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 and they made their home in Pigeon Bay. Captain Gay, with some of the merchants in Lyttelton, bought the first steamer owned in Canterbury. The steamer was very successful in trading round the coast. After a time Captain Gay went on a visit to Scotland, his native land, and returned in command of one of the large passenger ships to Canterbury. In 1863 he, with the Sinclair family, bought a barque of 300 tons, in which he and his family, with the Sinclair family, left New Zealand, and went to the Hawaiian Islands. After his wife and family were settled there, he returned to Australia to sell the vessel, but died at Newcastle on his way home to the Islands, leaving his wife and family, three sons and two daughters, to mourn their loss.

William Deans, John Deans, 1840-50, Mrs. John Deans, 1852, John, Junr. Mr. William Deans landed in Wellington in 1840. Mr. John Deans arrived in Nelson on October 25th, 1842. The two brothers remained in the North Island until 1843, when they came down to Canterbury in the schooner Richmond, owned by Messrs. Sinclair and Hay. Mr. William Deans was, by profession, a lawyer, and was much respected and sought after by the hardy pioneers of those days, to