Louisa, wife of William Graham Rhind.
Louisa was born in 1857. Her parents Arthur Harvey and his wife Emma Vernon seem to have bounced backwards and forwards from England to the colonies. The couple were married in Ealing, London in 1854. Several children were born in London before Louisa was born in Queensland. Her brother Herbert was born in Sydney in 1858 before the family returned to London in the early 1860s.
Arthur appears to have followed his silk merchant farmer into trade and most of his siblings were merchants also.
The family returned to Australia in the early 1870s and settled in Adelaide. Arthur came representing a number of other capitalists with a scheme to build a land-grant railway across the continent to Port Darwin. This did not proceed and instead he became a land and mining speculator.
In 1883 Louisa married William Graham Rhind in Dunedin. He was the inspector for the Bank of NSW. Her father’s residence at the time was noted as Medindie, NSW.
William died aged 53 in 1898 at their home on The Terrace and was interred in Karori. Arthur Harvey while visiting his daughter on a trip from Adelaide died at her Thorndon Quay home in 1902. He was interred at Karori Cemetery in plot Ch Eng/N/49.
Louisa and her children Elizabeth (known as Betty) went to live in England in 1911. The trip was intended for Betty to further her art studies. Presumably the war delayed their return until 1919 when they settle back in Wellington. Betty became an art teacher at Samuel Marsden College.
Louisa died in 1935 at her home in Coutts Street, Kilbirnie.
Ch Eng/N/49
Louisa Rhind nee Harvey
Rhind Plot
