Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Builders — O'Loughlin, Timothy

Builders.

O'Loughlin, Timothy , Builder, Boulcott Street, Wellington. Mr. O'Loughlin, who is connected with some of the oldest identities of the Empire City, was born in Wellington about forty-nine years ago. He is the youngest of five children, all born in the Capital City, and his sister, Mrs. David Bell (vide page 766), claims to have been the first white girl born in Wellington. His father, also Mr. Timothy O'Loughlin, was drowned in Wellington Harbour some forty years ago, and his mother is still living in the enjoyment of fairly good health at the age of eighty years. Mr. O'Loughlin was married to a daughter of Mr. Jackson, who arrived in Auckland with the first detachment of the 65th Regiment; his mother-in-law landed in Wellington from the second ship that arrived in Port Nicholson. Mrs. O'Loughlin, junr., remembers the time when the water went up as far as the old Evening Post, corner. Among the treasures that she prizes are photographs of the first Government House erected in Wellington (vide page 21), and a pretty view of the Hutt Road from Lambton Quay, then known as “The Beach,” a designation which is still applied to it by many old hands (vide page 558). Mr. O'Loughlin's son, Mr. George O'Loughlin, was for some time the proprietor of the Central Hotel, Otaki, and is at the time of writing (March, 1897) enjoying a trip to the Old Country.