14th Generation  

82. Charles JENNENS [101101] (Samuel JENNENS⁶⁷, John JENNENS⁵⁶, John JENNENS⁵², John JENNENS⁴², William JENNENS³⁶, Abraham JENNENS²⁶, John JENNENS¹⁷, William JENNENS¹¹, Admiral, John Robert JENNENS⁹, Duchess, Sarah SPENCER⁸, Richard³, Edmund², John¹) was born on 6 Dec 1809 in Birmingham Warwickshire England, was baptised on 23 Apr 1819 in St Martin's Birmingham Warwickshire England, died on 20 Jan 1876 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand at age 66, and was buried on 22 Jan 1876 in Wakapuaka Cemetery Nelson Marlborough New Zealand.

General Notes: In a Summary on Edridge Family received from Maureen [Duggan] Stanger, in November 2013, she included:
Charles, Elizabeth and children sailed from Liverpool on 6^th November 1841 aboard the Martha Ridgeway. The ship's passenger manifest lists steerage passengers, Charles aged 32 a mechanic, Elizabeth 22, Frances aged 1 year and John 1 month.
Ridgeway, 621 ton barque, sailed from Liverpool on 6^th November 1841, arrived in Nelson, 7 April 1842. Arrived at Port Nicholson, Wellington, New Zealand after having struck Barret's Reef and had seven feet of water in her hold, but all and all the voyage was without incident, passengers regarded it as a good journey and commended the Captain, Henry W Webb, for his care and consideration.
Elizabeth and infant son John were two of the 21 deaths enroute, 11 caused by dysentery. There were also 7 births on the five-month voyage. The Martha Ridgeway was later wrecked off Great Barrier Reef sometime around 11 August 1842.
The Martha Ridgeway's arrival in Nelson triggered the first distribution of "town acres" in the newly-surveyed settlement. Distribution of allotments within the Nelson township was held between 11^th & 15^th April 1842.
Further on, in the same Document, Maureen says:
On Saturday 2^nd January 1863, in the Resident Magistrate's Court he was fined ten shillings and costs for letting 2 cows wander at large on 19^th December; andIn the Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle on 9^th September 1848, Charles' signed a petition - The undersigned of the settlement of Nelson partitioned His
Excellency the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand for a fairer share of the government expenditure upon public works, roads, and other similar objects to be expended on the settlement of Nelson based upon the fact that at the time one fourth of the New Zealand population (namely 3,000 inhabitants) resided there. To be spent on a road from Nelson through the mountains to Wairau, a bridge across the Maitai and the Wairau and general maintenance of the existing deteriorating roads in the settlement of Nelson.

Charles married Elizabeth BROWN [101102] on 16 May 1838 in Birmingham Warwickshire England. Elizabeth was born circa 1819 and died in 1842 at Sea at age 23.

Noted events in her life were:

• Death: aboard the Vessel "Martha Ridgway" en route to New Zealand, 1842, at Sea.

Children from this marriage were:

   92 F    i. Frances JENNENS [101104] was born in 1839 and died in 1883 at age 44.

   93 F    ii. Jesse John JENNENS [101105] was born in 1841 and died in 1842 at age 1.

Noted events in her life were:

• Residence at Death: aboard the Vessel "Martha Ridgway", en route to New Zealand, 1842, at Sea.

Charles next married Sarah Ann BLOOMER [101103] in 1842 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand. Sarah was born on 6 Jul 1820 in Birmingham Warwickshire England, died on 22 Mar 1872 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand at age 51, and was buried on 24 Mar 1872 in Wakapuaka Cemetery Nelson Marlborough New Zealand.

General Notes: In a Summary on Edridge Family received from Maureen [Duggan] Stanger, in November 2013, she included:
Sarah Ann ROWE arrived in Nelson onboard the Bolton on 15 Mar 1842 with her husband John ROWE, shoemaker aged 24 years and son John Henry ROWE aged 10 months. Sarah was 21. John ROWE obviously died soon after arriving in New Zealand in 1842, as Sarah remarried soon after.

Noted events in her life were:

• Residence at Death: Grove Street, "The Wood", 22 Mar 1872, Nelson Nelson New Zealand.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 94 M    i. Jesse JENNENS [101093] was born on 21 May 1843 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand, died on 11 Oct 1908 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand at age 65, and was buried on 14 Oct 1908 in Wakapuaka Cemetery Nelson Marlborough New Zealand.

   95 F    ii. Elizabeth JENNENS [101108] was born in 1845 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand and died in 1873 at age 28.

   96 M    iii. Joseph JENNENS [101109] was born in 1849 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand and died in 1923 at age 74.

   97 M    iv. Charles Samuel JENNENS [101110] was born in 1852 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand and died in 1924 at age 72.

   98 F    v. Emma Louisa JENNENS [101111] was born in 1855 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand.

   99 F    vi. Clara Catherine JENNENS [101112] was born in 1857 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand and died in 1936 at age 79.

   100 F    vii. Alice Maria JENNENS [101113] was born in 1860 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand and died in 1936 at age 76.

   101 M    viii. Thomas JENNENS [101114] was born in 1861 in Nelson Nelson New Zealand and died in 1884 at age 23.