SimRacing in the Boro

I'm half Kiwi... so this site will be updated as I research and learn about my New Zealand side of the family.



1.  Henry John Chitty Harper  (1804 - 1893)

     Great Grandfather of my grandmother, Rosamond Harper 
     1st Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand  (Christmas day, 1956)
      Elected Primate of New Zealand - 1868

     Websource:  http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1H8
     Websource:   http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/H/HarperRightRevHenryJamesChitty/HarperRightRevHenryJamesChitty/en
     Websource (Anglican Church): http://www.chch.anglican.org.nz/main/history
     Websource (National Archieves):  http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P35164

2.  Leonard Harper

     Crossed the Southern NZ Alps in 1857
     1st President of the New Zealand Alpine Club
     A Barrister, Explorer and later MHR
     Grandfather of my grandmother, Rosamond Harper
     1st white man to traverse "Harper's Pass" in the Southern NZ Alps

     Websource:  http://www.thepeerage.com/p3131.htm
     Websource:  http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/teaohou/issue/Mao12TeA/c19.html
     Photo:  http://www.tramper.co.nz/index.cfm?view=object&id=1289


3.  Arthur Paul Harper, CBE  (1865 - 1955)

     Member of the British Bar (1888) / Noted Mountaineer
     Official "Explorer" of New Zealand
     1946 - Authored " Memories of Mountains and Men "
     Father of my grandmother, Rosamond Harper

     1.  First crossing of Ball Pass
     2.  First exploration of the Murchison Glacier
     3.  First ascent of Harper Saddle
     4.  1891 - Founded the New Zealand Alpine Club
     5.  1930 - Helped found the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand
     6.  20 years a member of the New Zealand Geographic Board
     7.  Member of the National Parks Authority
     8.  President of the Forest and Bird Protection Society
     9.  1952 - Was awarded the C.B.E. in recognition of his achievements in
          exploration and mountaineering.

     Websource:  http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=4H17
     Websource:  http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/H/HarperArthurPaul/HarperArthurPaul/en
      Websource: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/interior-explorers
      Websource:  http://www.alpineclub.org.nz/documents/publications/Armchair%20Mountaineering%20Jan%2006.pdf

Veteran explorer C. E. Douglas (left) was joined by A. P. Harper in charting remote parts of the West Coast for the Department of Lands and Survey from 1893. They and dog Betsey Jane rest briefly in the Cook River Valley in 1894.

4.  Henry Williams  (1792 - 1864)

     Missionary / Drafted Maori version of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840)
     Great Grandfather of Selwyn Hadfield

     Websource:  http://www.treatyofwaitangi.govt.nz/people/missionaries.php#Williams

Henry Williams (1792-1864) was a former Royal Navy lieutenant who served in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1823, as an Anglican priest, he was appointed to head CMS's mission in New Zealand. Under his forceful personality, the mission was highly successful, influencing several thousand Māori to convert and spreading its influence through much of the North Island. By the late 1830s, Williams and most missionaries actively supported British annexation, believing it necessary to protect Māori from lawless Europeans. They also supported measures intended to protect Māori from fraudulent dealings, such as the prohibition on private land purchases and the investigation of existing purchases.On 4 February 1840, Williams and his son Edward were given one night to translate the technical language of Hobson and Busby's draft Treaty of Waitangi into Māori. Henry then had a crucial role in explaining it to the chiefs who met William Hobson at Waitangi on 5 February. He later travelled to the southern North Island and the Marlborough Sounds to gain signatures. His personal mana undoubtedly influenced many chiefs to sign.

He was criticised after the sack of Kororāreka in 1845 and also harshly criticised for his land holdings. After 1845, Governor George Grey questioned Williams's title to land he had bought near Paihia, although it had been officially investigated and confirmed. The embarrassment this caused led to his sacking as head of the New Zealand CMS Mission, but he was later reinstated. He became Archdeacon of Te Waimate and remained in that post until his death.


