See also
Husband:
Alfred Cawood (1834-1906)
Wife:
Susannah Worts (c. 1830-1895)
Children:
Marriage:
1855
Shoreditch, Middlesex
Name:
Alfred Cawood
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
12 Jan 1834
Shoreditch, Middlesex
Baptism:
9 Feb 1834 (age 0)
Baptised, St Leonards Shoreditch (IGI)
Census (1):
1841 (age 6-7)
Living with parents
Census (2):
1851 (age 16-17)
Apprentice gunsmith, Enfield Lock (unmarried)
Occupation (1):
22 May 1859 (age 25)
Gun maker, 19 Princes Street
Census (3):
1861 (age 26-27)
Gun maker, 2 Grove St, St George East
Occupation (2):
13 Dec 1863 (age 29)
Gun maker, 2 Grove Street
Emigration:
1864 (age 29-30)
from Emigration to New Zealand (lived in NZ 42 years according to death cert. in 1906)
Occupation (3):
31 Aug 1865 (age 31)
Labourer, Heathcote, Christchurch, New Zealand (son Alfred's birth reg.)
Occupation (4):
1906 (age 71-72)
Engine driver (on death cert.)
Death:
21 Oct 1906 (age 72)
219 Cashel St, Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand
Burial:
23 Oct 1906
Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand
Name:
Susannah Worts
Sex:
Female
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
c. 1830
Harwich, Essex
Census:
1861 (age 30-31)
Wife in household
Death:
1895 (age 64-65)
Hume Street, Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand
Name:
Charles Alfred Cawood
Sex:
Male
Note:
Charles was still living in 1906 according to his father's death certificate which lists the ages of his still-living children.
Birth:
6 Aug 1857
Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Birth fact:
1857 (age 0)
1857 Sep Qtr, Bethnal Green, 1c/290
Baptism:
22 May 1859 (age 1)
St Matthew, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Census:
1861 (age 3-4)
Living with parents
Death:
aft 1906 (age 48-49)
Name:
Jessie Susanna Cawood
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Children:
Birth:
13 Jan 1860
Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Birth fact:
1860 (age 0)
1860 Mar Qtr, Bethnal Green, 1c/341
Census:
1861 (age 0-1)
Living with parents
Baptism:
13 Dec 1863 (age 3)
St Matthew, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Death:
1937 (age 76-77)
New Zealand
Name:
John Francis Cawood
Sex:
Male
Birth:
5 Jan 1862
Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Birth fact:
1862 (age 0)
1862 Mar Q, St George in the East, 1c/433
Baptism:
13 Dec 1863 (age 1)
St Matthew, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Death:
1954 (age 91-92)
New Zealand
Name:
Alfred William Cawood
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Birth:
31 Aug 1865
Heathcote, Christchurch, New Zealand
Death:
1953 (age 87-88)
New Zealand
Name:
Mary Isabel Cawood
Sex:
Female
Birth:
1868
New Zealand
Name:
Richard Joseph Cawood
Sex:
Male
Note:
THE SUMNER DROWNING CATASTROPHE. THE INQUEST.
An adjourned inquest upon a portion of the remains of John Cockle, one of the victims of the boating accident at Sumner on September 11th was resumed at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, yesterday afternoon, before Mr R. Beetham, Coroner, and a jury. Inspector Pender called the following evidence:— Mrs Annie Cockle deposed that she was mother of the deceased, who was a tinsmith, twenty-three years of age, and single. On the morning of September 11th he said he was going to New Brighton for a sail with three others. The clothes produced were her son's, which he wore on the 11th September. Richard Nuttall deposed that his son Thomas Nuttall was one of the party who went to New Brighton on September 11th for a sail. The boot and sock produced belonged to his son.
Alfred Cawood stated that his son Richard John Cawood went to New Brighton for a sail on September 11th, and he had not seen him since.
Eliza Pearson, wife of the late Paul Pearson, stated her husband had been employed in the Addington Workshops. He was formerly a seafaring man. On September 11th he went for a sail to New Brighton with Cawood, who came to the house. He said he would not be long.
