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Oct 01, 1843 County Limerick, Munster, Ireland Died on 09 Nov 1903 (aged 60)
Surveyor, geologist
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About Laurence Cussen
- Laurence Cussen (1 October 1843 – 9 November 1903) was a pioneering surveyor and geologist.
- He was born in Rockhill, two kilometres southwest of Bruree County Limerick, Ireland on 1 October 1843, to John Sandes Cussen and Catherine Carroll.
- He was educated at St Stanislaus College Jesuit school at Tullabeg, Co.
- Offaly. He worked for a time with the East India Company before moving to New Zealand.
- William Cussen his brother, also worked as a surveyor, and both of them played some rugby while in Auckland.
- From 1876 he spent 15 years triangulating a large part of the former Auckland Province.
- He published many research papers including early documentation of Maori people and was a member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.He died at home in Hamilton in November 1903 after a short illness, and was buried in Hamilton West Cemetery.
- He was survived by 8 of his 10 children and his widow.
- One of his sons, Jack, lived at Ruapuke and, from 1927 till his death in 1950, at nearby Te Mata.
