10. 1885 Mrs Jane Fairburn Allot 3 

Jane Fairburn’s land sold in 1885. She had initially tried to sell her land in 1880, but her husband’s will required that she could not legally sell her land because ‘...she may survive all her descendants’, (9 May 1880 New Zealand Herald). Very confusing! While contesting the will in Court, her death in1884, released the right to her daughter to subdivide the land and sell.

Jane was the third wife of W T Fairburn who was the carpenter for the first CMS missionaries in Northland. He had benefitted by being one of the earliest settlers in New Zealand who could buy land directly from Mā

Mori. His purchases were so extensive that as a lay preacher of the Christian faith, the amount of land he owned was perceived as being unwarranted. The Fairburn’s had subdivided a portion of their land, Section 7 Allotment 5 that ran down into the Gully prior to his death in 1859.