was a very nice salon with paintings & mirrors and couches of crimson velvet. The breakfast was quite a sumptuous repast & most tempting to anyone with an appetite, everything so clean & such nice silver and china, the waiters so attentive and throughout the voyage the fare was equally good. I was told one day that we were fortunate in having Mr Clark on board (the agent or manager of the New Zealand steamers) for that the master, cooks & in fact everyone was on their best behaviour whenever he was there. Mr Clark was very much liked by all the passengers he was so gentlemanly and obliging. But to return to the breakfast. Freddy & myself forced ourselves to eat one egg each of which we soon repented. It was several days before we ceased to think eating a dreadful nuisance. After the first day I was not sick but I could not get over a feeling of faintness during the whole voyage. Miss Tyhurst was a very bad sailor, Mrs Richardson was quite ill, Jane was pretty well. Mrs Des Voeux & Mrs King were very well. You could not have helped smiling could you have seen us, sitting on deck in the most forlorn attitudes feeling unspeakably miserable, unable to [manuscript breaks off]

The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania) 12 Apr 1861
Shipping, Hobart Town.
April 11: arrived the Tasmania of the TSN co, screw steamer, Captain Clinch, from Sydney on the 8th inst., via Twofold Bay on the 9th, Passengers: Cabin, Mr and Mrs and Miss and Master Des Voeux, Miss Harris, Mrs King and infant, Miss A. King, Mrs Richardson, Miss Penwarden.
[Note: If the passenger records are accurate, the Des Voeux party appears to pick up Charlotte Des Voeux (aged 5) in Sydney. Was she staying with Des Voeux relatives there?]

May 1861 TW Richardson Probate (first stage) (see also Apr 1870)
Richardson Thomas Watkin Esq.
Effects under 800 pounds.
4 April. Letters of Administration (with the Will and two Codicils annexed) of the Personal estate and effects of Thomas Watkin Richardson formerly of Clifton . . .

Taranaki Relief Commission – [Claim of] Charles Champagne des Vaux by Thomas Standish
[Thomas?] Standish of N. Plymouth
I claim on behalf of Mr De Voeux
I know Mr De Voeux. He resided at Glenavon, New Plymouth. He was obliged to leave it when he was [to] [ride?] [out?] [His] [house] [is] [?] greatly damaged. [I had the opportunity] of a [carpenter]. He estimates [it] [at] the damage is estimated at £21.
Mr Hamblyn, farm bailiff to Mr Richardson [Richardson is crossed out] Mr Des Voeux, states the high bred mare was about 4 years old. Mr D. Voeux gave £50 for her to Mr W. Halse after a severe accident. He kept her a year after that, & she recovered perfectly. The mare in foal was a good draught mare. The cow & calf charged £15 have returned. The [remainder] are gone I feel sure
The sheep were all ewes & hoggets. I am sure that at least the number charged for are gone & estimated the value of the farming implements [?] lost & know that the estimate for them is within the mark.
The whole of the crops claimed for were lower & I feel sure that those were the amounts [?]
The fences were seriously damaged. Some chains of furze hedge are buried & the [remain] is overgrown.
Mr Sutherland carpenter, has inspected the house in which Mr Des Voeux resided & also an old farm house, in which T Hamblyn resided on the farm.
I hand in a statement of the damage done to [them]
The damage to the old farm house was [another] in the statement I first [gave] in, & I wish to [insert?] it now. It amounts – by Sutherland – [I think] to £10.15
Thomas Standish

An account of losses sustained through the rebel natives by Charles C. Des Voeux Esq up to 30th May 1861
Live Stock
One valuable high bred mare £80.0.0 [crossed out and replaced with 45]
One mare in foal £40.0.0
One 2 years old Heifer £7.0.0
One 2 years old Steer £7.0.0
One milk cow and calf £15.0.0 [crossed out and the word ‘retained’ written]
One yearling calf 3
134 sheep at 25/ each £167.10.0
Total: £319.10.0
Farming Implements
One cart nearly new yoke & bows £25.0.0
Crop cut saw, farming implements & garden tools £10.0.0
Dairy utensils £7.0.0
2 grindstones £1.0.0
Miscellaneous
100 fowls £5.5.0
6 ducks £6.9.0
2 [Winnowing?] sheets £5.10.0
The whole of the glass in the windows of the dwelling house £21.0.0
Cart harness &c £5.0.0
Damage done to fence on farm of 200 acres £10.0.0
Damage done from noxious weeds in consequence of being driven from the farm at 10 per acre £100.0.0 [amount crossed out in red pen]
Loss of farm and house for 2 seasons at 25 per acre & [loss?] of house in New Plymouth £250.0.0 [amount crossed out in red pen]
Total: £796.14.0
For Charles Des Voeux
Tho. Standish his agent
Damage to farm house (omitted) £10.15.0
Statement of damage to Mr Des Voeux’s house & to a farm house occupied by his tenant by W. Sutherland carpenter
Farm house – £10.15
Old house –
11 squares of glass – £0 12 s 10d
230 yds [Calliso?] – £7 10
32 [Perres?] paper 5/ – £8
42 [?] [Calliso?] for [cealings?] 8 – £2 8s
3 weeks labour £3 – £9
Benjamin Sutherland
Total: £37 10s 10d
(Archives NZ, R26112656)

Taranaki Herald 28 Sept 1861: 1. Advertisements. NOTICE! The Fences at Glenavon having been substantially repaired, the farm bailiff Mr Thomas Hamblyn has received instructions to impound all cattle and horses found trespassing thereon, and to enforce damages for the trespass. All persons are hereby also warned from trespassing, cutting, or removing any plants, shrubs, or cuttings from the grounds of C. C. DesVoeux, or Mrs Richardson ; and any persons claiming a permission or authority to cut or remove the same are hereby informed that such permission is withdrawn. Thos. Standish, Agent for C. C. DesVoeux, Esq., and Mrs Richardson. New Plymouth, 28rd Aug., 1861.

21 Oct 1861 The Gore Brownes arrived in Sydney. Harriett and Thomas stayed at Government House, Sydney with NSW Governor, Sir John Young and his wife Lady Adelaide Young. (MacFarlane)

30 Nov 1861 Mr DV present at Governor’s Levee, Hobart (Trove)

1 Dec 1861 Gore Browne family arrived in Hobart from Sydney per Tasmania
10 Dec 1861 Sir Henry Young and his family departed Tasmania
11 Dec 1861 Thomas Gore Browne sworn in as ‘Captain- General and Governor- in -Chief’ of Tasmania, replacing Sir Henry Young. Ceremony took place at the Supreme Court in Hobart. (MacFarlane)

Tasmanian Assessment and Valuation Rolls (Hobart)
Thursday December 19th 1861
Elizabeth Street (no number given) Occupier: Alfred Bock Owner: John Mather, Valuation: 45. Description of property: House and shop On Page 1953

Harris, Emily Cumming. MS copy of letter to sister Frances Emma Harris, Nelson. Written in Hobart, Tasmania, 24 Dec 1861. First Christmas in Australia. Breaks off mid-sentence. Copying date unknown. Puke Ariki. ARC2002-190. Box 2, folder 5. Single folio folded in half, watermarked Hammond Manufacturing Stationer. (S)
Dec. 24 1861
My dear Frances
This is Christmas Eve, I was just going to bed very tired but thought I would write a few lines first. I wish I was with you now as I suppose that you are all at home tonight, perhaps you are having a nice little supper now or papa is playing the harp or like me you may be thinking of days gone by, but we will not look back, it is too painful and I cannot look forward it is too dreary, there is but one way to look and that is above.
This will be the third Christmas I have spent away from home the last at home was when Dr Renshaw dined with us.
I have been all day helping to decorate All Saints Church. There were about a dozen young ladies in the school room making wreaths, crosses and various other devices, they all appeared to have so much taste that I found it would be difficult to distinguish myself in the flower line, however I made one little cross with violet coloured flowers, with a small white wreath round it that was greatly admired.
Christmas day Mr & Mrs Des Voeux & myself received the sacrament early in the morning at All Saints, we went to church again at eleven, Mrs Richardson & Mrs King dined with us.
I saw Mrs Gore Browne at a concert on Monday, she appears to have made a favourable impression on the Hobartonians, The ladies say she dresses very plainly, a great contrast to lady Young who could carry off any amount of dress being tall stout and very dignified.

The Advertiser (Hobart), 31 December 1861, p. 2
SHIPPING.
PORT OF HOBARTOWN.
Entered Out
December 30th—Tasmania (s) 285, Clinch. Melbourne. Passengers—Cn: Mr. and Mr. Bell, Miss Gillingham, Mr.T. Crouch, Mr. Des Voeux, Mr. Crosby …

1862
Letter from Emily Harris to mother Sarah Harris in Nelson, 1 January 1862
Jan 1th 1862
My dear Mamma
Mr Des Voeux sailed last night so this is a melancholy beginning of the new year for Mrs Des Voeux, and even I feel that I have a great responsibility: Mr Des Voeux’s implicit faith in my doing all in my power for Mrs Des Voeux. She is subject to very strange attacks in the night which as the Drs cannot see they cannot understand.
As soon as it can be arranged we shall all live together.
Mr Des Voeux may perhaps sail from Sydney direct to Nelson. I have sent a small parcel to Mrs Standish which he will give to you as my photograph is in it for you and papa. If he goes [to?] Taranaki first Mrs Standish will forward it to you.. If not, will you send the parcel to Mrs Standish.
Tell papa if he sends me the photos by post I can get them framed here since [they?] cost ten shillings. You will most likely see Mr Des Voeux.
– – – –
Emily

MS copy of letter to mother Sarah Harris, Nelson. Written in Hobart, Tasmania, 1 Jan 1862. Copying date unknown. Briant collection. Single folio, watermarked ‘Hammond’s Trademark.’

The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 January 1862, p.4
SHIPPING
January 12
Rangatira (s), 500 tons, Captain Paddle, from Melbourne 9th inst. Passengers— …Burns, Stone, Barker, Gerard, Drake, Loughton, De. Voeux …

Charles Des Voeux in NZ January, February and perhaps March 1862, visiting Nelson, Auckland and New Plymouth.

