Mary Ann Meredith emigrated with her husband (The Joneses) on the Fifeshire, the first settlers sailing ship into Nelson in 1842. James, a seaman arrived in 1854. They wed in 1855, becoming the third settler family in Tuamarina, In late 1870 they relocated to Foxton, Then farmed in Rongotea area. They moved to Auroa in 1892.