Florance
Biography
The eccentric Dr. Augustus Florance lived in Caledonian Road, Christchurch, where the Caledonian Hotel now stands. His son, also Augustus, was a compositor for the Lyttelton Times. He bought land in New Brighton, building a house there. He married Elizabeth Hamilton, the daughter of David Wilson Hamilton, an early settler who also had associations with New Brighton. Augustus and Elizabeth had a son Augustus who is known as the founder of the St. Albans Library, and who went to live in Bower Avenue, New Brighton, in 1913. He had a son, the fourth and final Augustus Florance, a farmer.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Augustus Florance papers
The papers of Augustus Florance include a photocopy of the 1897 will of the second Augustus Florance, photocopied notes on the Florance family and its ancestry by Richard Greenaway and letters by David Charles Hamilton Florance, son of the second Augustus Florance.
Also includes the papers of David Charles Hamilton Florance including historical material on Burwood and New Brighton.