MARY ANN HUTT, born 1856 at Grove Ealing in England and came to NZ with her parents, THOMAS and EMMA HUTT nee GASKINS/GASCOINE and her brothers and sisters, on the ship "HUNTRESS" ARRIVING IN LYTTELTON, NZ in April 1863. The Hutt family appears to have originated in Berkshire/Oxfordshire in the UK and is connected to the CLIFTON and GASKINS/GASCOINE families. THOMAS HUTTS parents were JOSEPH AND MARY HUTT nee PAINTON.

MARY ANNE was the 2nd wife of JOSEPH ALFRED ABBOTT. They married at Cust in Canterbury, NZ, in 1873. MARY ANN and JOSEPH had JOSEPH HENRY and ANNIE while living at Moeraki Downs(near Cust). There was also a little girl named JANE from Josephs first marriage, who died in 1873. Their other children LENA, ADDIE,LYDIA,FANNY, HARRIET, GEORGE WILLIAM, LOUISA GERTRUDE, ERIC ALFRED were born in Otaki, where JOSEPH was a baker.

I have found MARY ANN on the Library records up to 1897. She was a Housekeeper. I cannot find her after that, nor can I find her 'death' or 'burial', maybe she remarried. She had an older brother HENRY HUTT and I am unable to find anything at all about him. Did he perhaps return to England ?