Henry & Muriel Nevins

Obituary - Henry Nevins

The death took place on Tuesday last [27 September 1927] at Pahiatua of Mr Henry Archibald Nevins, one of the best-known residents of the Tinui and Makuri districts. 

The late Mr Nevins was born in Ireland, being the son of Hugh Nevin Nevins, of Roanmore, County Waterford. Educated at the Diocesan School, Waterford, he came to New Zealand in 1877, and was employed at Brancepeth, near Masterton, felling the bush and surveying the place. 

In 1877 he took charge of Annedale, near Tinui, and was manager of that station for 35 years. 

In 1922 he returned to his own place, Ngawaewae, Makuri, which he had bought in 1888, when that district was opened up, and which he had felled and cultivated. 

Mr Nevins was a member of the Farmers' Union from its inception, and held the post of Dominion treasurer for two years. He was a director of the Rimu Bank Co-operative Dairy Company from 1925-26. 

He took an active interest in church affairs, being a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Wellington up to the time of his death, a member of Synod and vestryman of Mangatainoka. In 1901 he married Muriel Fancourt, a daughter of the late Ven. Archdeacon Fancourt, and is survived by his wife and two sons--Thomas Nevins, of the Engineering School of Canterbury College, and Gerald Nevins, of Wanganui Collegiate School. 

The funeral took place at Mangatainoka on Thursday, Rev. Canon Fancourt, brother of Mrs Nevins, assisted by the Rev. E.W. Bingin. A very large number of people attended

Manawatu Standard, 1 October 1927, page 9

Muriel Margaret Jane Nevins, nee Fancourt, was born in 1873.  The couple served in a number of roles in Tinui Parish, during their 35 years at Annedale.  Muriel died in 1940, aged 66.

The photo of Henry Nevins was taken around 1900 by the Rev. John Sykes, Vicar of Tinui.
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