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 Rule), Susan (now Mrs. Nancable), Emma (now Mrs. Wadman), Ellen (now Mrs. Cameron), 1840-50. Mr. Day landed in Wellington in 1841, and came south to Lyttelton in 1849. Shortly afterwards he went to Sumner, where he built and kept a hotel for many years, which was among the first of its kind in Canterbury. In the early ’fifties, among the treasured possessions of the Day family was a cow which served as a hack for all the school children, who were accustomed to ride into Lyttelton, where stores were purchased and packed on its back for the return journey. Arriving at Sumner in the evening, the stores were unpacked, and the cow milked, and eventually turned out to feed. One of Mr. Day’s sons was pilot at Sumner for the Lyttelton Harbour Board, and through his courage and intimate knowledge of the bar acquired a wide celebrity for the number of lives he saved.

Francois Narbey, 1840-50, Mrs. Narbey, Francois, Eleanore, John Edward, Victor Constant and Mary (twins), Thomas Walter, Stewart Henry, Rose Adelaide, Caterine Louisa, Jane Elizabeth, William Frederick, Charles Cecil, Joseph, Albert Alexander, Sarah Annie and Edwin Florentin (twins),