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Personal data Richard MILLS 

• He was born on February 10, 1811 in Portsea, Hampshire, Englandn/a.
• He was christened on March 28, 1811 in St Johns, Portsea, Hampshire, England.
• Occupations:
• Butcher.
• in the year 1849 Gaoler.
• (grave) .

  
  «u»«b»Holmes and Mills family grave, plot 4103 Bolton Street Cemetery «/u»
  «/b»Document #18152. / Ref: 35mm-25603-14A-F The grave of members of the Holmes and Mills family at plot 4103 Bolton Street Cemetery. It was

• (grave) : holmes and mills bolton st cemetery.

  «b»Holmes and Mills family grave, plot 4103 Bolton Street Cemetery
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  The grave of members of the Holmes and Mills family at plot 4103 Bolton Street Cemetery. It was photographed in the late 1960s by the City Sexton, P J E Shotter, prior to its being dismantled to make way for the Wellington motorway..«/b»
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  1 image, [Between 1965 and 1969], related to Richard Mills, Annie Sophia Holmes, Ellen Mills, William Howard Holmes and Bolton Street Cemetery.
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• He died before 1905 in Wellington, New Zealand.Source 2

  Died of epilepsy

• He is buried in Bowen St Cemetery Wellington, New Zealand.
• A child of William MILLS and Ann BRIDGER
• This information was last updated on January 22, 2011.

Household of Richard MILLS

(1) He is married to Anne Sophia HEARN.

They got married on February 18, 1833 at Portsea, Hampshire, England, he was 22 years old.

St Mary's

Child(ren):

1. Annie Sophia MILLS  1833-1904 
2. William MILLS  
3. Thomas Hearn MILLS  1835-1898 
4. Richard Henry MILLS  1836-1837
5. Richard MILLS  1838-1842
6. Eliza MILLS  1839-1921 
7. John MILLS  1840-1919 
8. Alfred MILLS  1843-1935 
9. Charles Houghton MILLS  1844-1923 
10. Harry MILLS  1846-???? 

(2) He is married to Ellen YEVELEY.

They got married on May 22, 1849 at Nelson, New Zealand, he was 38 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Harriet MILLS  1850-1921 
2. Ellen MILLS  1852-1931 

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Richard worked with his father William as a butcher and was listed in 1830 and 1834 in Pigots living at 54 North St,Portsea,England.However prior to embarkation his residence is listed as Southsea St, Portsea,Hampshire,England.
He left From West Indian Docks,London,England on "The Lord Auckland" 21st Sep 1841 as an assistant to the ship's surgeon with his wife Anne Sophia Hearn [she was the ship's Matron] and his 5 young children ,Annie,Thomas,Richard Eliza and baby John Sadly young Richard died en route. Arrived Nelson 27th Feb 1842 after the ship sailed by mistake into Port Nicholson and then sailed right round the South Island
Immediately on arrival in Nelson he had a general store and on 20th April 1842 he was granted a hotel licence.17th Feb 1844 he is listed as a publican of the Auckland Hotel.20 th July 1844 Richard converted the hotel to a private board and lodging house
1844 -1849 Richard was head of the Nelson Prison.
1849-1860 Richard was head of the Wellington Prison.
Sadly Anne Sophia died in 1848 leaving Richard with 7 small children and the following year Richard married Ellen Yeverly.They had 2 daughters.
Richard died suddenly on New Years day 1860 in Wellington New Zealand.

Thanks Richard for being adventurous and bringing your family to New Zealand.I love reading references of my dear 2xgreat grandfather which show me his enterprising spirit and his great sense of justice.He loved his family and his new country.

«b»Nelson Historical Society Journal, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1998
Richard Mills
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The «u»«i»Lord Auckland «/u» «/i»was a teak barque of 628 tons commanded by Captain Jardine. Her passengers, who embarked at Gravesend, England on 22 September 1841, were headed for new hope in the relatively unsettled colony of New Zealand. In addition to me crew, die ship held 16 cabin passengers and 155 emigrants. Among the emigrants on board were Richard Mills, a butcher aged 30 and his wife, Ann Sophia nee Hearn, aged 27. They were accompanied by their children, Ann 8, Thomas Hearn 6, Richard II 4, Eliza 2 and John, an infant.
Richard had been born in Portsea, England on 10 February 1822 and his residential address before departure was Bedford Street, Southsea. George Samuel Lidbetter was die surgeon on me «i»Lord Auckland«/i» and Richard was commissioned as his assistant, with Ann as matron. One adult and four children died and two babies were born during die voyage. Richard and Ann had lost a youngster named Richard Henry in England, and it must have been devastating for them when 4 year old Richard U died on 20 October while they were sailing off die coast of Portugal.
Travelling with the family was Ann's sister, Mary Ann Cole, a widow who was a dressmaker by profession, along with her two small sons, Thomas 8 and William 6.
The «i»Lord Auckland«/i» arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, on 7 February 1842 and the ship was delayed mere by me paying of customs duties and me desertion of die crew. Another crew was soon found and on 18 February they sailed again, reaching Nelson on 26 February 1842.
In a letter dated 28 July 1916 Richard's daughter, Eliza Redward, wrote:
"Father found it most difficult to obtain labour to cultivate the land he bought from die NZ Land Company as the settlers were all too busy with their own land and it was eight miles from town (or settlement) … no roads, only tracks through the dense bush. He had to start work on Monday morning and work mere till Saturday with what few friendly Maori were willing to work for him".
The Nelson Examiner of 12 and 26 March 1842 carried the following advertisement:
Mr R Mills
«b»General store«/b»
Selling earthenware, domes, boots, blankets,
brandy, ale, porter and wines.
Richard held one of the eight hotel licences which were granted on 20 April 1842 and kept the Lord Auckland hotel in Nile Street. This venture did not last very long however, and on 20 July 1844 we read: "Richard Mills converts licensed house to private board and lodgings". Richard was listed as a tenant at his Nile Street home with die occupation of gaoler in die census of 1845 and again in 1849. Richard and Ann were blessed with three more sons. Alfred was born on 21 January 1843 and, although he has been said to have been the first European boy born in Nelson, this seems unlikely, but he was the first to be registered in the Anglican church records there. Charles Houghton, who was born on 10 June 1844, became a prominent member of parliament under Richard Seddon's government and was honoured by the king. Henry (Harry) was born on 4 April 1846.
Tragedy struck die family on 12 January 1848 when Ann died in childbirth. No record has been found of where she is buried, but her friend Mrs Bush, who had died die day before, was buried in die small Quaker cemetery in Nelson and perhaps Ann also rests there. Richard remarried on 22 May 1849 at Nelson. His new wife, Ellen nee Yeverly, who was nine years his junior, was a very amiable woman who proved to be a good stepmother to her seven stepchildren. The witnesses to die marriage were Richard's eldest daughter, Ann, and George Bush. Richard and Ellen had two daughters, Harriet, born 7 May 1850 in Nelson and Ellen, born August 1852 in Wellington.
In July 1849 Richard wrote to the Superintendent of the Province after reading in the government gazette mat his salary as gaoler would be reduced, unlike other gaolers in Auckland and Wellington. His starting salary had been fixed at 92 pounds and 5 shillings per annum and increased to 109 pounds in 1846, but by 1849 it had reduced to only 85 pounds. When a position became vacant at the Terrace Prison in Wellington, Richard was the successful applicant and started at his post on 24 April 1851.
After some years Richard became unwell and was unable to continue working at die prison. He spent considerable time between 1856 and 1859 in trying both to get better conditions for prisoners and to son out day to day matters concerning die running of the prison through die correspondence columns in the Wellington Provincial newspaper. Richard Mills suffered from epilepsy and this was documented as the cause of his death which occurred on New Years Day 1860. He was 48 years of age and is buried in me Bolton Street Cemetery in Wellington«u»«sup»*«/u»«/sup».
«u»«sup»*«/sup» «/u»Ann is buried in Hallowell (Shelbourne Street) Nelson.

«u»«b»19th Century Nelson Hotels «/u»
«u»«/b»Dawn Smith «/u»

The first publicans' licences were issued in Nelson in April 1842. There had been considerable public agitation to legalize a trade which had begun to flourish outside the law. Eight licences were issued and another six the following year. All were within the town, except for one at Motueka.
Some of these first public houses lasted only a year or two and left little evidence of their existence. The Ship Inn of J. Collins, The Shamrock Inn of T.K. Warburton, the New Zealand Tavern of Thomas Bright and William White and William Miller's Tavern come into this category. The Auckland Hotel of Richard Mills, in Nile Street East, became a private boardinghouse in 1844.

«b»SOME EARLY SETTLERS.
«/b»Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12627, 26 August 1909, Page 2
SOME EARLY SETTLERS.
THE LORD AUCKLAND'S PAB-
SENGER LIST
The Government recently received from London a mass of documents of great interest and historical value, fiom the records of the New Zealand Company. Among these is the passenger list of the ,ship- Lord Auckland, 782 tons, Captain Jardine, which .sailed from Gravesend on September 25th and from Deal on September 27th, 1841, and arrived at Nelson in January 1842, The emigrants whose names are marked with an asterisk were accompanied by their wives, and in many oases families. We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr H. Otterson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, for an opportunity of publishing the list, which is as follows: — *Burns, John ; Burns, Rebecca - Burns Daniel: Burn, Robert: Burn, Eliza. , *Calman, David ; *Crawford, Robert ; *Coombs, Henry ; Cole, Mary Ann ; Cowley, Edward.. *Durrant, Robert Jeffrey. *Field. William; *Flanigan, Dominiok; . Flanigan, Michael; Flanigan, Hannah. *Green, Edward : *Goe, Robert. - *Herbert, Joseph ; Harper, Elizabeth; *Hart, Abraham; *Hart, Richard; *Hammond, Wm; Hammond, j Wm., junr.; *Hammond, James; *Hammondj Dasill; *Harley, Charles •' *Hargreaves, Henry; *Hargreaves, Josephus ; Hargreaves, Sarah ; Hargreaves;. James; Hargreaves, John B. ; Hargreaves, Lawrence. *Kemp, George. *Lovell, Benjamin ; *Lovell, James. - *Mahei*i John; Maher, Catherine; Maher, John ; *Maher, Michael; *Mills, Richard. *Nixon, John. Owenj Charles; *o'Conor. Oliver (or Owlii). Prosser, Margaret. ; *Raper, ; ' Anthony; '• Richardson, Henry; *Rodgerson, William; Robinson, James. Skinner, Sa,rah; *Smith, George. Thompson, Emily; Wilton, James. Married couples, 30, single men, 12. ditto women, 10, total : adults 82--children 7. to 14 years, 28, ditto 1 to 7 years, 31, ditto under' one year 14. total of. children 73 ; grand total of all souls. 155. Surgeon superintendent, - George Samuel Lidbetter; assistant ditto, Richard Mills. ..Cook to : the emigrants, George Kertip ; assistant ditto. ; George Smith The list: of "cuddy!'> ! passenjjers, (from a list in possession of Miss Bamicoat, verified ..by. comparison with the official list) is as " : follows :- — Mr and Mrs F. Otterson and baby, (afterwards Mrs J. T. Lowe) ; Mr and Mrs A. G. Jenkins; Mr J. W. Barni" coat (afterwards . M.L.C.), >. (escaped from Wairau massacre); Mr A: Fell; Mr J: Graham; Mr Greenhow (drowned soon. after arrival iri Maitai river) Mr F- D. Jenkins; Mr Lidbetter (surgeon) :,Mr^ — Moon : Mr-— -Patchett (killed at Wairau Massacre) ; Mr — Swee* ; Mr D. Sclanders ; Mr F. J. , Thompson.

«b»CORRESPONDENCE.
«/b»Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 72, 22 July 1843, Page 287
CORRESPONDENCE.
To THB EDITOft Ofr +HB NbLSON EXAMINER.
Sir — We, the undersigned inhabitants' of Nelson* observing that a certain erroneous statement, calculated to convey an impression unfavourable to the memory of our lamented fellow colonists who fell in the late massacre at the Wairoo, has been put forth by the Police Magistrate at Wellington, and never, even after evidence of its gross incorrectness, been contradicted by him, are desirous of expressing our strong disapprobation of such omission on his part, and of giving, if possible, equal publicity to the real facts of the case. For this purpose we beg to avail ourselves of your columns. ]
In the maifesto of the police magistrate alluded to, occurs the following passage : —
" I should fail in my duty did I not declare my conviction,' after obtaining evidence from all quarters, that the affray was not the result of any premeditated design on the part of the natives, but that, on the. contrary, they sought by every means to avert it, and did not fire a shot until five of their party had fallen, including the wife of Ranghiaita, who at the moment bore his own son in her arms."
-ffow, wewillnotstopto guard against the false impressions made upon the minds of persons unacquainted with Maori customs— the associations altogether beside the mark excited by the term " the wife of Ranghiaita," as applied to one among many of the temporary favourites of a savage chicf — we merely remark that the idea of this woman having been killed at all rests alone on Maori hearsay. Again, we will not dwell upon the absurdity of denying the existence of " any premeditated design on the part of the natives," when it has been clearly proved that Rauparaha went down to the Wairoo amply provided with arms and ammunition. But we do assert, without fear of contradiction, that, of all the incidents of the shocking affair, there is none on which the evidence of the survivors is more decided and unanimous than on the fact that no orders to lire had been given by any of the party, when the accidental discharge of the first musket was followed by an instantaneous volley from the Maories, by which several white people fell. Mr. Tuckett's evidence, in particular) is conclusive on this point. ;
These facts the Police Magistrate was probably unaware of at the time he issued his manifesto, but he must have become cognizant of them immediately afterwards. We complain that he has not given to any true statement of *he case the same publicity and sanetio* he had previously given to the false* " ,
With respect to the persons authorising and conducting the late unfortunate expedition* we declste.it to be our firm conviction, derived from an intimate knowledge of their character, as well as from their sentiments expressed before embarking in it, that they were actuated by no other motives than a humane desire of preventing future disputes and outrages, by dealing decisively with the first ; that, both from feeling and principle^ they were utterly incapable of adopting, without deep deliberation and anxious Forethought, any measures involving a possibility of the loss of human life^ and that, if they erred in judgment at all-, it was in supposing that respect for the laws was to be exacted as well from the native as the European population of this colony, and that their fellow countrymen were entitled to protection, in life. and property^ from that Government which they are taxed to support and compelled to obey. ** And we hereby express our indignation and disgust at all attempts, wherever and by whomsoever made, to gloss over, palliate, or conceal* the savage enormity of the crime committed^ from any selfish motives of imaginary prudence or considerations of supposed good-policy. We acknowledge no such apprehensions to be allayed, we know of no such advantages to be obtained, as would justify or excuse such a course of proceeding* I £ Those attempts we know to be as abstfrtl and ineffectual, as they are heartless and ungenerous. >f Publicly or privately, j directly or indirectly, we will neither connive at, countenance, nor tolerate them. The truth cannot be hidden, nor are we willing it should be. We desire that the real truth be plainly declared ; we demand that impartial justice be unflinchingly executed.
But, were it possible to prevent the promulgation of the actual facts of the case, or to weaken the impression here, or elsewhere, which rtjust be conveyed by them of the ferocious character of the savages, who, in cold blood, massacred our friends and their asm. ja2vious-benefactors-|-f-Vere any advantages whatever to be secured by disguising dangers or slurring over atrocities — we emphatically declare that we would spurn the
idea of obtaining them at such a cost as the unjust depreciation of the dear and invaluable spirits that are gone — as the defamation of the memories of men* of some of whom it is no exaggeration to assert that, for intellectual range, moral elevation, and genial, unaffected kindheartedness, they would have done honour to any people of any age. ">) (Signed) C k A. Dillon, J.P. John Poynter 6. Duppa, J.P. Francis Jollie A. M'Donald, J.P. J. C.Boys D. Monro, J.P. F. Moline J. S. Tytler, J.P. W. E. Wilkinson Alfred Domett J. T. Smith/ I W. O. Caulley T. J. B. Sandford E. W. Stafford Samuel Parkinson C. Elliott John N. Beit W. L. Shepherd William Dartnall W. R. Walkinshaw James Stirling Charles Empson George Earl Donald Sinclair J. J. Imrie George M. Tytler Richard Mills Eugene Bellairs Daniel Moore John Kerr Joseph F. Wilson John Cooke Alfred Barnard R. R. Newcome Samuel Alder W. F. Hippisley v Joseph Fisher H. Redwood William Hough H. Redwood, jun. John S. Hawkins Joseph Ward Thomas M'Hugh Richard Wallis Thomas Renwick E. D. Sweet Charles Harley -"' A. Macshane T. N. Trower — Alfred Fell v, F. A. Saunders Robert Ross v William Sharp George F. Bush Thomas Musgrave D. Cooper G. W. Schroder Lewis Barnett Joseph Hoare John Anderson f. Otterson W. Henry Kater Alfred Saunders William Murray W. Jones Alexander Perry Charles Heaphy J. D. Macfarlane J. C. Drake W. Bishop A. W. Mackinnon v H. W. Burt Edward Green , D. Sclanders J. Cullingworth Robert B. Gee George Binns . Henry Carr James Elliott Henry Wray Thomas Marsden v'P. Graham v J. W. Barnicoat v . W. Harkness T. J. Thompson Robert Tod William Cullen ' John Kidson Cyrus Goulter v A. K. Wetherell Edward Coleman E. Wetherell T. K. Warburton John M'Artney William Moore John H. Cooper Thomas Fawcett William Stallard J. Swinton Spooner John Green Alfred Hill. John T. Bramwell

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