John Walpole Willis , University of Canterbury, NZ has his diaries. A. John Walpole Willis Diaries 1 1 Jan - 31 Dec 1829. Bath 1830 (loose sheets) 2 8 Feb 1831 - 1 Oct 1832 3 1 Jan 1833 - 12 May 1835 Georgetown, Demerara 4 1 June 1835 - 31 may 1839 Georgetown, Demerara, Bath - Castletown, Isle of Man - Wold, Northamptonshire 5 1 June 1839 - 14 Jan 1842 Wold 6 1 Oct 1844 - 31 Dec 1848 Wold - Laugharne, Carmarthenshire Notes: judge in Georgetown, Demerara (Guiana). Jane Willis was his daughter by a second marriage. He had one son by his first wife; Robert Bruce Willis who was born in 1827 and died in 1896. R. B. Willis came to New Zealand in 1871 and took up land at Nillisden, near Southbridge. He had seven children, the eldest of whom, Robert Bruce Baker Willis was born in 1855 and died in 1933. His diaries begin at Willisden in 1871. In 1878 he moved to Waitoa, near Matamata, South Auckland and then in 1892 to Te Ahuahu, Bay of Islands. He returned to Southbridge in 1908. There are also diaries (1872-73) from the second son, Thomas Hamilton Willis (1856-1934) who later farmed near Ashburton. The material was deposited by Mrs C. E. Foweraker, a daughter of R.B.B. Willis. Information from: The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal The Clarence volume. London, T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1905 Penney, Sarah E. W. Lake Ellesmere to Te Pirita; the land and its people. Christchurch, Penny Ash publications, 1979 (Mrs Foweraker says this contains some inaccuracies) Mrs G.E. Foweraker
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