ANDERSON, Hubert Glover
Born 16 November 1888; died 1 December 1918; buried 2 December 1918; age 30
Hubert Glover ANDERSON was born in Ashburton in 1888, the youngest of the family of eight of Irishwoman Martha née SATCHWELL and her husband Thomas Anderson. Marrying in 1871 his parents had four boys and four girls, from 1872 to 1888.
After leaving school, Hubert trained as a tailor’s cutter. Hs name appears on the electoral roll for the first time in 1914 when he was resident in Spenser Street, Milton, and his occupation was ‘tailor’. He worked at Stewart’s Manchester House and was an active member of the local branch of the YMCA, serving for some time on its management board [i]. In 1916, he was called up for the reserve roll for military service and still resident in Milton (source NZ Gazette).
In 1917 both Hubert’s mother Martha and his uncle (her brother), Ralph Satchwell, died. Hubert inherited from Ralph a freehold house at 190 Lichfield Street, Christchurch. His sister, Martha DENHAM and her husband, Henry Denham, a warder, lived there.
By August 1918 Hubert had left the South Island and moved to Wellington, where he had found board and lodgings at ‘Thornleigh’, 49 Boulcott Street. Thornleigh was a large boarding establishment, owned and run by a Mrs Hill and her three sisters. They accommodated forty boarders, and employed four staff who worked in the house along with Mrs Hill and her sisters. Thornleigh advertised itself as providing ‘first class accommodation for tourists, travellers and boarders’.
Hubert made his will on 13 August 1918, In Wellington, and appointed his Denham brother-in-law as one executor and John William FERGUSON, a friend, as the other. The will was witnessed by a ‘Thornleigh’ resident. In it, Hubert left his Lichfield Street house to his sister Martha; his savings in his post office savings account, and the proceeds of his war bonds and life insurance policy he allocated in different proportions among four of his siblings, and a friend, John Ferguson, the other executor.
Hubert died at Thornleigh on 1 December 1918, a single man with no mother, wife or children to mourn his passing. He was buried in Karori Cemetery the next day; a notice appeared in the Death column of the Evening Post on 3rd December:
ANDERSON—On the Ist December, 1918, at “Thornleigh" Boulcott-street, Wellington, Hubert Glover, youngest son of the late Thomas and Martha Anderson, and nephew of the late Ralph Satchwell, of 190, Lichfield-street Christchurch. Deeply regretted.
Whoever registered Hubert’s death spelt his name as Herbert, an understandable mistake as the informant was likely to have been a friend or casual acquaintance. His death therefore appears on the BDM online database as Herbert Anderson. It is however spelt correctly in the Karori Cemetery records.
One of his sisters, Esther Mary BARR of 190 Barbadoes Street in Christchurch, met his funeral and burial costs in 1920.
Hubert’s family inserted memorial notices in the Press on 1 December 1919:
ANDERSON—In sad and loving memory of Hubert Glover Anderson, who died at Wellington on December 1st 1918; also of his mother and uncle, who died 1917.
A precious one from us is gone,
A voice we loved is stilled;
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
God in his wisdom has recalled
The boon his love had given;
And though the body lingers here,
The soul is safe in heaven.
This verse was inscribed on the headstone which continues to adorn Hubert’s grave in the Anglican section of Karori Cemetery, 100 years later.
In 1921 another In Memoriam notice appeared in the Press, but thereafter Hubert disappeared from the collective memory of everyone other than his siblings:
ANDERSON—In loving memory of Hubert Glover Anderson, who died at Wellington on December Ist 1918; also of his mother and uncle, who died 1917. Gone, but not forgotten. —lnserted by sisters and brothers.
Researched and written by Jenny Robertson
Grave Information:
Section: CH ENG2
Plot: 161 E
[i] Bruce Herald 12 December 1918 p5.
Born 16 November 1888; died 1 December 1918; buried 2 December 1918; age 30
Hubert Glover ANDERSON was born in Ashburton in 1888, the youngest of the family of eight of Irishwoman Martha née SATCHWELL and her husband Thomas Anderson. Marrying in 1871 his parents had four boys and four girls, from 1872 to 1888.
After leaving school, Hubert trained as a tailor’s cutter. Hs name appears on the electoral roll for the first time in 1914 when he was resident in Spenser Street, Milton, and his occupation was ‘tailor’. He worked at Stewart’s Manchester House and was an active member of the local branch of the YMCA, serving for some time on its management board [i]. In 1916, he was called up for the reserve roll for military service and still resident in Milton (source NZ Gazette).
In 1917 both Hubert’s mother Martha and his uncle (her brother), Ralph Satchwell, died. Hubert inherited from Ralph a freehold house at 190 Lichfield Street, Christchurch. His sister, Martha DENHAM and her husband, Henry Denham, a warder, lived there.
By August 1918 Hubert had left the South Island and moved to Wellington, where he had found board and lodgings at ‘Thornleigh’, 49 Boulcott Street. Thornleigh was a large boarding establishment, owned and run by a Mrs Hill and her three sisters. They accommodated forty boarders, and employed four staff who worked in the house along with Mrs Hill and her sisters. Thornleigh advertised itself as providing ‘first class accommodation for tourists, travellers and boarders’.
Hubert made his will on 13 August 1918, In Wellington, and appointed his Denham brother-in-law as one executor and John William FERGUSON, a friend, as the other. The will was witnessed by a ‘Thornleigh’ resident. In it, Hubert left his Lichfield Street house to his sister Martha; his savings in his post office savings account, and the proceeds of his war bonds and life insurance policy he allocated in different proportions among four of his siblings, and a friend, John Ferguson, the other executor.
Hubert died at Thornleigh on 1 December 1918, a single man with no mother, wife or children to mourn his passing. He was buried in Karori Cemetery the next day; a notice appeared in the Death column of the Evening Post on 3rd December:
ANDERSON—On the Ist December, 1918, at “Thornleigh" Boulcott-street, Wellington, Hubert Glover, youngest son of the late Thomas and Martha Anderson, and nephew of the late Ralph Satchwell, of 190, Lichfield-street Christchurch. Deeply regretted.
Whoever registered Hubert’s death spelt his name as Herbert, an understandable mistake as the informant was likely to have been a friend or casual acquaintance. His death therefore appears on the BDM online database as Herbert Anderson. It is however spelt correctly in the Karori Cemetery records.
One of his sisters, Esther Mary BARR of 190 Barbadoes Street in Christchurch, met his funeral and burial costs in 1920.
Hubert’s family inserted memorial notices in the Press on 1 December 1919:
ANDERSON—In sad and loving memory of Hubert Glover Anderson, who died at Wellington on December 1st 1918; also of his mother and uncle, who died 1917.
A precious one from us is gone,
A voice we loved is stilled;
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
God in his wisdom has recalled
The boon his love had given;
And though the body lingers here,
The soul is safe in heaven.
This verse was inscribed on the headstone which continues to adorn Hubert’s grave in the Anglican section of Karori Cemetery, 100 years later.
In 1921 another In Memoriam notice appeared in the Press, but thereafter Hubert disappeared from the collective memory of everyone other than his siblings:
ANDERSON—In loving memory of Hubert Glover Anderson, who died at Wellington on December Ist 1918; also of his mother and uncle, who died 1917. Gone, but not forgotten. —lnserted by sisters and brothers.
Researched and written by Jenny Robertson
Grave Information:
Section: CH ENG2
Plot: 161 E
[i] Bruce Herald 12 December 1918 p5.