Name, date and place of birth and death from “Horneman Family History 1605 to 2006” CD, Chapter 8.0.

Notes, written by Frederick Edward Horneman in his Bible, were received in an email dated 20 May 2017 from Julie Bourke and include:

Our Son Charles Wynford Greenwood Horneman was born at Motueka in the district of Nelson New Zealand on Sunday the 2nd of December 1855 7 o’clock am. He was registered at St Thomas Motueka on the 10 December following. He was christened at Motueka on Sunday 3rd February 1856 by the Revd Thomas Lloyd Tudor.
His Godfathers’ were
1. Major Charles Manners Gascoyne 5th Regt Bengal Light Cavalry: his eldest son Frederick stood proxy for him
(There is a thick bold pen stroke throughout each letter of the above making it almost unreadable – Godfather has the s crossed out were crossed out and was written in)
2. John D. Greenwood Esq J.P. of Motueka
His Godmothers’ were
1. Mrs Gascoyne, wife of Major Gascoyne
(again there is a thick bold stroke through each letter of the above)
2. Mrs Fred Green of Ellingham
He is named Charles, after the Major (again a thick bold stroke through each letter) Wynford after his father’s valued friend Lady Wynford wife of the Right Honourable Lord Wynford & Greenwood after his Godfather.
? Octo 1872
Had I known Major Gascoyne’s character his name never should have disgraced the pages of my Family Bible, I therefore declare my dear Son “Charles”- to be named after my dear old friend Charles Lewis Esq late of Somerset House of the “Leander”.

Note: Mrs Fred Green wife of Revd Green, Pauline Anne Green/Horneman sister to Frederick Edward Horneman.
Greenwood and Gascoyne, pioneering families in the Motueka district
Isabella Campbell left England for India. In India she married Charles Gascoyne, nine children were born in India, they decided to emigrate to N.Z. but Isabella’s health was not good so she returned to England and Charles went ahead to N.Z., Motueka, with the children and a governess. When Isabella joined her family in Motueka she found the governess had taken over the household and Charles’s heart, and a power struggle and scandal developed.
See book ‘Strangerland – A Family at War’ by Helena Drysdale. The son Frederick who stood proxy served in the N.Z. Colonial Forces and also the Armed Constabulary, he also became a Major. He was for some time Resident Magistrate and Government Officer of the Chatham Islands.