Marks/Inscriptions: B. 124 Barker . Dr. Alfred Charles (1819 -73) was born - Variously stated - in London or Hereford , the son of Joseph Gibson Barker of Birmingham . Hes was Educated at a private school and at Kings College , London, where he studied medecins. He went as a pupil first to M+ Griffiths of St. Owens St. 2 St Surgeon and upon his death to Charles L ingen brother to Henry Bankers first wife (Linger frequently mentioned in Dr Barkes letters.) He practised at Matlock Bath and Rugby. He led a partner in England but the name is impossible to male out. an He was early applicant (No. 46) or land from the Canty Assoc and he selected 50 ac. on the East side of Papanui Rd running to web St. His town section ran from Cathedral square to the Gas Co. comer. He and his family came out in the Charlotte Jane and he was in the furst boat to reach the shore at Lylt. He showed great energy and conno 4 sense in making his arrangements when he landed. He bounded his wife and family at Days Hole, Sumner . They had been p romised timber all ready cut and seasoned for them when they an ied. ; but they found it had already been sold . He bought the famous striding sailo and the sung rants D. Bakers Letters to his brother (in family psion) : Scholefield i : Wards Dray : Acland.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 124 D.C.C. Barker. cooking stoss from the ships and lived in a dugout by the river bank while his house was being built. He was probably the first man to get settled in Mason able comfort, and he was beryl Early in getting a garden and trees. It was said that the first for families to set outf ron Lylt. to the Plans were the Bankers , the Ravens , the Mount forth and the fishers ; but as the Ravens did not arrive till '53 , perhaps ust much notice herd be taken of this. Hi student sal was used as protection for the load applicants in Jan s1 . The land office was just across Oxford Tercel frim his houge . Although his name is more doctrina familier than d.at of any other Canter onyx doctor, he probably did less opin than Any os o of them. He had all sorton of hobbies , first sketching later photo ape. He paid great attention to his land purchas , to their selection and management. He always had the ambition to make a i oldest fortie at any rate . He called his Papanui section Aston and he hoped from the profit when it was sold to buy back his grandfathers property , Aston near Claver . He valued this section c at £5000 in '58 . In '64 he lard it out leag everly. 1 to ss on 21 year , terms His absorbing passion was in building up and completing, makof his splendid farm of heavy land south of the Orari which was known as Ohapi. J.J. Thomsons Remus, LT. 30. 5.68.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 124. D.f J.C. Barker 3 in ley When Edward shortland was making his way back up the East Coast he listed carefully the land he was passing ove and he said that the land at the Ohapi st ream was the richest th he had come across .'s and wore f now would say he was wrong . His letters describe the building up of the farm , the fights when someone l luca teed to purchase in the middle of it, and the pangs he suffered when he paid ont the necessary sums. n June 5 he was this won from his horse and dragged and received a spinal injury from which he continued to suffer for the rest of his life. FIt was disc, piobally what is now Hore as a s lpe e gave up his practice in 59 and made it over to Parkerson ; but he Kept his profitable side - leni as Registrar of B.D.+ M. He was highly critical of his fellow doctors and made many impers ant remarks about them. Dr Moon was stealing his patents from him and was a drunkard. Dr Richards was unqualified and he refused to act with him. In Jan 54 he used chloroform to operate on the hand of sit Thomas Tancredo hasodl which had been Crushed in the mangle and from the prominence given to the operation it may have been the first Rie an aas dete was used in ChCh. LT. 3.8.59 : 12.1.59 : 23.7.59 : Edward Shortland; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 124 D.A.C. Barker 4 on of his less for tumahu land inves tents was lake Coleridge , Station which he took up with Harman and Davie . He bought out his two partners and leased.it to G.A.E. Ross who took Charles Harper into partnership. for a rental of £320 par ann cm . When wool went down and they said they auld ns longer afford to pay the