Arthur Hope, Esq. of Timaru

While researching the family of Samuel Hope, I found a cousin who left England to start a sheep farm in New Zealand.

So, it turns out that the Hopes have lots of family and sheep down under. Plus, a few artists in the Hope family.

Arthur Hope, Esq. of Timaru – Canterbury, New Zealand was listed in Burke’s Colonial Gentry. Arthur Hope was born at Seaforth House, Lancaster, England in 1853. He immigrated to New Zealand and became a sheep farmer with a large estate of 87,000 acres with 24,000 sheep!

In 1882, he married Frances Emily Tripp of Christchurch, New Zealand.

Timaru is a port city in the southern Canterbury region of New Zealand, located 157 kilometres southwest of Christchurch and about 196 kilometres northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island.
Sheep in New ZealandSheep farming has been crucial in the development of New Zealand’s economy, and for 130 years was the most important agricultural industry. British navigator James Cook brought sheep to New Zealand in 1773 and 1777.

How many sheep are there in New Zealand?

There used to be 22 sheep for every person in NZ. Now the latest statistics from Beef and Lamb NZ show it has fallen to about six to one, or about 27 million sheep.
(Jan 20, 2017)

New Zealand sheep numbers peaked in 1982, with a total of 70.3 million sheep. In the same year, 3.18 million people lived in New Zealand. This works out to 22 sheep per person. (archive.stats.govt.nz)

Birthplace of Arthur Hope

Seaforth House, Lancaster, England

Seaforth House was a mansion in Seaforth, Merseyside England built in 1813 for Sir John Gladstone, father of William Ewart Gladstone who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom four times. (wikipedia.org)
In 1882, Arthur Hope married Frances Emily Tripp in 1882. Read the published wedding notice…

Wednesday, Aug 30, 1882
Hope : Tripp Wedding – On the 25th July, at Woodbury, New Zealand, by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Christchurch, Arthur, third son of Thomas Arthur Hope, of Stanton, Bebington, Cheshire, to Frances, eldest daughter of Charles George Tripp, of Orari Gorge, Canterbury, New Zealand. (source: The Times)

Bebington is a small town 5 miles south of Liverpool.

Arthur Hope, my 2nd cousin 4x removed, was descended from the Hope family of Liverpool – via the lineage of Samuel Hope.

This entry illustrates that the Hope family scattered about the british colonies – from Australia, to Canada and New Zealand. Hope relatives are also found throughout Mexico and the United States.

Listed in Burke’s Colonial Gentry

Arthur Hope, Esq. of Kaurunui, Timaru, and of Richmond Station, Mackenzie Country, Canterbury, New Zealand, born at Seaforth House, Seaforth, co. Lancaster, England, 26th September, 1853; married at St. Thomas’s Church, Woodbury, Geraldine, New Zealand, 25th July 1882, Frances Emily, daughter of Charles George Tripp, Esq. of Orari Gorge, Woodbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, J.P., barrister-at-law of Lincoln’s Inn, by Ellen Shephard, his wife, third daughter of the Most Rev. Henry John Chitty Harper, Lord Bishop of Christchruch, Caterbury, New Zealand, and Primate of New Zealand, and by her (who was born at Bisho[‘s Court, Christchurch, Canterbury, 24th March, 1861) has issue,
(see the list of children)

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry by Bernard Burke, p253.

Hope Family Tree

Arthur Hope 1853–1935 (81 years)
BIRTH 26 SEP 1853 • Seaforth, Lancashire, England
DEATH 1 APR 1935 • Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
2nd cousin 4x removed

Spouse
Frances Emily Tripp 1861–1950 (89 years)

Children
(related as 3rd cousin 3x removed)

Henry Norman Hope 1883–1961
Sheep farmer and land owner in New Zealand
m. Esther Studholme Barker

Edith Mary Hope 1884–1967
m. Charles Montague Ormsby

Owen Morley Hope 1886–1960
Civil Engineer in New Zealand
m. Minnie Dorothea Kate Steele

Selwyn Peter Hope 1889–
Property owner and trustee in England
m. Cecile Palmer Chapman

Roma Hope 1890–1918
m. Drummond Cospatrick Hamilton Spencer-Smith

Frances Vera Hope 1898–1980
m. Thomas Francis Northcote, Lieutenant

Arthur “Tom” Howard Hope 1903–
Sheep farmer in New Zealand
m. Gladys Margaret Wilder Ormond

Probate

HOPE, Arthur of Tumanako Timaru New Zealand died 1 April 1935 Probate Timaru to Henry Norman Hope sheep farmer, Francis Joseph Rolleston solicitor and George Palmer Chapman law clerk.

Effects £35981 18s. 1d. in England.
Resworn £36672 7s. 4d. Sealed London 24 July 1935.

Apparently, his vast property was passed on to eldest his son, Henry Hope, a sheep farmer in New Zealand.

Artists in the Family

A great-grandson, Henry Hope, was a farmer and artist. Henry is my 5th cousin 1x removed. Here is some background information from his artist bio:

Henry Hope was born and raised in rural South Canterbury and brought up on a farm in the South Island foothills. He studied graphic design in Christchurch and then went on to study fine art at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London. Upon returning to New Zealand in the early 1980’s he took up farming for a time but was always painting in his spare time.

Henry began painting landscapes full time in the late 1980’s always in oils on canvas or board. In 1990 he won the Birkenhead Art Award at the Auckland Society of Arts. In the 1990’s several of Henry’s paintings were featured by the Giesen brothers on their wine labels.

Henry’s main artistic influences have been, locally: his grandmother Esther Hope the well known water colorist, Austen Deans and Sydney Thompson.

Bio of Henry Hope
http://yorkstreetgallery.com/henry-hope