Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Mr. Samuel Crawshaw , Engineer to the Oamaru Borough Council, was born in 1842 in Ripponden, Yorkshire, England, and was educated at the Wesleyan school, Sowerby Bridge. He became a factory lad at the age of eight years, and when but fourteen years old was apprenticed to a plumber and glazier, with whom he served six years. Mr. Crawshaw worked at his trade in England till 1879, and was for the last ten years in business on his own account at Batley, in Yorkshire. He arrived at Port Chalmers, in the ship “Taranaki,” in 1879, settled in Oamaru in January, 1880, and was appointed waterworks inspector to the borough in July, 1880, and in August, 1890, he had added to his duties those of borough engineer. Mr. Crawshaw was a member of the North School Committee for some years, and has been well-known also in connection with the Wesleyan Church in Oamaru. He was married in 1863 to a daughter of the late Mr. W. Dennison, of Liverpool; but that lady died in 1865, leaving a son and a daughter, the latter of whom has since died. In 1873 he contracted a second marriage with a daughter of the late Mr. G. Scatcherd, of Batley, Yorkshire, and has had by this marriage six sons and one daughter.