Taranaki Relief Commission – [Claim of] Charles Champagne des Vaux by Thomas Standish (continued)
CERTIFICATE 402
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that he is entitled to the sum of fifty five pounds sixteen shillings & 9 £55.16.9
in respect of Classes 1 2 & 4
Claim 402
[signatures] W. Halse / George Rutt Burton / H. A, Atkinson
Dated the 16th day of January 1862

CERTIFICATE 402
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that he is entitled to the sum of fifty three pounds two shillings and 6d in respect of Class 5 £53.2.6
Claim No. 402
[signatures] W. Halse / H. A. Atkinson / Chas Brown
Dated the 2nd day of January 1862. [2 crossed out and 3 written in]
Received the above Amount from the Sub-Treasurer this 1862
[handwriting on side of form:]
Power of attorney dated 8th March 1862 / C.C. Des Voeux to A. Standish produced / W. Halse.
(Archives NZ, R26112656)

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1648, 1 February 1862, Page 2
Port of Auckland
Entered inwards
January 31
Airedale, s.s., 286 tons, A. Kennedy, at Onehunga, from the Southern Ports… Passengers—Mr. & Mrs. Goulstone and servant, Mr. De Voeux, Lieut. Lloyd, Mr. H. Maule, Lady Campbell, Mr. Barber… …

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1651, 12 February 1862, Page 2
Shipping Intelligence.
PORT OF Auckland.
CLEARED – OUTWARDS, February 8.
Airedale, S S , 286 tons. A Kennedy, from Onehunga for New Plymouth and Southern ports… Passengers.—Messrs Carrington, Duncan, Des Voeux, Lethtridge and son, Weston… …

From Taranaki shipping CD:
DV arrives in New Plymouth 10 Feb 1862 on the Airedale.

11 Feb 1862 Des Voeux reconsigns mortgage on Edwin Harris property Grey 481
Consecutive Number of Instrument: 1121
Day, Hour, And Minute of Instrument: February 12. [1862]. [30][unclear][20]pm
Nature of Instrument: Reconsignment
Date of Instrument: February 11 1862
Where Recorded: R[?] 581
Reference to Sub-division: [Blank]
Signature of Party or Authorised Agent:
1121 Des Voux to Harris. Reconsignment 11 Feb 1862
[Taranaki Land District] Deeds Register Book R12. (Archives NZ, R22848274)

Return under provisions of “The Cattle Ownership Ordnance, 1862,” shewing the number of Horses, Neat Cattle, and Sheep owned by Charles C. Des Voeux between 22nd February, 1860, and the 9th March 1862. Signed Arthur Standish for CCDV. (Archives NZ, R26113223)
[Note: Arthur Standish, son of Thomas, appears to have taken over his father’s New Plymouth law business. Thomas Standish died in 1863.]

Taranaki Relief Commission – [Claim of] Charles Champagne des Vaux by Thomas Standish (continued)
CERTIFICATE 402
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that he is entitled to the sum of thirty eight pounds eighteen shillings & 6d in respect under Class 3 £38.18.6
Claim No. 402
[signatures] W. Halse / George Rutt Burton / H. A, Atkinson
Dated the 20th day of May 1862
Received the above Amount from the Sub-Treasurer this 1862

CERTIFICATE 402
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that he is entitled to the sum of fifty three pounds two shillings and 6d in respect of Class 5 £53.2.6
Claim No. 402
[signatures] W. Halse / George Rutt Burton / H. A, Atkinson
Dated the 20th day of May 1862
Received the above Amount from the Sub-Treasurer this 1862
(Archives NZ, R26112656)

From: Charles C Des Voeux, Hobart Town To: Sir George Grey Date: 2 July 1862 Subject: Respecting his application for an appointment.
Transcript: Having now been here nearly three months without hearing anything further from Mr Jose [?] relative to the appointment promised me in January last I would now, in accordance with your desire that I should write to you from time to time, wish to bring my case again under your consideration and as you kindly said that Mr Layard would reply to my letter I should be glad to be informed whether I may expect the appointment referred to or any other employment in New Zealand.’ (Archives NZ, R24134118)

Harriet Gore Browne diary, Tuesday 8 July 1862
I put on my white silk dress, which Georgie sent me from London and a high wreath of white lilies and forget me not and Fred said I looked stunning. All the women came to look at me before I went down- stairs. Some people had arrived. The Nairns and Chattie and Miss Boyd were dressed and looking so gay and pretty. Shortly, more company arrived, and Gore and I stationed ourselves opposite the door to the drawing room to receive them, the girls sitting at our right hand to deliver the programme. This plan answered very well, altho’ some people hardly understood it and seemed determined to shake hands. After about half arrived, we left our station and I went to the dais at the end of the ball room, where Mrs Des Veoux gave me a seat, but Lady Atkinson kept the other one on the same sofa, like a Trojan. The evening passed, talking to one and another and the Orphan School with Mrs Smith, the refuge with Dr Hall and the districts with Mrs Calvert. All gave me objects of interest. Supper was capitally managed. Cross, standing at the foot of the stairs, prevented more going up when the room was full and
everyone getting plenty to eat. The servants and lookers on were supplied by Hunter with coffee and buns and Burton took care of the Reporter, who was much occupied by Mr John Davies not being present. I stayed up till the very end of the ball and every- one seemed well pleased. (MacFarlane)

November 15 – Shipping news: Mrs King, 2 children and servant depart Hobart for Auckland. (Leader-Elliott)

1863
The Mercury (Hobart), 1 January 1863, p. 2
ART TREASURES’ EXHIBITION.
To day the Exhibition of Art Treasures will be open for public inspection in the upper rooms of the Royal Society’s Museum. Yesterday the Exhibition was thrown open to subscribers and their friends, and was visited by His Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Gore Browne, together with the elite of the city and its suburbs.
His Excellency, with Mrs. Gore Browne, arrived shortly after three o’clock in the afternoon, and having been received by the Council of the Royal Society, proceeded to view the collection. The rooms at this time contained numerous visitors, amongst whom were the Hon. the Premier, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Willson, Catholic Bishop, the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Col. Kempt, Captain Chesney, Captain Steward, Drs. Agnew, Bedford, and Butler. The Rev. J. Buckland, the Vicar General (Rev. Dr. Hall) Rev. T. J. Ewing, Messrs. M. Allport, R. P. Adams, W. Carter, R. Lewis, G. Salier, T. Giblin, W. Knight, D. Lewis, A. A. Butler, A. G. Webster, W. Rout, C. M. Maxwell, Cansdell, R. Walker, S. Lord and others. Several ladies were also present on the occasion. We have already given a somewhat extended notice of the Exhibition, but as at the time of our visit the arrangements were incomplete, we now supplement our former remarks from notes taken during our visit of yesterday.
[…]
329. FLOWERS. Mrs. J. Allport. A group of Tasmanian and New Zealand flowers, almost microscopic in detail. Exhibited by Mr. M. Allport.
339. GRASS TREE ON MOUNT WELLINGTON. Mrs. J. Allport. Another beautiful microscopic painting from the pencil of Mrs. Allport, exhibiting grass tree [sic] in full flower with Mount Wellington in the distance. Exhibited by Mr. J. Allport.
355. ROCK ON THE COAST OF NORTHUMBERLAND, C. Grey. The sky and water are very spirited.
Exhibited by Mr. C. C. Des Vaux.

Harriet Gore Browne diary,
Jany 8th 1863.
[…] Monday was hotter still, but I took Harry and Willie to the Picture exhibition. They liked the photographs best and seemed very happy. Gore joined me there and in clouds of dust we drove home. (MacFarlane)

By 1863 Charles Champagne and his wife were in Hobart, where he once again took the rank of captain in the volunteer military force. (Leader-Elliott)

Kate Emma Hursthouse journal, New Plymouth Jan 1863
2 Friday   Fine and calm. Aunt Hannah wrote to [ask] me to go to ‘Glen Avon’ with them and [spend] the evening with them – it was so frightfully [hot] that I could not go the Glen Avon, but I went for a walk with Miss Morshead in the evening and then to tea with the Smiths.
[Note: Kate’s aunt is Hannah Stephenson Smith, nee Hursthouse. Her mother is Helen Hursthouse, nee Wilson.]

Kate Emma Hursthouse journal, New Plymouth Jan 1863 (mentions Mrs WC King)
9 Friday  Fine but the dust worse than ever. ‘Storm Bird’ in from Manaukau no public news and not a single letter for us it is the first time Helen has missed so we feel rather queer. I spent the afternoon and evening at the  D. Atkinsons. Mr J. McMillan had tea there we went for a walk in the evening. Mr T. Ronald brought me home. Mr Pitcairn has arrived in Auckland and will be down in the next steamer.
Mrs William King came in ‘Storm Bird’ & Mr F. Carrington has returned.
[Note: Helen is Kate’s married sister Nellie McDonald, who lives in Auckland. Check Storm Bird passengers from Manukau c. 8 Jan 1863 for Mrs WC King and daughters. Mrs Eliza Mary King, widowed in 1861, is Des Voeux’s sister-in-law. Is Des Voeux also on Storm Bird from Auckland? Who is living at Glenavon?]

January 22 – HAW writes that Mrs Willie King has returned, ‘looking cross as ever, without a scrap of mourning on her dress’. (Leader-Elliott)

Kate Emma Hursthouse journal, New Plymouth March 1863
10 Tuesday.    Fine went into town in morning  sewed all afternoon Mamma reading aloud  Mary Humphries came to invite me for Mrs King to go to a boating picnic the next day. I declined thinking I would be ill but Mrs King made a fuss and sent Mary up again so I decided to go   Nora slept with me to be ready for the Picnic in the morning, we went out to hear the band and to see the great to do that was made in honour of the Governor and General dining at Mess.
11 Wednesday.  Fine and no wind but a horrid  ground swell!! On what shall I do – Nora, Mary & I were  just starting for the Beach to meet Mrs King when Cap. Gorton rushed in to say that none of the officers could go as they had been ordered off to Omata the next day and had to make imminent arrangements  of course this was an immense blow!! Nora would not go so Mary & I went to the beach where we found Mrs King after a good deal of difficulty we got off at about 10 not more than half the people that had been expected – alas was ill and had to be put on the sugar loaf whilst the others went fishing  Col Standish very kindly stayed with me  We got home at 7.
[Note: Norah Stephenson Smith is Kate’s cousin. She married Captain Gorton in NP 2 Apr 1863. Mary Humphries is Kate’s close friend. Her autograph album is at Puke Ariki with inscriptions and poems from friends. Most entries are unidentified but we should look again for Kate’s initials (KEH) and for Mrs King’s (EMK), and perhaps for Robert Pitcairn (RP) who seems to be one of Kate’s romantic interests. Look also for Arthur Standish (AS), the Gortons, Colonel Warre (HJW) and others.
Kate is the sister of Helen Maria Phillips Macdonald (HMPM); Mary Blanche Richmond (MBR); Charles Wilson Hursthouse (CWH); Richmond Hursthouse (RH) and Flinders Hursthouse (FH)]

