Edward Betts Hopper was born in around 1799 in Dover, Kent into a Quaker family - his parents were Robert Hopper and Abigail Betts. Parts of his life are shrouded…
Albert Benefield was involved in a fatal accident at Wanganui railway station in New Zealand in 1908.
NINETY TIMES ROUND THE WORLD - NEW ZEALAND COMMODORE'S RETIREMENT [The Times, Saturday, August 4th 1917] Captain Herbert Edward GREENSTREET (b1851) - who is believed to have made many more voyages…
When William Benefield set sail with his wife and child from Plymouth in 1874, bound for New Zealand, he could not have foreseen that the roots he would plant there would yield such a rich harvest - both literally and figuratively!