By the end of January 1843, three couples had arrived in New Plymouth who became ancestors of Margaret, and so also of Matthew, Julia, Carys, Spencer and Sophie.
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A recent sketch of the Barriball precinct in the old cemetery, New Plymouth.
The sandstone gravestone left of centre is that of Henry and Mary, bottom left is Samuel and his son Archie, who was killed in the very last days of World War I; bottom right is another family member. This was a corner of the Methodist section; the cemetery in those days was divided according to your Church.
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Henry (33) and Mary (30) Barriball arrived on the Timandra on 23 February 1842. In those days there was no port, and everyone had to be rowed ashore, often for several kilometres, and carried ashore through the surf, along with all their luggage. Early settlers were very unhappy about this and criticised Carrington for not planning New Plymouth at Waitara, where the river provided shelter for landing. Carrington spent much of the rest of his life planning and lobbying for a harbour at Moturoa, where it now is.
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Timandra
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On 7th November 1841 another family, the Foremans, landed from the Oriental. Among them was the daughter, Harriet, who became Margaret's great-great-grandmother. Harriet had an affair with one of the surveyors, Harcourt Aubrey, when she was sixteen, and had a son to him, who was brought up by her parents as their own. Then she married William Old, who was Margaret's great-great-grandfather.
The Olds arrived on the Essex on 20 January 1843.
Harriet's mother, Mary, had died a few years before they came here, and her father had married a widow, Susannah Sole, who had six sons, so 12 children accompanied the parents to New Plymouth.
Both Foremans and Soles have numerous descendants in Taranaki now.
Harcourt Aubrey later married a Maori woman of the Tamati family. Lisa Tamati, the long-distance runner, and Howie, formerly a Rugby League player and coach, and now running Sport Taranaki, are from that family.
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