William ROUND

                   He was a Puddler. They lived at Dunkirk Place,West Bromwich,Worcester.

DANIEL ROUND  was born ca. 1817.  He owned a pub, the Bulls Head at 29 Grout Street, Greets Green. Daniel married Amelia Field on Christmas Day, 1837 at St. Thomas, Dudley.  They were childless and brought up Daniels niece, Sarah Ann Round, his brother Elishas daughter. Daniel died on 11th July 1882, aged 65, and is buried at St. Peters, Greets Green.
                  

                   Possible wife was Lucy Hillman.
                  

                   BIOGRAPHY:  Canterbury Provincial Council Electoral Rolls - 1873-74:
5134 Heathcote Round, David    Heathcote Valley,   Freehold
                 Pt. R. sec, 8 Heathcote Valley
5135 Heathcote Round, Elijah  Waltham        Freehold
                 Pt. R. sec 235, Waltham
5136 Heathcote Round, Elisha  Ferry Road     Freehold
                 1) Pt. R. secs. 1238, 1247, Old River Bed, Springs Track.
                 2) Pt. R. secs.32, Christchurch quay, Ferry Road S.
5137 Avon      Round, Elisha  Ferry Road     Freehold
                 Pt. R. sec. 25, pt. sec3, Papanui

BIOGRAPHY: Death Notice Lyttelton Times, NZ, 30-11-1878
'The friends of the late Mr David Round are respectfully informed that his funeral will leave his late residence, Waltham, on Sunday, at 2pm.
He was a bricklayer. He married BLanche Cox and migrated to Christchurch, New Zealand before 1873.

DAVID ROUND was baptised on 22nd April 1821 in Tipton and came to New Zealand ca. 1862, perhaps via Australia.  David married twice-the first time in England, and had a son Daniel.  In 1947, an Elijah Round of Barnsley, Yorkshire, wrote to Christchurch to acquire a copy of Davids will.  Davids second marriage was to Anne Maria Monk, a widow, at the house of William Prebble, Prebbleton on 12th July 1867.  He died on 29th November 1878 in Christchurch from a fractured skull which he suffered as a result from a fall from a cart, and was buried in the Barbadoes Street Cemetery, but there is no headstone.
                  

                      Canterbury Provincial Council Electoral Rolls - 1873-74:
5134 Heathcote Round, David    Heathcote Valley,   Freehold
                 Pt. R. sec, 8 Heathcote Valley
5135 Heathcote Round, Elijah  Waltham        Freehold
                 Pt. R. sec 235, Waltham
5136 Heathcote Round, Elisha  Ferry Road     Freehold
                 1) Pt. R. secs. 1238, 1247, Old River Bed, Springs Track.
                 2) Pt. R. secs.32, Christchurch quay, Ferry Road S.
5137 Avon      Round, Elisha  Ferry Road     Freehold
                 Pt. R. sec. 25, pt. sec3, Papanui

He came out on theship,The Brothers Pride with his wife Ann Maria(Hughes) 38 and family maria 11, William 7, Hannah 4, Ann Maria 2, arriving 10-12-1863. He died 22-6-1891 age 67 Widow Maria died Waltham 27-3-1906 age 82

Married: Dec Qtr 1844 @ Dudley Vol 18 P.396
He was a blacksmith.

ELIJAH ROUND was born on 29th September 1823 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, and baptised in Tipton.  He married Ann Maria Hughes in ca. 1842 and their children were Ebenezer, Elijah, Enoch, William, Daniel, Thomas, Emma, Amelia, Ann Maria and Mary.  The family came to NZ on the Brothers Pride, arriving at Lyttelton on 10th December 1863. Elijah was a blacksmith and lived at 179 Waltham Road.  He died on 22nd June 1891 in Christchurch and is buried in the Heathcote Cemetery with his wife.
                  

                   Round Elisha (1823-95) was born at Dudley, Staffordshire, England, married Grace and came out to Nelson in a New Zealand Company ship the 'Indus'. She left Gravesend on 1st October 1842, arriving in Nelson on 5th February 1843. Published accounts of the voyage show it to have been very unpleasant and was subject to an official inquiry. Only half the quantity of rations was issued, some having to be thrown overboard, and at the end of the voyage the captain would not allow the immigrants to draw their uncomsumed rations.('Pioneer Passengers' by June E Neale contains information on the voyage)
Although a blacksmith by trade, Elisha took part in the surveying of the Nelson Province being associated with JSM Jacobsen and JC Boys. He was in the mililta at the time of the Wairau Incident and was one of these who helped to rescue the survivors. Elisha was an excellent violinist and had to perform for many groups. They had two children while in Nelson. Grace was ill and Elisha procured his discharge and they decided to return to England via Sydney on the Star of China (departing Nelson 1847).
   Elisha & Grace later returned to NZ on the Sebastopal arriving 14-12-1861 and with him was his wife Grace and his children Hannah 16, Ebeneza 14, Louisa 9 and ? (Also on this voyage was John Martin Rennie, whos son later married Elisha's Daughter Louisa, and also possibly John Smith who later married Hannah). He worked under George Holmes & company in the Lyttelton railway tunnel and then settled at Woolston and back to his trade of being a blacksmith. He was elected a member of the Lower Heathcote School Committe at 70. His wife Grace died at Woolston 1-11-1881 at 56. He died at home of his son in law J.M. Rennie on 30-6-1895 age 72.

