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Provincial Government immediately despatched Lewis, accompanied by a cadet named Christopher Maling, to investigate whether Travers's route really would offer an easy alternative route to the Grey Valley. They set out on 21 March 1860, followed Travers's directions to the river they supposed to
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had been instructed by Chief
Tarapuhi Te Kaukihi that the Maruia Plain was a central point which communicated with the north, east and west coasts. Upon reaching the Maruia Plain from Nelson, a traveller could either continue following the Maruia through Cannibal Gorge which gave access to the
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by crossing several low passes. Travers believed that the Grey, like the Wairau, took its source from the
Spenser Mountains, and when he found an easy access to a stream which he believed to be the headwaters of the Grey, he returned and reported his findings to the Nelson Government.
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be the Grey, but on travelling down the gorge they found that the river was in fact the Maruia. Retracing their steps back up what they now realised was
Cannibal's Gorge, they discovered a pass from the Upper Maruia to a new river, which was later named the Lewis.
154:. They dissolved the partnership a year later in November 1857, and Lewis continued his practice until he took up a position with the Nelson Provincial survey department. By May 1860, he was one of two assistant surveyors working under the chief surveyor
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in Golden Bay. He farmed the land with his sons for many years until he retired and moved back to Nelson. He died at the age of 76 in 1889. Susan died fourteen years later in 1903 at the age of 89.
135:. They had emigrated to Australia as a first choice, and had probably lived there for a year or more. They had another child that November, and their youngest child was born two years later.
146:. By November 1856, he had entered into a partnership with surveyor and civil engineer John William Gay Beauchamp. Lewis was based on Brook Street in Nelson and Beauchamp was based at
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In the 1851 census Lewis was given as living at Water End Farm with his wife Susana (Susan) and their four children, the oldest of which was five. Susan was originally from
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In 1866, Henry and Susan's second eldest daughter, Eleanor, married Arthur Dudley Dobson of
Canterbury. He was the eldest living son of Canterbury's Provincial Engineer
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Because the Maruia Plain was easier to access from Nelson by the Buller than by the Wairau, Travers's route was of no real use at the time. But because the
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After settling in Brook Street in Nelson, Lewis advertised his services as a land surveyor. Over the next year, he picked up contracts for the
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Expeditions: the Journeys of John Rochfort, James Mackay and Julius Haast to the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand, 1859–60
170:. The main focus for discovering an overland route through the mountainous region that separated Nelson and the West Coast was via the
299:"England Births and Christenings, 1538–1975: Henry Lewis; citing Bobbingworth, Essex, England, reference 2; FHL microfilm 1,702,147"
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Plain on the East Coast, or follow the Ruhu Creek over easy pass to the Upper Grey on the West Coast.
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Jonathan and Amelia Lewis. He was christened at
343:"England and Wales Census, 1851: Search Results for Henry Lewis; residence Essex"
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along with his private work, such as surveying Native Reserves in the
676:"Report on the Sources of the Waiau-ua, Buller, and Grey Rivers"
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604:. Vol. XVI, no. 2107. 21 September 1906. p. 2
836:. Vol. XXII, no. 201. 29 December 1873. p. 3
624:"Exploration of the Heads of the Wai-au-ua and Grey Rivers"
867:. Vol. XXIII, no. 171. 8 August 1889. p. 2
543:. Vol. XVI, no. 67. 18 November 1857. p. 2
758:. Vol. X, no. 956. 23 November 1866. p. 2
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453:. Vol. XIV, no. 71. 1 December 1855. p. 2
682:. Vol. III, no. 263. 27 April 1860. p. 3
383:. Vol. XIV, no. 41. 18 August 1855. p. 2
810:. Vol. VII, no. 5. 5 January 1872. p. 3
656:. Vol. XIX, no. 25. 28 March 1860. p. 2
630:. Vol. XIX, no. 21. 14 March 1860. p. 2
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714:"Exploration for a Road to the West Coast"
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599:"First Discoveries of Gold in N.Z."
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1001:English emigrants to New Zealand
131:as steerage passengers on the
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140:Nelson Provincial Government
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951:Pedersen, Marcus (2017).
377:"Shipping Intelligence"
162:Discovery of Lewis Pass
119:Surveyor in New Zealand
75:Discovery of Lewis Pass
174:and its tributary the
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1006:New Zealand explorers
650:"Provincial Council"
250:Later life and death
236:Arthur Dudley Dobson
991:New Zealand farmers
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226:to the West Coast.
218:gave access to the
67:Farmer and surveyor
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962:978-0-473-40254-9
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216:Lewis River
133:Marchioness
90:Henry Lewis
83:Susan Lewis
59:New Zealand
56:Nationality
22:Henry Lewis
975:Categories
910:References
887:"Obituary"
859:"Obituary"
240:Haast Pass
228:Lewis Pass
224:Canterbury
220:Hope River
168:West Coast
152:Golden Bay
108:in Essex.
96:Early life
129:Melbourne
148:Motupipi
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178:to the
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189:Hanmer
176:Maruia
172:Buller
125:Nelson
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