Harris, Emily Cumming. MS copy of letter to sister Frances Emma Harris, Nelson. Written atHolbrook Place, Hobart, Tasmania, 29 Mar 1863. Response to news of sister Catherine’s wedding. Copying date unknown. Puke Ariki. ARC2002-190. Box 2, folder 5. Single folio folded in half, watermarked Hammond Manufacturing Stationer. (S)
Holbrook Place
March 29 1863
My dear Frances
I received your kind letter yesterday and you may imagine that I was not a little surprised at the contents. I was going into the town when I met our little postman with three letters for me, so nervous that I was obliged to go into a friend’s house to read them. I had been looking forward to Kate’s marriage so long that at last the thought of it got entangled with the proverb ‘many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip’ and when the news did come it seemed quite unexpected.
I am really rejoiced that they have received the reward of all faithful lovers and hope they will live as long & happily as the beautiful princesses & kings’ sons in fairy tales do. How I wish I had been at home, it must have been such fun to get ready for a wedding in such a hurry, how you managed I cannot tell. Why did the ceremony take place in the Scotch Church? I hope you do not prefer it to the Church of England. The bride’s dress must have looked very pretty. Were they not both pleased with the presents? Did they know beforehand what they were? I like what you bought for mine very much indeed.
Give my very best love to Kate & Alfred & tell them I hope some day to pay them a visit. It happened rather strangely about the beginning of March it might have been on the fourth that I was buying some flowers and by mistake bought a beautiful piece of myrtle not thinking that is was a bridal flower.
I received a letter from Aunt Emma by the last mail with a pretty neck ribbon enclosed in it. She says she has received a very well expressed letter from you and wishes to include you in her list of pupils if you have no objection. She begs me to ask you, I am sure you will be very glad. Aunt Emma always criticizes my letters and points out the faults which I consider a great advantage. Do you ever write to Mrs Standish? I am sure she would be so glad to hear from you, she writes such kind letters to me. I hope Mary writes.
You must not believe all you hear about Frank, he has bitter enemies who are straining to destroy his character altogether. I have not heard any thing myself against him but I know evil reports have been circulated and which have been proved to have originated only in malice.
I received a letter from Susan last post, containing a lock of her baby’s hair (such a pretty colour). The letter was scarcely two months coming. I hope I shall see your dolls’ house some day, you have quite made my fingers twitch to make one myself.
One evening during lent I went to the Roman Catholic Chapel. I was not much edified or shocked, a great part of the service consisted of prayers similar to our own, but [the] principal thing lay in rising up & kneeling down which I most devoutly did fourteen times & also in repeating part of the Lord’s prayer, the Priest saying the other half the same number of times. Easter will soon be here, I wish I could go somewhere for a holiday. I would willingly give up all the expected amusements for a quiet [time] with a quiet cheerful family. The Opera company is expected, the circus & goodness knows what besides. I shall have plenty to put in my next letter. Tell mamma not to try her eyes writing to me. Tell Mary I like her essay on Charity, I have not written mine yet.
I have sent the verses you asked for. Mr D.V. said they were very good so I was not likely to lose them.
I meant to have written a very proper affectionate letter to Kate but alas! though the spirit was willing the brain would only suggest vile rhymes, so if Kate is indignant I will write very properly next time.

Taranaki Relief Commission – [Claim of] Charles Champagne des Vaux by Thomas Standish (continued)
Charles C. Des Voeux: ‘In 1860 I was residing in Taranaki & was possessed of 195 acres of land in the Waiwhakaiho. About 160 acres were under cultivation. Mr Sewell awarded me rental on this land up to June 1861 – I now claim for rental up to March 1863 from then derived at 20/- [?] less proceeds. For the first 9 months of the period I now claim for I received nothing. From March 1862 to March 1863 I have received £140 from my tenant.’
[written over top:] Allowed £140.00 [illegible signature]

CERTIFICATE 402
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that he is entitled to the sum of one hundred and eighteen pounds nine shillings in respect under classes 1. 2. 3. & 4. £118.9.0
Claim No. 402
[signatures] W. Halse / H. A. Atkinson / Chas Brown
Dated the 4th day of March 1863
Received the above Amount from the Sub-Commissioner this 4th March 1863
[Signature] C.C Des Voeux / Per Arthur Standish

We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that under Mr Commissioner Sewell’s award there remains due the sum of £490.0.0
Interest on £490.0.0 from 21st June to 21st September, at 8 per cent. £9.16.0
Claim No. 402
[signatures] H A Atkinson / W M Crompton
Dated this 21st day of September, 1863
Received the above Interest from the Sub-Commissioners this 28th day of Oct. 1863
[signature] C.C Des Voeux / Per Arthur Standish

72
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that under Mr Commissioner Sewell’s award there remains due the sum of £490.0.0
Interest on £490.0.0 from 21st Sept. to 21st Dec., 1863, at 8 per cent. £9.16.0
[No signatures on this form]
Dated this 21st day of December 1863
Received the above Amount from the Sub-Commissioners this 13th day of January 1864
[Signature] C.C Des Voeux / Per Arthur Standish
(Archives NZ, R26112656)

Charles Des Voeux in NZ Apr 1863

9 Apr 1863 DV arrives NP on the Wonga Wonga.

18 Apr 1863 DV arrives NP from Nelson on the Lady Bird

April 25 – Maria Richmond writes to Emily Richmond of Dr Alex McKinnon dancing with EMK. (Leader-Elliott)

Maria Richmond to Emily E. Richmond – – – New Plymouth, 25 Apr 1863
Nobody knows what ‘that treacherous old rascal’, as Major Nixon calls Sir G. Grey, is about or means to do … If he should give up the Waitara and suffer the natives to impede the road making, most of the settlers must of necessity leave the place. Meantime people go on amusing themselves as usual, Mr Arthur Standish gave a ball on Thursday night at the old mess-room, the combined culinary art of Mrs Standish, Mrs Humphries and Mrs J. S. Smith were displayed in an elegant supper to a large assemblage of beauty and fashion . . . Dr McKinnon, ‘the observed of all observers’, in a Highland costume of rich materials which showed his manly form to great advantage, devoted himself the whole evening exclusively to Mrs Willie King … (RAP vol 2)

4 May 1863 Ambush at Tataraimaka, 2 officers and 6 men of 57th Regiment killed. Inquest. See AS Atkinson journal. Grey gives up Waitara.

9 June 1863 DV departs from NP for Nelson on the Lady Bird

22 July 1863 Mr DV arrives in Hobart on the Black Swan from Melbourne

Henry Dalrymple DES VOEUX, Sir, Baron 1824-1894 married 13 August 1863, St. George Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex (Angleterre, Royaume-Uni), to Alice Magdalen Grey EGERTON 1842-1905.

The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania) 28 Nov 1863. Police Court […] Larceny (Trove)
Emily Harris called as witness to Mrs DV’s accusation of her cook Honoria [Jane] Foster. Case dismissed by magistrate.
Mrs DV: ‘I never threatened to send the prisoner to the wash-tubs at the Cascades. […]  I was warned to be here on Tuesday last but I was very ill. Dr Agnew thought that I would be better, if I did not come to the Court. I was not at a party at Sir Francis Smith’s on the same night.’
Miss Harris: ‘Emily Harris deposed she was residing with Mrs De Veaux, and had charge of the household. […] There was an altercation between Mrs De Veaux and Mrs Foster about the loss of some half crowns, and there was an altercation. There was something said about sending the prisoner to the Factory.’

16 Dec 1863 DV nominated for Captaincy of First Rifles (Trove)

1864
BLACK William and BLACK Charles Frederick – Dunedin – Stockowners and Sheepfarmers – to – RATTRAY James – Dunedin – Merchant – as agents for COGLE James and DES VOEUX Charles Champagne – Lauder Run and Tasmania – Stockowners – 11 Feb 1864. (Archives NZ, R25751752)

Colonist, Volume VII, Issue 664, 8 March 1864, Page 2
THE TARANAKI WAR OF 1860-61
… The Taranaki Mounted Volunteers, about 30 in number, under command of Captain De Voeux, are highly praised as having done ” most valuable service.”
“They were,” says the Colonel, “badly armed and badly clothed, but they were well mounted, plucky, and always ready. Even in the most dangerous times they rode long distances, carrying orders night and day, alone and in twos. It was with these mounted men that the communication with New Plymouth and Kahihi was kept up, as it afterwards was between the Waitara and the redoubts where, anxious to work and ever fearless of danger, they were invaluable. One of them, Mr. Mace, an excellent rider, was the pluckiest fellow I ever met. I believe he lost much property at the outbreak of the war, and I trust the Government may have found some means to reward him.”

Harriet Gore Browne diary, March 22 1864
This began with Croquet and a three necked Mr Godfrey and the Misses Johns, coming accidentally, found the party and all went at 8, except Mr Desveaux, who enjoyed his favourite diversion of singing duets with Lady Dry. (MacFarlane)

The Mercury (Hobart), 26 March 1864, p. 1
TO LET – A house situated in Holbrook Place at present occupied by Mr. De Vaux,
will be vacant the middle of next month, apply
E. HODGSON.
Glen House,
Macquarie street.
March 18th.
s m tu to 29m

Taranaki Relief Commission – [Claim of] Charles Champagne des Vaux by Thomas Standish (continued)
410
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that under Mr Commissioner Sewell’s award there remains due the sum of £490.0.0
Interest on £490.0.0 from 21st Dec., 1863 to 21st March 1864, at 8 per cent. £9.16.0
[No signatures on this form]
Dated this 21st March 1864
Received the above Amount from the Sub-Commissioners this 1st day of April 1864
[Signature] Arthur Standish / agent for C.C Des Voeux

751
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that under Mr Commissioner Sewell’s award there remains due the sum of £490.0.0
Interest on £490.0.0 from 21st March to the 21st June 1864, at 8 per cent. £9.16.0
[No signatures on this form]
Dated this 21st June 1864
Received the above Amount from the Sub-Commissioners this 11th day of July 1864
[Signature] C.C Des Voeux / by his attorney Arthur Standish

1093
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that under Mr Commissioner Sewell’s award there remains due the sum of £490.0.0
Interest on £490.0.0 from 21st June, to the 21st September, 1864, at 8 per cent. £9.14.0
[No signatures on this form]
Dated this 21st day of September 1864
Received the above Amount from the Sub-Commissioners this 1st day of Oct 1864
[Signature] C.C Des Voeux / Per Arthur Standish
(Archives NZ, R26112656)

EMK publishes TLJ in Melbourne.  There are reports of her in both Victoria and Tasmania – reviews of her book. (Leader-Elliott)

14 Haratua (May) – TLJ reviewed in Melbourne ‘The Leader’ – review printed in the Taranaki Herald – hostile – go make shirts for Maoris.  Refers to her as ‘Mrs King’, without further identification. (Leader-Elliott)

June 1 – Cornwall Chronicle reports that EMK is in Hobart, visiting. (Leader-Elliott)

6 Oct 1864 Launceston Examiner: Mr DV departs on the Southern Cross for Melbourne (Trove)

6 Oct 1864.  Mercury: Mrs DV departs on the Southern Cross for Melbourne; no Harris among the passengers.

Charles Des Voeux in NZ Dec 1864

Taranaki Relief Commission – [Claim of] Charles Champagne des Vaux by Thomas Standish (continued)
Supplementary claim for compensation for losses sustained through the Maori War by Charles Champagne Des Voeux Esq their particulars whereof are as follows:
Rent of 195 acres of land situated at the Waiwhakaiho and commonly called ‘Glenavon’ from the 1st June 1861 to the 1st March 1862 at the rate of £1 per acre per annum: £146.5.0
Rent of the above 195 acres of land from the 1st March 1862 to the 1st March 1863: £55.0.0
Total: £376.5.0
Dated at Taranaki this 23rd day of November 1864
Charles C. Des Voeux.