Index of unassisted arrivals NSW 1842-1855
Star of China arrival 13-8-1847 from Wellington and Port of Nelson (Reel No 1274)
Round E, Mrs, Son, Daughter

Pioneer Passengers by June E Neale (info on voyage of the Indus) - Canty Museum Research Library
G R Macdonald Dictionary of Canty Biographies - Canty Museum.

Nelson Census 1845:
No. of Town Acre       Name                             Occ        House Remarks
    285                     Elisha Round   Grattan St      -             E Squatter on waste land
(Squatter = A person occupying land as tenant of the Crown)

Nelson Examiner - Saturday 11/2/1843 P195
There is an account of the arrival of the Indus at Nelson.

Marriage to Grace - March Qtr 1843 @ Dudley Vol 18 P.259

In 1863, according to birth records of his son, Elisha, he was a Blacksmith and at that time resided in the Heathcote Valley.

Canterbury Provincial Council Electoral Rolls - 1873-74:
5134 Heathcote Round, David    Heathcote Valley,   Freehold
                 Pt. R. sec, 8 Heathcote Valley
5135 Heathcote Round, Elijah  Waltham        Freehold
                 Pt. R. sec 235, Waltham
5136 Heathcote Round, Elisha  Ferry Road     Freehold
                 1) Pt. R. secs. 1238, 1247, Old River Bed, Springs Track.
                 2) Pt. R. secs.32, Christchurch quay, Ferry Road S.
5137 Avon      Round, Elisha  Ferry Road     Freehold
                 Pt. R. sec. 25, pt. sec3, Papanui

ELISHA ROUND was Elijahs twin brother and was born on 29th September 1823 in Princes End, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, and baptised in Tipton.  He married Grace Price at St. Thomas, Dudley, Worcestershire, on 23rd January 1842.  His granddaughter, Evelyn Smith, nee Round, believed that they had eloped, but this story may have arisen because they once lived at Greets Green and this may have been confused with Gretna Green.  In the marriage notice of his daughter, Rosannah, Elisha is said to have been from Tividale, Tipton.
Elisha and Grace came out to New Zealand on a New Zealand Land Company Ship, the Indus, arriving in Nelson on 5th February 1843.  He is listed as a blacksmith. Elisha took part in the survey of the Nelson province and was in the militia at the time of the Wairau Massacre and helped to rescue some of the survivors.  His granddaughter, Clara Rennie, told the story that when they were behind the barricade, Elisha would play his violin and this would keep the Maoris from coming closer, so intrigued were they by the music.  Naturally, his arms got tired, but since his playing stopped the Maoris, other Europeans would hold his arm up.  According to another version of the story (from Mary Mee), the Maoris were fascinated by his playing and when he got tired, Grace would make gestures to show that Elisha needed to eat and sleep.  Next morning, the Maoris would return with food in flax kits and make gestures that they wanted Elisha to start playing again.
The Rounds lived for a time in Nelson city as squatters (in the 1845 census, they lived in Gratton Street) and, because of Graces ill-health, Elisha got his discharge and went to Sydney, arriving there on 13th August 1847, and later back to England.  They came back again to NZ on the Sebastopol in 1861, arriving on 14th December 1861.  On this voyage, there was an awful storm in the Bay of Biscay and the Rounds, with others, were obliged to jettison some of their trunks to lighten the boats load.
The Rounds first lived at Heathcote, where Elisha worked on the rail tunnel to Lyttelton, and then later moved to Woolston to work as a blacksmith.  Elisha was a very large man, weighing about 19-20 stone and called Tubby.
The blacksmiths was on the corner of Portman Street and Ferry Road, and the family home on the other side of the road on the corner of Catherine Street and Ferry Road, called the Band Hall.  In the family home was started a Primitive Methodist Church and for which his daughter, Rosannah, would play the organ.  Elisha bought quite a lot of land in Woolston, including property in London Street, now Glenroy Street, believing that it would become very valuable because he thought that there would be a river port in Woolston; he also owned property in Papanui.  His property in New Zealand, according to the 1882 Return of the Freeholders in New Zealand was worth £1,400.
Elisha died on 30th June 1895, aged 72, and is buried in the Heathcote Cemetery with his wife.
                  

                   Tim and Liz Rattray list the three children as William, Nancy and Sarah.
WILLIAM ROUND was born in Dudley Port and baptised on 2nd October 1825 in Tipton.  He married Nancy ? and in 1881 was living at 121 Whitehall Road, West Bromwich, and their children included William, Joseph and Sarah.  William died on the 12th January 1886 and is buried with his parents at St. Peters, Greets Green.
There are records of a William Round and his wife, Lucy, whose children were William Henry, baptised 1844 and 1847 at St. Thomas, Dudley, a William baptised 1854 at St. Thomas, Dudley, and a Sarah Alice baptised 1853 at St. Thomas, Dudley.
                  

                   IGI has birth and also baptism date as 24 Feb 1828.
                  

                   They lived at Grout St. West Bromwich (1841 Census ). Some of the children migrated to Christchurch, NZ.


EMMA ROUND was baptised on 28th March 1830 in Tipton.  She married Alfred Kendrick, a lime merchant, ca. 1855, and lived on Dudley Road, West Bromwich, and their children included William, Matilda and Emily. Emma was alive in 1881.

Other possible siblings:
MARY, bapt. 1 August 1813 Tipton
WILLIAM bapt. 2nd July 1817 Tipton
HANNAH bapt. 13th August 1815 Tipton