Robert BUCKERIDGE

Date of Birth: 
14 Jan 1855
Date of Death: 
1 Jul 1949

Robert was born at Taita in Lower Hutt.

He married Zealandia Worth (born in 1858 on board boat "Zealandia" bound to NZ) at Wellington in 1885.

They had four boys & one girl. One of the boys died very young.

One son, Edmund & one son-in-law, George Waite, served in WW1.

In the electoral rolls for 1880 Robert is shown as a settler at Waihinga.

He was then a hotelkeeper at Featherston and then at the Levin Hotel in 1896.

Within 12 months he was a hotelkeeper at Carterton and finally moved to being a settler in Otaki by 1911.

Relatives mentioned in profile: 
Robert Buckeridge, Robert Buckeridge (Snr), Ann Cording, Zealandia Louisa Worth, Charles Frederick Worth, Sarah Ann Jacob, Minnie Zealandia Buckeridge, George Henry Waite, Ernest Robert Buckeridge, Edmund Herne Buckeridge, Violet May Rolton, Charles Frederick Buckeridge, Olive Jessie Bevan, Ethel May Seymour, James St Clair Williamson, Ernest Robert Buckeridge, Annie Rosina Sanson.