Macdonald Dictionary Record: Samuel Kennedy Bassett

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George Ranald Macdonald
Production date
1952-1964
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One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for Samuel Kennedy Bassett. Written by George Ranald Macdonald for the Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biography project, 1952-1964.
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Christchurch
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G R Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies
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B207
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B207
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B207
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Marks/Inscriptions: B. 207 Bassett Samuel ( remedy. (18 40-1914) , Ire Bassett and the Monowai both came from l1s more , Down patrick near Belfast. Horow left furs + and wrote to Bassett 1 recommending that he jour him in N.Z. S0 the firm of Morrow , Belt was founded inr '66. Their first quarters were in Rivers buildings in Cashel Street (later Wardell8s) . From there they nosed across High St to rooms next the Empire Hole. Finally they moved to the comer of manchester and Cashel Shret ( now the Para Rubber Coy.) They started selling rams and honing ery . heir by success began whom they started to sell McCormick binders . These were wire binders and they sold fifty in the first year. . The following year the form passed 830 bundes through their hands selling 6o0 in Cant ibn and the balance in Otago. In 180 Thomas Bassett, nephew of S.R.B. became the sole partner in the farm ; the there partners , David Morrow, S. K.Bassett and Mrs Bassett dss. part. in that year. Binder were first demonstrated in '78 and this coincided with the opening of the Canty Plains by the railway and the budging of the r iverson . Monowai and St Bass et were both original directors of the Ch Ch Meat Co which built its works at sling ton. weekly Press, Jubilee No. 50- 1900 : Chatham Is. Richards : LT. 3.11.66 : 8.12.80 : 16.1.78.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B 207. S.H. Bassett. Burnt Hill station near the Waimak. Gorge was cut up and oed after Pearsons death in 1901 . Bassett bought the homestead block of g60 ac. 1 £6 per ane wife Sarah d. At Holly bank Shirley 19.9.12.2ag. Hiss iser Margaret - Mrs Thos. Monad he d. at his home, Trellis 20.7.14. ged 74 family . d. at Aratapu 17. ged 78. eldest son William . marr. 7.3.98 Margt Agnes eldest dau Capt. Davidson, lai Koura son Kennedy marr. 23.2.03 Jenny 2' dau Wm. Priest. Timaru. youngest son Chas. F. marr. 23.2.09 Cecelia Ethel yun gist dau R.H. Parish, o0 ford. he carried on Bunt Hill only dau Gwendoline marr. 26.4.05 Edward w . Pay ton of O paki , Warr arata LT. 26.3.98 : 7.6.01 : 5.5.05 : 20.9.12.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer

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