Harriette Butcher

Biographical information provided by Briar Barry for the He Tohu exhibition:

Harriette, who was born around 1841, was married to Henry Robert Butcher. Henry died in 1933, aged 92 and Harriette died two years later, aged 94. They celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in 1929. Henry ran a successful fellmongery business in Kaiapoi, a trade he had learned from his father back in England prior to immigrating to New Zealand with Harriette in 1884. Henry was a pillar of the Kaiapoi community, serving on the local school committee for many years and serving as a licensed lay reader for the Church of England Synod.