Ebenezer ROUND

                   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.