Marley, Crawford, c. 1813-1896 (Person)

No 1.: As a ten-year-old, he went to watch the 'first railway engine started by George Stephenson between Darlington and Stockton', being brought from Newcastle by horse and wagon. Joseph Stephenson, asked a few boys to help fill the locomotive's boiler by transporting buckets from a nearby farmhouse, and their reward was a trip on the train, making them 'the first passengers on the first public railway' in England.

Career: 'Railway works, engineering and colliery works' in the north of England.

Tauranga: Moving for health reasons from Darlington in 1881, he settled with his wife and daughter in Tauranga. Spending about 15 years there before dying, aged 83, of an illness.

His New Zealand Herald obituary described how he 'devoted himself almost entirely to horticultural pursuits, and his flower garden was one of the sights of the town, especially his gladiolas, of which had had a rare assortment, mostly brought from Home.'