to our website dedicated to the

Holland-Hayward Family

From Suffolk & London, England to Wanganui (via Napier), New Zealand

George & Gertrude Holland outside their Wanganui home called 'Peasenhall', in the 1930s

This website is dedicated to the family of English emigrants George Potticary Holland (1858-1952), his first wife Emily Annie Consitt (c1863-1883), his second wife Gertrude Ruth Hayward (1859-1938), and their seven children - who were all born in New Zealand.

George and Emily married at Napier, New Zealand, in 1881 and together had two children, George Junior and Emily Annie Junior. Sadly, Emily, then aged only 20, died in May 1883, the day after little Emily Annie's birth. The new baby became known as 'Annie'.

In November 1884, the young widower married Gertrude Ruth Hayward at Napier. She had emigrated to New Zealand twelve months earlier. George and Gertrude produced another five children: Sydney Coptic (1885-1886), Frederick Alexander (1886- ), Violet Agatha (1889- ), Herbert Henry Coptic (1891- ) and Ida Constance (1893-1980). Of these, all were born at Napier except Ida, who was born in Waipukurau.

George Holland was a blacksmith, which in those days was an equivalent of a modern-day 'fitter & turner' or engineer. He had worked his passage to New Zealand as a cabin boy, before becoming an steamship engineer working on international routes. From there he gained employment as a railway blacksmith, working for NZ Railways initially at the Napier Railway workshops and then the Waipukurau Railway workshops (also on the Hawkes Bay railway line), before working out the remainder of his working life at the Eastown Railway Workshops at Wanganui.

Further Information

Holland Family (England - until 1874)

• Holland Family Bible

• Holland photos from England

• Skeletons in the Old Family Closet

• Photos of George Potticary Holland

• Passenger list of the 1874-5 voyage of the Clarence (UK-NZ)

• Voyage of the S.S. Bayley (NZ-UK) probably 1890 

Hayward Family (England - until 1883)

• History of the Hayward family of Peasenhall, Suffolk, England

• Hayward photos from England

• Peasonhall postcards

• Letter from Maria Hayward of Peasenhall

• Florence E. Smith, nee Hayward (Gertrude's sister)

• Photos of Gertrude Ruth Hayward-Holland

• 1883 voyage of the Wanganui (UK-NZ)

• Passenger list of the 1883 voyage of the Wanganui

The Family in New Zealand from 1874 & 1883

• The Holland-Consitt-Hayward family in New Zealand

• Photos of the Holland family

• Newspaper Clippings about the family

• Golden Wedding - 1934

• Reflections on the lives of George & Gertrude

  Others

• Related Links

• Hayward family research notes in Suffolk

This website started 2 January 2003. Last updated: 24 October 2006