Frederick Joseph Arlidge ³

   Cause of his death was Myocardial Degeneration (heart attack) - 5 years.

  General Notes:

Frederick Joseph was the eldest child and eldest son of the family of Frederick Jacob and Mary Sutherland Arlidge. He was born in 1862 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Circa 1888 he left the family home at 11 Clyde Street, in the suburb of Roslyn, because of hardship at home with the large family of 10 children to cater for. He went to Akaroa, Banks Peninsular, Canterbury, to scythe wheat for a French friend, receiving seven shillings (7/-) and a plug of tobacco a week for payment.
He eventually made his way up to Waipukurau in the North Island where he first acted as a stable-boy grooming and harnessing horses for Bailey, the local butcher, who also ran a coach service. In addition, he helped in the back of the butcher's shop.
On 24 May 1899 at the age of 36, in the house of Gaythorn Hardy in Hastings, he married Ellen Hiorns, aged 23, the daughter of John and Mary Hiorns of Waimate, South Canterbury. The newly-wedded couple went to Petone in the Hutt Valley, close to Wellington, where Fred got work with the New Zealand Government Railways Department. On 31 May 1900, their first son Colin was born at Petone, but only eight years later the lad died after an acute attack of peritonitis and was buried in the Karori Cemetery, Wellington. Grandfather Frederick Jacob kept in close touch by mail, sending on one occasion several poems for Ellen to teach the young Colin, poems he himself had learned as a young boy. During this time other sons of the Dunedin family drifted to the North Island and would stay with Fred and Nellie at Petone.
During World War I, Fred and Nellie moved to Waimate to look after Nellie's father John, Fred finding work as the occasion offered. When work became scarce in the South Island, Fred returned on his own to Waipukurau, Nellie rejoining him in time for the peace celebrations in 1918. Here they stayed, living at 5 Hinemoa Terrace till the end of their days, Fred dying of a fatal heart attack in 1944.

The material for this account of Frederick Joseph's life (edited by A.S.A.), was obviously supplied by John (Jack) Frederick Arlidge, since the original version refers to Frederick Joseph as 'Dad'.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Labourer, 1899, Hastings, New Zealand.

• Occupation: Civil Servant, 1944, Waipukarau, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

Frederick married Ellen Hiorns, daughter of John Hiorns and Mary Unknown, on 24 May 1899 in Hastings, New Zealand (home of Gaythorn Hardy). (Ellen Hiorns was born in 1876.)