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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts]
Mr. Jonathan Holden
Mr. Jonathan Holden, sometime of “Spring Vale,” Tikikino, Hawke's Bay, was born in Manchester, England, in the year 1822, and came to New Zealand in 1857. He settled at Tikokino two years later, and was engaged in sheep-farming up to the time of his death in 1864. Mr. Holden married a daughter of Mr. John Lever, of Manchester, England, in 1848, and left a family of three sons and five daughters. The sons are engaged in sheep-farming; Mr. Thomas Holden is in the Gisborne district, Mr. Jonathan Holden at Tikokino, and Mr. John Holden is at Makotuku.