![]() ![]() Charles was involved with local politics alongside other notable settlers such as the Carter Brothers, C. With them were their three children Samuel, Richard, and Ann, who helped out on the family property at Enchanted Creek. ![]() The family had come out to New Zealand on board the Clifford in the year 1842 along with many other notable families, such as the Wratt’s. In 1845, Charles was a dairyman living in Collingwood Street, Nelson, and in 1850 a cowkeeper in Bridge Street. This is an account of the lives of some of the old-timers who resided there and the stories that they left behind in the region.Ĭharles and Selina Timms came to Oddstone, a dairy station in the Wairau Valley beside Enchanted Creek, in the early eighteen fifties. ![]() With plenty of quartz creeks rich with the possibility of gold and low-lying pastures for sheep to roam, the area became quite a close-knit community. The North Bank of the Wairau Valley in Marlborough was a promising landscape for people wanting to do their best for their families. 1 Pioneers of the Wairau Valley North Bank. ![]()
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