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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Derbridge, Charles

Derbridge, Charles, Farmer, Woodend. This settler was born in Herefordshire. England, in 1834, and arrived in New Zealand in the ship “Columbia.” He worked in the Lyttelton tunnel, and for some time after-wards on the Lyttelton breakwater. After leaving Lyttelton he had charge of the Oxford branch of the railway formation, and, after living in Rangiora a few years, he took up his present property at Woodend, where he has since carried on mixed farming. Mrs Derbridge was born in Bierford, Shropshire, England, in 1825, and came to New Zealand in 1863 in the ship “Antress.”

Mr. and Mrs C. Derbridge.

Mr. and Mrs C. Derbridge.

Tolputt and Clarke, photo The Homestead, “Brockenhurst.”

Tolputt and Clarke, photo
The Homestead, “Brockenhurst.”