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Edward Jollie Snr
| Edward was about eighteen months old when his father died. His mother Margaret Jollie took over | |
| the newspaper, The Carlisle Journal which her husband had started. When Edward was four years | |
| old, the Journal published something which caused Lord Lonsdale, a prominent local magnate, to | |
| prosecute for libel. Mrs Jollie chose to go to prison rather than pay the imposed fine, and she | |
| took little Edward with her. | |
| When he was sixteen years old in 1841, he sailed to New Zealand on the barque Brougham | |
| arriving at Wellington on 9th February 1842. He was a surveyor-cadet with the New Zealand | |
| Company for three years. When he had served his time he took surveying contracts and did much | |
| surveying and exploring, mainly in the South Island. He laid out Lyttelton, Sumner, | |
| Christchurch, Timaru and Temuka. In the 1850s Edward Jollie and his partner Edward Lee | |
| established the Parnassus Sheep Station. | |
| In 1860 Jollie was elected Member of Parliament for Cheviot, so he had to go to Auckland for | |
| the Parliamentary session. Governor Gore-Brown and his wife had dancing and music parties | |
| one a week, at which he met Miss Caroline Orsmond. Then he was invited to join in some private | |
| theatricals, and a meeting at Government House it was decided to produce 'The Rivals' by | |
| Sheridan. Jollie had the part of Captain Absolute and Miss Orsmonde was Lydia Languish. Jollie | |
| was in Auckland about three months, and towards the end of his stay, one evening seeing Miss | |
| Orsmonde home after attending a concert, he asked her to be his wife and she kindly consented. | |
| Edward still had the Parnassus Station in partnership with Edward | |
| Lee. So he returned south and they disposed of his interest in Parnassus. He also had to | |
| complete his work in connection with the Survey of the Runs south of the Ranitata River. Then he | |
| returned to Auckland to claim his bride. | |
| Edward Jollie and Caroline Orsmonde were married at St. Pauls Church, Parnell bt Dr. Selwyn | |
| Bishop of New Zealand on 14th May 1861. They spent three weeks honeymoon at Howick, and then | |
| settled in lodgings in Christchurch before going to England where their first daughter Margaret, | |
| known as Madge, was born. | |
| When they returned to New Zealand they settled at his new Beachcroft estate, Southbridge, where | |
| the rest of the family were born. Mary Jollie who married Robert Story was the fifth child. | |
| There were seven daughters and two sons, but one daughter died aged four. | |
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| In 1877, Edward Jollie took his wife and eight children, with a maid to help with the children, on | |
| the four month voyage by sailing vessel to England and Europe via Cape Horn. They were away | |
| in England and Europe for nine years, and the children went to school in Dresden and | |
| Lausanne. When the Jollie family returned to New Zealand, they left the South Island and went to | |
| a new home called Waireka near Patea, Taranaki where they kept open house and had many visitors, | |
| and suitors for the girls. | |
| Edward wrote a short account of his life from the time of his coming to New Zealand till he took | |
| his family abroard. This is now in the Alexander Turnbull Museum in Wellington. | |
| Edward died in Patea in 1894 aged 69 and there is a large memorial plaque in Christchurch Cathedral, N.Z. | |
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