Further supplementary claim for compensation for losses sustained through the Maori War by Charles Champagne Des Voeux Esq the particulars whereof are as follows.
Rent of 195 acres of land situate at the Waiwhakaiho and commonly called Glenavon from the 1st March 1863 to 1st March 1864: £175.00
Dated this 23rd day of [Nov?] 1864
Charles C. Des Voeux
[Written overtop:] Allowed £50.0

Further supplementary
C.C. Des Voeux being duly sworn states
In 1860 I owned 195 acres of land in the Waiwhakaiho which I still possess. About 160 were cleared. I have been awarded rental for this land by Mr Sewell up to June 1864 and have claimed for rental on the land up to March 1863. I now claim for rental from march 1863 to Nov 1864 at 20/- per acre less £90 per acre which ? it is now let
Charles C. Des Voeux
[Written on side:] Allowed £50.0
(Archives NZ, R26112656)

5 Dec 1864 Mr D V departs NP for Wanganui on the Ahuriri.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 460, 10 December 1864, Page 3
Shipping Intelligence
EXPORTS. Dec. 9, Wanganui, s.s., 164 tons, Linklater, to Wellington
Passengers—Mrs. Tricker, Mrs. Carkeek, Mrs. Griffin, Messrs. Wm. Lyon, Bates, Brown, Des Voeux, McCrae, Curtain. E. Lewis, agent.

13 Dec 1864 Wellington Independent Mr Des Voeux inward passenger on the Wanganui from Wanganui.

1865
Tasmanian Assessment and Valuation Rolls (Hobart)
Tuesday January 3rd 1865
138 MacQuarie Street. Occupier Charles De Veux (also owner). Valuation: 80. Description of property: house and garden. On page 29.

Taranaki Relief Commission – [Claim of] Charles Champagne des Vaux by Thomas Standish (final payments)
422
We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux…upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that under Mr Commissioner Sewell’s award there remains due the sum of £490.0.0
Interest on £490.0.0 from 21st December, 1864, to 6th February, 1865, at 8 per cent. £4.18.0
[No signatures on this form]
Dated this 6th day of February 1865
Received the above Amount from the Sub-Commissioners this 25th day of March 1865
[Signature] Arthur Standish / agent for C.C Des Voeux

We, the undersigned, do certify that we have examined the claim of… C.C. Des Voeux… upon the “Taranaki Relief Fund,” and we find that he is entitled to the sum of: six hundred & thirty pounds
viz., Balance under Mr. Commissioner Sewell’s award.. £ 490. 0.0
Supplementary Claim under Mr. Commissioner Beckham’s award £140. 0.0
Military Claim under Mr Beckham’s award: 0. 0.0.
Total: £630.0.0
Dated this 9th day of February, 1865
Received the above amount from the Sub-Commissioners this 17th day of February 1865
[signed] Arthur Standish Sol. to C. C. Des Voeux
(Archives NZ, R26112656)

Launceston Examiner (Tasmania) 4 May 1865. Shipping. Hobart Town.
Departed 2 May for Auckland, barque Crishna, passenger Miss Harris.

New Zealander 18 May 1865 Shipping Intelligence
PORT OF AUCKLAND.
ARRIVALS. MAY 14— Crishna, barque, Thompson, from Hobart Town, with 36 cases fruit, Mayers; 26 ditto, Lowe; 90 ditto, 25 bags onions, 39 cases fruit, 7 cases jam, Roberton and Co.; 3 cases jam, 26 cases fruit, Thompson ; 20,578 feet timber, 39,545 palings, 16,030 ditto, 3,750 posts and rads, 103 trellows, 52,000 shingles, Roberton and Co. ; 25 cases fruit, Thompson ; and 1 passenger (Miss Harris). Roberton and Co., agents.

Miss Harris listed among passengers on SS Rangatira departing Onehunga 21 May for Raglan, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Nelson and Wellington. Service rescheduled 23 May, bar-bound until 25 May, transits Raglan 25-26 May, transits New Plymouth 27 may (embarks Foley’s circus troupe), arrives Nelson 28 May (disembarks circus) and departs for Wanganui 29 May, arrives Wellington 1 June. No Miss Harris listed among passengers but 10 unnamed passengers from Onehunga continue on from New Plymouth to Nelson.

[Note: still looking for Emily Harris passage Onehunga-New Plymouth May, June or July 1865]

Shipping Intelligence. TARANAKI HERALD, VOLUME XIV, ISSUE 679, 5 AUGUST 1865, page 2
ARRIVALS.
July 29 – Otago, s.s., 457 tons, Smith, from Manukau. Passenger – Mr. J. Veale.
DEPARTURES.
July 29 – Otago, s.s., for Nelson. Passengers – Miss Harris, Mr. A. S. Atkinson.

Shipping Intelligence. NELSON EXAMINER AND NEW ZEALAND CHRONICLE, VOLUME XXIV, ISSUE 92, 1 AUGUST 1865, page 2
ARRIVED.
[July] 30, steamer Otago, from Taranaki and Manukau.
ENTERED INWARDS.
[July] 31, — steamer Otago, 457, Smith, from Taranaki. Passengers : saloon— Miss Harris, Captain Fraser, Mr. and Miss Hudson, Mr. Mullar, and 6 for South.

Sarah Harris notebook Undated newspaper clipping.
[in pencil]: June 1865
– steamer Otago, 457, Smith, from Taranaki. Passengers: saloon – Miss Harris, Captain Fraser, Mr. and Miss Hudson, Mr. Mullar, and 6 for south.

31 Oct 1865 The Age Melbourne: Arrived, Hobson’s Bay, Mr DV from Launceston to Melbourne on the Black Swan. (Trove)

25 Oct 1865 Mrs DV part of fund raising bazaar for All Saints organ. (Trove)

1866
Taranaki Herald 17 February 1866 Glenavon
Court case about the amount of rent to be paid for the farm to Des Voeux. Standish solicitor for DV.

Taranki Herald May 11 1866. Glen Avon farm to let.
To let, “Glenavon Farm,” situate at the Waiwakaiho, within a mile of the town, and containing 200 acres (more or less), with the Farm Buildings thereon, and with or without the large and commodious Dwelling-house, Stables, and outhouses, erected by the late T. W. Richardson, Esq.; and Garden and Orchard adjoining the same.
Apply to A. Standish, Solicitor.

Taranaki Herald undated 1866 or later
Good Templars demonstration (picnics, sports, etc) at Glenavon farm.
‘Glenavon Farm is pleasantly situated on the banks of the Waiwakaiho river and includes several large paddocks which were in every way suitable for the various sports provided’. Rounders, races, long jump etc.  Afternoon tea, about 700 people. (RVE)

1 Dec 1866 Mr DV arrives Hobart on the Southern Cross from Melbourne. (Trove)

1867
Tasmanian Assessment and Valuation Rolls (Hobart)
Tuesday January 15 1867
138 Macquarie st, Occupier: Charles De Veux, Owner: James Priest, Valuation: 72. Property description: Dwelling-house and land Page 101

Argus reports, 11th Feb, that Mrs King and Mr De Voeux arrived in Melbourne from Launceston on the 9th. (Leader-Elliott)

Charles Des Voeux in NZ February, March, April 1867

Timaru Herald 17 Mar 1867. Commercial Intelligence
Station property: Messrs Des Voeux and Cogle’s 60 000 acres with 13 500 sheep, sold for 17 000 pound.

Timaru Herald, Volume VI, Issue 190, 27 March 1867, Page 2
There are still buyers in the market for eligible runs. Since our last report several have changed hands, namely, Messrs Des Voeux and Code’s 60,000 acres, with 13,500 sheep, for £17,000

GLASSFORD James, GLASSFORD Gordon and GLASSFORD Harry Gordon – Matakanui Station – Runholders – to – DES VOEUX Charles Champagne and COGLE James – Dunedin – Runholders – 2 Apr 1867. (Archives NZ, R25752482)

3 pages written 23 Apr 1867 by Charles Champaigne Des Voeux in Wellington to Sir Donald McLean, from Inward letters – Surnames, Del – Dod
REF:natlib.govt.nz:emu:MS-Papers-0032-0244
[printed at top middle of paper: ‘Wellington Club’ on a little oval belt with ‘Wellington’ inside the oval]
Wellington, 23 April 1867
My Dear McLean,
Allow me to introduce to you my partner Mr Cogle who is on a visit to the Napier Province. For old acquaintance sake I will ask you to be good enough to give him your valuable advice in any matter he may require information. We have just sold out of a run in Otago (on the Lauder and Manukerikea [Matakanui?]) and we have some idea of [one word, rein?] resting in this place. Having been absent from my family nearly 3 months I am naturally anxious to get home again, otherwise I should have had much pleasure in accompanying Cogle to Napier. Some days ago I dined with Mr Strang [?] – not having seen him for some years previous. I was surprised to find him looking so well. I do not think he has increased much in weight since I last saw him. It must be very pleasing for you to get such good reports of your son in England and I hope he may continue the [one word] course throughout his college life. The captain and Mrs King are still at Taranaki and when I last heard were quite well. They are certainly a wonderfully hearty couple.
Yours sincerely,
Charles C. Des Voeux

An undated note from Charles DV to Donald McLean is present in the same folder, asking whether DV can accompany DM on a coastal journey and saying he is presently staying at Omata. Seems likely to be earlier than 1867 letter.

2 pages written by Charles Champaigne Des Voeux to Sir Donald McLean, from Inward Letters – Surnames, Del – Dod
REF: natlib.govt.nz:emu:MS-Papers-0032-0244
Dear McLean,
Brown mentioned to me this morning that you had told him that I could join your party coastwise. Would you therefore be good enough to let me know on what day you will be likely to start so that I may be ready. My reason for saying this is that I am informed you are not to leave on the Monday as intended. A note or message left at Mr Norris’s [Parris’s?] office will be forwarded to me at Omata where we are now staying for some time. I hope my opossum rug will not be too large.
Yours truly, Charles. C Des Voeux
Saturday morning

18 May 1867 Mr DV arrives Hobart from Melbourne. (Trove)

13 July 1867 Argus: arrived in Melbourne on the Derwent from Hobart, Mrs DV and Miss DV, Mrs Richardson.

31 Aug 1867 Hobart Mercury: Mrs and Miss DV [presumably Charlotte, aged 12], Mrs Richardson, Mrs King arrive on the Southern Cross from Melbourne.

