Edgar King, born circa 1813, sailed to New Zealand on the Wellington and landed at Auckland on 2 January 1882. Two of his children, Teresa Eve King (baptised 1866) and John King (born circa 1872) sailed with him.
Edgar died at about 7.30 pm on 29 April 1884, when he fell from the railway bridge over the Taieri River as he and his son John attempted to walk from Henley to Mosgiel in the dark. They had missed the last train from Henley to Dunedin, and were hoping to catch a later train at Mosgiel.
Newspaper reports speak of a "wife and seven children" who were left destitute by his death ... which implies that he probably married again soon after arriving in New Zealand, and that his new wife was probably a widow with children of her own (although it is of course possible that they were married during the voyage ... )
It is reported that at the time of his death, Edgar lived in St Andrew Street, Dunedin ... although this was not where he lived for the whole of his short time in New Zealand: on first arriving, he opened a sarsaparilla store at 96 Grey Street Auckland, and this is given as his address in a press report of 15 February 1882. This venture did not pay, and he went to work instead at the New Zealand Clothing Factory in Dunedin as a cutter (his old trade from when he lived in England). He left this employment a few weeks before his death, having become too old to work.
That's all I have on his time in New Zealand so far ... but if anyone is able to find a record of his marriage in New Zealand, I should be exceedingly grateful, as I do not have access to New Zealand records myself.
