Emily Fanny Vincent

  General Notes:

Emily Fanny would have grown up helping her older sister Alice when she came home w'ith her babies. At one time she worked as a housekeeper for Mrs Bradstreet in Auckland, and
at that time helped teach at the All Saints Sunday School in Ponsonby.

Because her husband was very 'involved in community affairs, that meant Emily was also drawn into helping with problems, and in times of crisis and illness she cared for folk
and their needs. She made a room available to a music teacher (Miss Brown) so those who wanted to learn the piano could do so.

  Burial Notes:

Name Emily Fanny Dodd
Maiden Name Vincent
Gender Female
Birth Date 2 Feb 1874
Birth Place Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato, New Zealand
Death Date 26 Jun 1920
Death Place Arapohue, Kaipara District, Northland, New Zealand
Cemetery Arapohue Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place Arapohue, Kaipara District, Northland, New Zealand
Has Bio? Y
Father
Robert Vincent
Mother
Fanny Vincent
Spouse
Samuel Dodd
Children
Samuel James Dodd
Alma Antwis Watts
Emily Louisa Dodd
John Robert Dodd
Millis Vincent Dodd
Ivy Myrtle Dodd

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Emily married Samuel Dodd Junior, son of Samuel Dodd and Mary Antwist, on 2 Feb 1898 in Mititai, Northern Wairoa, Northland, New Zealand.¹ (Samuel Dodd Junior was born on 19 Nov 1844 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom ⁵, christened on 2 Jan 1845 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom,⁶ died on 4 Jul 1915 in Mititai, Northern Wairoa, Northland, New Zealand and was buried on 4 Jul 1915 in Arapohue, Northern Wairoa, Northland, New Zealand ⁷.)

  Marriage Notes:

0n her 24th birthday, Emily Fanny married Samuel D0DD iunior, a neighbouring farmer. The date was 2 February 1898. The officiating minister was Rev. Arthur J. Beck and the witnesses were Emily Joe Morgan (Samuel's niece) and James RusselI. .
Samuel was at that time working at Bonar's mill, Aratapu, and the
pub-keeper at Aratapu cracked a ioke that Samuel leaving it so late to be married (he was 54) he had dodged the trouble of turning on a chrjstening party. Samuel was indignant! "Right oh." said the pubkeeper, "l'll give you a bottle of whisky for every baby."
Samuel and Emily proceeded to collect six bottles, and the next time Samuel dropped into the pub wearing a triumphant smile after the birth of Ivy, child number seven, the pub-keeper gave up. "Aw not again." he protested. might as well have given you a case of whisky at the start. Here, take one now."
But Ivy was the last of Emily and Samuel's children, so the joke was again on the pub-keeper.

In the early 1900s EmilY and Samuel owned a store at Mititai which
was situated near the old Mititai Wharf, and the Post Office was in this store. Their children all crossed the river daily to attend the Te KoPuru School. They then sol d the store and bought an 80 acre farm about two miles away from the river, and next to a Maori settlement. The children now had to walk or ride turo-and-a-half
miles to Arapohue School which at that time was next to the Methodist Church.
In 1907 Emily's sister, Louisa, died leaving four children aged eight, six, three and one so Emily took father and three children into her home. The fourth child, Leslie, was raised by another sister, Alice.
In 1920, five Years after the death of her husband, Emily succumbed to pneumonia and died, stjll leaving young ones to be raised, and this task was ably taken over by the oldest lass,
Emily Louisa, always known as Louie.
Many happy times were spent around the piano with family and
friends singing songs and hymns and Emily was sadly missed by Maori and Pakeha alike.
Emily Louisa spent her years bringing up the family, and after her
brother, Jack, married, she bought a place in Epsom, Auckland, living there tilI she died.