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Charles and Hannah had 13 children: Charles (1838–1903), Frederick (1839–1905, married Anne Jane
Sutcliffe), Elizabeth (1840–1912, married Thomas Boyes), Henry (1842–1866), Ellen (1844–1845), Edward (1845–1845), Walter (1846–1911), Thirza Ann (1849–1929, married Robert William Skilton), Edmund (1851–1923, married Annie Morris), Emily (1853–1923), Jessie (1855–1904), Arthur William (1857–1946, married Eliza Jane Wilson), and Horace (1859–1867).
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Motueka as a man who had become moderately wealthy. A newspaper obituary describes him as having "retained his mental faculties till the last".
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