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You've probably gone past this level of information already but here is a list of the Canterbury Forrester Lodges in the 1880's, if they were Rangoons then Kaiapoi would have been their local branch, perhaps they have records at the Kaiapoi Musuem.

Court Star of Canterbury, No. 2309, Bro. W. Buckley, Secretary, Foresters' Hall, Oxford Terrace, Christchurch.

Court Queen of the Isles, No. 2703, Bro. Smith, Secretary, Foresters Hall, Lyttelton.

Court Pride of Courtenay, No. 6031, Bro. G.F. White, Secretary, Courtenay.

Court Star of Ashburton, No. ——, Bro. Barrett, Secretary, Ashburton.

Court Thistle of the Forest, No. 6494, Bro. W.D. Marks, Secretary, Sydenham.

Court Woodford, No. 6583, Bro. ———, Secretary, Kaiapoi.

Court Pride of Richmond, No. 6584, Bro. T.G. Strange, Secretary, Linwood.

Court Pride of Papanui, No. 6585, Bro. Osborne, Secretary, Papanui.

Thanks for that tip Corkscrew. I have located the online version of that hockey photo. If nothing else comes up I will have to locate the owner of that photo or contact the hockey club to see if they have any further records of Isabella.


oh yeah KHP but then thinking about it perhaps the ships records should have stated 2 years and not 2 months. I think I'll stick with the 1880 estimate

I should of said the owner is the Hinemoa HC

Well I'll take part 3
Canterbury as a whole was a Wakefieldian planned settlement.  The original idea was that the main settlement of Christchurch would have a satellite university town.  Naturally given the amount former Oxford students in the committee they chose the name Oxford.  It was supposed to be far enough away to seclude its imates from the bright lights of Chch but close enough to build a tram link.  It never worked out, Oxford became and remained a small rural service town for western North Canterbury.  No mass migrations of Oxfordshire folk I'm afraid.

Pishaw - of course Kaiapoi had its own newspapers,  The Kaiapoi Record for one and other papers that covered North Canterbury (The Rangiora Standard, The NC Guardian, The Oxford and Cust Observer, The Recorder and The NC Gazette).  Nowadays the region is served by the Northern Outlock and the NC News.

My mother wrote the history of Kaiapoi, and she says even finding paper copies of these are difficult.  They are split between the Canterbury, Kaiapoi and Rangiora Museums, the Christchurch City and Waimakariri District libraries and private collections.  Unfortunately none of these are on line, nor does there seem to be any great drive to put them up.