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5.0 LATTEY  IN NEW ZEALAND

 

Dugald Campbell Lattey (DCL) had two children by his first wife, Mary Broughton (married , Marylebone 1852);  Dugold Broughton, born in London in 1854, and Harry Fitzherbert, born in Calcutta in 1855, when Mary Broughton died..  The rest of his family were by his second wife, Sarah deNully, whom he married in Marylebone  in 1858. They were; Werner Frank, born in London in 1859; Harry Elmore, born in Walton-on-Thames  in 1861; Mary Sarah, born in London in 1862; Norman deNully, born in Calcutta in 1864 and Jane Maude, born in Bengal in 1867.

 

DCL must have remained in India after the failure of the Lattey businesses there, and then returned to the UK before setting off to New Zealand .  Dugold Broughton appears to have returned to India and  Harry Fitzherbert came out to New Zealand, marrying Margaret Kate Hursthouse in New Plymouth in 1898. DCL died at sea , off New Zealand in 1896, possibly visiting Harry Fitzherbert.

Harry Fitzherbert Lattey    27/09/1855 – 19/01/1940

 

Harry Fitzherbert Lattey’s family were as follows:

 

Edward Broughton    B. 25/2/1899  Auckland                                                .                                 D 15/4/1986  Levin

Harry  Wilson            B  29/12/1900 Dunedin                                                                   D  14/8/1986 Palmerston  North              Hugh Richmond         B 18/7/1902   Dunedin                                                                                                                                                                                                                         D   1990    Wellington

Margaret Ursula         B 7/9/1904    Wellington         D 18/7/1989  Waikanae     

Peter Blanckley         B 18/5/1911  Wellington

 

Edward (Ted) Broughton Lattey  became one of New Zealand’s foremost artists, even though he only started painting when he was 50. He farmed in the Upper Retaruke Valley (Lattey’s Flat is a well known picnic area), having heard about the King Country from his father-in-law, Charles Hursthouse, who surveyed much of the route for the Main Trunk  railway.

 

Ted did a bit of bush felling, fencing and farmwork in the Waikato and Waitomo area and then enlisted, with a false age, for service in the first World War.  After the war he worked in Kaitieke until he found that he was eligible for a Rehab Loan. He bought a 500 acre block in the Upper Retaruke Valley, 350 acres of real bush and the rest poor grass.  He cleared more of the bush, by himself,  and then was subjected to a change in Government policy which affected many ex-service farmers.  The Government could not afford to buy them grass seed, as had been promised by the Commisioner of Crown Lands in Wellington, nor provide further loans. He finally left Kaiteke in 1927, owning only two ponies, a saddle, two bridles, a roll of blankets, some clothes and a strained heart.                     

 

 His doctor told him to slow down, so at the age of 30 he became an office boy at a Wellington stock and station agency.  In six months he was the departmental manager. He sacked himself from his firm in 1948, moving to Levin in the belief that he could make a living from his landscape painting.  He plugged along for 25 years, with the wolf howling at his front door, but survived because someone always bought a canvas in the nick of time.  One of his canvases was hung on the end wall of Queen Elizabeth’s railway carriage on her tour of New Zealand in 1953.  The former Governor General, Lord Cobham, has four of Ted Lattey’s works, having been presented one when he opened the War veterans Home in Levin in 1959.  Ted Lattey’s artistic gene has been passed on to his son Richard Desmond (Des) Lattey.

 

Peter Blanckley Lattey trained as a Civil Engineer and started Lattey Civil Engineering Ltd in Hastings. The company provided roads, bridges and facilities for farmers and has constructed grain handling facilities at the nearby port.  Peter’s son Hugh now runs the firm.

 

Hugh Richmond (Rich) Lattey owned the premier domestic china retailer in New Zealand, located at Wanganui.  His home overlooked Victoria Park lake and had sufficient grounds for him to build two further, progressively smaller properties on the site as he got older.  His brother Harry Wilson (Bob) also owned a china retailing business.

