Marks/Inscriptions: H. 24.5. f Harrison, Thomas Haynes (1820-1895) was a son of the Rev. Thomas Harrison rector of Thorpe Morven, Suffolk who marr Anne dau of Rear. Admiral Nicholas Tomlinson . He is not included in the lest of his children in Landed Gentry. He came out in the Randolph , chief cabin in 1850 . He applied to the Canty Assoc for a land order and gave his address as Thorpe Mores, Suffolk. He selected R.S. 134, 50 ac. South of the Native Reserve, Kaiapoi. His first lean to - the second to be built at Kaiapoi - was satirical,y known as Dover Castle. His land was on the fringe of the (Maori Bush between the Cam and the old worth Road. His hut was near the site of the present woolen mills. He lived by selling timber and had no companion , native or otherwise . Later he stunted dealing in cattle He built a bridge over the Cam. Leer by , Charles Martin , foreman for Restar in charge of road works stunted to cut a drain to empty a stagnant pond. A panty of Maoris interfered claiming it was their eel pond. It was ki own as Moody s Lag on. The Kaiapoi poles came out next day and the matter was settled without ary bloodshed. Harrison was probably the heaviest loser by the great fir of Oct. ' All the Maori Bush was burnt and most of the Church Bush. His own bush pass. list. Canty. Mus. : list of Pin chased sections. Landed Gentry; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: H. 245 T.H. Parson section and his hue were destroyed. The number of houses and shaiken destr o9ed amounted to 27. Mary sawyer were ruined . They had been given notice that they would have to move out of the bush som and they had been working very hard to get as much timber as possible cut and stacked. Over 600 cords of fire wood were burnt and as well as slats, posts +arid rails and 90000 feet of sawing timber; and the standing bush was destroyed. The spring had ben an exceptionally dry one and the fire was farmed b a Nor West gal which Hew for 3 days . There were bush fires all over the Penns lar and Ch.Ch. was threatened by ar fire at Riccarton. In Mar .60 Joseph Anderson, a sawyer sued Harrison for £c4og for sawing timber. The clauin arose became part of the sain timber had been destroyed by the fire. Anderson got the fill amount f his claim. In Dec. 60 Harrison was advertis ing for cattle to graze in his paddocks at 5t. per head pr weak. His property named Te Pak aka was advertised first for sale in Feb. 62 . He won a prize at the first Norther A. +P. Show , held at Rang. in '66 for a 34z. old filly for carriage purposes. Inor when the show was held at Kaiapoi he won first prize for a Durham bull. He wes fined £ s0 hos for having a cattle beast in his possession will lero p icn nag LT. 19.10.59 : 10.3.60 : 26.2 12.66. Canty Times Jubilee ho . 1900: North Canty Gaithe 25.10.'50 : LT. 7.11.67; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: H. 245 T.H.Harrison His defence was that the beast did not belong to him. In Jan 70 he had 11 beasts on the Maoi Run. He could net sell them and was not allowed to move them owing to pleuro -puemmnia. Therefore they had to be destroyed and his losses were heavy . He but in a large clai against the Prov. Govt but all claims wae cut down to a small fraction of the amount claimed. In May 73 his farm on the Cam. was advertised for sale as he was about to leave for Eng. He had inherited Co ford Hall, Essex the property of his uncle. He sailed by the Mongol 8.4.74. He left a prize of £ 5 to be competed for by boys sourman9g in the Waimak. It was said he liked to show the locals in Eng. how to use a stock whip. He ded 9.5.95. J.S.White of Ohoka and Alfred Durell of Kaiapoi were present at his funeral. Hawkins is Beyond the Waiaka says of him " he built a 2. roomed shanty, gave up cropp ing, put cattle on his section and turned to the bush rafting his timber down to the Waimak where it was picked up by schooners. or sending it by dray to Ch.Ch. For almost 20 years he lived like the natives . He supplied meat to the settlers and sly g ro9 to his Maori friends. Much of his living came from timber. A quiet learned fellow, he was LT. 5.8.68 : 23.7.69 : 29.1.70 : Hawkins.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: H. 245 4 always dressed in a blue jumper, moles kin trousers aod fa sandals, and a peaked leather cap. nearly 20 years after his arrival he left alist as quietly as he arrived to take up the uncon for table role of Squire of Cop ford Hall; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer