William Andrew (Anglim) Anglem (abt. 1804 - 1846)

Born about 17 Sep 1804 in Ireland

Husband of Te Anau Kāi Tahu — married 1828 in Sydney, Colony of New South Wales

Descendants

Died Nov 1846 at about age 42 in Stewart Island, Southland, New Zealand

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Biography

William Anglem was baptised on 17 September 1804 at Saint Michael's in Limerick city, son of James Anglem and Mary Roberts.^[1] He received a Roman Catholic education.^[2]

According to Joss family legend, James Joass arrived to New Zealand with the Captain as a first mate,^[3] probably no earlier than 1823. By 1829 Captain Anglem was master of Bunn & Co's whaler Caroline, also servicing their base at Preservation Inlet, and transferred to the command of the Weller brothers' Joseph Weller in 1834.^[2] In July that year he 'enticed' Otago leader Karetai (grandson of Ihupupu^[4]) onboard the Lucy Ann and set sail for Sydney, taking them as hostages^[5] to prevent an attack on the station from Taiaroa's warriors.^[2]

Anglem married Te Anau in Sydney, where their second daughter Elizabeth was born. On 27 June 1835, in Sydney, Anglem joined the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland.^[6] He and his wife settled at The Neck, Stewart Island in 1835, and supplied produce and beef to visiting whalers. He also piloted vessels through the strait.

An unsuccessful venture to ship bowenite (kōkōtangiwai; what they thought was pounamu) from Milford Sound (Piopiotahi) to Qing dynasty China was marred by a blasting accident which cost the Captain an eye and several fingers.^[2] He passed away in November 1846. He is known to be buried somewhere at The Neck.^[2][7]

It was his chart and sailing directions for Foveaux Strait that led Captain Stokes of the survey ship Acheron to rename Hananui, Stewart Island's (Rakiura's) highest peak, to Mt Anglem in his honour in 1850.^[2]

Research Notes

From 1738 it was prohibited for Roman Catholics to associate with Freemasonry.^[8][9]

Had at least five children. Stevens (2008) noted that the Captain may have had an association with a woman named Hutu^[10] – this would seem to be a name of his son's wife, Mary Hutu Woods.

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915 > Limerick > St Michael´s, Limerick city > 1803-1807 [database on-line]: Image. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Original data: Catholic Parish Registers, Microfilm 02415 / 02, National Library of Ireland, Ireland.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Church, Ian. (abt. 1998) Thomson, Jane (ed.) Southern People: A Dictionary of Otago Southland Biography. Longacre Press, 9 Dowling Street, Dunedin, New Zealand in association with the Dunedin City Council. Page 10. Condensed National Library version: Anglem, William Andrew, 1800?-1846.
3. ↑ Howard, Basil (1940). Rakiura (Stewart Island, New Zealand). Facsimile edition printed 1974 by Kyodo Printing Company Ltd, Tokyo. Pages 84, 93–98. Personal copy in collection of Stephanie Gilroy.
4. ↑ Tūhawaiki (1843) Shortland, Edward (ed., Jun 1851); The Southern Districts of New Zealand; A Journal, with Passing Notices of the Customs of the Aborigines. Paternoster Row: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans. Chapter V. Table F, unpaginated (between pp. 94 and 95).
5. ↑ Stevens, Dr Michael J; Standfield, Dr Rachel (21 Dec 2021). “Picturing” Kāi Tahu in 1830’s Poihākena: A Preliminary Sketch. Te Karaka. Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu.
6. ↑ Ancestry.com. Ireland, Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland Membership Registers, 1733-1923, 1760-1859 (Volume II) [database on-line]: Image. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Freemasons of Ireland Membership Registers. The Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images, memorial page for CPT William Andrew “Harry” Anglem (unknown–1846), Find A Grave: Memorial #200909491 (accessed 29 November 2023), citing The Neck, Stewart Island, Southland District, Southland, New Zealand; Maintained by Maureen (New Zealand) (contributor 48738063).
8. ↑ Pope Clement XII (1738). In Eminenti. Papal Bull Dealing with the Condemnation of Freemasonry.
9. ↑ Pope Leo XII (1826). Quo Graviora. On Secret Societies.
10. ↑ Stevens, Kate (2008). 'Gathering Places': The Mixed Descent Families of Foveaux Strait and Rakiura/Stewart Island, 1824-1864 Page 106. Citing
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    • Howard, 90-93;
    • Ruapuke Registers Vol. 1, 19 (Entry 256), 23 (Entry 301), 21 (Entry 278), 25 (Entry 327), 27 (Entry 363B), 29 (Entry 384), 30 (Entry 399), 34 (Entry 443) and 36 (Entry 4 72);
    • Ruapuke Registers Vol. 4, Miscellaneous Births, Baptisms, Deaths, Marriages, 1844-1885, 20 (Entry 9) and 29 (Entry 79), HL;
    • OASES Database, OSM;
    • Case files- Addenda [William Andrew Anglem, Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island] (OLC 1 Box 72 OLC 19A), ANZW.

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