3 September, Henry King – then aged about 86 – makes a will in which he left L200 to EMK and the bulk of his property, subject to various life interests to his wife, various sisters and so on to Alice and Constance in equal shares, for their education, and to their children should they predecease him. It is apparent that EMK was well provided for by inheritance from William Cutfield and, presumably, from Thomas Watkin Richardson. So the L200 – which was a considerable sum – was in recognition of her status, rather than a bequest meant to sustain her. He bequeaths L100 to a niece and grand niece and the same sum to his executors. This will acquire a sad codicil, after EMK leaves for England with her daughters. (Leader-Elliott)

28 Oct 1867 Mr DV departs on the Derwent for Melbourne.

20 Dec 1867 Mr DV present as shareholder at winding up of Fingal Quartz crushing co.

20 Dec 1867 Christmas examinations at the boys’ high school: ‘De Voeux passed a very creditable examination in arithmetic’ in the second form.

1868
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915. DEATHS registered in January, February, and March 1868. Des Voeux, Henry W. (Bart). 61. Burton… 6b. 211.
Belfast, Northern Ireland, The Belfast Newsletter (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1738-1925.
Name: Sir Henry William Des Voeux Bart
Gender: Male
Death Age: 61
Notice Type: Death
Birth Date: abt 1807
Death Date: 4 Jan 1868
Death Place: Drakelowe
Publication Date: 9 Jan 1868

UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893.1859. Swandlincote Polling District. Parish or Rectory: Drakelow. Des Voeux, Henry Williams. Residence: Drakelow hall. Derbyshire County.
[Note: This is not Rev Henry Des Voeux (1786-1857), father of Henry Dalrymple, Charles Frederick and Charles Champagne. Baronetcy will now pass to Sir HW’s son Frederick Asherton DV.]

A. S. Atkinson, journal – – – Hokitika, W 75 Jan 1868
Thurs 16 Jan
Schaw gave us some account of club life at Melbourne and card playing there and in Hobart town. In the latter place he played ‘two guinea loo’ with Cap Steward, Des Veux and others and won £70 one night and £40 the next. The day after . . . he was going up the country to see his sister – . . . met Des Veux, who asked him to play again that night and told him he was ‘expected’, whereupon, though greatly wishing to go, he gave up his journey . . . and stayed to give them the chance of winning – lost £40 and then came to N.Z. In the Melbourne Club … if you are known or are supposed to have a good balance at the bank and look like a good patient you are invited to a private dinner ‘quite a select thing,’ after which you are taught how to play loo . . . (Scholefield, vol 2)
[Note: Can’t be certain that the subject of Schoor’s story is CC rather than Edward DV.]

20 Jan 1868 Mr DV is master of ceremonies at a ball for the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Tasmania.

February 6 – Shipping report. Mrs King and two children, Hobart to Dunedin. (Leader-Elliott)

18 Mar 1868, Mr DV at a meeting of All Saints’ church

27 May 1868 Mr and Mrs DV mentioned among hundreds at a queen’s birthday ball.

July 11 1868: Advertisement for sale of piano – Mrs King has left the colony. This was followed by more advertisements for splendid furniture, which reveals that she was resident at her mother’s house, 180 Macquarie Street, Burlingham Lodge. (Leader-Elliott)

Wellington Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 2747, 22 October 1868, Page 3
The P.N.Z. & A.R.M. Co’s s.s. Rakaia, Harry Wright commander, arrived in this harbor last night at 6.30 p.m.
The Rakaia loft Panama on the return voyage on the 21st September, Panama time, (22nd, New Zealand time) at midnight, and encountered heavy gales of wind from the westward in the Tropics within the region of the S.E. tradeß ; arrived at Opara on the 9th October at noon ; left Opara on the 10th October at 5.30 p.m. ; since then continuous head winds and high seas. She brings 32 passengers…
The following is her passenger list : … For Melbourne — Captain DesVoeux, Messrs Justice and Davidson.

2 Dec 1868 Mr DV arrives in Hobart on the S. Cross from Melbourne (Trove)

Tasmanian Assessment and Valuation rolls (Hobart)
Monday December 2 1868
138 Macquarie st, Occupier: Charles De Veux, Owner: James Priest, Valuation: 72. Property description: Dwelling-house and land Page 1867 (pencilled page 139)

1869
Launceston Examiner, 2 Jan 1869 Mr DV on board the Ethel, for London.

2 Dec 1869 Mr DV attends the general levee.
More functions etc for Mr DV.

December 5, Mrs EMK departs NP for Manukau. (Leader-Elliott)

1869. Des Voeux is still listed as one of the committee members from Hobart in a prospectus for the United Charlton gold mining company in 1869.

1870
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations)
Name Thomas Watkin Richardson
Death Date    08/01/1861
Death Place  New Zealand
Probate Date 04/04/1870
Registry         Principal Registry
Transcription:
Wills. 1870.
Richardson Thomas Watkin Esq.
Effects under 800 pounds.
4 April. Letters of Administration (with the Will and two Codicals annexed) of the Personal estate and effects of Thomas Watkin Richardson formerly of Clifton in the City and County of Bristol but late of Glen Avon in the Province of Taranaki in the Colony of New Zealand Esquire deceased who died 8 January 1861 at New Plymouth in the Colony aforesaid were granted at the Principal Registry under the usual Limitations to William Henry Davies of Weston-super-Mare in the County of Somerset Gentleman the lawful Attorney of Mary Ann Richardson Widow the Relict the other and surviving Executor named in the said Will now residing at Macquarie-street Hobart Town in the Province of Tasmania he having been first sworn.  Former Grant Principal Registry May 1861.

26 May 1870 Mr and Mrs DV attend Queen’s birthday ball

10 Sept 1870 Mrs DV on the Derwent for Melbourne

18 Nov 1870 Mr DV arrives on the Derwent from Melbourne

21 Dec 1870. The Mercury. Christmas examinations. In the senior section of the third form Des Voeux has obtained the mark prize. [Freddy is 13]

The Tasmanian Times (Hobart Town, Tas: 1867-1870)
Wednesday 21 December 1870

1. 1. 2 ‘High School’

In the senior section of this form Des Voeux has obtained the mark prize
Nicolson, junr., the prize for the best examination.

1871
8 Feb 1871. The Mercury. To let, the house, no 138 Macquarie street, at present occupied by C. Des Voeux, Esq. Possession on the first of March. For particulars apply to James Priest, 101 Davey street.

March 1871- De Voeux and Cogle have a stock crossing in Deniliquin
Bendigo Advertiser (Vic.: 1855-1918), Wednesday 29 March 1871
Pg. 2 ‘Deniliquin Stock Report’
Transcription:
Deniliquin Stock Report . Friday 24th March.
The following are Deniliquin crossing for the week: […]
20th March- Moore’s 4,000 fat sheep, De Voeux and Cogle’s 1,700 [? do], Ricketson’s 600 store cattle passed down the river, Osborn’s 3,000 fat sheep. […]
[Note: Deniliquin was a town in the Riverina region of NSW, where major stock routes between Queensland, NSW, and Victoria converged, with an important river crossing.
Cogle is the partner that he owned the 60,000 acres and 13,500 sheep with back in New Zealand that was sold in 1867 (re: ‘0 chasers champagne des voeux chronology doc’ and the Chalres des vex letters doc). Looks like Cogle came to Australia and were back in business together. There are several notes of sheep crossings related to Cogle and Des Voeux in 1871, 1872, 1873 which are much of the same.]

1872
Tasmanian Assessment and Valuation for Davey St 1872
Land and dwelling-house. Charles C. Desvœux. E. Hodgson, Macquarie-street. 40.

Edward Des Voeux arrested for indecent exposure at the Melbourne Club
trove and Papers Past 24 Jan-6 Feb 1872

The Age (Melbourne Vic 1854-1954) Wednesday 24th January 1872 Page 3 Accidents and Offences
A young mail, named Edward Des Voeux, an Englishman, was arrested yesterday by detective Daley, on warrant, and lodged in the city watchhouse on the charge of indecent exposure. He was stated to be of respectable position, and to be a member of the Melbourne Club. Within a short time he was released on bail of £100 to appear this morning at the City Court.

Ovens and Murray Advertiser (Beechworth, Vic. 1855 – 1918) Thursday 25th January 1872, Page 2 (From Grenville and Co.)
A member of the Melbourne Club, named De Vaux, was arrested on warrant by the detectives, charged with indecent exposure from a window. He was bailed out by two sureties in £50 each. He did not appear in court to-day, and the bail has been arrested ; a second warrant to issue. : It is said that the ‘gentleman ” is gone to Sydney.

Geelong Advertiser (Vic 1859 – 1929) Thursday 25th January 1872 Page 3 Melbourne.
One Charles Des Voeux. said to be an officer in the army, was arrested yesterday on a charge of indecently exposing himself at one of the windows of the Melbourne Club of which institution it seems he is an honorary member. He was released on bail in two sureties of £50 each, but when the case was called on at the Police Court, this morning, the defendant failed to put in an appearance. The Bench, therefore, issued a warrant for his arrest. It is reported that he is on his way to Sydney.

The Ballarat Star (Vic 1865-1924) Thursday 25th January 1872
Same wording as the Geelong Advertiser

Leader (Melbourne Vic 1862-1918) Sat 3 Feb 1872, Page 16 The Week
It is high time that the committee of the Melbourne Club exacted a certificate of good character from strangers desirous of honorary membership. So long as the mere ability to command £100, a good suit of clothes, and an introduction, will admit men of the Des Voeux stamp to the privileges of the elite, the east end of Collins -street is virtually tabooed to respectable people, and it is a question whether Romeo Terrace and Juliet Lane would not be a more preferable route to and from the eastern suburbs. Des Voeux, who recently made an indecent exhibition of himself at the club house windows, appears to have been rather a popular man at the Collins-street establishment. It is singular that a man, of such parts should have been lost sight; of just when he was wanted. The sympathising friends who became bail for him paid the £100 forfeit pleasantly enough, only begging a rebatement of £4 4s. law costs, and Des Voeux leisurely proceeded to the Murray, satisfied it would seem that nothing would occur to mar the pleasure of the journey. He was quite right. A fresh warrant for his apprehension was issued within an hour of the original warrant being cancelled, but detective Daly either had no scent of the fugitive, or, having it, did not follow it up, although Des Voeux seems to have proceeded by railway to the Murray, and to have been for many hours following the line of telegraph, which is always at the command of the detective force for the purpose of securing criminals. It would be interesting to know what action Daly took when the warrant came into his possession, and what his instructions were. It may not be en regle for such information to be vouchsafed the public by an officer of the police force, but Mr. Longmore, who is understood to take a lively interest in police matters, might satisfy himself with official propriety on the subject.

6 Feb 1872, Telegrams in the North Otago Times : an officer from NZ named Des Voeux is charged with gross indecency at the window of the Melbourne Cllub. Bail of 100 pound but now a warrant is out for him.

