John SMITH

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                   BIOGRAPHY: Came out on the Sebastapol where John Smith was a passenger

BIOGRAPHY: . After getting married went to Australia where the 3 oldest children were born. They then returned to Christchurch.
HANNAH MARIA ROUND was born in Nelson, ca. 1844, and after the familys return to England, came back with them on the Sebastopol in 1861.  She married John Smith, a stone mason and a Roman Catholic, at the Christchurch Catholic Cathedral on 28th May 1864.  Their children were John, Charles and Joseph, all of whom were born in Australia, with Charles born in Rich, Victoria in 1871, Catherine, Ellen, Louisa, Grace, and Deborah.  They lived at Ashbourne, a stone house on Ferry Road, now the Portstone Nursery, where she died after a long illness  on 5th September  1887.  Supposedly, her last words, when the nuns were around the bed, were Remember, Im a Protestant. However, she was buried as a Catholic in the Barbadoes Street Cemetery, Christchurch, although there is no headstone now, if ever. Her husband remarried a widow.