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4 unusual facts about Henry Goulstone


Henry Goulstone

During 1883 his wife contracted tuberculosis and died two years later, on 18 August 1885 and was buried at the Symonds Street Cemetery.

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Goulstone was born on 22 October 1836 in Long Ashton, England, as one of 12 children, and baptised in the Church of England faith.

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On 18 April 1869, the first Royal visitor to New Zealand, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh, arrived in Nelson as Captain of HMS Galatea.

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After much moving around, Goulstone, his wife and their three young children settled in Nelson and on 8 September 1865 Goulstone was made Acting Bank Manager of the Nelson branch of the Bank of New South Wales, at a salary of £500 per annum.



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