New Zealand Immigrants by BH Woodley Thomas Edmond Bush (b.10/3/1873) married Annie Catt (1849-1917) from a well established family near Hastings England on 10/03/1873 which produced ten sons and three daughters - one adapted- and his son my grand father Francis Henry Bush (1882-1959) married a local Devonport girl Elizabeth Ellen Young on 24/04/1905 who was my maternal grandmother and is now buried at the Devonport Cemetary, Auckland. Elizabeth died in 1917 so my grand father remarried Bertha Amelia Schartfega (b1897) some time later who survived him to 1971.The first marriage on 24/04/1905 produced two sons Francis Alexander (1905-1980) Douglas Allen (1907-1990) and a daughter, my mother Annie Grace (1909- 2003). Francis married Annie Spence and had four children the parents now deceased and only two surviving children.
Barbara married Ernest -Coromandel region- and produced four children. Raymond married Robyn and produced three children. Douglas married Marjorie -both now deceased- and had two children (1943) and (1950). A daughters marriage produced three grand daughters and with all resident in the Bay of Plenty region.
The second marriage of grandfather produced a further three sons Raymond Kenneth (1926) Lionel Stanton (1930) and Henry Proctor(Laddie) (1933)and a daughter Eileen Francis(1934) who were resident at Auckland, Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty districts. Raymonds marriage to Kiri produced four children, Laddie married Barbara and produced five children, Eileen married Frederick and produced a daughter. Lionel was unmarried.
Grand father worked as a gas fitter-engineer for the Devonport Gas Company and his house is still in good repair and occupied at Mozeley Avenue in 2007. When he remarried he moved the family to a general store at Te Poi in the Waikato area and my mother finished her schooling at Te Poi and was employed as an apprentice seamstress in Matamata by Clem Goodall - my uncle now deceased - where she met my father William and married before moving to the rather run down farm purchased on a soldiers rehab loan in the Maxwell -Okehu district of Wanganui.[photo 4] They were married at the Dublin Street Methodist Church, Wanganui on the 6th November 1928 my mother at the age of nineteen years though father was in his late thirties. The Woodley side of the family had a more varied lifestyle in their settlement days as Henry farmed at Hilton, Mossburn, and Winchester out of Temuka where father went to school, then Henry went into partnership to purchase a large land holding know as the Earnslaw Station, Glenorchy/Paradise ( the house is still in use and the holding is not far from Queenstown) and then Orch Gardens, Five Rivers in Lumsden.
He finally was run over by a train when returning from a tavern at night. This must have been embarrassing and difficult for the family as grand mother was a strict Seventh Day Adventist in later life and the accident attracted considerable talk and local media attention. My grand mother occupied a house at 24 Union Street Papanui Christchurch in retirement. The two brothers William and James were conscripted and served in the Canterbury Mounted Rifles in World War One in Egypt and Palestine, my father as a medical orderly and served from 1916 until 1919 even though he had contracted malaria in the earlier stage of the War. James married Margaret Fraser also from Glenorchy and close to the Earnslaw sheep station and their wedding photo is now part of the Glenorchy Museum. James eventually moved to the Masterton -Featherston district and is buried in the Masterton cemetery with a soldiers headstone and plaque. Most of the Henry Woodley family stayed in the South Island with Marion Una and Ruth marrying into local well known families - the Sharpe family in Glenorchy-Queenstown, the Aitken family in the Rees Valley and Christchurch, and the Chartres family who under a Crown lease operate the large Te Anau Downs holding in the lake area.The Sharpe family also lost a son Gerald Woodley Sharpe and Army sapper in Greece who died 18-05-41 [10] and is at the C.W.G.C. war memorial graves, Athens, Greece.
The two brothers William and James eventually moved north to farm outside of Wanganui and Masterton. Bessie was unmarried and worked in the Sanitarium Health Food factory in Christchurch [her residence was 8 Bell St, Riccarton] and Evelyn moved to Matamata with her husband Clement Goodall and then Tauranga where she owned a small cafe/milk bar and he a small Mount wharf general store until retirement in the 1960. The Goodall family lost a son Henry Noel a fighter pilot (Sgt.RNZAF S/N 391350) in the European war on 5-06-1941. He was a co-pilot in a Wellington bomber based at Harwell and Newmarket in the UK to March 1941 and then at Maleme Crete and conducted over 21 operational flights over Holland, France, Germany and Bulgaria. He died following a flare path accident on the ground on 30 May 1941 in which both bombers collided. His name is enscribed at the Ismailia Egypt war graves cemetary located a short distance from Port Said.[13]
The Goodall family building business of Douglas is still active, with his sister Poynder now a widow, retired there as well. The Bill (-2001) and Julene family (Julene a widow is the daughter of Douglas Allen Bush) have also moved to the Bay of Plenty with their three daughters.
My sister Elizabeth married husband Brian and produced their four children. Mark married Alison of Wellsford. Susan has married Kevin and her sister Janet married Martin.Recently Paul married Donna and produced two children. I married Rosemary in 1965 and remarried Gloria in 1990. I had my two children to my first wife Rosemary.
My parents and family moved to Tauranga from Wanganui when father William retired in 1954 and died in 1962 after a family separation when he was living in Christchurch close to his relatives. Mother Annie died in 2003 after she had lived in three separate Tauranga properties at Gate Pa and Greerton. He is buried at the 16th Avenue Tauranga Cemetery with a soldiers plaque as head stone, and her ashes are located and marked in the new rose garden section of the Pyes Pa Road Cemetery, Tauranga. This chapter will give readers a broad outline of our New Zealand descendants.
SOURCE REFERENCES & CITATIONS / Dates & Numbers: [1]GRO England 1861/BXBZ228912 [2]Dr B.R. Jerome/ UK [3]Rachel Scott 1992 UK/NZ [4]Canterbury Museum [5]B & E Enticott [6] Cert Marriage Victoria Aust 1884 #8 [7]DBM Record 1896 # 2225 [8] DBM Record 1882# 189 [9] DBM Record 1905 # 16 [10] Internet Sources [11] G.T. Bush "To be a King" 1966 [12] D. Bush King [13] NZ Defence Force Archives Trentham