5.  Octavius Hadfield    (1814 - 1904)
 
     Christian Missionary
     Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand
     3rd Anglican Primate of New Zealand
     Grandfather of Selwyn Hadfield (my grandfather)

Websource (online writings):  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-123723.html

Websource (Bible Society of New Zealand):  http://www.biblesociety.org.nz/bsnz/sequel.htm

Websource:  (Dictionary of NZ):  http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1H2

Websource:  http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/H/HadfieldOctavius/HadfieldOctavius/en
                       
     Quote:  "His public reputation as a fearsome controversialist arose partly from his passion for truth and his determination that right should prevail, partly from his refusal to suffer fools gladly. He had, as he once said himself, more patience with vice than stupidity, for something could still be achieved with the vicious. "I believe", he wrote, during the controversy over the Waitara purchase, "that great crimes ought to be called by their proper names and that the interests of truth and justice ought to be paramount to every other motive."

Website source:  http://www.socialjustice.org.nz/?sid=32&id=96

     Christian Missionary
     Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand
     3rd Anglican Primate of New Zealand
     Grandfather of Selwyn Hadfield
 

Websource (online writings):  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-123723.html

Websource (Bible Society of New Zealand):  http://www.biblesociety.org.nz/bsnz/sequel.htm

Websource:  (Dictionary of NZ):  http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1H2

Websource:  http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/H/HadfieldOctavius/HadfieldOctavius/en
                       
     Quote:  "His public reputation as a fearsome controversialist arose partly from his passion for truth and his determination that right should prevail, partly from his refusal to suffer fools gladly. He had, as he once said himself, more patience with vice than stupidity, for something could still be achieved with the vicious. "I believe", he wrote, during the controversy over the Waitara purchase, "that great crimes ought to be called by their proper names and that the interests of truth and justice ought to be paramount to every other motive."

Websource:  http://www.socialjustice.org.nz/?sid=32&id=96
 
      For information about his commitment to the welfare of the Maori people.

     Quote:  "Hadfield had a strong sense of justice and objected strongly to actions taken by the Government that were undermining to Maori and their interests."

Websource:  http://rangiatea.natlib.govt.nz/OctaviusE.htm

Octavius Hadfield was 24 when he arrived in New Zealand, in 1839, to work as a missionary. After a brief period at Paihia, in the Bay of Islands, he responded to a request to establish an Anglican Mission on the Kapiti Coast. Hadfield arrived in Waikanae in November 1839, and soon won the confidence of local Māori. Under his direction, Te Āti Awa built a large wooden church within the Waikanae pā. It was this church which inspired Te Rauparaha to build Rangiātea at Ōtaki.

Hadfield's strong sense of social justice often made him bitterly unpopular with the colonial government. For example, during the Taranaki war, he supported the rights of his Te Āti Awa converts. Hadfield's attitude was based on his conviction that 'every act in New Zealand must be productive of good or evil to generations to come.'

Hadfield suffered from severe asthma all his life, which often left him incapacitated and bedridden for months at a time. Despite his illness, he became Bishop of Wellington in 1870 and Primate of New Zealand in 1889.


 6.  Rosamond T. Harper  (1909 - 2005)

Mountaineer
Full member of the New Zealand Alpine Club
 1934 - Member of the first all-women party to climb Mount Sefton
Great-granddaughter of Bishop Henry John Chitty Harper
Granddaughter of Leonard Harper
Daughter of Arthur Paul Harper


 7.  Selwyn Hadfield  


Grandson of Octavius Hadfield
Husband of Rosamond Harper, father of Mike & Sue

Websource:  http://rangiatea.natlib.govt.nz/OctaviusE.htm

Selwyn salvaged a piece of wood from the remains of the burned church at Waikanae and carved a decorated lectern for Rangiātea. pencil sketch by William Swainson Collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
8.  Barry Hadfield

1st Mayor of Kapiti  (1975?)

Websource:  http://www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/B5ABD99C-FD8A-46F0-AA06-FB01317A1A13/37010/KCDC_October1.pdf
9.  Julie Hadfield

Owner of Opawa Homestead Bed & Breakfast Inn
(built in 1862 & the oldest remaining homestead in the Mackenzie district)
Daughter of Mike & Pat Hadfield, granddaughter of Rosamond Harper

Websource:  http://www.opawahomestead.co.nz