I am looking for descendants of Toko Ratima Pakai b. 1888 d.1942
on 2017-05-21 05:50:28
James and Jane Climo (after Jane passed away, I hear tell that he married Amelia Russell. They, James and Amelia, are buried together @ Havelock Old Cemetery, Marlborough, New Zealand (plot 77).
Jane Climo is buried @ Inglewood, New Zealand. Memorial Area, Row C Plot 15N
their son:
Robert William Climo (married to Eliza Gibbons)They are buried @ Mt View Cemetery, Marton, Old Area, Lawn Section, Block 1, Plot 11, Row V11
their daughter:
Dora Robina Eliza Jane Climo (married David Henderson) They are both buried @ Raetihi Lawn Cemetery, Raetihi, New Zealand
their daughter:
Mona Ellen Henderson (married my father Frederick James Walters had 5 children)...divorced...married again to Ronald Alfred White...had 2 more children) Mona & Ronald White are buried @ Taupo Cemetery, RSA block Taupo.
I am still researching James as I am a bit confused about this name.
If anyone has proof of James Booking Climo and the James Climo I have listed please get in touch...
Thanks in anticipation.
Glennise
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Hi Smooch Have looking at a Marriage Cert. info here.
Toko Pakai
in the New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937.
Name: Toko Pakai
Gender: Male
Marriage Year: 1917
Marriage Place: New Zealand
Spouse: Polly Timmo
Relation: Bridegroom
Folio Number: 1136.
Also a Certificate stamped saying this marriage was Dissolved by Decree Absolute Granted 3rd. June 1941. Is this the Correct couple
Sorry about the delay in answering...
Yes this is the correct person, and a great big thanks for that.
Did you notice any other info???
Cheers
hello Glennise,
just noticed your profile notes about James & Amelia Climo so will provide what I have on my tree ...
James Climo was born Jan 1822 and Christened 8 Feb 1824 at Egloshayle Parish, Cornwall, England to John Climo (1799-1847) & Mary Mann (1796-1861) who both died in Cornwall
NOTE: He is NOT to be confused with John Brooking Climo, who was also born in Cornwall in 1822 and died in Bodmin in 1886. This being a copy of his last will. There are many confused family trees out there with incorrect, misleading info, mixing up these two men and their wives and children and the worst thing is that everyone just copies info from everyone elses trees without research and the mess just gets worse and worse. These gentlemen, as they say, would turn in their graves :)
James married Jane Phillips (1821-1884), daughter of John Phillips & Ann Cox, on 30 Oct 1840, 5 months before they boarded the William Bryan to emigrate to NZ. They arrived into New Plymouth on 20 March 1841.
Their first child was born in New Plymouth 8 months after their arrival. Elizabeth Catherine Climo was recorded as the first pakeha baby born in the new settlement of New Plymouth and (apparently) received the gift by a local Maori chief of a plot of land in the new settlement upon his seeing a white-skinned baby.
James & Jane went on to have another 13 children. Jane died 1 July 1884 and, as you say, is buried at Inglewood
James next married (5 days from 12 months later), on 25 June 1885 at the Town Board Office in Halcombe, to the widow Amelia Russell. This was Amelia Kingcom(b)e (1836-1911), daughter of Josiah Kingcome & Eliza Mount Norris of Devonshire. She had first married John Russell (1825-1883) in NZ in 1879. I believe they had 3 children, including a set of twins but have not followed that line as yet.
Amelia had become a friend of the family and had helped nurse James' late wife. They married in Halcombe in the Manawatu then settled back in Havelock South, Marlborough, where they stayed until their deaths. James died 10 Sep 1911 and Amelia died 3 months after him. They are both buried in Havelock South Cemetery.
I transcribed these Obituarys for James & Amelia from the Marlborough Express which may have some info to help you ...
