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3 days ago · The four ships left England in September 1850 for Canterbury. Before they left, a public banquet and dance was held for those families who were buying land in the new settlement. A church service was held on 1 September in St Paul’s Cathedral for all the Pilgrims, as they were called.
Sep 10, 2024 · In 1843 the ecclesiastical parish of Highcliff was formed, but the civil parish of Christchurch remained unaltered until 1894, when an extensive subdivision was made, resulting in the formation of six separate civil parishes —namely, Christchurch East, Hurn, Southbourne, Pokesdown and Bournemouth ; the remainder, comprising about 1,000 acres ...
1 day ago · An architect who used to live there told me, “Christchurch could have been the first city of the 21st century. Instead, it is the last city of the 20th century.”. It certainly felt like a missed opportunity, but that is the way insurance, banking, politics, and human nature work; it has been that way at least since 1666. back better ...
3 days ago · The Pioneering Deans Family. William and John Deans were among the earliest European settlers of Canterbury. The brothers became successful farmers and John’s widow Jane continued the tradition. The site of their first farm Riccarton Bush is now a central city park and nature reserve.
3 days ago · Edward Gibbon Wakefield was a leader of the organised European settlement of New Zealand. In 1848 he and John Robert Godley founded the Canterbury Association to create a Church of England colony in New Zealand.
1 day ago · Christianity was introduced to New Zealand in 1814 by Samuel Marsden, who travelled to the Bay of Islands where he founded a mission station on behalf of the Church of England's Church Missionary Society. [28] By 1840 over 20 stations had been established.
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1 day ago · Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
