The house Mathew and Ellen left to emigrate to New Zealand. Roadcommon, Somerset, England
Mathew, Ellen and her sister
Ellen WHEELER nee NOYCE and Mathew WHEELER. Pioneers at Gebbies Valley, near Motukarara, Selwyn, New Zealand.
‘Merope’ 1870 at Gravesend: Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection
Original Wheeler Home, Gebbies Valley
“Church Farm” – Gebbies Valley
The little brass plaque says “Made and Presented by Matthew Wheeler, 1880”
On the verandah of “Church Farm”, Gebbies Valley, sit Ellen WHEELER nee NOYCE and part of her extended family. Her husband died in 1908 and she passed away in 1922. The small boy centre back, is my grandfather Harold Edwin CHAMBERS born 1911. Man on right is Thomas C Wheeler. Small boy in front is Charles CHAMBERS, brother of Harold.
