| George William Haxton died
aged 26,
unmarried, away from NZ. There are records showing that he came from
a farming family and worked as a labourer on a number of New Zealand
Railway sites before he went off to the Great War.
His grandfather,
James Haxton.b:1830, came from Deal, Kent, UK but we have no
knowledge of how he arrived here though he is thought to have been a
"Remittance Man". His grandmother (Jane Anderson b:1842) was born in
very poor circumstances at the Shoreditch Workhouse in London.
James
and Jane married at Wellington, NZ 1859 and settled in the Wairarapa
where all their five children were born. Jane was only 25 years old
when she died
two days after the birth of their fifth child, Armond,
and Armond's first child was our George William Haxton b: 8th
October 1882 at Carterton, Wairarapa. Of George's seven siblings,
Sabina and Doris were both killed at Hastings during the Napier
Earthquake in February 1931.
Every town in NZ has an Anzac Memorial and George's name is
inscribed on the memorials at Carterton, where he was born, and at
Bulls, where he was working before he left for the War.
(information kindly contributed by
Ian Haxton)
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