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FLORANCE, Dr Augustus

FLORANCE, Dr Augustus

Male 1812 - 1879  (66 years)


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  • Name FLORANCE, Augustus  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] 
    Title Dr 
    Birth 28 Sep 1812  Chichester, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 6, 7, 8] 
    Gender Male 
    Burial Barbadoes Street Cemetery, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1851  [7] 
    He was a general practice surgeon 
    Residence 1851  Portland, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1851  Portland, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Relation to Head of House: Head 
    Immigration Aft Oct 1856  New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Immigration 1862  [6, 7] 
    Occupation Doctor (Surgeon/Apothecary/man midwife) 
    Residence Between 1868 and 1869  Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Residence Between 1870 and 1871  Christchurch West, Canterbury, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6, 7] 
    Residence 1 Jan 1870  Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Residence Between 1878 and 1879  Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Death 22 Sep 1879  Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 6, 7] 
    • BDM NZ 1879/3896 67 years
    Burial Canterbury, North, Central, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I3396  Stark Family Tree
    Last Modified 31 Mar 2025 

    Father FLORANCE, James,   b. 1770, Chichester, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jun 1838, Chichester, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother DALLY, Charlotte,   b. 20 Jan 1769, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jun 1838, Chichester, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 12 Jul 1793  Chichester, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Family ID F1041  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 STONE, Jane Angel,   b. 24 Mar 1825, Portland, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Sep 1856, Easton, Portland, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years) 
    Married 22 Dec 1842  Portland St John, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14] 
    Marriage 23 Dec 1842  Fortuneswell, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Children 
    +1. FLORANCE, Angelina Sarah,   b. 5 Mar 1844, Portland, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1892, Portland, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +2. FLORANCE, Charlotte Dally,   b. 25 May 1845, Portland, Weymouth, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 May 1889, Charminster, Dorchester Dist., Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +3. FLORANCE, Augustus,   b. 28 May 1847, Portland, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Nov 1897, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +4. FLORANCE, Jane Angel,   b. 25 Jun 1849, Portland, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Dec 1927, Ruakaka, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. FLORANCE, Charles Goodyear,   b. 4 Dec 1853, Portland, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1855, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +6. FLORANCE, Robert Stone,   b. 9 Sep 1856, Independent House, Portland, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1928, Motueka, Tasman, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F1227  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Mar 2025 

    Family 2 MONK, Elizabeth Herbert,   b. 23 Apr 1815, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Dec 1906, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years) 
    Marriage 8 May 1858  St Peters Church, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Married 8 May 1858  St Peters Church, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1228  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Mar 2025 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 28 Sep 1812 - Chichester, Sussex, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 23 Dec 1842 - Fortuneswell, Dorset, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Between 1868 and 1869 - Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1 Jan 1870 - Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Between 1878 and 1879 - Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 22 Sep 1879 - Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Augustus Snr and Elizabeth c 1870    		Augustus Snr and Elizabeth c 1870
    Scan    		Scan

  • Notes 
    • Emigrated to NZ ca 1850

      Born at Portland, Dorset, on 28 May 1847, Augustus Florance was the son of Jane Angell Stone and her husband, also Augustus, a doctor. Dr Florance, a “cribbage… [and] chess player, a man interested in natural philosophy, a reader of Shakespeare… Cervantes… [and] Desiderus Erasmus”, was a social reformer, endeavouring "to accomplish the Sisyphean task of bringing temperance to the delinquents of Portland".

      Augustus junior and his contemporaries inherited this antipathy to the drink trade. A cousin, who emigrated to the USA, wrote, in 1886: "I hope he (Augustus junior) adheres to his temperance sympathies. Tell him he has all my sympathy on that question. I belong to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union… We all hope and pray that the curse of strong drink will be removed from our republic, which will come in God’s own time".

      When his wife died, Dr Florance left his family in the care of relatives and sailed for New Zealand. He lived at the Hutt, near Wellington, produced “primitive” paintings of the area (now held in the Alexander Turnbull Library), married a second time, went back to England and emigrated to Lyttelton as ship’s doctor on the Mersey in 1862.

      Dr and Mrs Florance settled in St Albans, Christchurch, the narrow blind lane up to their home being where Ranfurly Street now runs off Caledonian Road. The doctor, a popular general practitioner, dressed in silk dust coat and top hat, cultivated medicinal herbs, supported the Total Abstinence and St Albans Mutual Improvement societies, and died in 1879, "a poor man with an honoured name". His widow, Elizabeth, lived on at the property till her death, at 91, in 1906.

      In England, Augustus junior dwelt in a loving Christian environment. The cousin who settled in America noted: "I used to get Gussie to sleep many a time in Portland". Augustus himself wrote that, at 10, he was "converted to know and believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, by earnestly reading the New Testament at school…". He emigrated to Canterbury on the Captain Cook, arriving in September 1863. Although he was assisted by the provincial government, Dr Florance paid the greater part of his passage money.

  • Sources 
    1. [S275] Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
      Record for Augustus Florance
      http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=NewZealandCemetery&h=1269189&indiv=try
      New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007      		 New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007


    2. [S76] Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Death Index, 1848-1964, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).

    3. [S412] Ancestry.com, Canterbury, New Zealand, Provincial Rolls, 1868-1874, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Electoral Year: 1868-1869.
      Canterbury, New Zealand, Provincial Rolls, 1868-1874      		 Canterbury, New Zealand, Provincial Rolls, 1868-1874
      Electoral Year: 1868-1869


    4. [S42] Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), 1870-1871.
      New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981      		 New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981
      1870-1871


    5. [S413] Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Registers of Medical Practitioners and Nurses, 1873, 1882-1933, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
      New Zealand, Registers of Medical Practitioners and Nurses, 1873, 1882-1933      		 New Zealand, Registers of Medical Practitioners and Nurses, 1873, 1882-1933


    6. [S7] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.
      Record for Jane Angel STONE
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    8. [S269] Ancestry.com, 1851 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Class: HO107; Piece: 1857; Folio: 492; Page: 32; GSU roll: 221004.
      1851 England Census      		 1851 England Census
      Class: HO107; Piece: 1857; Folio: 492; Page: 32; GSU roll: 221004


    9. [S15] Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).

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      New Zealand, City & Area Directories, 1866-1954      		 New Zealand, City & Area Directories, 1866-1954


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