Macdonald Dictionary Record: Mathew Baxter

Maker
George Ranald Macdonald
Production date
1952-1964
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One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for Mathew Baxter. Written by George Ranald Macdonald for the Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biography project, 1952-1964.
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Christchurch
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Library
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G R Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies
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B236
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B236
Catalogue number
B236
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Marks/Inscriptions: B. 236 Barter, Rev. Mathew ( 1812- came out in the Gains borough and was welcomed by a gathering at the Methodist Free church at St Asaph IndI o May 68 The Rev. T. . Fisher was the principal speaker . He had , been a musson ary in the West Indes and later a prominent previously b reformer in the Methodist Church in Enge He was immediately called on to be General Supt. of lhe mite Meth. Free Church which office he held fo r over ten years; he was the leading preacher of that dorn nation in Ch Ch He retired from active work in '76 and went to live in Fendalton. He was suffering from a relayed throat. He then went to live in retirement at Oxford doing what work he Could there. When G ng and Russell sold off their various properties outside , R.S. 135 of Longbeach Oct. 71 he bought part of "Lockhart bloch with a frontage on the Harewood Road and another frontage on the west and Norther end of Papanui Rd. He bought sections 15-19 totalling 24 ac at £25 per ac, John Boater his son advertised this land for grazing Nov 71. He was a man with some capital. He began selling his Papanui Our yester years LT 26.5.68 : 20.10.71 : 4.11.71 : 12.8.75 : 19.5.77 : 28.8.79 Ashburton, C.C. Jubilee 1877-05, E.Paul. LT. 3.4.82 : 3.3.85 : 23.5.63 :; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 236 Rev. M. Boyer land in sections in May 77 and he did very well out of hs mer tent getting Abort £100 per acre. He advertised to let by lender the large storage on East Oxford renown as Woodfield , June 80. He was the Author of " Land of the Blessed "Memorials of Free Mello iom" "Sketches of Ministers of the hinted Mell. Free Church '5' . He was editor of the D. M.F. O. magazine for une y ears . He left in his wile 150 ac. of land to the St. Asaph St. F7rea Meth. Church. ; and to the Oxford craine he gave his library. He was born at Alston, Cum berland and served for 45 years in the ministry of his church. marr. Eleanor Evans who d. at Mt. Pleasant, Eas 1Oxford 4.6.92 aged 84 family. Mary He d. there 1.5.93 aged 81 eldest dau. mour. 8899 Won Johnson of Windsor Marlboros she d 8.8.79. dau Margaret marr. 5 Rev. J.J. Pendray. r. 23.75 He left an estate of £70o0. son John q.v. - Thomas Barter of Willow Brook East oxford o Amana Phoebe d6. 1.9.O ao 639 Marr.2 Edith Joes T gravest Melton a dau marr. J.B. Lewthwaite in Eng. when she d. Lewthwaite followed his father in low to NZ.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer

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