The information on this page is from a variety of sources, most pictures from material held by my wife Shirley Blayney (née Coxhead) but particular thanks is made to Anne Sandford (née Duckett) for her background research.
1 James SMITH b~1823 (Beith, North Ayreshire, Scotland); Yoeman;
Steward on the ship Brilliant arriving Cornwallis, Auckland 27Oct1842;
d.26May1864 (drowned in Matakana River); bur Binsted Family farm, Greens Rd, Matakana
[Son of John SMITH b.1787 (Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland); d.1871 & ?Mary GILLIES]
+ Charlotte Sophia PITTMAN b.6Aug1823 (1819) (London);
em.1842 on The New York Packet arriving Auckland 9May1842;
m.17Oct1842 (St Pauls, Auckland) [122];
d.1May1911 (Auckland) "The oldest identity of Matakana" [1215]
They stayed in Auckland for 10 years then lived at Matakana from 1852 to 1907.
Managed the Post Office at Matakana "for many years"
2 Annie Mary (aka Mary Ann) SMITH b.6Sep1843 in the old wooden
cottage in Princes St, Auckland which was also the city's 1st bank;
The oldest of 8 siblings; d.10Oct1927 bur. Waikumete.
+ William (Bill) COXHEAD b.1835 (1833) (Aldbourne);
m.27Oct1860 (Matakana)
Emm. to NZ on the Josephine Willis arriving Auckland 5Feb1854;
Occ. labourer then farmer (Matakana) [No known photograph]
d.27Jul1872 of TB (Auckland) age 37, bur. Grafton cemetery.
See Bill
3 Thomas James COXHEAD b.4Jan1873 (Omaha)
2 Alexander Joseph SMITH (aka Joseph Alexander) b.20Oct1846 (Auckland)
d.19MAy1931 ("The Pine", Matakana)
+ Margery WALLACE b.18Aug1849 (Lochwinnoch, Ayreshire, Scotland);
m.16Jun1868 (Matakana); d.26May1911 (Matakana)
"Sister of Mercy"
[Dau of George Blair Allan WALLACE and Mary DAVIES]
3 Captain James SMITH b.30Apr1869 (Matakana); d.16Nov1918 (Onehunga)
+ Emmeline Augusta Maria EXTON, Tailoress; b.28Sep1872 (Camperdown, NSW); m.1899 (NZ);
d.18Oct1925 (Auckland, NZ)
[dau. of George and Rosina Netherby Exton nee Barrow]
4 Roy Wallace SMITH b.1900 (NZ); d.1991 (NZ)
4 Thelma Marjorie Smith b.6Sep1904 (NZ); d.1994 (NZ)
4 Jade George SMITH b.1909 (NZ)
4 Mavis Rosina SMITH Tyler b.24Nov1913 (Onehunga, Auckland); d.Jul1981 (Auckland)
+(1) William JAMIESON b.~1910; m.1934 (NZ); imm. from Southampton to NZ arriving 16Jul1926
Farmer; d.1964
+(2) Walter (Lee) Edward TYLER
3 Wallace SMITH b.~1869
3 Thomas James SMITH b.10Aug1870 (Matakana) d.unm 24Jun1950 (Matakana)
3 Emily Louise SMITH b.2Apr1873 (Matakana); d.8May1941 (Auckland)
+ Ernest Adam VIPOND b.Jan1863 (Alston, Cumberland, England) farmer;
m.1892 (NZ); d.19Apr1951 (Auckland)
[son of Joseph and Elizabeth VIPOND nee ANDERSON}
3 George (?James) Hugh SMITH b.01Oct1876 (Kawau Island, NZ); d.08Oct1953 (Te Hana, Rodney, NZ)
+ Florence Ivy Irlam BECROFT m.1908
3 Charlotte Mary SMITH b.8Jun1879 (Kawau Island)
+ William MILLS b.1879; m.1899 (NZ)
3 Flora SMITH b.14Aug1881 (Kawau Island); d.15Sep1970 (Auckland)
+ Samuel MILLS b.Apr1877 (Auckland); m.17Apr1906 (Matakana); d.2Jul1967 (Auckland)
4 Keith MILLS b.1907 (NZ); d.1991 (Auckland)
+ Frances Helen Zaneta Elsbeth MILLS b.2Mar1907 (Auckland)); d.1999
3 Margaret Fanny SMITH b.19Apr1884 (Matakana, Rodney); d.11Aug1961 (Auckland)
+ George Berkley HEWSON, plasterer; m.29Mar1910 (Auckland); d.11Aug1952 (Glenfield) (Probate Record)
3 Joseph Wallace SMITH b.16Jan1889 (Matakana); d.17Jul1938 (Auckland)
+ Emily Maude BECROFT m.1913 (NZ)
4 Phillip Wallace SMITH b.5Dec1915 (NZ); d.4Mar1942 at sea (age 26)
4 Gwenneth Majory SMITH b.10Jul1918 (NZ); d.2015 (Palmerston North, NZ)
+ Frank Wallace HOPWOOD b.8Mar1916 (NZ); m.1941 (NZ); d.2008 (NZ)
4 Joseph Clifford SMITH b.5Feb1921 (NZ); d.2008 (NZ)
4 pvt son
2 Capt. Thomas William SMITH b.2Dec1848 (1854) (Auckland); m.10Oct/Dec1877;
d.8Feb1879 (Drowned, Porongahau River Mouth, Napier alternatively fell from the
top mast of the Mohaka); Master Mariner
+ Margaret Isabella Irvine SPROULE b.6Jun1853 co. Tyrone, Ireland;
m.10Dec1877 (NZ); d.12Mar1939 (Khandallah, Wellington)
Remarried police officer Max BOLLINGER 21Jun1884 (Wellington)
3 Fanny Louise Irvine-SMITH MA b.10Sep1878 (Napier) d.unm10Dec1948
Teacher, lecturer and Author of the book The Streets of My City (1948) about Wellington [1620]
3 seven Bollingers.
2 James SMITH II b.1854 (Matakana); m.26Mar1879 (Mansion House,
Kawau Island);
d.20Dec1879 (Auckland Hospital, flu)
+ Julia Ann TAYLOR b.20Jun1860; m. 26Mar1879 (Kawau Island); d.17Dec1920
Remarried to Daniel O'Sullivan in 1904
[dau. of Samual and Eliza Jane Taylor nee Lawrence]
3 Ada May SMITH b.1881 (Kawau Island); d.1937 (NSW)
+ Francis John McMAHON b.1875 (NZ); m.1898 (NZ); d.1951
3 Albert Ernest SMITH b.1882 (Kawau Island); d.1945 (NZ)
+ Rose Amelia HIEATT b.1885 (Onehunga, Auckland); m.1905; d.1969 (both NZ)
3 Rose Ethel SMITH b.1884 (Kawau Island); d.1974 (Riverside, CA. USA)
+(1)Caleb Thomas HAWKINS b.1878 (Fiji); m.1902; d.1918 (Somme, Picardie, France) [?WWI]
previously married to Ellen COX 1869
+(2)William Frederick James BABE b.1876 (NZ); m.1925 (NZ); d.1937 (Riverside, CA. USA)
previously married to Constance May HOLLAND (1901)
3 Julia Ann SMITH b.13Oct1886 (Kawau Island); d.11Oct1966 (Tauranga, NZ)
+(1)Walter South BICKERTON m.1907
He remarried in 1921 to Valentine BICKERTON [122]
+(2)William ALDING b.10Dec1889 (Dannevirke, NZ); m.1921; d.1945 (24Jul or 16Dec)
A William ALDING had previously married Katie MORDIN in 1913 at
Ormondville and a (same or ? father) married a Mary CARMICHAEL
in 1893 [122]
3 Virgie SMITH b.1886 (Kawau Island); d.1965 (NSW)
+ Roy Matheson McGREGOR b.1895 (NZ); m.1921 (NZ); d.1961
3 Consuelo Maude SMITH b.1891 (Swanson, Auckland); d.1961 (NZ)
+ Alfred Ernest OTTER b.1887 (NZ); m.1908; d.1967
3 Joseph (James) SMITH b.1895 (Swanson, Auckland)
Possibly the same person as the James listed
3 Vivian James SMITH b.1896 (Swanson, Auckland); d.1958 (Birkenhead, Auckland)
Possibly the same person as James III below
+ Elizabeth Ann Monica HOLMES b.7Nov1889 (Akaroa, Canterbury NZ); m.1917; d.30Nov1979
3 James SMITH III b.1897 (Matakana); d.1974 (Coromandel, NZ)
2 William SMITH b.8Aug1855 (in a Whare at Matakana);
d.24Mar1929 (Matakana of Hodgekinson's Disease); Farmer
+ Margaret HUNTER b.10Nov1863 (Birmingham, England);
em. 1873 on the ship Chili;
Head Cook for Sir George Gray on Kawau Is;
m.11Jan1883 (Presb Church, Matakana); d.15May1949
3 Emily Charlotte SMITH b.18Nov1883 (Matakana);
d.19Jan1884 (Kaukapakapa)
3 Edith Mary SMITH b.15Jan1885 (Kaukapakapa);
d.7Jun1948 (Sandringham, Auckland)
+ Frances Arthur MAY m.2Apr1907
3 Bertha May SMITH b.1Aug1886 (Kaukapakapa);
m.29Jan1908 (Rotorua - eloped with the help of her uncle George and Aunt Polly);
d.01Oct1953 (New Plymouth).
+Thomas (Tom) James COXHEAD, her 1st cousin;
b.4Jan1873 (Omaha); d.26May1941
See Tom & May Coxhead living family (?p/w problem)
3 John James SMITH b.2Dec1887 (Matakana);
d.9Apr1982 (Ranfurly War Vets Home, Royal Oak, Auckland)
+ Daisy Eveline BRADLEY b.12Jun1886; m.29Dec1922;
[dau. of Henry James Thomas and Elizabeth Bradley]
3 Ida Marjorie SMITH b.30Sep1889 & d.01Oct1889 (Matakana)
3 Gertrude Jane SMITH b.30Sep1889 & d.01Oct1889 (Matakana)
3 Percy Wakeham SMITH b.9Feb1891 (Matakana); d.20Aug1977 (Matakana)
+ Myrtle Mary CAMPBELL b.18Feb1899; m.9July1924; d.21Jun1995
[dau of Alex James Kirkwood and Margaret Mary Campbell]
4 (William) Austin (Austie) SMITH b.26Jun1931
Best man and cousin of Shirley's father Cliff COXHEAD
Living at Warkworth; d.24Jun2019
3 Winifred (Winnie) Evelyn SMITH
b.12Feb1893 (Matakana);
d.1982 (New Plymouth)
Sister of Bertha May COXHEAD née SMITH
so known as "Aunt Winnie" to the 10 Coxheads.
+ William John Edmond SCOTT b.18Dec1888 (Normanby, South Taranaki); m.9Jun1920; d.12Jul1962 (New Plymouth, NZ)
[son of John Henry William and Elizabeth Scott nee Blakeney]
Prev. married to Dorothy Annie Estella Tomlinson b.1894 (Fielding, NZ); m.1916; d.1917
3 Arthur William Hunter SMITH b.23Dec1900 (Matakana);
d.28Apr1947 (Mt Eden, Auckland))
[on headstone with Charlotte SMITH).
Brother of Bertha May COXHEAD née SMITH
so known as "Uncle Arthur" to the 10 Coxheads.
3 Reginald Douglas SMITH b.15Jan1903 (Matakana);
d.12Jun1997 (Auckland)
+ Virginia Marie Few MUNFORD b.1912 (Albury, Surrey, England); m.17Jun1933; d.25Jul1959 (Dargaville, NZ)
[dau. of Edwin John and Annie Amelia Munford nee Few]
2 George James SMITH b.1857 (Matakana); m.24Dec1885 (Auckland);
d.18Jun1906 (Matakana)
Helped Tom Coxhead and May Smith elope when he was working at the Rotorua milling company Ellis & Burnand [1290]
+ MaryAnn (Polly) HUNTER b.6Aug1865 (Birmingham, UK);
Sister of Margaret HUNTER who married George's brother William!
d.12Jun1942 (Devonport, Auckland)
3 Four children: -Lawrence, Virgie, Hazel & Ida.
2 Hugh SMITH b.2Aug1860 (Matakana); d.19Apr1948 (Auckland)
+ Jessie Kate LEASE b.27Jan1867 (Suffolk, UK); m.7Aug1888 (Matakana);
d.11Jul1953 (Epsom, Auckland)
3 Seven children: -Hugh, Frank, Eric, Susan (Suzie = Mrs Frances),
Jessie (Mrs Hobin), Dorothy (Mrs Ball) & James.
2 Louisa SMITH b.1864 (1861) (Matakana); d.13Aug1928 (Takapuna, Auckland)
+(1)Lawrence GILSHENAN b.1856 (Granard, Co Longford, Ireland);
m.5July1880 (Presb Church, Matakana); d.25Sep1886
3 Three children: -Lawrence, Mary & Ellen.
+(2) Harold VIPOND b.19Feb1859 (Alston, Cumberland, England);
m.12Jun1888 (Matakana); d.29Sep1935 (Silverdale, Nth Auckland)
[son of Joseph and Elizabeth Vipond nee Anderson]
3 Five VIPOND children: Harold; Herbert Leigh; Hannah; Alice Mary and Mark.
Charlotte Sophia PITTMAN b.6Aug1823 (1819) (London); em.1842 on The New York Packet arriving Auckland 9May1842; m.17Oct1842 (St Pauls, Auckland) [122]; d.1May1911 (Auckland) "The oldest identity of Matakana" [1215] They stayed in Auckland for 10 years then lived at Matakana from 1852 to 1907. Managed the Post Office at Matakana "for many years" 2
Ida Marjorie SMITH b.30Sep1889 & d.01Oct1889 (Matakana) 3
