John Martin RENNIE

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                   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.