When Elizabeth Mitchell Bassett was born in 1839, in Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Captain David Bassett, was 30 and her mother, Anne Frazer, was 28. She married John Udy on 12 July 1858, in Greytown, South Wairarapa, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 20 June 1917, in Greytown, South Wairarapa, New Zealand, at the age of 78, and was buried in Greytown Cemetery, Greytown, South Wairarapa, New Zealand.
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The Maori sign the Treaty of Waitangi giving control to the British in exchange for protection and guaranteed Maori possession of their lands.
Greytown was first settled on 27 March 1854 under the Small Farms Association Settlement Scheme and was named after Governor Sir George Grey, who arranged for the land to be bought from local Māori. It became a Borough in 1878 and a ward of the South Wairarapa District Council in 1989.
The First Taranaki War was an armed conflict between the Māori people and the New Zealand Government over rights of land ownership. It was fought by more than 3,500 troops from Australia, as well as over one-thousand Māori. Total losses among the two armies are estimated to be around 440 men. The war ended in a ceasefire, although the British claimed that they had won the war.,
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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