They then moved to Collingwood and lived near the present school. The newly married Addisons took up a dairy farm at Lower Rockville, (now owned by Brewer and Flowers) where they stayed until they were burnt out in 1904. He married Eveline Cook, the daughter of William and Susannah Cook (nee Horton) on 29 January 1902, in the Cook's residence at Bainham. William John Addison, known as Billy, was packing provisions to Golden Blocks and the Taitapu Estates from about 1901.
Young William was brought up there, along with several of Harriet's children to McGrane. They lived up a lane then known as "Graneys", now Lewis Street Harriet had a boarding house on the corner where the fire station and playground are now, from at least 1881 until she died in 1903. William Addison died shortly afterwards and Harriet remarried Francis McGrane, in Collingwood on 20 September 1877. They were back in Nelson for the birth of their son, William John Addison, in Selwyn Place on 11 July 1876. He married Harriet Emma Rowland there on 30 July 1875. He continued to live there until 1872, when he went to Wanganui. 175 on the western corner of the Collingwood and Bridge Street intersection, living in a four roomed wooden cottage, built in 1867. He emigrated to Nelson, via Melbourne, on the "Otago" under Captain Symons, arriving in Nelson on the 14 September 1867.
He was born on 10 December 1852 in Brunswick Place, Preston, England. William Addison was the son of Thomas and Betsey Addison. It comprises 784 acres between the south end of the inlet and the coast, and is accessed by way of Te Hapu Road. The land taken up by William John Addison is known as Te Hapu. Very little real development, other than the goldfields, occurred south of the inlet prior to the early 1900s, and certainly no farming had been done. All of these coastal lands were heavily timbered country, except for some occasional flax areas near the coast, and there would be a difficult breaking in period, when there would be little or no return from the land. The Addisons and other settlers moved in a few years later. Nicholls, Punipawa and Cowin Brothers at Sandhills Creek. By 1911, the settlers in the area were J. In April 1909, the Taitapu Estates advertised that they had cut up a large area of their lands at West Wanganui and freehold land was offered for sale, in acres to suit purchasers. Between 10 000 and 12 000 acres of magnificent sheep country, coastal land between the West Wanganui Inlet and Sandhills Creek. In April 1890, the Taitapu Gold Estates was offering land for selection.
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