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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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| Margaret. Mrs Haliburton-Johnstone. No children. |
| Frank. Married twice, no surviving children. |
| Caroline Stanly. Mrs Matthews, 7 children |
| Elizabeth. Mrs Angus, 5 children. |
| Mary. Mrs R. Story. 6 Children |
| Florence. Died in infancy. |
| Edward. Married twice, 4 children. |
| Sarah Godwin. Mrs J.P. Seymour, 3 children |
| Christabel Frances. Mrs H. Valentine, 3 children. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| Edward died in Patea in 1894 aged 69 and there is a large memorial plaque in Christchurch Cathedral, N.Z. |
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| Links |
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| href='aa027.htm'>Entry in "Burke's Colonial Gentry" |
| href='aa028.htm'>Extract from "The Life and Times of Sir Julius von Haast" |
| href='aa029.htm'>Extract from "The Amuri" |
| href='aa030.htm'>Extract from "The Wanaka Story" |
| href='aa031.htm'>Article from "The Star" 1926 |
| href='aa032.htm'>Extract from ???? |
| href='aa034.jpg'>Marriage Certificate |
| href='aa037.jpg'>Death Certificate |
| href='aa035.htm'>Extract from Edwards Diary - re: Laying out Christchurch and Lyttelton |
| href='aa036.htm'>Places named after Edward Jollie |
| href='$$000060.htm'>Plaques in Christchurch Cathedral |
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1825 - 1894 (69 years)