rent he was finis and called them very implement names in his letters He finally agr ed to sell t to them for £7367 of which f (2367 was pad in cash . They probably all lost money on if. It was nt a very good station . Another land transaction was the A.M.P. comer in Cathedral Square. He offered it When he heard the Govt. were looking s a half acre of central site for a new Pest Oie, he offered them his A. M.P. section for £ 5000. Tre seas Wake fe ild land. To his great indignation the Got bought the opposite comer for £10000. After his death the A. M.P. comer brought £e 5760 and the Gas Co . comer E2266. He is probable better known for his plistagraphis thar for ary other sigley thing nowadays His dau Elizabeth said that he had taken 56.f7 types in Eng. Mount fort actually y taught him the art of photography 1p to thus time he had dons a good deal of sketching hut after he timed his attention; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 124 D.A.C. Barker. 5. to photography he continued to tim out a stream o f good pictures which are well posed and arranged besides being carefully developed and printed. He was munch deal and scratched the sul et and the date on Each plate. This was the time of wet plates which had to be slid into a large bur camera standing on a tripod. He soon began developing his own ideas and built a Small bore) of a dark room on a four wheel buggy f 7ame 5o that he could develop his own plates wherever he mig ut be. once when he hod taken some photographs At Sumner and was developing them. he called to a son to put the horse in as he had practically finished, a gust of w ond blew a cushion on to the hoses Lead which naturally ran away with the doctor in the dark room . When the out fit was captured he emerged looking like Dalmatian doy covered with blotches of nitrate of silver . He used to use sovereign s to make chlordane of gold and family Silver for other necessary chemicals. He cut bits of orhan of his w indus for glass when he was short of t. He used to put his prints , came o to wash in a box in the river until some rascal and robbed his bou night after inight to the time of some fifty pictures. The photograph is bae became one of the most valuable sources of knowledge of early Canty. stories above Sum date unknown M.R.G :; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 124 D. A.C. Barker. D9 Barkes leblanc ar full of gr rans About money - how he cant jet his rents in and how his banking account is oi a very ball way and how he wont be able to help his brother Delabere anny more . But his bark is worse than his bete. In the end he always does help Delabere . He was just one of those people who have the bad habit of crying poverty and he lot the habit grow until it became an obsession . Actually he was an affectionate man and was devoted to his family and wrote of his sons with fondness and without cubic1son, He was devoted to his wife and was prostrate when she died not long after the birth of her 8' Child. He was rather is an unusual man, in that his mind was Scientific and rain dealt son. ly with facts, he was learned in such things as geology and botany and corresponded with Owen and He riley. and yet when he came to study Darw on , he could ut accept his deductions f rom his obser rations because of his fury with him as "a destroyer of the Cristian farth The emotional side of him as a de volt believer was stronger ear his reas oringi scuntilie mnd. He was of course a member of the Philosophical Soc. and contributed many papers. He was a trustee of the Mus eni and was always; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: 7. B. 124 Dr. A.C . Barker to the fore in any inlet al movement. He was always s helpful to the C. of E and was a lay member of the Diocesan Synod. He welcomed the young H.B. Cocks as a very good comet man and a sound divine : Any useful mechanical device always caught his eys2 When on his wary to S. Canty he cored William White ' pilot budge over the Rakaia (made out of " gas pipes) he was highly in pressed He met Tr elope on his visit in '72. He talked with Geo a More of Glen marte and Moore told him that he was converting 600 old evesham a day into manure. - the sort of fact that impressed him. His dau Elizabeth (Mrs Arthur Hawdon) showoff insider able wanting talent and contributed sketches under the name of "Tent born" In '73 , the last year of his life , he was very busy at X's Collge Superintenden the building of the new library for which he had made the plans . It was while he was doing this thet he suffered a Sun stroke to which he attributed the l dress which led to his death. He was a church property trustee and was honorary medical officer to the or pana9e ( finished in '63 at a cost of £2000. ). He was a mem be of the managing comm. of the ChCh Hosp in 64. He boasted in '60' I now hold 30000 acres of ing own (this included , of course, Lake Coleridge). He was a Fellow of X's Coll.