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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Old Colonists

Old Colonists.

Mr. William Paterson, sometime of Prebbleton, was born in Edinburgh, in 1828, and came to New Zealand in 1860 by the ship “Royal George.” For some years after his arrival he was employed by the late Mr. Milne, of Lincoln. In 1870 he removed to Prebbleton and purchased a fine property of about 300 acres, which was then only partially improved, but is now in a high state of cultivation. Mr. Paterson died in 1879, leaving a widow and family of four sons and two daughters; but Mr Henry Paterson, the youngest son, is the only surviving member of the family.

Mr. Edward Prebble, one of the Prebble brothers, after whom the township of Prebbleton is named, was born in Kent, England, in 1829, and, with his parents, arrived at Wellington in 1840 by the ship “Aurora.” The family first settled in the district now known as Karori, but in 1845 Mr. Prebble, senior, removed with his sons to Canterbury, where they were employed by the late Mr. Greenwood to build a house at the Motunau station. Some time afterwards Mr. Edward Prebble entered the employment of the late Mr. George Rhodes, with whom he remained six years. He then started on his own account, and for two years carried on a farm at Gebbie's Valley. In 1854 he bought fifty acres from the Canterbury Association, where Prebbleton now stands, and out it up and sold it in small sections. he himself began the township by building a store, which he afterwards enlarged, and which has since been carried on as a hotel. Owing to business relations with the tenant of the hotel, Mr. Prebble took possession of the business, which he carried on successfully in conjunction with his farm for over twenty years, when he disposed of his interest in the hotel, and spent some years in retirement at New Brighton. He, however, returned to Prebbleton, where he now lives in retirement. Mr. Prebble has always taken an active part in the progress of his district, and was for over twenty years a member of the Lincoln Road Board and Prebbleton school committee, and for a similar period a churchwarden in All Saints church, Prebbleton. He retired from his public duties in 1895. Mr. Prebble married Miss Thompson, who came out to New Zealand with her parents in 1851, by the ship “Duke of Porland,” and there is a family of six sons and two daughters.

Mr. E. Prebble.

Mr. E. Prebble.

Mr. James Winter, sometime of Prebbleton, was born at Milburne Port, Somersetshire, England, in 1823, and came to Lyttleton by the ship “William Hyde,” in 1852. He as in the employment of the late Mr. Guise Brittan for about ten years, and in 1863 settled at Prebbleton, where he has bought a farm. the land was then in its natural state, covered with tussocks, flax, rushes, raupo, and swordgrass, and a large portion of it was very swampy. Mr. Winter was a member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, Christchurch, he having joined that Order in November, 1855, and was a member up till the time of his death in September, 1901. He left a widow and one son. Mrs Winter arrived in New Zealand in 1852 by the “Duke of Portland,” and was married in 1856. She was a teacher in All Saints' Sunday school, Prebbleton, for over twenty years, and on severing her connection with it, was presented, by the members of the church and her old sholars, with a handsome silver tea and coffee service.