Woolston / Heathcote Cemetery Tour - Christchurch City Libraries

Marquet was naturalised at Christchurch, on 24 October 1860. On 16 July 1862, aged
23, he married Elizabeth Palmer, 19, at St. John’s, Woolston.
Louis Marquet captained several ships which traded in the estuary and came up the
Heathcote River to the wharf at Woolston, his favourite vessel being the ketch
Margaret. Navigation being difficult, the captain often had a friend meet him with a
strong draughthorse which would drag the vessel to the wharf.
The Marquet home was in Woolston. Louis and Elizabeth had a family of at least 12
children. In the baptismal records of the younger Marquets, Louis is described,
usually, as a mariner or master mariner but, occasionally, as a tanner. In 1905 the
captain was lost without trace on a voyage to the Pacific Islands.
Louis - or Lewis - junior was baptised on 12 April 1863. He and his wife, Ada, lived
at Sumner. Louis’ gravestone records that he died, at 74, on 5 March 1937.
Ada had died on 25 September 1903. The entry, in the St. John’s, Woolston, burial
book is scant. Nothing is included ‘other than the surname of the deceased, her sex,
date of burial and the name of the officiating minister’, A. C. Hoggins.
Row I
No. 161-62
Turner
This grave commemorates three brothers who were killed in World War I. Sergeant
Richard Burman Turner, 23, 1 st Canterbury Regiment, Main Body, son of J. R. and J
Turner, died 8 March 1918, aged.
Corporal Frederick Everard Turner, 25, was killed on the Somme on 15 September
1916. He was named after the Woolston doctor, Frederick Everard Hunt. Hunt was
born in 1840, arrived in the colony in 1880 and, presumably, brought young Frederick
into the world. Dr. Hunt, well known for arguing with his patients, obviously had
some admirers. He died in 1900 and is buried in the Burwood Anglican Cemetery.
Gunner Edgar Mercer Turner, 21, was killed at Messines on 3 June 1917.
Their mother, Jessie, 73, died on 13 November 1939; their father, John Richard, 84,
died on 1 Jan 1942.
Row I
No. 185
Killick/Charlesworth
Annie Killick, 20, wife of S. R. Charlesworth, died 19 December 1899
James Joseph Killick, 75, died 6 June 1916
Solomon R. Charlesworth, 73, died 29 June 1944
These were members of the Charlesworth family. The most prominent member of
the family, Captain William Charlesworth, is buried elsewhere in the cemetery.
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