Sarah Forrest

	This photo is from my Mother's collection and presumably from her Mothers, Rosaline Agnes, James and Sarah's tenth child. Any Forrest family descendants reading this, comments welcome to mikeatnz@gmail.com Credit for some of the information below to the Cambridge Museum. http://www.cambridgemuseum.org.nz/Biographies/biosindex.htm Also recent contributions from Sally Waters and Brian Sutton
SARAH FORREST Sarah Perkins was born on the 17th June 1838 at Clapham, London, England and Baptised 11th July 1838 at Holy Trinty, Clapham, Surrey, England. Her parents were William Perkins b.17.2.1820 Finsbury, London, England. Died 1843 Bethnel Green or Stepney, London and Sarah Perkins (nee Smith) b.21.2.1820 d.24.8.1844 at Lambeth, London. Sarah married James Forrest on the 15th February 1861 at the Episcopal Church Dunedin, New Zealand She had met James Forrest after he had arrived in Dunedin on the 14th October 1860. Their first child Charlotte Sarah was born 22nd October 1861. James and Sarah stayed around Dunedin until 1864 when they moved north to Auckland. In 1866 they moved south to Cambridge where James enlisted in the 3rd Waikato Militia on the 14th of April 1866 as substitute soldier No 697. At some stage they aquired land and James, having been born in Surrey called their new farm 'Surrey Park'. For many years they lived on their own products, bearing ups and downs with fortitude and cheerfulness. In the Cambridge rates assessment list for 1869-70 James paid 2 pence an acre on 180 acres totalling 1 10/-. From 1866 to 1870 he was member of the Cambridge Road Board and by 1869 James was farming 180 acres and tendering for contracting work as well. He is also noted in 1872 on a farm map drawn by Charles Chitty in a report on the district to the Armed Constabulary Commissioner's Office. James was a member of the Cambridge Cavalry Volunteers from 1872 to 1880 and in January 1877 became Collector of Rates for the Cambridge North Highway District. He bred prize-winning Lincoln sheep having 33 in 1880 and 82 in 1886. He was a member of the Waikato Farmers' Club and Waikato Fruit Growers' Association as well as chairman of the Waikato Horticultural Society and later president of the Cambridge Farmers' Club. He was a Justice of the Peace in 1897 and in 1906 took a trip 'home' finding the English people very conservative and slow to make themselves acquainted with new ideas and modern methods of agriculture. In May 1910 he employed Fred Potts to build them a house on the corner of Forrest and Hamilton Roads (see bottom pic) having lived in their previous house for 44 years. James died 24 November 1914, Sarah 14 August 1922. Their 11 children were: Charlotte Sarah, born 22.8.1861 died 1892 unmarried. Archibald James, born 28.4.1863 died 23.8.1940 married Sophie Vincent 8 children. Arthur Henry, born 16.8.1865 died 17.8.1942 unmarried. Emma Hautapu, born 25.8.1867 died 1954 married Alex Andrew 4 children. Alice, born 18.6.1869 died 1955 married Edward Eves 8 children. Eleanore Mary (Nellie), born 1871 died 1958 married Charles Keeley 2 sons. Edith Gertrude, born 1873 died ??? married Bill Denize 6 children. Lucy Matilda, born 21.9.1874 died 1942 married Ernest Goldsbury 5 children. Lily, born 19.7.1876 died 18.11.1962 married Walter Smerdon, no family. Rosaline Agnes, born 18.2.1878 died 29.4.1950 married Reuben Crawshaw 5 children. Grace Emily born 26.1.1880 died 16.9.1964 married Ezro Brockelsby 4 children. In May 1910 they employed Fred Potts to build the house above on the corner of Forrrest and Hamilton Roads having lived in their previous house at Surrey Park Farm for 44 years. Their headstone, Cambridge Cemetery, above left. James sitting alongside Reuben Crawshaw and Sarah behind and between Reuben and Rosaline Agnes at their wedding on the 4.6.1902. (Reuben and Rosaline my grandparents) Another recognisable face, Grace Emily behind Sarah. Back

This photo is from my Mother's collection and presumably from her Mothers, Rosaline Agnes, James and Sarah's tenth child.

