Solicitor, of Wellington; firm is Hamerton & Andrew. Arrived in New Zealand with family in 1854 aboard the 'Cashmere'. Promoted to Captain in the New Zealand Militia in 1864. Member of St Mark's Church (Wellington), in the first vestry from May 1876. Organist and choirmaster 1879 to July 1881. Died in 1913 aged 74 years.
Hamerton, Robert Chisenhall, -1913
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Manuscript
Specifications and contracts - Proposed house for R C Hamerton, Oriental Bay, Wellington
Date: 1898
From: Swan family : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-0109-170
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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St Mark's Parish album
Date: 1876-1930s
By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946; St. Mark's Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-o-453
Description: Album of photographs relating to the history of St Mark's Church and parish, Wellington, compiled by George William Barltrop whose photograph is on page 31. Photographs include clergy, vestrymen, churchwardens, lay readers, organists and choirmasters, members of the choirs, wives of clergy, and views of various buildings linked with the church. Other Titles - Parish of St Mark Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, tied with cord, entitled "Photographs. Parish of St Mark"; 18.5 x 28.5 cm
Manuscript
Legal papers
Date: [1866-1888]
From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers
Reference: 73-128-001
Description: Identified persons or firms entered under Name (many unidentified); also includes notes and fragments; note re Thoms to you; Treadwell's Orders for admission; letter to Detective Benjamin re larcenist Walter F Newman; receipts and accounts; sentencing statement re Thomas Hall; notes re N and A Sutherland's loan and Emma Ingley's further loan; approval note for E N Briscoe's plan; Baylis' property lease; hurry-up note re Raul's trustees; note from Property-Tax Department re removal from valuation roll of McGrath's estate and the value of the Porirua Hotel; note re Bath's property; letters, re Bell & Levin to Arthur, to Mrs King, Porirua Hotel, re Dransfield property; telegrams from H King from Porirua, E Buckley and Grogan from Napier and A Southey Baker from Palmerston North Also telegrams from B Muncadin relating to Menteath sent from Porirua, and from H F Hooper re McGrath, also sent from Porirua; receipt from John Luke Gage, tax note re Patrick Mungavin and note re John McGrath's estate and inability of Davis to work from Frederick Pinch Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Local issues
Date: 1907-1909
From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers
Reference: 73-128-125
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes parts of letters, cases of phthisis at Weraroa Training School, proposed rifle range site near Otaki, telegrams from Gardner of Levin, Bell of Wanganui, Barnett of Christchurch, letters from [?] Kilgour of Wellington, Dorothea of Morrison's Bush, Greytown, papers relating to proposals in the new County Bill for Otaki and Te Horo ridings to be a separate county and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).