There is a marriage notice from 1871, recorded by one Waldo Heap:
MARRIAGE NOTICES.
Russell, Hokianga, Waimate, Whangarei, Awhitu, Mahurangi, Auckland
Seward B. Guptill, 30, R.7, M. 1871, Harriet Ann Selina Shepherd, 16.
This was several years before Simon Guptill arrived in 1882, so who was Seward and what happened to his descendants? He would have been born around 1841. Why did he marry a 16-year-old?
He was the son of Thomas Holland Guptill and Emily Dinsmore, who were married in 1830 and whose son Seward was born in 1840 in Cherryfield, Washington County, Maine. He was a cousin of Stillman, Simon’s dad.
He died a few months later on 16 January 1872 in Auckland.
His ancestors were:
Seward > Thomas Holland > William > John > Nathaniel > Thomas
Does anyone have further information about him?
