About Harriet Heron
Lived 1836 – 1933 (aged 96–97). Harriet Heron was a businessperson.
Harriet Ann Heron (née Buttress, 1836 – 28 October 1933) was an early settler and business owner in Central Otago, New Zealand, and one of the few women who lived in gold mining camps during the Otago gold rush.
Early life Heron grew up in Deal, Kent, England, the daughter of Thomas Buttress and Elizabeth Buttress, née Carraway. She married William Bowbyes and they emigrated to New Zealand. Bowbyes drowned at Timaru in 1860, and in the following year she married Henry Heron and moved to Dunedin. The cottage is maintained by Heritage New Zealand and known locally as "Mrs Heron's Cottage." The Commercial Hotel is now used for backpackers' accommodation.
Heron died in 1933.
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New Zealand settler and business owner
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Harriet Heron was born in 1836 in Deal.
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Harriet Heron died on 28 October 1933.
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