{"id":278,"date":"2023-06-17T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renwickmuseum.nz\/?p=278"},"modified":"2023-07-02T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T00:25:51","slug":"move-to-renwicktown-gee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renwickmuseum.nz\/index.php\/2023\/06\/17\/move-to-renwicktown-gee\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVE TO RENWICKTOWN: Gee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s not clear when James and Margaret settled in Renwicktown as it was known then.&nbsp; <br>It seems to have been about 1869 when they would have been about 50 years old.&nbsp; Their adult children George, Hugh and Catherine were already living in the area.&nbsp; They ran an accommodation house in the Wairau Valley settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 1870\/71 electoral roll James is shown as owning three sections of land in the town.&nbsp; <br>These were on the southwest corner of Havelock and Uxbridge Streets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/renwickmuseum.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gee-family-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renwickmuseum.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gee-family-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/renwickmuseum.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gee-family-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renwickmuseum.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gee-family-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/renwickmuseum.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Gee-family.jpg 1247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Gee Family: Hugh and Emma Gee front row.<br>Sons: Percy, Campbell, George, and William back row<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move to Renwicktown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,20],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition","tag-gee","tag-renwick"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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