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About John Kerr
Obituary
On the 29th December, suddenly, at his residence, Waimea-west, of apoplexy, Mr. John Kerr, sen., farmer, aged 68 years. Mr. Kerr was one of the earliest Nelson settlers, having arrived here in the Fifeshire, on the 1st of February, 1842. Mr. Kerr put the first plough into the soil in the Nelson settlement, on the town acre then belonging to the Union Bank of Australia, now occupied by T. Connell, Esq., and was regarded as the patriarch of our Nelson agriculturists, as, with the exception of the Messrs. Tytler, he was the earliest cultivator of a farm in Nelson. In the early days of the settlement the hospitality of Waimea-west was dispensed by Mr. Kerr with a liberal hand. He was much and generally respected, and was the representative of Waimea-west in the Provincial Council.
Source: Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue XXI, 31 December 1862, Page 2 [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NENZC18621231.2.5].
Headstone
To the Memory of JOHN KERR One of the earliest Nelson Settlers and the first man to put a plough into the soil of the province. He was born at Newbattle Midlothian in the year 1794 and emigrated to New Zealand in the year 1841 where by industry, intelligence, and upright conduct, he earned for himself a handsome competence and the esteem of his fellow colonists. He died on the 27th September 1862 Aged 68 At the time of his death he was a member of the legislature of the Province of the Central Board of Education and of the Road Board of the Waimea's. This stone is erected by his sorrowing widow and children. Also JANET wife of the above who died March 9th 1873 aged 81 years.
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John Kerr's Timeline
| 1794 |
November 22, 1794
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Newbattle, Midlothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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| 1814 |
November 27, 1814
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Fala, Midlothian, Midlothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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| 1817 |
1817
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Humbie, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1818 |
November 6, 1818
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Cranston, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1820 |
December 9, 1820
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Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
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| 1823 |
January 4, 1823
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Cousland, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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| 1825 |
November 4, 1825
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Cranston, Midlothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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| 1830 |
October 24, 1830
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Prestonhall, Cranston, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1832 |
March 15, 1832
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Cranston, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
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