Any Forrest family descendants reading this, comments welcome to mikeatnz@gmail.com

Credit for some of the information below to the Cambridge Museum.

http://www.cambridgemuseum.org.nz/Biographies/biosindex.htm

Also recent contributions from Sally Waters and Brian Sutton

SARAH FORREST

Sarah Perkins was born on the 17th June 1838 at Clapham, London, England and Baptised 11th July 1838 at Holy Trinty, Clapham, Surrey, England. Her parents were William Perkins b.17.2.1820 Finsbury, London, England. Died 1843 Bethnel Green or Stepney, London and Sarah Perkins (nee Smith) b.21.2.1820 d.24.8.1844 at Lambeth, London.

Sarah married James Forrest on the 15th February 1861 at the Episcopal Church Dunedin, New Zealand She had met James Forrest after he had arrived in Dunedin on the 14th October 1860. Their first child Charlotte Sarah was born 22nd October 1861.

James and Sarah stayed around Dunedin until 1864 when they moved north to Auckland. In 1866 they moved south to Cambridge where James enlisted in the 3rd Waikato Militia on the 14th of April 1866 as substitute soldier No 697.

At some stage they aquired land and James, having been born in Surrey called their new farm 'Surrey Park'. For many years they lived on their own products, bearing ups and downs with fortitude and cheerfulness. In the Cambridge rates assessment list for 1869-70 James paid 2 pence an acre on 180 acres totalling 1 10/-. From 1866 to 1870 he was member of the Cambridge Road Board and by 1869 James was farming 180 acres and tendering for contracting work as well. He is also noted in 1872 on a farm map drawn by Charles Chitty in a report on the district to the Armed Constabulary Commissioner's Office.

James was a member of the Cambridge Cavalry Volunteers from 1872 to 1880 and in January 1877 became Collector of Rates for the Cambridge North Highway District.

He bred prize-winning Lincoln sheep having 33 in 1880 and 82 in 1886. He was a member of the Waikato Farmers' Club and Waikato Fruit Growers' Association as well as chairman of the Waikato Horticultural Society and later president of the Cambridge Farmers' Club. He was a Justice of the Peace in 1897 and in 1906 took a trip 'home' finding the English people very conservative and slow to make themselves acquainted with new ideas and modern methods of agriculture.

In May 1910 he employed Fred Potts to build them a house on the corner of Forrest and Hamilton Roads (see bottom pic) having lived in their previous house for 44 years. James died 24 November 1914, Sarah 14 August 1922.

Their 11 children were:

Charlotte Sarah, born 22.8.1861 died 1892 unmarried.

Archibald James, born 28.4.1863 died 23.8.1940 married Sophie Vincent 8 children.

Arthur Henry, born 16.8.1865 died 17.8.1942 unmarried.

Emma Hautapu, born 25.8.1867 died 1954 married Alex Andrew 4 children.

Alice, born 18.6.1869 died 1955 married Edward Eves 8 children.

Eleanore Mary (Nellie), born 1871 died 1958 married Charles Keeley 2 sons.

Edith Gertrude, born 1873 died ??? married Bill Denize 6 children.

Lucy Matilda, born 21.9.1874 died 1942 married Ernest Goldsbury 5 children.

Lily, born 19.7.1876 died 18.11.1962 married Walter Smerdon, no family.

Rosaline Agnes, born 18.2.1878 died 29.4.1950 married Reuben Crawshaw 5 children.

Grace Emily born 26.1.1880 died 16.9.1964 married Ezro Brockelsby 4 children.

In May 1910 they employed Fred Potts to build the house above on the corner of Forrrest and Hamilton Roads having lived in their previous house at Surrey Park Farm for 44 years. Their headstone, Cambridge Cemetery, above left.

James sitting alongside Reuben Crawshaw and Sarah behind and between Reuben and Rosaline Agnes at their wedding on the 4.6.1902. (Reuben and Rosaline my grandparents) Another recognisable face, Grace Emily behind Sarah.

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