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 Mr. and Mrs. Cholmondeley and family, three sons and five daughters, arrived in Canterbury in 1850 or 1851. They settled in Port Levy, and acquired a very good estate of about 2,000 acres. Part of the estate has been sold to an outside family, but the old homestead still belongs to some members of the family.

The first white child born in Canterbury was Miss Hempelmann, on the brig Bee in Little Port Cooper in 1835 or 1836. She lived at Peraki with her parents, but died as a child.

The first male child born in Canterbury was Peter Green, a son of William Green, who landed in Akaroa in 1839, in charge of cattle for Mr. W. B. Rhodes. He was born at the Red House, near Akaroa, before the French landed. To commemorate his birth the Maori chief at Akaroa or Wainui gave him a section of land at Green’s Point. I believe his father got the land, and the boy never really got it. He died in Dunedin in 1864.