THE JULIE M FROOD STORY (1836-1908)

Julie M Frood-daughter of James Frood(1799-1856) and sister of Charles Trefusis Frood (1827-1881)

Julie Mary FROOD, was born in 1836 in England (IGI) was 4 in 1841 living in Towcester. She was aged 14 in Northampton in 1851 and in 1861 was working as a sales-woman to a draper residing at No. 10, Exchange Street, Manchester.

Exchange Sq. Manchester

She boarded the ship 'Liverpool' in London to Auckland 1885-arriving there in 1886. The records show that she travelled in a single berth cabin.
She married Arthur Fennell in New Zealand in 1887. He had taken passage to New Zealand on the ship 'John Phillips' in 1852.

It seems that Julie and Arthur lived in the Canterbury District, in a place called  WAITEMATA, Auckland. In the 1896 Electoral Roll Julie, aged 62, was living with:
William Farmer
George,Miner;
Alfred Trefusis Bromley Fennell (Gum Digger)
and Rosina Fennell

who I am assuming are her children.

In 1905/6 NZ Electoral Roll, Julia, aged 72, is living with Cornelia Evaline Fennell, Spinster, who I am assuming is related to her husband-perhaps sister- Reginald Clinton Fennell, Rosina Fennell and William Fennell. Julie died in 1908.

IN 1913 Arthur Trefusis Bromley Fennell, labourer, aged 38 years, travelled from New Zealand to Vancouver, via Sydney on the MARAMA. My assumption is that he settled there.

iN 1875/6 George and Arthur Fennell both held property in NZ, George in RANGIORA  and Arthur in FERNSIDE, CANTERBURY.

Gum-diggers were men and women who dug for kauri gum, a fossilised resin, in the old kauri fields of New Zealand at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The gum was used mainly for varnish. The term may be a source for the nickname "Digger" given to New Zealand soldiers in World War I.[14] In 1898, a gum-digger described "the life of a gum-digger" as "wretched, and one of the last [occupations] a man would take to."



Statue of Gum Digger, Dargaville


It is worth noting that this area is close to where Julie's brother, Arthur settled.

THE ARTHUR FROOD STORY

Arthur Frood was born in Plymouth 23.4.1856 , the the eldest son of of Charles Trefusis and Amelia Frood. He died in 1927 in New Zealand . He married Martha Holingdrake from Bowling in Bradford. Her parents were William and Jane Hollingdrake from Bradford - Arthur and Martha  married when he was 29 years of age in Auckland  in 1885 and died in Te Kopuru, Hobson County, New Zealand. Martha was born in 1862 and died in 1908.
They had 10 children:

Millicent Frood died a spinster
Alfred Trefusis Frood (76),married Alice May Brown and they had three chldren: Alice b1926; William Buckley b 1928 and Barry Trefusis b 1937
Charles Trefusis Frood (died at age 1)
Reginald Clinton Frood(68), married Olga Lois Massey in 1948
Florence Ivy Frood(75), married William Barton Clotworthy in 1932
Annie Frood (84),married Harry Prebble in 1919
Nida Frood (75), married William Robert Hamilton Steward in 1925
Herbert Frood (62), married Gladys Emily Townsend in 1925
William Arthur Frood (41 - Rifleman married Olive Marion Gray in 1921
and
Gladys Amelia Frood (92) married James Campbell Palmer in 1921
all of whom were born,lived and died in New Zealand, and the family home appears to have been in Te Kopuru/Dargaville, Northland, NZ.

It appears that Arthur married  Elisabeth Susannah Rowles of Plymouth - in New Zealand - after the death of Martha.

The 1871 census showed that Arthur was not living at home - at the age of 14/15 - it transpires he had an apprenticeship in Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
In the 1861 census he was shown as a 4 year old staying with his mother's parents - John and Maria Blackwell at 10a, Orchard Street, Marylebone. Amelia's sister, Sophia was also staying at the house at that time. John Blackwell is described as a Solicitors Managing Clerk.

It is documented that Arthur boarded the 'Chimborazo' steamship and took passage to the Australia's from London. He was due to arrive on the 11th March 1878. He would have been 21 years of age. The ship was due to dock in Adelaide, Port Phillip and Sydney.

The U.S. ship CHIMBORAZO, of Thomaston, Maine, was built in 1851. She took her name from a province and volcano in Ecuador. In the 1850's, the CHIMBORAZO appears to have been a general trader on the "cotton triangle", carrying emigrants from European ports and returning to Europe full of cotton.