Francis ( Frank) Hart Vicesimus Guinness

02/09/1819 — 17/07/1891
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Richard Guinness
Arthur Guinness 1725 — 1803
Hosea Guinness 1764 — 1841
Francis ( Frank) Hart Vicesimus Guinness 1819 — 1891
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Catherine Marian Richardson 1819 — 1891   Arthur Robert Guinness 1846 — 1913   Edwin Rowland Guinness (Sen.) Guinness 1847 — 1930   John Clephane Guinness 1850 — 1904   Frank Hart Guinness 1851 — 1885   Benjamin Michael Valentine Guinness 1852 — 1920   Catherine Mary Guinness 1856 — 1921   Emily Jane Guinness 1864 — 1932  

Francis ( Frank) Hart Vicesimus Guinness


Son of Hosea Guinness and Jane Hart. .

Born in 1819, the fifty-ninth year of the reign of King George III, and died aged seventy-one in the fifty-fourth year of the reign of Queen Victoria  He has 162 direct descendants in the family.

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Francis Hart Vicesimus Guinness JP was born on 2 September 1819 in Dublin, his father, Rev Hosea Guinness, was 54 and his mother, Jane Hart, was 43. He left Ireland as a young man and settled briefly in Patna, India where he met and married Catherine Marian Richardson on 16 November 1844 , the daughter of Christopher Rowland Richardson.The couple left India for better prospects in New Zealand. They departed Calcutta on 15th Jan 1852 on the schooner Joseph Manook, via Perth and Adelaide. The departed Adelaide to Melbourne on the Athenian, where they stayed for 10 weeks before the final leg of the voyage on the Tory to Lyttleton New Zealand. Frank secured land rights in NZ, but farming was not is forte, He became a farm equipment merchant , police inspector , JP and magistrate.They had seven children in 18 years. He died on 18 July 1891 in Wellington, Wellington, at the age of 71, and was buried in Linwood, Canterbury with this wife Catherine Marion( nee Richardson daughter of Christopher Rowland Richardson) and son Benjamin.

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