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Sheat, Stephen

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1836 - 1914

Biography

Stephen Sheat came out to Nelson in the Maori in 1853, aged 17. In 1864 he married Charlotte Spittals, one of the first European children born in Nelson, and in the same year they moved to Horrellville, North Canterbury, where they established a farm, Somerset. This farm is still in family ownership.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Sheat family papers

 Collection
Identifier: CCL Archive 0823
Scope and Contents

Photocopied typescript of notebook extracts of Stephen Sheat with some biographical notes on the Sheat family.

Dates: c1964