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 124 . Dr. A.C.Barker 8. He was elected to the Connal of the Acclimatisation soc, May 68 , and was treas. of the Canty. Colleg rate Min n '72. He was on y coney after his wifes death. He hoped to marry Rosa Harper and was deeply disappointed when she decided to marry T.J. Maling . He was an excellent correspondent and his letters display fully his good points and weaknesses. Besides his habit of crying poverty he was highly unreliable in his comments or atherosclerosis , par ten Carly when they from im differed and no notice can be taken of them; and 1 f he had lost money through and them no epithet was too strong. On the other he was free fi on the prevailing Scottish ness and utterly disregarded appearances ; he was indifferent to his Own clothes or any one Else ' . He wanted his boys to become farmers and they did . He never belonged to the ChCh Smart set. Every well known man in ChCh attended his funeral. There were 5-600 present including the masters and boys of X's Coll . The pare. bearers were Judge Gres son, Drs Donald, Parkerson and ins and Lieut. Dugard Macfarlan. His executors were the Rev. Lorenzo Moore and his eldest son Dick . of his property wad been 8'/ ac. O f his Papanui section wee sold May 68 for £8.335. His Worcester St section was ent up and sold in July 78 for L 18020. His South Canty estate LT. 20.7.72 : 21 .3.73 : 25.3.73 : 1.6.78.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 124 D. A.C. Barker 9. which he had frehoeded out of Rank puka Run was of about 2400 acres. He invested his Lake coleridge money i and, his brother send ont money in 65 from England which also went into it. He wrote I have sent Dick and Sammy off to cultivate it as a sheep farm and do the best they cam with it. It will ) fear be another L 1500 to fence and stock it. He just nosed buying the land on which Hokitika was built f an are. In '79 Ohapi was divided into 12 sections and put up for sale. There was a reserve at the full valuation and there were nso beds. The hothers took the various lots at valuation as follows : pick too Sec. .2.12 (Kakahi) at L10747 8.6: Arthur bought 3.4.5 (middle block) at £12,234 .1.6 : and Francis took Ses. 6.7.8.9.10 the lower sections at £ 13948.14.9. wicks part carried the name Ohapi, They drew lot for choice of the other property . Birch die w first choice and close the town section. At the time Ohapi was cut up Dr. Bakers estate amounts ( to L79 10. 5.5. of this total Ohapi represented £36 430.3.9. After he died Dr Barkes town house was leased to Watts Russell . His dau Mary went to live with his friend Miss Bowen, landis who was at the time y in Miles + Co and went to live i lodgings. working ( Francis Barkes Dray in family possession.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 124 D.A.C.Barker. 10 family. The northern colunna at the Eastern end of the nave of the Cathedral was the families monument o him. He d. 20 .3.73 aged 53, family. He marr. Emma dau of Samuel Outram Bacon; she d. 2.10.58 Richard Alfred q.v. 6 11.7.46 at Rugby d. at Ohapi 4.2.91 Samuel Delabere q.v. + 6.2.48 d. Ch Ch 17. 19.01 Arthur Le ellyn q.v. 28.8.49 d. 14.9.38. Elizabeth b ia tent ChCh 15.8.51 d. at Geraldine 11.9.21. Francis Henry b. 1853 d at Timaru 30.6.32 John Mathias ( 1850 d. at Waihi 2.7.33. Mary 1855 d. at byner sly Temuka 21.8.80. William Edward 1858 d. 12.3.35. His sons were as a family , happy - natured easy going men who were con tent for tins to pursue the comfortable farming life which their fathers made possible for them. They were good citi rais and hone of them wasted their money. Samuel was unfortunate and lost his money . ich died comparatively young , a bachelor. Arthur , Francis and John each went on a homey noon torn of the world. William the yo - was the odd man out the youngest i; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer