Anthony Wilson Armistead (1852 - 1931)

Born Apr 1852 in Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom

Husband of Sarah (Hall) Armistead — married 2 Jan 1879 (to before 1900) in Prahran, Victoria, Australia

Husband of Emma Chestine (Kjoller) Armistead — married 1901 in New Zealand

Descendants

Died 1 Oct 1931 at age 79 in Kohukohu, Auckland, New Zealand

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Biography

Anthony was born in 1853. He passed away in 1931. ^[1]

• Fact: Burial Broadwood Cemetery , Kaitaia, Far North District, Northland, New Zealand

Sources

1. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Barbra Walker.

• Anthony Wilson Armistead (1853-1931) on Find A Grave: Memorial #109785751 retrieved 17 February 2019
• Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 1, 9 October 1931, Page 5, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NORAG19311009.2.25

Anthony is the youngest son of Wilson Armistead a wealthy industrialist once residing at Virginia House, Leeds. His contribution to that city had been forgotten until recently when a university student rediscovered it and wrote her thesis on Wilson's life. As a result, the city of Leeds commemorated Wilson with a statue. Wilson inherited a mustard plantation and processing industry from his father (or father-in-law) which he further developed and later sold to Colman's. The Armisteads were also oil merchants very early in the development of that industry. Wilson devoted much of his time promoting through lectures the abolition of slavery which had been outlawed in England about 1807 but was still practised in many of her far flung colonies and in North America. He wrote at least two books on the subject. Another first for Wilson was the development of Scotland's first salmon hatchery and the distribution of smelt to many countries including New Zealand. He also penned books and pamphlets on the topic of habitat preservation for salmon and trout for the sport Fisher. Whether Anthony s first visit to NZ was related to these ventures I have not yet discovered but certainly when his brother John Joseph inherited that aspect of the business on the death of Wilson, J J Armistead made repeated journeys to NZ. Tony seems to have been a free agent here earning the comment from my Great Aunt Nola that "Tony was never in want of money." The elder (now passed ) family all remembered uncle Tony as a gentleman.