Rees, Cecil Walter

Christ Church''s Web Site
2 REES Agnes Matilda
2 REES Cecil Walter
2a REES Charles Gilbert
2a REES Emily Grace
2a REES Stewart

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By ship Walter Peak Station is only 13 km from Queenstown. If you try to get there by road you must drive south via Lumsden, then west to Mossburn and turn onto a gravel road (Mt. Nicolas Road) near The Key. This is 124 km! The station has had a special lease for 30 years since 1998. The agreement limits the number of stock that can graze the area (3180 sheep including not more than 1360 breeding ewes and 1500 cattle including not more than 910 breeding cows). The agreement includes the tourism activities.

Walter Peak Station and adjoining Cecil Peak Station are named after the mountains with the same names, and those again are named after Cecil Walter Rees, the son of William Gilbert Rees. William Gilbert Rees was the first settler of Queenstown and had a sheep run at the place where the township of Queenstown is now. Cecil Peak is 1974 metres high and Walter Peak slightly lower.

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Birth details
1862/2691, Cecil Walter Rees - no parents details listed

Marriage Details
1907/2852, Bride: Agnes Matilda McDowall, Groom: Cecil Walter Rees - Date of Marriage 6/2/1907 from Marriage Registration

Could not see a Marriage Notice in online searchable newspapers

Death details
1948/31037, Cecil Walter Rees, 86Y - Date of Death 20/7/1948 from Death Registration

Hutt Valley Cemetery Record Cecil Walter Rees, Date: 20/7/1948, Christ Church Anglican, Taita, Burial & Monumental Inscriptions, Reference: 4

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Could not see death registration for Agnes Matilda Rees

Hutt Valley Cemetery Record Agnes Matilda Rees, Date: 4/9/1955, Christ Church Anglican, Taita, Burial & Monumental Inscriptions, Reference: 4


Christ Church Cemetery Headstone Reads
In Loving Memory
OF
CHARLES GILBERT REES
DIED OCT. 21. 1909.
AGED 39
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THY WILL BE DONE
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Headstone as base
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
STEWART REES
BELOVED HUSBAND OF GRACE
DIED 12TH OCT. 1976 AGED 68 YEARS
EMILY GRACE REES
BELOVED WIFE OF STEWART
DIED 14TH MAY 1994 AGED 85 YEARS
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Headstone to Right
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
CECIL WALTERS REES
DIED 20TH JULY 1948 AGED 86 YEARS
AGNES MATILDA REES
DIED 4TH SEPT 1955 AGED 87 YEARS