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 1840-50. Mr. Bennet was a surveyor who landed in Wellington in 1839 or 1840. Coming south to the Peninsula he settled, towards the end of the ’forties in Little Akaloa. A few years afterwards (beginning of the ’fifties) he died. His widow married Mr. George Ashton.

Israel Rhodes, Mrs. Rhodes, Marian, Elizabeth (Mrs. Bushel), 1840-50, James, Holdsworth, Ambrose, Alfred, William, Emma (now Mrs. McFarlane). Mr. Rhodes landed in Wellington in 1842, and in the following year came to Akaroa, whence he went over to Long Bay or Flea Bay in the interests of Messrs. Rhodes Brothers. Having purchased the latter property, he shifted thence from Long Bay. Flea Bay still belongs to one of his elder sons. Mr. Israel Rhodes was in no way related to Messrs. Rhodes Brothers.

Flea Bay does not owe its baptism to any poetic fancy. In the days when “spades were called spades,” fleas were called fleas, and in that particular locality there happened to be plenty of the latter to respond.

Francois Etienne Lelievre, Rose Justine, 1830-40, Francoise, Virginia (daughters), Etienne Cavier (son), Victoire (daughter), Auguste Joseph, Eugene Francois, Jules