Jane Symons, née Morshead, married James Symons (d 1851), manager and later owner of Judge Halswell's Farm at Brooklyn, from the 1840s. Together they had six children. Jane Symons managed the farm herself after the death of her husband. She later married J F F Wright, no children. In Jul 1853 she wrote to [Donald McLean?] from Goathurst Farm enquiring about land in the Manawatu.
Symons, Jane, 1805-1874
Morshead, Jane, 1805-1874, Wright, Jane, 1805-1874
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Pearse, John 1808-1882 :[Scenes of Wellington. Between 1852 and 1856]. Mrs Simmons hous...
Date: 1852 - 1856
From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]
Reference: E-455-f-039-2
Description: A large two-storied house and a garden, with Brooklyn Hill behind Jane Symons (nee Morshead) owned her late husband's farm, Section 28, Ohiro, now approximately the site of Brooklyn School, Washington Avenue. The house had previously been owned by Judge Halswell and managed by James Symons, who died in 1851. Other Titles - Symons Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 75 x 122 mm
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Research material created by Jocelyn Scrymgeour
Date: 1841-1864, 1992
From: Wright Family: Collection
Reference: Series-6159
Description: Research materials created or accumulated by Jocelyn Scrygmeour in the course of her research into the Wright family. Includes photocopies, digital files, and a typed transcript of the journal by John Fortescue Evelyn Wright (1827-1891) covering the period 1841 to 1864. Accompanying material - Accompanied by biographical notes by Jocelyn Scriymgeour (2 p) Quantity: 7 folder(s). 11 Electronic document(s). 6 digital photograph(s). Physical Description: Photocopies and typescript transcripts of holograph material, and digital files
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Memorials - Surnames Wit-Wri
From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Bolton Street Cemetery transcripts, notes and papers / compiled by Margaret Alington and others
Reference: MS-Papers-2260-086
Description: Surnames on headstones: Witton; Wood; Woods; Woodward; Worrall; Wright; Symons; Buckley. Not all individual names have been indexed in name field. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Pearse, John 1808-1882 :[Views of Wellington ca 1852]. Mrs Simmons' Farm - Wellington.
Date: 1852 - 1856
From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]
Reference: E-455-f-037-4
Description: A two-storied house in a large cleared section, with a bush-clad hill behind it. The home of Mrs Jane Symons (nee Morshead), later Mrs J. F. F. Wright. The house was originally built by Judge Halswell and managed by James Symons, then purchased by Symons, who died in 1851. The same house was also depicted by S. C. Brees in the early 1840s (Residence of his Honour Judge Halswell ... No. 61). It stood on Section 28, Ohiro, approximately the modern site of Brooklyn School in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. See TL3/1/1/2 9 March 1984; see also Ward, L. Early Wellington, p. 283 Other Titles - Symons Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 115 x 172 mm
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Inward letters - Surnames, Sym - Sym
Date: 1850-1875, nd
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0597
Description: Correspondents: Alithea Seymour Symonds, Auckland, 1867-1875, undated (11 letters); John Jermyn Symonds, Auckland, 1850-1875 (13 letters); Jane Symons, Goathurst Farm, 1853 (1 letter) Quantity: 1 folder(s).