Paul De Serville (7 Nov 2018): To answer your last question, it was not your man, C.C., but Edward Des Voeux. He is probably to be identified with Edward Des Voeux (1836-92), late captain 2nd Bengal Light Cavalry, according to my 1936/7 Burke’s Peerage, 6th son of Revd Henry D.V. C.C, was the 3rd son and later bt. Edward must have been identified, arrested, brought before a magistrate and locked up until his bail of £100 could be found; then released and fled leaving the two Club members who stood bail to pay the £100 – a very steep bail. He must have been doing more than undressing without drawing his curtains. The most innocent explanation is that it was a hot night and he stood at an open window to cool off. I need not elaborate on the more strenuous activities which may have happened.

16 May 1872 Mr DV departs on the S. Cross for Melbourne

June 1872- Sir Frederick Des Voeux dies in England
The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic: 1864-1946)
Saturday 1 June 1872

11. 11. Sporting Notes from Home

Transcription:
Our obituary is a long one, The Marquis of Gragam, Sir Algernon Peyton, and Sir Frederick Des Voeu,  have all been carried away suddenly, in the very springtime of life. […]
Both [The Marquis] and Sir Frederick Des Voeux, who was an officer in the Foot Guards, were fond of [fishing?] and hunting, and in these days young men of such stamp can ill be spared.
[Note: Sir Frederick Asherton Des Voeux, fourth baronet, 1848 to 1872, son of Charles DV, second baronet by a second marriage, cousin of Henry Dalrymple and Charles Champagne DV? The baronetcy now passes to Henry Dalrymple, fifth baronet, then in 1895 to Charles Champagne, sixth baronet, in 1914 to Frederick Henry Arthur, seventh baronet, and in 1937 to Edward Alfred, eighth baronet. Edward Alfred DV (1864-1941) may be a cousin who inherits the title because Freddy has no male heirs. Does George William DV, married in 1834, have a son named Edward Alfred?]

21 June 1872 MR DV arrives Hobart on the S. Cross from Melbourne. Wreck of the Bella Vista; S. Cross picks up crew.

July 1872- Miss Des Voeux (and more?) travel to Sydney from Hobart
Weekly Examiner (Launceston, Tas: 1871-1878)
Saturday 20 July 1872
Pg. 19. ‘Shipping’
Port of Hobart Town- July 16, passengers per [s.s] City of Hobart, for Sydney- Misses Giblin (2), Miss Armstrong, Mrs Dowling, Miss Des Voeux, Mr, Mrs, and Misses (2), Merriman, Miss. E. Roberts, Mr, [Rouse] and Mr Bloomfield

November 1872- Miss Des Voeux travels from Brisbane to Sydney on 8th November 1872
The Telegraph (Brisbane, QLD: 1872-1947)
Friday 8 November 1872
Pg. 2 ‘Shipping Intelligence’
Transcript:
Shipping Intelligence
Departures
November 8th- City of Brisbane, A.S.N. So.’s [e]., 504 tons, W. Hill, master, for Sydney. Passengers: Mrs Gibson, Miss Gibson, Miss Des Voeux, Miss Reid, Messrs. Rodgers, QW. Pearee, John Conway, C. Lett, John Jeffries, Stephen King, Joseph Steane, and seven in the steerage.

1873
March 1873- Mr Des Voex travels to Norfolk Bay and Port Arthur with the Governor (Du Cane)
The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Tas: 1835-1880)
Friday 28 March 1873

3. 3. ‘Hobart Town and South’

Transcription:
The Governor and suite, accompanied by the Bishop of Tasmania, V.[H. Archer], Esq. Registrar, General of Victoria, the [?] [Canum] [ Davenport], and Messers Des Voeux and [Belatrad] have left Hobart Town in the steamer Monarch for Norfolk Bay, whence they will proceed overland to Port Arthur.

2 April 1873 (Date of initiating, or joining.)
United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers.
The Pacific Lodge. Hobart Town, Tasmania.
Des Vaux, Charles Champagne. Residence: Hobart Town. Profession: None.
[Note: see 1852 DV joins Wellington branch of same lodge]

The Tasmanian Tribune (Hobart Town, Tas: 1872-1876)
Wednesday 30 April 1873
Pg. 2. ‘Shipping’
Transcript:
The S.S Southern Cross sailed for Melbourne at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The following passenger were booked since yesterday: […] Mr. Des Voeux

29 and 31 October 1873. Letter from Colonial Secretary, Tasmania to Colonial Secretary, Wellington. Sent from Hobart Town. Correspondence between Wellington and Tasmania regarding De Voeux’s address. ‘Your letter was forwarded to Mr Des Voeux, Holbrook Place, Hobart Town, for his perusal, with a request that he would communicate with you…’ Separate letter, in Des Voeux’s handwriting. Paper stamp ‘Tasmanian Club.’ [Stamp is in blue ink, an oval shape like a capital O. Joins at the bottom in what looks like a belt loop, some shading and dots. Text in capitals in oval margin from left to right]. Dated 29 Oct 1873. ‘Hobart Town, Tasmania, 29th Oct. 1873. Sir, in reply to your letter of the 11th instant addressed to the Colonial Secretary Tasmania and asking for my address I beg to inform you that any communication directed to the Post Office Hobart Town will be sure to reach me in safety. I remain Sir, Your obedient Servant, ’ Charles C. Des Voeux. To the Hon Colonial Secretary New Zealand.’ (Archives NZ, R24233746)

November 1873- A Mr. Des Voeux travels with the vice-regal party
Launceston Examiner (Tas: 1842-1899)
Thursday 6 November 1873
Pg 2. ‘Vice-Regal’
Transcription:
His Excellency the Governor, the Hon. Mrs Du Cane, and two Masters Du Cane, attended by Mr. Des Voeux, acting private secretary in the absence of Mr. C. S. Chichester, arrived on Tuesday afternoon at three o’clock  on a visit to the North, and took up quarters at the Brisbane Hotel. Yesterday the Vice-Regal party went by special train to the Northern Agricultural Show, Longford, leaving about four o’clock on their return to Brisbane. We are requested to state that Mr and Mrs Du Cane will be at the Town Hall this afternoon between half-past three and five o’clock to receive visitors. The Vice-Regal party will leave Launceston on Tuesday for Government House, visiting the seat of Charles Headlam, Esq., Egleston, Macquarie River en route.

1874
Tasmanian Assessment and Valuation for Davey St 1874
Land & dwelling-house. Charles C. Desvœux. E. Hodgson. 40.

The Mercury (Hobart), 25 Feb 1874, p. 1
WANTED immediately a HOUSEMAID accustomed to needlework. Character indispensable. Apply between the hours of 9 and 11 a m. to Mrs. DES VOUX, Holbrook Place. 1632

May 1874- Cogle has moved on from Moonbria, no mention of Des Voeux
The Ballarat Star (Vic: 1865 – 1924)
Friday 15 May 1874
pg. 3. ‘Agricultural and Pastoral Intelligence’
Transcript:
We (Pastoral Times) hear from a reliable source that Mr James Cogle, late of Moonbria, has settled down again in another squattage, having become a partner in that large station known as Murven Hills. It was formerly owned by Mr. John M’Lean. Its area is nearly 400,000 acres, and Messers Cogle and Co. purchased therewith 140,000 sheep. We are told it is a splendid property and capable of carrying above 60,000 more sheep.

August 1874- Moonbria station is sold in August 1874
Ovens and Murray Advertiser (Beechworth, Vic: 1855-1918)
Saturday 1 August 1874
Pg. 1. ‘Telegraphic dispatches’
Transcript:
Moonbria station, in the Murrumbidggee district, was sold to-day for £42,000
October- Mr. Des Vouex visits the Tasmanian Agriculture show with the Du Canes
The Australian (Melbourne, Vic: 1864-1946)
Saturday 10 October 1874
pg. 24. ‘Tasmanian Agricultural and Pastoral Show’
Transcript:
The Governor, with Mrs. Du Cane, Mr. Des Voeux, and Mr. Chichester, first visited the Poultry Show at the Mechanic’s Institute, and then drove off to the Agricultural Show, where they arrived at half-past 1 p.m.

October 1874- Mr. Des Voeux travels with the vice-regal party again
The Tasmanian (Launceston, Tas: 1871-1879)
Saturday 17 October 1874
Pg. 10. ‘Vice-regal’
Transcript:
His Excellency the Governor, the hon. Mrs Du Cane, Mr Chichester, and Mr. Des Voeux returned to the vice-regal residence, Brisbane-street, at 6 o’clock on Thursday evening. Last evening His Excellency and Mrs Du Cane entertained His Worship the Mayor and a select party at dinner at the International Hotel. His Excellency will hold an [undress] [undress] levee at the Town Hall at 3pm on Saturday the 24th instant, not today. His Excellency is to be present at the annual general meeting of the Launceston Cricket Club in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, at 8 o’clock this evening.

The Mercury, 2 Nov 1874, p. 4
Charles Des Voeux, Esq. (who is proceeding to Europe), to sell by auction, at his residence,
Holbrook Place, on TUESDAY, 24th November, at 11 o’clock, THE WHOLE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND EFFECTS. Full particulars of which will appear in a
future issue.

The Mercury (Hobart), Tuesday, 24th November 1874.
ADVERTISING. Page 4.
This Day,
TUESDAY, 24th November,
Elegant & Superior household furniture and effects, Handsome cottage piano, silver plate & plated ware, &c.
At Holbrook Place.
GUESDON & WESTBROOK
Have been favoured with instructions from Charles Des Voeux, Esq. (who is proceeding to Europe), to sell by auction, at his residence, Holbrook Place, THIS DAY, the 26 th November, at 11 o’clock,
THE WHOLE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND EFFECTS, cottage piano, plate and plated ware, as follows: –

The Mercury, 5 Dec 1874, p. 1
TO LET, the HOUSE lately occupied by C. Des Voeux, Esq, Holbrook Place, to which two additional bedrooms will be ready for occupation on the 1st January, 1875. E. HODGSON_8864

The Age, 3 Dec 1874, p. 2
The following passengers have been booked per Messrs Money Wigram and Son’s Northumberland, leaving Hobson’s Bay, for London, on Saturday, 6th December :
… Mr. and Mrs. Charles Des Voeux,
Miss Des Voeux, Miss King, Mrs. Richardson,

Weekly Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1872-1878). Saturday 12 December 1874. Page 18.
S.S. Northumberland from Hobson’s Bay to London on Saturday 5th December 1874, passengers include ‘Mr and Mrs Charles Des Voeux, Miss Des Voeux”’

1875
Hobart Mercury 22 Jan 1875. Advertising. TO LET, with immediate possession, the HOUSE in Holbrook Place lately occupied by C. Des Voeux, Esq., with two additional bedrooms. E. HODGSON, 662 Upper Macquarie-street.

