Marks/Inscriptions: C.550. Cookson , Crackeuthors John Wentworth (1827-1912) was the son of the Rev. + wes educ. at Sher borne Wm. Cooks on, vicar of Hungerford In his application to the Canty Assoc. 7 a land order . he gave as his address Dornfrd Street, Stonehouse , Devonshire His mother d. at her home , Stonehouse , Devon 22.9.88 . She was Caroline Mary dau . of John Neave H.R. E.C.S. swell as being related to the eaves Cookson was a cousin of the poet Words worth , Woods worth s mother was Anne Cookson , the dau of a well to do mercer of Pem.ith , but her mother was Dorothy Crack authored whose ancestors had been lords of the Manor of Newbigin snee the time of Edward 11 cookson was trained as r surveyor, He came out in the sir Geo. Seymour arriving Dec. 1850 and also on the ship was Dugald macfarlane and his wife and fam.ly. Cookson married the eldest macfarlane gore , then only 16 at Lylt. 8.8 . Dugald macfarlane sand that cookson had to sit up all night before the wedding breakfast to keep the rats off the wedding break fast. Carlo te Godley was very prejudiced against the Macfarlane . She says "the daughter of the Macfarlane married at 17 aced presented her husband with twins before she was 18 , and her mother had a son two days afterwards 1 "Why not) At the first New years Day Regatta held at Lylt. Jan 57 Cookson and W.C. Fendall raced round the ships in boots made Acland: Lancelot Watson . Lylt. C. of E . Marr. Reg. fam. inf.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: C.J.W. Lo son C. 550 of walter proof cloaks inflated and Cookson won. Cookson selected his R.S. 24 of 100 ac. on what was later known ass ) calling.t New bryn the Burnside Rod , and b e farmed here for a year or two belton he went to , wit - the Oxford Bush and Dag am. He brought with him a threshing machine which lay on Cookson and Bowlers Whar f for some time until he leased it to Edward Ashby who therese d some of the harvest of 3s with it. Cookson had a F. crop that year at hew begging (R.S.24) and he says that he contr oed the .2 . 5 driving power sealed on a high seat with a long whip. The power was 5 supplied by two horses and two bullocks. He told Acland that he took up Dag am Run 135) a small run of light land jest south of the Eyre River in '53. The place was named after a Neave property othe in Essex . He bought no freehold on it. Heaving leased Newbigin he settled in the Oxford Bush to get timber with which to build a house. 1 There was a bonfield 6o roomed house there built by T.B. Reeves but never finished , Reeves had purchased 200 acres in the bush and after a short time had diss appeared , Cookson and Daniel Philpott made a saw - pit and cut enough timber to finish the house and make it habitable. They went into part. and cut timber for LT. 3.6.52 : 19.11.53; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: E.J.W. Cookson C. 550 for themselves and the surmounting settlers . Besides house timber they cut wide planks for C.W. Bishop r his store in the market s guare: Bishop wanted them for counter to ps. Cookson built a Eis. roomed house at Dag nam. Bishop Harper stayed there on his first visit to the Oxford district, 14.4.58. So0k son was one of the early planter s of un seed which he sawed at Nub gen . He never planted the trees out but they grew to grew to a great i2c and were 30 to 40 feet high when James Low q.v. planted the gun seed at Caster ton. He also introduced the scarlet chiauthiss or Kaka beak , l6o having got the seed frome Wgtn He is said to have carted the first load of coal from the Malvern Hills with his own horses and dray, staying on the way at Dugald Macfarlane 's and Home bush. The Lylt. Times (15.6.12) says that he sold Dag.am in '63 and selected a farm four miles fon Timaru which he developed as a dary farm selling the milk in Timaru. He lived at New bigger Again r shor t time before he went to Timaru and advertised that he would graze horses and cattle there. He was in partnership with a man called Webber ( probably P.H. Webber q.v) Family information is that Webber was no good as a partner. The Timaru Herald (May 67) has an account of a Canty. Times Jubilee No. 1900: LT. 29.11.64 :; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: C.550 C.J.W. Cookson 4 concert organised by Mrs Cookson at Timaru . After several post poem sets it came off and proved to be of m ordinat length. There were 20 items and besides Mrs Cookson , these who contributed were Miss Fish, Mrs Dearden. Mrs Hooper ,Edward Cardale, J.S. Rutherford , S. W. Ku gut and John Bilton. Weber was at Timaru with the Cook sons. The dairy farm does not seem to have been a great success . Cookson was Evidently hard up and got a job as a thistle in spector in Oct. 67 and Mrs Cookson leased Mrs Charles Thomsons house at Avonside and opened a school there . He was bankrupt in '68. Giving evidence in his ban kin6toy proceedings , he attr bute d his bankruptcy to the defaecation of a person to whom he and his partner had sold their produce in '66. His loss was f 160-200 . He had never been bankrupt before. His family nim pered eight Judge Gresson granted his discharge May '71. He got the position of surveyor to the Kowai Rd. Bd. He lived at Northlands first and later moved to Moulton nearer Leithfield. He resigned from his Kowai Rd. Bd. job in Ap. 72 and pursued his profession an am architect and survey on for a year and was then appointed survey or to the Lincoln Rd. Bd. Aug. 73 He returned to the Kowai Rd. Bd. as survey or in '77. In 180 he was surveyor LT. 1.9.73 : 15.8.80 : 3ore 3.10.67 : 31.10.67 : 13.2.68 : 27.12.69 : 19.5.71 : 14.7.68.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: C.550 C.J. W. Cookson. to the Mt. Somers Rd. Bd. His coney son C.J.W. Cookson n carried on business as a timber + coal merchant at Meth wen oct. 82 , In Mar. 83 he was brun ding a large store with a 40 foot frontage and a railway siding , Cookson +Co sold out their Math ver business to J. and J. Hibbs Ap.84. Apparently father and son had been to gether in this business. His son who was als o a C.E. went to Aust. and was in charge of a large aig tion scheme there. then moved to S. Africa; man ied Pate in life; died before his father. The father went to live with his married dau. Mrs Henry McClintock Tipping who lived on the farm on the Ashley where the North Road crosses the river. He taught two of the daug hers their lessons. Finally he had a longing to liss near the soa and watch the ships and his family found at Lylt. him a comfortable boarding house Where he lived happily and dred peacefully at the place where he had been married 61 years before. Three heis to the Cracker thre properties were drowned while y acting and cookson died before he could inherit, He was a humorist and a character He was a great friend of the Dearden family and they used to ede him " The Old Cray hur " He d. at Lylt. 14. 16.12 aged 85 bur. at Lylt. C. of. E. Cem. LT. 23.4.84 : 31.10.82 : Mt somers Sch. Jubilee : LT. 25.1.86 : 16.12.97 : macmillan.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: C.J.W. Cookson 6 C. 550 - twins b. '52 family. daus Caroline Bertha) marr. 1.6.71. St Lauki's Wm. Author, Benn of Leithfield. Marion Edith marr. 1. Geo . Thos. Searle of Napier : son of Rev. E.T.Seale of Morley Rector . R. Lananze South Devon. Dora Georgina marr. 1.9.71 Geo . Faber Gil.man of Napier : later chief pay master addn workshop Any. Sabina marr. 14.5.74 Henry McLun took Tipping of Ashley Farm. Mary Florence 29.6.87 Burnard Rob " Stock of Dunedin son of Archdeacon stock of Wgtn. at St. Peers Wgtn. son wentworth C.E. d. in S. Africa.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer