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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Mr. Charles Fairweather

Mr. Charles Fairweather, sometime of East Eyreton, was born in Glasgow, in 1839, and accompanied his parents to Port Nicholson in 1841. At the age of sixteen he commenced carting and working with horses in Wellington, and about 1859 he and Mr. W. Belcher brought horses to Canterbury. For some years he was a member of the firm of Belcher and Fairweather, who had waggons
The late Mr. C. Fairweather, Mrs Fairweather, and Children.

The late Mr. C. Fairweather, Mrs Fairweather, and Children.

page 446 on the Canterbury roads, and took Government contracts for telegraphic construction. Mr. Fairweather's partner was drowned, but Mr. Richard Belcher joined the firm and the partnership continued for a good many years. The firm entered into the grain trade at Kaiapoi, and built a large store, in connection with which they carried on a large coal, timber, and grain business, and also owned vessels. The partnership terminated about 1876, and Mr. Fairweather then settled in East Eyreton and began farming. He took up a considerable area of rough land, which has all been brought into a good state of cultivation. The farm, known as “Silverstream,” consists of 320 acres of freehold, and about 300 acres of leasehold land. Mr. Fairweather served for some time as a member of the local school committee. He was married to a daughter of the late Mr. J. A'Court, of Sandon, an old settler, who landed in the colony about 1541. Mr. and Mrs Fairweather had ten sons and four daughters, of whom one son and one daughter died. Mr Fairweather died in July, 1901, but Mrs Fairweather still (1902) survives.