NZ Electoral roll 1875 -76 Charles C DV Hobart town, freehold Grey block 126, 145, 146, 165 ; same in 1880-81
[Note: these are the Glenavon sections]

1879
England marriages, London C of E, Charlotte Mary des Voeux aged 23 marries Samuel Ewing R.N. aged 29. Bride’s father Charles DV, 13 The Grove, 14 January 1879.
In St Mary’s East Bonniton, Kensington
They had two children:
1. Charlotte Ewing, born 1881, Dorset, Portland
2. Alexander Arthur Des Voeux Ewing, born 1884, St Heliers, Jersey

Probate of Alexander Arthur Ewing, RN (1884-1962, grandson of Charles and Katharina Des Voeux:
Ewing Alexander Arthur Des Voeux of 21 Portway Wells Somersetshire died 3 March 1962 Probate Bristol 16 May to Frederick Noel Wyatt and Peter Cecil Hincks solicitors. Effects £5525 13s. 6d.
(Ancestry.com)

1881
1881 England Census
Name: Mary A. Richardson
Age: 79
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1802
Relation: Mother
Gender: Female
Where born: Bath, Somerset, England
Civil parish: Brighton
County/Island: Sussex
Country: England
Street Address: 22 Atlingworth St.
Condition as to marriage: Widow
Registration district: Brighton
Sub-registration district: Kemp Town
Piece: 1076
Folio: 61
Page Number: 27
Household Members: Name Age
Kate Desvoeux 41 [who is this? Katharina DV is 52 ]
Mary A. Richardson 79
Annie Wardings 30
Source citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 1076; Folio: 61; Page: 27; GSU roll: 1341254.

1882
Death of Mary Anne Richardson, 6 May 1882, aged 81 years
Name: Mary Anne Richardson
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1801
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1882
Age at Death: 81
Registration district: Brighton
Inferred County: Sussex
Volume: 2b
Page: 130

Mary Anne Richardson probate
Personal Estate £237 4s. 7d.
10 July. The will of Mary Ann Richardson late of 22 Atlingworth-Street Brighton in the County of Sussex widow who died 6 May 1882 at 22 Atlingworth-Street was proved at the Principal Registry by Eliza Mary King of 34 Cornwall-road Westbourne Park in the County of Middlesex Widow the daughter the sole Executrix. (Ancestry.com)

1884
Birth of son to Frederick and Alice Mary Des Voeux New Plymouth, 1884 April quarter folio 1340.

Registrar’s return of all entries of births in the register book for the district of New Plymouth during the quarter ending the thirtieth of June 1884.
No. 73
When are Where born. 1884 March 28 New Plymouth
Name of Child, and whether present or not. Not present.
Sex. Male
Father. Name, Rank or Profession, Age, Birth-place. Frederick Des Voeux, Gentleman, 29, Queens C Ireland
When are where Married. 1881 December 22 London England
Mother. Name, Age, Birth-place. Alice Mary Des Voeux, formerly King, 28, New Plymouth
Informant. Signature. Description. Residence. F Du Voeux. Father. New Plymouth.
Registrar. When Registered, Signature of Registrar. 1884 April 16 [two words]

“In Memory of the Infant Son of Frederic and Alice Mary Des Voeux, Born 28th March, Died 31st March 1884”
Te Henui Cemetery, Taranaki
Born: 28 March 1884
Died: 31 March 1884 (Billiongraves.com)

1891
1891 England Census
Civil Parish: Portsea
Municipal Borough: Portsmouth
Municipal Ward: of St Simon
Urban Sanitary District: of Portsmouth
Ecclesiastical Parish or District: St Simon.
9 Alhambra Road.
Charles Des Voeux, Head, Married, 65, Occupation: Living on his own means. Where born: Notts, Carlton.
Katharine [ditto], Wife, Married, 54, where born: Germany British subject.
Edward [ditto]. Brother, Single, 55, Living on his own means, where born: [ditto]
Charlotte Ewing, Grand daughter, 10 years old, scholar, where born: Dorset, Portland.
Arthur [ditto], Grand son, 6 years old, where born: Jersey
+ 4 servants: lady’s maid (Sarah Hayward), nurse, cook, parlourmaid

1894
Charles Des Voeux becomes sixth Baronet of Indiaville after the death of his brother Sir Henry Des Voeux

Death of Sir Henry Dalrymple Des Voeux, 21 Jan 1894, aged 71 years
Henry Dalrymple DV’s death notice includes a family crest with two squirrels:

Illustrated London News, 27 January 1894, p.22
SIR DES-VOEUX, BART. Sir Henry Des-Voeux, Bart, of Indiville, Queen’s County, died Jan. 21. His grandfather, Sir Charles Des-Voeux, held several offices in the Government of India, and was for his services created a baronet of Ireland in 1787. Sir Henry was born in 1824, and succeeded to the title on death of his kinsman, the fourth baronet, 1872. married, in 1863, Lady Alice Egerton, youngest daughter of Thomas, Second Earl of Wilton, and leaves issue two daughters and co-heiresses. As his next brother, Lieutenant Charles Frederick Des-Voeux, lost his life in the expedition of Sir John Franklin, he is succeeded in the baronetcy by his third brother, now Sir Charles Champagne Des-Voeux, born in 1827, who married, in 1853, Kate, daughter of Mr. T. W. Richardson, of Clifton, in the county of Gloucester, and has issue a son and heir, Captain Frederick Henry Arthur Des-Voeux, 6th Dragoon Guards

1895
Death of Katharina Sarah Angelica Des Voeux, 3 March 1895, aged 64 years

Superintendent Registrar’s District: Portsea Island
Registrar’s Sub-District: Landport
1895 Deaths in in the Sub-District of Landport in the Counties of Southampton & Portsmouth
No. 240
When and Where died: Third March 1895 26 Waverly Road Southsea
Name and Surname: Katharina Sara Angelica Des Voeux
Sex: Female
Age: 64 years
Rank or Profession: Wife of Charles Champagne Des Voeux a Baronet
Cause of Death: Cerebral Haemorrhage 2 hours Certified by Geo A. Tullis MD
Signature, Residence and Description of Informant: Sarah J. Hayward Present at the death 26 Waverly Road Southsea
When registered: Fourth March 1895
Signature of Registrar: Joseph Mc[?] Registrar

England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
Name: Katherine Sara A Des Voeux
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Registration Year: 1895
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at Death: 64
Registration district: Portsea Island
Inferred County: Hampshire

Katharina Sarah Angelica Des Voeux burial 7 March 1895

Name: Katherina Sara Angelica Desvoeux
Age: 64 years
Birth Date: 1831
Residence Place: 26 Waverley Road Southsea
Relative’s Relationship to the Head of the Household: Wife of
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 7 March 1895
Event Place: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Cemetery Southsea, Highland Road Cemetery
Record Type: Cemetery Records
Page Number: 51
Reference G/BBH2/7
Affiliate Name: Portsmouth History Centre
(FamilySearch)

George William Des Voeux’s letter to The Colonies and India, May 25, 1895, p. 11
Sir G W Des Voeux, late a Colonial Governor, writes to the Times from Pau: –
Being, to my great regret, unable to attend the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the departure of the Franklin Expedition, I venture to ask of your courtesy the permission to make known through your columns the fact that injustice has been done to the memory of one of the officers of that expedition by the misspelling of his name upon the memorial column in Waterloo Place. The officer in question was my brother, Charles Frederick Des Voeux, mate (subsequently promoted to lieutenant) in the Erebus, Sir John Franklin’s ship; and the misspelling (ae for oe) is the more inexcusable as one of the last records of the expedition (found by McClintock, and given in facsimile in his book) is signed by the officer in question, his name being very plainly written. It is said that the recasting of the plate which contains the names would cost a considerable sum; but surely the consideration of a few hundred pounds should not stand in the way of the correction of a record, which, intended to honour an officer’s memory, in fact causes confusion as to his identity.

1897
Glenavon ownership 1840s-1897

The attached electoral roll records confirm that the section numbers owned by Charles match the holdings of Captain Davy on the map produced for the House of Commons. Here is a link to the Vernon record of a lithograph of the property
I have also attached a deposited plan, dated 1897, which appears to cover the same section numbers. (Mike Gooch, 14 Feb 2018)

1899
Frederick Des Voeux married Hylda Henrietta Brooke 1899 in France.

CFD (5 June 2024): Otherwise the last living descendant in that branch of the family was Frederick and Hylda’s daughter ‘Pamela Mary Des Vouex/Pelly’ and she lived until 1970. Son Roland Pelly, born 1943, grandson Richard Pelly.

1901
1901 England Census, Brixton
Samuel Ewing. Head. 51. Royal Navy retired. Born Scotland.
C M Ewing. Wife. 45. Born New Zealand.
+ 1 Housemaid

1902
JG Woon, Wanganui Old Settlers, Feb 1902:
‘Mr. Lett died in 1854, at the early age of 37. He was succeeded as Postmaster by Mr. Charles C. Des Vœux—an aristocrat of the “first water,” and at one time an officer in the Austrian Army.’

Old Settler (Jg Woon?) on Des Voeux in 1855 earthquake
Old Identities and incidents. WANGANUI CHRONICLE, VOLUME XXXXVII, ISSUE 11788, 13 NOVEMBER 1902
Old Identities and incidents.
BY “OLD SETTLER.”
Sir Joseph Ward, in his address at the opening of the new post office, mentioned that Mr. Charles Des Voeux had been the third postmaster here, as successor to Mr. Charles Lett. Mr. Lett came to Wellington in the Harrington, in 1841, and came on to Wanganui in its earliest days. He arranged all matters connected with the first race meeting held in Wellington, being a flat race amateur rider both in England and here in the early days. It was of Mr. Des Voeux, however, that I was about to speak. In 1855, and in December of that year, Mr. Des Voeux brought his wife to: Wanganui for a visit, riding down the coast from Taranaki. They were the guests of Mr. Adams, the commissariat officer in charge of that department here then. This was the year of the great earthquakes, and the month. Mr. Adams lived, in a neat cottage just where the Bank of New South Wales now stands. Mrs. Des Voeux was standing near the fireplace when the shock came, and the chimney fell on her, causing injuries from which the unfortunate lady never fully recovered. The difficulty in writing on these bygone subjects is that one thing leads into another in such a way that one hardly knows where to stop, or how far public interest runs, without encroaching- upon purely private matters. Mrs. Des Voeux was the only person seriously injured here’ during those great shocks, compared with which the heaviest since experienced have been as mere reminders of -what might happen again. Mrs. Des Voeux had not long been married. She was the elder daughter of Mr. Richardson, who came to Taranaki from India, about the year 1850. Mr. Richardson bought Glenavon farm from Mr. Edwin Davey, younger brother to Mr. Charles Davey, now of the Wangaehu. Captain William King, who was shot by the Maoris in the Taranaki war, had married the younger Miss Richardson. Captain W. King was cousin, on his mother’s side, to Mr. Cutfield, the welll known Bank manager of Wanganui. That earthquake struck us on a pitch dark night, in December I think, about 9 o’clock. The rain was pouring down, as in the tropics, and the heat was oppressive. All the chimneys in Wanganui were shaken to the ground, and the walls of the only two brick buildings we then possessed shared much the same fate. Both these buildings were what is called brick nogging, or bricks built into a frame of -scantling, erected as if for boarding. It was said that the wooden uprights gave and sprang, like bows, under the strain, shooting the rigid bricks out from between them. They bore thiisi appearance after the shock. One of these buildings was Major Durie’s, at Glen Durie, the other was the old Survey Office, which stood on the corner section, or one section up from the corner, of Taupo Quay and Witson street, on the sea side of Wilson street, and nearly opposite the old Commercial Hotel, kept at, that time either by Mr. Gerse, or by Mr. G. Roberts —I have forgotten which— but the mess of broken bottles, glasses, liquor, and sundries in that bar I have not forgotten, or the fallen chimneys and general woe begone aspect the whole establishment presented the morning after the shock, which was still shaking, and continued to shake for a fortnight or so— that is, it is doubtful if the earth was ever quite still and sharper shocks came at intervals all the time.

