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Maria Lees

b. 1802, d. after 9 November 1819

Birth

Maria Lees was born in 1802.1

Parents

Family life

Charles Molston Gordon and Maria Lees were married on 11 November 1816 in Castlereagh.2,1

Child with Charles Molston Gordon (b. 27 February 1791, d. 17 April 1862)

DaughterAnn Gordon (b. about 1818, d. about 1892)

Residence information

Charles, Elizabeth, and Amelia traveled to on 12 April 1817. Aboard SS "Active". "(William Carlisle brought) his brother-in-law, Charles Gordon, employed as an agriculturist, accompanied by wives and families, back in April 1817." (D A Rae)
"The ranks of the women in New Zealand were swelling. Mr and Mrs Carlisle and Mr and Mrs Gordon came in 1817; the Butlers, the Kemps and the Puckeys arrived in 1819; the Shepherds in 1820; the Leighs in 1822; in 1823 Mr and Mrs Henry ..." (Simpson)2,3,4,1,5,6 Maria Lees lived with William Carlisle on 9 January 1819 in Rangihoa, New Zealand.7 William, Charles, Elizabeth, James, and John traveled to on 9 November 1819. from Bay of Islands on SS "Active"8,5

Working life

Death

Maria Lees died after 9 November 1819.8,1

Citations

  1. [S411] Gordon, Charles Moltson, Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record, p159.
  2. [S300] William Carlisle and Charles Gordon, Auckland-Waikato Historical Journal, September 1982, pp 29-31.
  3. [S309] Helen M Simpson, "Before Waitangi," in The Women of New Zealand. (Wellington: NZ Department of Internal Affairs, 1940). Hereinafter cited as "Before Waitangi."
  4. [S368] Committee Minutes, Society House Minutes June 8 1818, Church Missionary Society; FM4 1454, Archives Office of NSW, Kingswood. Hereinafter cited as Minutes: Church Missionary Soc.
  5. [S518] Carlisle William, Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record, p62.
  6. [S1268] Various family historians, L: Correspondence re Carlisle, Gordon, Sydney: Fleming Family History Archive, 2 Aug 2020.
  7. [S370] Active return, Sydney Gazette, 9 January 1819.
  8. [S305] John Thomas Bigge, "Samuel Marsden," in The Bigge Commission of Inquiry. (London: House of Commons, 1822). Hereinafter cited as "Samuel Marsden."
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