 

Harry Fitzherbert Lattey (27 Sep 1855 - 19 Jan 1940)

&

Margaret Kate Hursthouse (15 Oct 1870 - 11 Aug 1941)

CHILD

GRANDCHILD

GREATGRANDCHILD

Edward Broughton Lattey (25 Feb 1899 - 15 Apr 1986) & Elsa Wagner

 

 

 

Wilson Edward Lattey* (16th March 1937)  & Debbie Beswick

 

 

 

Nicholas Edward Lattey (24 Sep 1980 - )

 

 

Kate Emma Lattey (19 Apr 1982 - )

 

 

Penelope Jane Lattey (12 Nov 1984 - )

 

Wilson Edward Lattey*  & Gillian Arthur

 

 

 

Jonathan Lattey

 

 

Andrea Lattey

 

Richard Desmond Lattey (7 Sep 1939 - ) & Pauline McCartney

 

 

 

Prudence Alexandra Lattey (30 Jan 1974 - )

 

 

Nicholas Broughton Lattey (3 Nov 1975 - )

Harry Wilson (Bob) Lattey (29 Dec 1900 - 14 Aug 1986) & Gwendoline Margaret Day (8 Mar 1904 - )

 

 

 

Margaret Ruth Lattey (2 Feb 1931 - ) & Hugh Adair Morrison (14 Nov 1921 - )

 

 

 

Katherine Hursthouse Morrison (31 Dec 1955 - ) & Anthony James Howard (11 Oct 1955 - )

 

 

Hugh Richmond Lloyd Morrison (18 Sep 1957 - ) & Linda Moine Prebble (14 Oct 1958 - )

 

 

Andrew John Kimmitt Morrison (21 Jan 1959 - ) & Annie Deborah Barratt (5 Mar 1956 - )

 

 

Robert William Bentley Morrison (12 Jan 1961 - )

 

 

Charles Wilson Hamish Morrison (7 Aug 1962 - )

 

 

John Dugald Flinders Morrison (2 May 1969 - )

Hugh Richmond Lattey (18 Jul 1902 - 25 Dec 1990) & Norah Patricia O'Connor ( - 9 Dec 1986)

 

 

 

Timothy John Lattey (15 Aug 1946 - )

 

 

Jennie Patricia Lattey (22 Jun 1948 - ) & Rod Vowles ( - 27 Jan 2002)

 

Margaret Ursula Lattey (7 Sep 1904 - 18 Jul 1989) & Eustatious William Barton Griffiths ( - 1942)

 

 

 

Nora Margaret Griffiths (31 Mar 1938 - ) & Ernst Roth (2 Oct 1934 - )

 

 

Anthony Peter Griffiths (17 Dec 1940 - ) & Helen Margaret Cunninghame

 

 

 

Catherine Helen Griffiths (21 Jan 1966 - )

 

 

Richard John Griffiths (11 May 1967 - )

 

 

Anna Rachel Griffiths (31 Dec 1969 - )

Peter Blanckley Lattey (18 May 1911 - ) & Lesley Margaret Matheson (1 Nov 1915 - )

 

 

 

Janet Mary Lattey (28 Mar 1940 - ) & Derek Haisman

 

 

Alison Marjorie Lattey (24 May 1941 - )

 

 

Hugh Peter Lattey (31 Jul 1942 - ) & Cheryl Gladys Stickman (3 Sep 1949 - )

 

 

 

Suzanne Jane Lattey (1 Dec 1971 - )

 

 

Renae Elise Lattey (18 Apr 1973 - )

 

 

Kate Alexandra Lattey (25 Sep 1977 - )

 

 

Emma Jeanne Lattey (12 Feb 1980 - )

 

Rosemary Jean Lattey (7 Apr 1947 - ) & Philip Edward Godderidge (29 Sep 1949 - )

 

 

 

Alice Louise Godderidge (27 May 1972 - )

 

 

Julian Peter Godderidge (5 Dec 1975 - )

 

 

Callum Philip Mads Godderidge (20 May 1977 - )

 

Catherine Margaret Lattey (30 Oct 1949 - ) & Jeremy Ross Simpson (12 Apr 1949 - )

 

 

 

Peter Jeremy Simpson (25 Jul 1979 - )

 

 

Abigail Lucinda Seymour Simpson (27 Feb 1981 - )

 

 

1.0  INTRODUCTION       2.0   EARLY DATA      3.0   RECENT RESEARCH

 

4.0   LATTEY’S IN INDIA      6.0    LATTEY  LOCATIONS     7.0    NAME INDEX