1903
Taranaki Herald 24 Feb 1903. Taranaki Mounted Corps.
Letter from Sir Charles Des Voeux,
A letter has been received by Mr J C Davies from Sir Charles Des Voeux, Bart., acknowledging receipt of the Taranaki Mounted Volunteers Memorial card, in which he states: “After the lapse of so many years I fear there are but few of those remaining who joined the corps at the time of its formation. To those few pray remember me most kindly, and particularly to Capt. F. J. Mace, whose valuable services I well recollect, and am much pleased to notice that he was awarded with the New Zealand Cross.”
Sir Charles Des Voeux was the first captain of the Taranaki Mounteds, who were formed in 1860, and served up to 1866. He was succeeded by Captain Mace in command of the corps.

1907
Luton Times and Advertiser, 6 December 1907, p. 2.
Three Generations. The great age four-score year has last week been attained by Sir Charles Champagne Des Voeux, sixth Baronet, an Irish creation of 1747. He succeeded his brother, the fifth Baronet, thirteen years ago. and of Indiaville, Queen’s Co., Ireland. He is the third son of the Rev. Henry Des Voeux, who was himself the third son of the first holder of the title, that three generations have furnished forth six Baronets, a somewhat uncommon occurrence. The first Baronet was Governor of Masulipatam on the east coast of India.

1908
Taranaki Herald 21 Jan 1908. THE TARANAKI RIFLES.
A Corps with a History. [story on history of the Taranaki Rifles, 1860].
On February 22nd, 1860… Outbreak of Hostilities.
[…] three companies of the 65th Regiment were engaged, together with […] 20 Mounted Volunteers under Captain Des Voeux. […]

1909
Death of Charlotte Mary Des Voeux/Ewing 3 June 1909, aged 53 years
Buried in Brompton Cemetery on 7 June (same cemetery as her father Charles Champagne DV)
Probate: Ewing Charlotte Mary of 66-Clarendon Road Southsea Hampshire (wife of Samuel Ewing) died 3 June 1909 at 15 Welbeck-Street Middlesex Administration London 11 September to the said Samuel Ewing commander Royal navy. Effects £7 (Ancestry.com)

Death of Samuel Ewing 24 Dec 1909, aged 60 years
Samuel Ewing probate
Ewing Samuel of 66 Clarendon-road Southsea Hampshire retired Commander R.N died 24 December 1909 at Prince of Wales hotel De Vere-gardens Kensington Middlesex Administration London 11 February to Katherina Mary Stewart Goldie single woman. Effects £2801 11s. (Ancestry.com)

1910
Army and Navy Gazette, 8 January 1910, p. 16
Obituary Navy
Com. Samuel Ewing, retired, died in London on the 24th ult, aged 60. He was the son of Alexander Ewing, late Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, and joined the Navy in September, 1862, becoming Sub-Lieutenant July 28 , 1870; Lieutenant Aug. 8, 1874 ; and retiring as Commander Aug. 29, 1894. He was granted a Greenwich Hospital pension in May, 1906.

1911
Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current
Name:  Eliza Mary King
Maiden Name: Richardson
Birth Date:      1831
Birth Place:     Germany
Death Date:     17 Feb 1911
Death Place:    Omata, New Plymouth District, Taranaki, New Zealand
Cemetery:        St Mary’s Anglican Churchyard
Burial or Cremation Place:     New Plymouth, New Plymouth District, Taranaki, New Zealand
Has Bio?:        N
Father: Thomas Watkin Richardson
Spouse:            William Cutfield King

1912
England, London Electoral Registers, 1847-1913.
Borough of  Saint George, Hanover Square division.
Register of Electors 1912. (FamilySearch).
Des Voeux, Charles C. (Sir). 3 rooms, first floor, furnished. 6 Arlington-street, Piccadilly. Name and Address of Landlord to whom rent is paid: M. Gould, same address.

1914
Death of Charles Champagne Des Voeux, 11 March 1914, aged 86 years

Burial. Charles Champagne des Voeux. West Brompton, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England. Birth Date: 26 Nov 1827. Death date: 11 Mar 1914 (aged 86). Cemetery: Brompton Cemetery. (Find A Grave Index via FamilySearch).
Image of gravestone: ‘In loving memory of Sir Charles Des Voeux [Earl?]. Born Nov. 1827. Died March 1914. “But God will give you to us again with joy and gladness forever.”’

Charles C Des Veleux
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index. (Ancestry)
Deaths registered in January, February, and March 1914.
Des Voeux, Charles C. Aged 86. St George Hanover Square. Vol. 1a p593.
[St George’s Church, London].

Sir Charles Champaigne Des Voeux born 26 November 1827, died 11 March 1914 in London. He lived at 6 Arlington street Piccadilly. Probate London 28 April to sir Frederick Henry Arthur Des Voeux baronet, retired captain HM Army. Effects four thousand two hundred pounds. (England and Wales National Probate calendar)

Derby Daily Telegraph, 12 March 1914, p. 2
Sir Charles Champagne who died yesterday in London at the age of 87, was a member of a family that formerly resided at Drakelow Hall, Derbyshire, and as recently as the middle of last century took a prominent part in the County’s affairs. Sir Charles was born on November 26, 1827. He was the third son of the Rev. Henry Des Voeux, the third son of the first baronet. He succeeded his eldest brother, the fifth baronet, in 1894, his second brother, Lieut. C. F. Des Voeux, R.N., having perished in Sir John Franklin’s expedition. His younger brother, Sir William Des Voeux, C.M.G., who died in 1909, was for many years in the Colonial Service. The late baronet married, in 1853, Katharina, daughter of Mr. T. W. Richardson, of Clifton. She died in 1895, leaving one son, Captain F. H. A. Des Voeux, late Dragoon Guards, who succeeds to the title. He married, in 1899, Hylda Henrietta, daughter of Sir Victor Brooke, Bt., of Colebrooke.

Evening Mail,13 March 1914, p. 8.
SIR CHARLES DES VOEUX. Sir Charles Champagne Des Voeux died at 6, Arlington-street on Wednesday, aged 87. Born on November 26, 1827, he was the third son of the Rev. Henry Des Voeux. the third son of the first baronet. He succeeded his eldest brother, the fifth baronet, in 1894, his second brother, Lieutenant C. F. Des Voeux. R.N., having perished in Sir John Franklin’s expedition. His younger brother, Sir William Des Voeux, G.C.M.G., who died in 1909, was for many years in the Colonial Service. The late baronet married, in 1853, Katharina, daughter of Mr. T. W. Richardson of Clifton. She died in 1895, leaving one son, Captain F. H. A. Des Voeux, late 6th Dragoon Guards, who succeeds to the title. He married, in 1899, Hylda Henrietta, daughter of Sir Victor Alexander Brooke. Bt., of Colebrooke.

Northampton Mercury, 13 March 1914, p. 5
The death occurred in London on Wednesday of Sir Chas. Champagne Des Voeux, uncle of Mrs. Guy Paget. The late Sir Charles was born on November 26, 1827. He succeeded his fifth brother to the baronetcy in 1894. His second brother, Lieut. C. F. Voeux, R.N., perished in Sir John Franklin’s expedition. He is succeeded in the title by his son, Captain F. H. A. Des Voeux, late 6th Dragoon Guards. The late Sir Charles has visited Mr. and Mrs. Guy Paget in Northamptonshire on more than one occasion.

Pall Mall Gazette, 13 March 1914, p. 14
EMPEROR’S FIRST BALL The career of Sir Charles des Voeux, who died on Wednesday at 6, Arlington-street, at the age of eighty-seven, carries the memory back to a very interesting period of European history. Whilst a cadet at Woolwich in 1845 he was one of the young Englishmen selected by the Emperor Ferdinand for a commission in the Austrian army. His Majesty was desirous of obtaining a certain number of young Englishmen of good birth to serve as officers in his corps d’elite. Sir Charles was posted to the famous Radetzski Hussars, who so distinguished themselves in the quadrilateral and Raverna campaigns. As a young Englishman he danced the State quadrille at the first ball held after the succession of the present Emperor of Austria, who succeeded in 1848. After seven years’ service in the Austrian army Sir Charles went to New Zealand and acted for a time as private secretary to Sir George Grey. On the outbreak of the Maori war he raised and commanded the only mounted troop of Colonial forces, for which service Sir Charles received the thanks of the New Zealand Government. The funeral will be at Brompton Cemetery at eleven to-morrow. Sir Charles is succeeded by his only son, Captain F. des Voeux, late 6th Dragoon Guards.

OTAGO DAILY TIMES, ISSUE 16066, 6 MAY 1914, PAGE 8
Personal Notes from London
Sir Charles Des Voeux, who died this week, was a brother of the late Sir William Des Voeux, formerly Governor of Fiji. He was in New Zealand for some years as private secretary to Sir George Grey, and he raised and commanded a troop of horse during the Maori war. When Sir Charles was at Woolwich he was selected for a commission in the corps d’elite of the Emperor of Austria, and he served with distinction with the Radetski Hussars in the campaign of northern Italy. He danced in the State Quadrille at the first ball held by the present Emperor of Austria after his accession in 1848.

1937
Death of Frederick Henry Arthur Des Voeux, 4 Jan 1937, aged 79 years
The Times, Wednesday 6 January 1937
Sir Frederick Henry Arthur Des Voeux, Bart., died at his home in London on Monday at the age of 79. He was formerly Major in the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) and served in the Afghan War in 1879-80. He succeeded his father as seventh baronet in 1914. Sir Frederick married, in 1899, Hylda Henrietta, C.B.E., daughter of Sir Victor Alexander Brooke, Bart., and had one daughter, Pamela Mary. He is succeeded by his cousin, Mr Edward Alfred Des Voeux.

His probate was £45,292 (Ancestry.com)

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