Constable Kelso deposed to finding the portion of a leg and some clothing on the beach at New Brighton. Charles Curtis, Captain of the New Brighton Sailing Club, said he knew the boat Waratah, in which the deceased went out on September 11th. Cockle got the key of the shed, and he saw four men take the boat down the river. They told witness they were going to Lyttelton via Sumner. About half-past twelve he saw the boat out at sea coming towards New Brighton. It was an open sailing boat, well built, but the rigging was bad. The sail was badly cut, and the rigging would not run. The sail was cut so that if the boat listed the boom would touch the water and capsize her. He warned the deceased not to go over the bar, as it was a puffy sou-wester. He had seen the boat since the accident. Pearson was the only one who could sail a boat.
Robert B. Carter deposed that he saw the boat sail to the Sumner wharf. Joseph Day, Pilot at Sumner, in the employ of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, stated that he had been in that capacity for twenty-three years. His duties were to signal to crafts coming over the bar. The bar was dangerous at times. He recollected the Waratah coming to the wharf about eleven o'clock on September 11th. There were four men on her whom he did not know. He gave them instructions as to how to get over the bar, and they sailed out into the open sea. It was a fairly fine day and not particularly dangerous. He saw the boat standing in towards New Brighton, and afterwards she sailed down towards the lighthouse. About 2 p.m. two ladies informed him that a boat outside had suddenly disappeared. He got his telescope and went on the Cave Bock but could see nothing from White Wash head and New Brighton. Mrs Buckham, one of the ladies who gave him the information, was not so excited as to lead him to think anything was wrong. He had since picked up the Waratah on the New Brighton beach. She was slightly damaged. He considered that some mismanagement on the boat must have caused the accident.
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Birth:
1874
New Zealand
Death:
11 Sep 1892 (age 17-18)
New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand
Charles was still living in 1906 according to his father's death certificate which lists the ages of his still-living children.
THE SUMNER DROWNING CATASTROPHE. THE INQUEST.
An adjourned inquest upon a portion of the remains of John Cockle, one of the victims of the boating accident at Sumner on September 11th was resumed at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, yesterday afternoon, before Mr R. Beetham, Coroner, and a jury. Inspector Pender called the following evidence:— Mrs Annie Cockle deposed that she was mother of the deceased, who was a tinsmith, twenty-three years of age, and single. On the morning of September 11th he said he was going to New Brighton for a sail with three others. The clothes produced were her son's, which he wore on the 11th September. Richard Nuttall deposed that his son Thomas Nuttall was one of the party who went to New Brighton on September 11th for a sail. The boot and sock produced belonged to his son.
Alfred Cawood stated that his son Richard John Cawood went to New Brighton for a sail on September 11th, and he had not seen him since.
Eliza Pearson, wife of the late Paul Pearson, stated her husband had been employed in the Addington Workshops. He was formerly a seafaring man. On September 11th he went for a sail to New Brighton with Cawood, who came to the house. He said he would not be long.
Constable Kelso deposed to finding the portion of a leg and some clothing on the beach at New Brighton. Charles Curtis, Captain of the New Brighton Sailing Club, said he knew the boat Waratah, in which the deceased went out on September 11th. Cockle got the key of the shed, and he saw four men take the boat down the river. They told witness they were going to Lyttelton via Sumner. About half-past twelve he saw the boat out at sea coming towards New Brighton. It was an open sailing boat, well built, but the rigging was bad. The sail was badly cut, and the rigging would not run. The sail was cut so that if the boat listed the boom would touch the water and capsize her. He warned the deceased not to go over the bar, as it was a puffy sou-wester. He had seen the boat since the accident. Pearson was the only one who could sail a boat.
Robert B. Carter deposed that he saw the boat sail to the Sumner wharf. Joseph Day, Pilot at Sumner, in the employ of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, stated that he had been in that capacity for twenty-three years. His duties were to signal to crafts coming over the bar. The bar was dangerous at times. He recollected the Waratah coming to the wharf about eleven o'clock on September 11th. There were four men on her whom he did not know. He gave them instructions as to how to get over the bar, and they sailed out into the open sea. It was a fairly fine day and not particularly dangerous. He saw the boat standing in towards New Brighton, and afterwards she sailed down towards the lighthouse. About 2 p.m. two ladies informed him that a boat outside had suddenly disappeared. He got his telescope and went on the Cave Bock but could see nothing from White Wash head and New Brighton. Mrs Buckham, one of the ladies who gave him the information, was not so excited as to lead him to think anything was wrong. He had since picked up the Waratah on the New Brighton beach. She was slightly damaged. He considered that some mismanagement on the boat must have caused the accident.
Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8306, 18 October 1892, Page 3
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