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William Crush Daldy (1816 – 5 October 1903) was a captain and New Zealand politician.
Biography
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Daldy was born on 20 April 1816 in Rainham ,[1] Essex, England.[2] He started going to sea aged 16 on the Mayflower , a ship belonging to his father Samuel Rootsey Daldy,[3] an Ilford coal merchant.[4] His seafaring first brought him to Auckland in July 1841.[5]
On 10 December 1840 he sailed from Liverpool in his schooner Shamrock , arriving in Auckland in July 1841, but remained a seafarer. In 1847 he started timber milling near Auckland. From 1849 he was a partner in the shipping firm Combes and Daldy.[5] He was a shareholder of Auckland Timber Co and his son, W C Daldy Jr., was its secretary.[6]
In April 1864 the Daldy family sailed to London[7] and in 1865 he became the English agent for the Province.[5] They returned on Combes and Daldy's ship, Queen of the North , in 1866.[8] Walter Combes died in 1870.[9]
Captain Daldy was the first chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board from 1871.[10] He was also a Justice of the Peace , Auckland Chamber of Commerce council member, Bank of New Zealand auditor, Auckland City Council member, New Zealand Insurance Co . director and volunteer fire brigade captain.[5]
On 22 April 1841 Daldy married Frances Harriet Pulham, in Launceston .[11] She died on 3 December 1877.[12] They had 4 children, Frances Catherine Wrigley (25 April 1842[1] -19 June 1879),[13] Maryanne Maria Mee Davies (7 August 1848 – 24 June 1926),[14] Edith Crush Daldy (1850[1] -6 February 1924)[15] and William Crush Daldy Jr (14 February 1852[1] -1934).[16]
William married Amey , née Hamerton, on 17 March 1880. Amey was president of Auckland branch of the Women's Franchise League and of the National Council of Women , and William gave a speech saying, "that men were cowards for not extending the franchise to women". Amey died in 1920.[17]
Daldy died in Ponsonby , Auckland, on 5 October 1903.[5] He had been in poor health for some time, before succumbing to pleurisy and dying of heart failure.[18] He was buried at Purewa Cemetery .[19]
Political and military career
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He represented the City of Auckland electorate in the 2nd New Zealand Parliament from 1855 to 1860, when he was defeated. He did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments. He was a minister without portfolio in the government of William Fox , and was also a member of the Auckland Provincial Council [20] in 1857 and from 1861 to 1864. During the invasion of the Waikato in 1863 he was a senior captain of the Auckland Naval Volunteers .[21]
See also
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References
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^ "DEATH OF CAPTAIN DALDY, New Zealand Herald" . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 6 October 1903. Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ "Courier Newspaper Archives, Feb 5, 1816, p. 4" . newspaperarchive.com . Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ a b c d e McLintock, A. H. (22 April 2009) [1966]. "Daldy, William Crush". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Retrieved 16 September 2011 .
^ "Auckland Timber Company Building (Former)" . www.heritage.org.nz . Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ "PORT OF AUCKLAND, DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS" . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 4 April 1864. Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ "PORT OF AUCKLAND. DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS" . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 28 March 1866. Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ "LOCAL EPITOME. NEW ZEALAND HERALD" . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 4 June 1870. Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ Reed, A.W. (1955). Auckland : City of the Seas . Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed. p. 110.
^ "Family Notices" . Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840 – 1859) . 27 April 1841. p. 2 . Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ "AUCKLAND STAR" . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 3 December 1877. Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ "DEATHS. NEW ZEALAND HERALD" . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 23 June 1879. Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ "Maryanne Maria Mee Davies" . geni_family_tree . Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ "OBITUARY. AUCKLAND STAR" . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 9 February 1924. Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ "OBITUARY New Zealand Herald" . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 11 April 1934. Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Daldy, Amey" . teara.govt.nz . Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ "DEATH OF CAPTAIN DALDY, New Zealand Herald" . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 21 October 1903. Retrieved 8 June 2019 .
^ "Notable Graves | Purewa Cemetery" . Retrieved 29 April 2019 .
^ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103 .
^ "CAPTAIN W.C. DALDY. NEW ZEALAND HERALD" . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz . 2 July 1881. Retrieved 3 August 2019 .
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