They had four of their children in England before boarding the ship, Elizabeth on route to Australia and New Zealand upon the glowing recommendation of Rev.
He was a stone mason by trade, and helped build the wharf at Kerikeri in the late 1830s.
He owned land at Kerikeri, where he built a stone house for his family, now known as the Edmonds Ruins.
After Mary Anne's death, Edmonds would marry widow, Ellen Davies (née Hunter) with whom he had two children together.
John Samuel's children were: Amateur genealogists tend to mix up many aspects of John Samuel's family tree from changing his mother's maiden name from Edmonds to Edmunds (his parents have a mutual ancestor), to mixing up his first wife Marianne's surname with Strickland (she is a Stickland) and with her niece's date of birth making her much younger than her husband, to added children that did not exist including Lucy, Rebecca and Robert George (to his second wife Ellen).