Thomas William Price ROUND

                   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.