The known history of the property "Solway" is:
(Some of this information from  Athol Kirk a decendant of Hille.)

The original land area was granted by Sir George Grey to John Logan Cambell on July 10th 1851.  It consisted of 1610 acres 1 rood and 30 perches being part of allotment 39 in the parish of Mahurangi in the county of Marsden.
This was purchased by Hille presumably from Brown and Campbell in June 1886. Hille died on April 6th 1895 and a new certificate of  title 76/61 was issued to his widow Dinah Hille. Apparently  some of the land had been sold because there was only 1455 acres 1 rood and 30 perches left. This land was retitled to a new plan 571.

The following sales were then made.
4/9/1896      Lot 1 plan 571 to Richard Oakes
21/5/1902    Lot 4 plan 571 to Fredrick Charles Rush Munro
14/7/1903    Part lot 10 to Francis Alfred Fenton
14/7/1903    Part lot 9  to Arthur George Lenneck
17/5/1906    Lot 3  to Emil Osca Zanders
14/9/1909    Lots 6 7 8 and parts 9 10 11 to John Eugene McGee
16/1/1911    The residue to Annie Trotter.

This is a comment only:
The question being  1. Did Annie pay for all of this or was some of it her share of the partnership. 2. Did Christian Hille ever farm it himself or did Alex Trotter do the work

Map Color Key
Original Boundries  Black lines _____or Black .....
Today's Boundries  Red   lines _____or Red ........
Internal lot divisions -----------

Regarding lot 5, the family story, was this was purchased with money that was saved to buy a piano for the girls. Minty,Dora,Jean, Adelia and Ivy.
Lot 5 was left to Davie Burns Trotter and this is where Roger Trotter lives today.    

About 1942 the Russell Family who owned the property at the time sold off lot 6, the eighty acre block to  Percy Halligan the manager of the Rodney Dairy Company.  The reason, gorse had almost taken over and with all the men away at World War 2 there was nobody to control it.  Harry Phillips bought that block later on and  Maureen Trotter purchased it from him about 1965/66

The main central part of Solway was repurchased by Shelley Trotter from Graeme Jackson in 1995. 
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