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Adela’s favourite resting spot: the bay window with views of the
ocean and gardens at Athenree Homestead.
Emily Surtees Photographic Collection. Photographer: Emily Surtees (nee
Stewart) (eldest child of George Vesey and Margaret Stewart).
The elderly couple sell AThenree
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As Hughes writes, “As the Stewarts grew older, the difficulties of
finding help for farm and household work, and for continuing their
social life, increased. They sold Athenree in 1906 and returned to
England.
My Simple Life in New Zealand
was published in London
in 1908. It gives a lively and informative account of the process of
establishing a new settlement.
“Its overall tone is one of cheerful stoicism in the face of adversity,
and a strong desire to maintain the social lifestyle Adela Stewart had
been used to before coming to New Zealand. It shows her to be an
enterprising woman, whose devotion to her husband and son was
fully repaid. Following the death of Hugh in April 1909 Adela returned
to New Zealand on a visit. She died on the night of her arrival at
Katikati on 12 February 1910.”
Son Mervyn remained in England, married in 1910, and became a
vicar. He died in Windsor, Berkshire, England, in 1961.
Hugh and Adela with their son Mervyn at Athenree in 1899
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