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Alfred Walter Money
From England he came, and a year after Alfred Walter Money immigrated, he is recorded as leasing the land that now makes up 250 Kilmore. The current house was built by Money 22 years after he first leased the land and he maintained ownership for half a century. He died, aged 81 yrs after he fell from a tram car.
Money arrived in Canterbury from England aged 29 years, and was initially hired as the second bank messenger of the Union Bank of Australia. A bygone job, a bank messenger, was 'in charge of cashing paper assets.' The Union Bank, was 'a careful conservative business house and was able to restr
"Young Money could do almost anything but work"
John Hall, a local resident
Alftred & Annie
Two years later, in January 1861, Money married Ann Elizabeth Vinnicombe Roberts at Saint Michael’s Church in Christchurch.
Saint Michael’s Church cira 1861
Alfred Walter Money
"Young Money could do almost anything but work"
From England he came, and a year after Alfred Walter Money immigrated, he is recorded as leasing the land that now makes up 250 Kilmore. The current house was built by Money 22 years after he first leased the land and he maintained ownership for half a century.
Money arrived in Canterbury from England aged 29 years, and was initially hired as the second bank messenger of the Union Bank of Australia. A bygone job, a bank messenger, was 'in charge of cashing paper assets.'
The Union Bank, see 1885 drawing below, was 'a careful conservative business house and was able to restrict its clientele to the prosperous, respectable and reliable' .
John Hall, a local resident, recorded his misgivings about Alfred in a letter; "Young Money could do almost anything but work. I fear he will never do any good."
Despite John Hall's misgivings, Money had plenty of ideas and the ability to turn them into action....
Aged thirty years, Money opened the 'Canterbury livery, bait, and commission stables' in Market Place, now called Victoria Square. A 'livery and bait stable' refers to a business that provides stabling and food for horses, and sometime hire of carriages.
Two years later, in January 1861, Money married Ann Elizabeth Vinnicombe Roberts at Saint Michael’s Church in Christchurch.
George MacDonald, early settler researcher, notes Money was a "sporting man and a good rider and he soon made a name for himself and was very popular" His famous horse ‘Rob Roy’ he won the Lottery Plate at the Canterbury Jockey Club meeting in 1861.
Twenty two years after he first acquired the land, Money likely constructed the dwelling in 1881 on Town Reserve 170 as an investment property with the intention of leasing it to tenants.
Money retained ownership of 250 until a fall from a tramcar, aged 81, in September 1909 that resulted in his death - obituary.
Following Money's death, the property, then numbered 35 Kilmore, was offered for sale and described in the Lyttelton Times newspaper at this time as;
"a compact little property situated on corner of Kilmore Street and Carter's Lane, let to a good tenant. The house consists of five large rooms, three fire places, a good hall, scullery, pantry, washhouse with copper, large shed, gas laid on, a wide verandah, asphalt paths, a good iron fence, and sewer connections".
Money’s estate accounts indicate that the property sold for £250 to Frederick White a 'lamplighter', a person employed to light and maintain candle or, later, gas street lights.
A bequest of £500 was received by the District Nurses Association in December 1909 from the executors of the late Alfred Money, and was reported in the Lyttelton Times May 1910.
Money's wife, Ann, died less than a year after Money, aged 76.
Extensive notes on Alfred have been recorded by early settler researcher, George MacDonald in 1952-1964 (see notes) and more recently by local historian and writer, Stephen Symons (see notes).
In 1910 the property was numbered 250 Kilmore and many owners have come and gone since then....
- 1859- 1909 (50 years) Alfred Walter Money
- 1911-1914 - (3 years) Frederick White - lamplighter
- 1922 – 1930 - (8 years) John Preece, gentleman - owner, leased to: James Adol Black - telegrapher, Mathesion - plumber and Joseph Tully - compositor
- 1931-1942 - (11 years) Mary Le Page, Page 1 spinster was the owner
- "short time" - Dorothy Robinson
- Annie Rouse - ?
- 1947-1981 - (34 years) Arnold Bott, Coal Merchant
- 1985-1986 (11 months) William Ernest Owen - Company Director
- 1986 - (immediate transfer) Roger Joseph Crozier, Sales Representative
- 1986-1989 (4 years)- Bruce David McLean, Importer
- 1989-2002 (13 years) - Keith Preen - Fireman
- 2002-2016 - (14 years) Jonathan William Rout and Morrin Jackson Rout
- 2016-present - (6 years) Simone Rewa Pearson & Joe Tonner