13 September 1911
With reference to the death of Mr James Climo, who died in Havelock on Sunday, the Pelorus Guardian says:-
The late Mr Climo, who was a native of Cornwall, arrived in Havelock in August, 1860, coming up the Sound with the Hon. C. H. Mills on that gentleman's first visit to the town. On landing, he found the site of the present town was covered in snow. He went to work for David Wells, across the Bay. At that time Mr William Wells was keeping an accommodation-house in Havelock, and Mr W. Farnell, sen., was living in a lean-to on the section opposite Mr A. Scott's present residence. Mr John Wilson had an accommodation-house near Canvastown.
There was no road, in those days, between Blenheim and Havelock - only a bridle-track, and Mr Climo and a mate went out to the Kaituna and cut, by means of pit-sawing, the first timber ever cut in that Valley; they cut 20,000 feet of timber for Messrs Bashford and Wylie, having to take the trees only from the Government road, a chain in width.
In December of 1860 he left for Picton, where he had to pay 10s a week for a room about 12 x 10, through the walls of which one could easily push one's fingers; he could not rest at night owing to the mosquito plague.
Mr Climo was one of the first to work for Captain Dalton, at his mill.
In 1863, Mr Climo came to the Pelorus Sound and lived at Kaiuma, where he worked at the sawmill owned by Messrs Cornfoot, Robertson, and Parker
Mr Climo arrived, with his wife, in New Plymouth on 1st April, 1841, and their first child - which was also the first white child born in that town - was born on 5th November, 1841
Next year he left New Plymouth and went to Kawhia, and whilst there Governor Hobson paid the settlement a visit; the Governor nursed the baby, the late Mrs George Pope, sen., of Havelock
On returning to Taranaki, Mr Climo was shipwrecked at the Heads, and lost everything. He and his wife had to carry their two children on their backs for ten days, living on native food and fording the rivers. They settled in Taranaki until the war broke out, when Mr Climo was called out with the militia, armed, and drilled for defence purposes.
In an engagement with the natives on 29th March, 1860, he was severely wounded, (through the lower part of his right lung) at Waireki and suffered more or less ever since from effects of it. As soon as he was able to leave the hospital, he was invalided to Nelson, and that was how he eventually came to the Pelorus.
In August, 1862, he left Blenheim for Lyttelton, overland, stopping on his way at a place known as "Giggerego", between Flaxbourne and the Clarence. Mr Climo and his son sawed timber at this place for an accommodation-house and school, for a Mr Tittley.
They then went on to Lyttelton, went back to Wellington, and again returned to Picton. Mr Climo also walked from New Plymouth to Auckland; his wife and family went in a schooner, which went ashore on the Manakau Bar; the Rev. Mr Ward, the first Primitive Methodist Minister in New Zealand, was a passenger on this schooner.
Mr Climo remained in the Manakau for three years, working amongst the kauri mills; he was there when the Californian diggings broke out. Shortly afterwards, Mr Climo returned to this district, and had resided her ever since
27 Sep 1911
The late James Climo, who died recently in Havelock. aged 93 (sic) was no race-suicider (says the Guardian). He left descendants totalling 225, not counting 36 that have died. Details of this imposing list show that there were 14 sons and daughters, 91 grandchildren, 144 great-grandchildren, and 12 great-great-grandchildren; total 261. The deaths were: 8 sons and daughters, 21 grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild
30 Dec 1911
Only four months ago (says the Pelorus Guardian) we had to record the sad death of Mr James Climo at his residence in Havelock, and on Friday last, the widow of that old pioneer passed quietly away at the Havelock Cottage Hospital. The deceased had been failing in health for some time, and on the Tuesday preceding her death, was conveyed by Dr Williams to the Hospital, where she died on Friday at 9 o'clock.
Mrs Climo was of English origin, born in one of the picturesque villages in Devonshire. Along with her sister she landed at New Plymouth in the year 1877, both having left their native village to join their brother, who, sad to relate, only survived their arrival by 12 months.
Her marriage to the late Mr Climo, who was her second husband, took place in 1885, and she leaves one sister, and several nephews and nieces, there being no family to the second marriage.
The body was interred in the Havelock cemetery on Sunday, the Rev. E. H. Pain officiating. The deceased was 73 years of age
This is a photo of their headstone