Elisha ROUND

                   BIOGRAPHY: Came out on the Sebastapol where John Smith was a passenger

BIOGRAPHY: . After getting married went to Australia where the 3 oldest children were born. They then returned to Christchurch.
HANNAH MARIA ROUND was born in Nelson, ca. 1844, and after the familys return to England, came back with them on the Sebastopol in 1861.  She married John Smith, a stone mason and a Roman Catholic, at the Christchurch Catholic Cathedral on 28th May 1864.  Their children were John, Charles and Joseph, all of whom were born in Australia, with Charles born in Rich, Victoria in 1871, Catherine, Ellen, Louisa, Grace, and Deborah.  They lived at Ashbourne, a stone house on Ferry Road, now the Portstone Nursery, where she died after a long illness  on 5th September  1887.  Supposedly, her last words, when the nuns were around the bed, were Remember, Im a Protestant. However, she was buried as a Catholic in the Barbadoes Street Cemetery, Christchurch, although there is no headstone now, if ever. Her husband remarried a widow.
                  

                   EBENEZER ROUND was born on the 24th August, ca. 1846, in Nelson.  He returned to England with his parents and then came back to NZ with his parents on the Sebastopol in 1861.  Ebenezer lived in Australia at one time and married Anne Clark in New South Wales ca. 1868.  She was badly disfigured from being burnt.  In married life he lived at one time in Heathcote, certainly in 1882, and worked as a blacksmith and later lived in Kaiwarra, Wellington, where he worked in a brewery. Ebenezer died in Wellington on 21st November 1919 and is buried in the Karori Cemetery-at first in an ordinary plot but because it was never paid for, he was disinterred and buried in a paupers plot with no headstone.  He had 8 children (5 sons and 3 daughters) alive at his death and they included Joseph (The Valley Inn, Heathcote), David, Matilda and Grace, and perhaps Thomas, Charles, Arthur and Edith.
                  

                   BIOGRAPHY: Descentants Tree listed in the 'Family History Index' - Canterbury Museum Research Library.

LOUISA ROUND was born on 30th March 1852 in Greets Green, Staffordshire and came to NZ on board the Sebastopol in 1861 and on which boat was her future husband, John Martin Rennie, whom she married on 1st October 1869 at St. Michaels of All Angels, Christchurch.  Their children were Louisa, Clara, Isabella, Maria, Mary, Rosa, Ann, James, Andrew, John and John Simpson, who died as an infant.  The Rennies lived by the Radley Bridge, now motels, and attended St. Johns, Woolston, where the family presented a pew.  She remained in the house for many years after her husbands death.  She was well-provided for after her husbands death so that she never had to go out to work and nearly always had a washerwoman.  After the death of her daughters husband, Duncan Wright, Rosa Rennie and her children lived with Louisa for a number of years.  The Rounds first lived at Heathcote when they returned in 1861 and where Louisa went to school, and she would take her father his lunch in the train tunnel which he was working on in one hand with a candle in the other. Louisa later went to school in Woolston and at one Jubilee was one of the oldest pupils and so rang the bell for the celebrations.
Louisa died on 29th June 1935 in Christchurch and is buried in the Heathcote Cemetery with her husband and besides her parents.
                  

                   BIOGRAPHY:  Sarah was left in England when the Rounds came to New Zealand in1861 and was brought up by her Uncle Daniel and his wife who were childless. She inherited among other property a pub in Greets Green.
Tim anf Liz Rattray think that Sarah Ann may be the daughter of Daniel, Elisha's brother, and wife Amelia.
                  

                   ROSE HANNAH / ROSANNAH ROUND (Rosa) was born 15th May 1861 and registered in the Dudley registration district.  She was, however, baptised at St. Johns, Woolston, in 1865 with her brother Elisha.  She was very musical, a lovely singer and pianist and the organist at the Methodist Church, Catherine Street.  In the great Christchurch flood in the 1880s, Rosa was singing in the city and so she was rowed to St. Peters, at the corner of Ferry and Aldwins Road, and from there took a cab into the city.
Rosa married Richard Charles Pitt, at St. Johns Church, Woolston on 8th November 1876 and their children were Augustus (died as an infant), Richard and Edith.  She died on 5th December 1887, aged 27, at Napier and is buried there, but there is no headstone now if ever.  Her husband later remarried.
                  

                   BIRTH:  Birth: Folio 1863/389, Ref 01-S4939
   Headstone: "Arnold Vivian, 2nd son of Elisha & Isabella Round died Taihape 24-4-1912 age 22
                        Also Elisha Died 17-11-1934
                        Also Isabella Died 14-9-1947 age 84"
ELISHA ROUND was born in Heathcote on 28 August 1863 and baptised at St. Johns, Woolston.  He went to a private school in Cranmer Square and learnt French from a Professor Mallecrum.  Elisha was a keen musician in a brass band and met his future wife, Isabella Wright, daughter of Captain David Wright, when the band had gone to Akaroa.  They were married at St. Marks, Opawa on 11th November 1884. Elisha and Isabella had six children; Hilda, Harold, Arnold, Charles, James and Isabel (Evelyn).
Elisha worked as an accountant until he took unauthorised time off to attend an union meeting in Wellington and was subsequently fired.  Supposedly, it took him two years before he could get another job and that, according to Bella, it took 20 years for them to pay back their debts.  Elisha subsequently became a tailors presser at the Kaiapoi Mills and used to bike home for his 45 minute lunch hour.  He used to call himself Jack because he thought that Elisha was too flash.  They lived for many years at 39 Clarendon Terrace, close to his brother, Tom, and sister, Louisa.  He had inherited a number of properties from his father but one of them, at the corner of Catherine Street and Ferry Road was lost during the Depression because he was not able to pay the rates.  He didnt tell his wife or children until afterwards.
He was interested in fowls and showed them.  Elisha suffered from deafness and in later years when he was unable to play, became secretary of the Woolston band.  He was presented with a medal of esteem for his 15 years service as secretary and which I have now.  Elisha died on 17th November 1934 and is buried in the Heathcote Cemetery.
                  

                   THOMAS WILLIAM PRICE ROUND was born on 1st December 1866 in Christchurch and was the youngest of the Round children.  Tom began to work with his father as a blacksmith when about 12, and later worked at the Woolston Tanneries.  He became  and as a builder in partnership with his nephew, Andrew Rennie, as Rennie Round, and which nearly went bankrupt in WWI.  He married Elizabeth Annie Hurcomb (Annie) on 5th October 1892 at St. Marks, Opawa and his children were Aubrey, Laura, Dorothy and Irene.  The family were brought up as Methodists.  Tom was a Heathcote Borough councillor and was at one time asked to stand as mayor of Heathcote, but refused.  Lived at 49 Clarendon Terrace.
Tom was musical, like a lot of the Rounds, and played in a brass band.  His name was on the Woolston Park Band Rotunda, now demolished.  However, he would not have a wireless in the house.  He was a druid and belonged to the Masonic Lodge.  He died on 7th January 1943 in Christchurch and was cremated at the Linwood Crematorium; he had requested that, if there wasnt a crematorium in Christchurch when he died, that he be cremated in Wellington.