Marks/Inscriptions: B. 130. Barker , Enoch (1830-92) served his apprentice ship as a gardener a Chats or th , the principle seat of the Duke of Devonshire. He then went overseas s and was employed at the NewYork Gardens and later al the Sydney 8Gardens . John Ollivier at a. speck made at a meeting called to discuss a )road though Hagley Park said that Moorhouse when in Aust. in '58 induced Barker to come across from Aust. and lay out the Park and Carden. It is further said the t h and his family cross ed to N.Z. in the Zealandia (Capt. Foster ) and that Mrs Foster dred on the vey9ge and the Bankers Cooked after the Foster family. In contradiston to this story there is no information I that Capt. Fosters wife ever dred on a voyage. Ench Bankers came appeas mn the pass list of the Strathallan which arrived in lylt 21.1.59 after leaving ) mary of her passengers at Timaru as, Erich Barker, + 9. gardener of Yorks, oh Sarah, his wife - 26. Sarah Ann 5, Emily Jane 2. on 14.2.59 he 3married at Lylt Amelia Foster dau. of Joseph y Amelia Foster. 14.2.59. So it appears that Sarah died on the voyage and that Enoch wasted no "us. time in finding another wife. To make matters even mere puzzle sg Athe following manage notice,; Joseph Foster born 1834, mariner , marr. 10.9.56. Macmillan : as lest. f. Lib: Holy Toit Lylt. M.R :; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: . B. 130 Enoch Barber 2. Amelia Ame Wells dau of Thos. Wells , marriner . It seems possible that there was confusion in the story of a wife d and it was Mrs Barker not k dying bis Foster who died. The writer is guile unable to saplin the difficulty of Joseph + Amelia Foster, Where in a pleasing story of the starting of the plantin . Hirst they picked a br oak ten feet high, planted a brit of 1y at the foot of i and sayy suitable songs such as "Bare oed Oak" "The Oak and the Ivy" "Woodman spare that Tree" and "Rule Bot Britannica This was a touch of the old "Merre England ". Grosvenor Miles , Treasurer of the Domain Board treated them to a hearty incag afterwards. In LT. 15.10.64 Will be found an account of the wonderful strides Barker had made in planting out the gardens and the Park and of his nursery with tens of thousands of gong trees. He was the first Por os. Gort gardener in Canty. He was appointed to the coms. of the ChCh Horticultural Soc. He of course did much other planting than the Park and cardenas - the Bells for ms Janice . He resig ned from his posts with the Domain Bd, in '67. F.E. Stewart , read of the saeb ive , expressed the regret of the Govt in hands ous terms. He settled in New Brighton and is said to have built the first house there . This 1 y be so but is may b to 1T. 112.61 : 13.9.67 P.7.O; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: fam. Enoch Barker marr. Sarah Hall 1. fam ) Sarah Ann marr. Isaac Habgood Emily Jane Morton. 2' fam. Louis Barker marr. Susie Bunting Amelia (Minnie) married John Higgins 3 son 3 daus Alice marr. John Trebilcock Volney James engine driver killed W. Coast Foster marr. Gertrude First 2 Mimi Gertrude Frost not marr. relation of 1 Marian marr. Fred. son of Wm Edwards sons John + Herbert. PICTORIAL 2 PORTRAITS (pastel) 63x50 cm T63 T64.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 130 Smock Barker thrse was a group which went there toge ther ; the others were Thomas Free, D.W. Hamilton , John Painti , William Brooker. He appears to hevesi built a good way along the bel. beach towards the mouth of the Waimak. He called his home Grist thorpe . He and tie of his sons were Charged with picking up drift wood along the beach after the grea flood of '68. This was timber carried out to see fom the timber Yards of Kaiapoi along the river. Josiah Birch went round identifying pieces of it as his own. he magistrate dis mas oed the case against all but T. Jones who used disgraceful language . The Barkes pleaded that many others were collecting P huber and they thought there was no harm in it . He was chairman of the hew Brighton Sch. Comm . Jan 84. and a directs of the Per. Co. He started at £150 a year. He was drowned in the Avon near the Bower budge eldest son Lon E. of Ethel tor 17.1.92 aged 62. oldest dau by ist marriage sarah Ann marr. his widow Amelia d. 6.3. 04 aged 72 I aac Habgood. LT. 22.1.59 confirms that M rs Enola Shoemaker. borth buried at Bur.wood Cem. Barker died on the voyage and that Audie Foster was also a passenger. The Strathallan story mary therefore be accepted as the LT. 30.1.84 : 21.1.92. corset one; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer