Alfred Richard Creyke [SEP] date of death
Alfred Richard Creyke
Alfred Richard Creyke JP (1 September 1831 – 30 November 1892) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Canterbury, New Zealand. He was a significant landholder in Canterbury. Of English descent, he spent just over ten years in the colony before returning home.
Early life.
Creyke was the son of the Rev.d Stephen Creyke, vicar of Okeover, which is located north-east of Ashbourne on the boundary of Staffordshire and Derbyshire, England. His father was later archdeacon of York
Master of the Freemasons in Canterbury.
Death and commemoration.
Watts-Russell died after a short and severe illness on 2 April 1875 in Christchurch. He is buried in the Upper Riccarton church graveyard.
His wife's sister died only four months later, and Elizabeth left for England, never to return to New Zealand. In 1877 the widow married Alfred Richard Creyke, who had worked for her first husband as a station manager. After Creyke died in 1893, she arranged for the western porch of the ChristChurch