Thomas Ritchie II

Thomas Ritchie II b. Downpatrick 5 Jul 1843 d. New Plymouth 25 May 1934 m. 5 Feb 1891 Adelaide Australia to Mary Dobbs b. 1855 Ballyshallon County Donegal		Victoria (Ngarangi) Grinnell b. 15 Jul 1868 d. 1894 mother Mirimata (Hariata) Kawhe, (Harriet Grinnell)
		Wikitoria Hough b. abt 1880 Chatham Islands d. 16 Jul 1966 m. 03 Apr 1904 Chatham Is to Robert Edward Paynter mother Irihapeti Parekaiuru Kaawhe (Betty Hough)
		Ephia Jack Coffee Hough b. 1882 Chatham Islands d. 1954 mother Irihapeti Parekaiuru Kaawhe (Betty Hough)
		Francis Mary Ritchie b. 24 Feb 1892 d. New Plymouth 19?
		John Ritchie II b. 7 Mar 1894 Chatham Island NZ m. 21 Jan 1927 to Isabel Graham b. 5 Nov 1903
		Eliza Johnston (Lydie) Ritchie b. 09 Nov 1896 Chatham Island NZ d. New Plymouth 19?
		Dorothy Hutton Ritchie b. 04 Jul 1898 Chatham Island NZ m. to Leslie Shandley
		Rose Hinemoa Ritchie b. 29 Oct 1903 Chatham Island NZ d. Auckland 15 Oct 1999 m. to John Swann

Thomas Ritchie II arrived in Lyttelton on the Lancashire Witch, 15/10/1863 and he and his brother, Robert, who had arrived about nine months earlier, worked for their cousin at Hall, Ritchie & Co. in Lyttelton. They farmed on the Chatham Islands. Thomas was there from 1864 till 1923.

E R Chudleigh's Diary references to Thomas Ritchie
Chudleigh writes "Of all the bad men I have met in my life, North Irish comprise nine out of ten and to my knowledge I have never yet met a good North Irish man…"