Hi

I was wondering if during your search for information on the Firth family and the Te Aute store if you had come across any mention of a bakery in Te Aute.  

My family were the Hydes from Te Aute who had a bakery on 'Te Aute hill?' The building is still standing just off the road however it is now a house and the only part of the original bakery left standing is a large chimney.  Our family has always known that George Hyde built a bakery there from pit sawn timber milled locally and then gifted it to his son Percy George Hyde, however there is no mention of a bakery in the Opening the gate book or any of the local history records.  So its very hard to prove it actually existed.  I have the school records for Te Aute School when it first opened and George and Emily Hydes (nee Bishop) children are registered in 1889 as being enrolled there so I know they lived in Te Aute.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how I would find out about other shops and businesses in the Te Aute area?

Lesley

From: Jan
To: Lesley
Subject: Te Aute Bakery


Hi Lesley, I haven't got any information on the Te Aute bakery or the Hyde family but I will forward your email on to Rosheen down at the Museum and see if she can find anything down there.

Otherwise we'll try putting it on the website and see if anyone else knows anything. Hopefully something will turn up

Regards

Jan

From: Lesley
To: Jan
Subject: Te Aute Bakery

Hi Jan

Thanks for that. Please let me know if Rosheen requires any more info from me.  I'd love to find out more. 

Lesley

From: CHB Settlers Museum
To: Jan & Lesley
Subject: Hydes/Te Aute Bakery

Hi Jan & Lesley

Sorry to say that I can find no confirmation of the bakery at Te Aute.

In my Otane notes I did find a quote "notice given to the Otane town board of the transfer of the house and bakers shop [Lot 140] from Mr P G Hyde to Mr A H Bull" 1926.

Also Bob Logan's little Otane booklet briefly mentions "Hide" as it is spelled in the book as one of the bakeries in the town.

So it would seem the family moved from Te Aute to Otane. Sorry I haven't been able to find more.

Regards

Rosheen

From: Jan
To: Lesley
Subject: Hydes/Te Aute Bakery

Hi Lesley,

You've probably got Rosheen’s email by now.

I found it quite interesting that she has found reference to the Hydes in Otane.

It just happens I work out at Otane and know of a few people out there who are fairly interested in Otane past and present so I have printed off your enquiry and I might drop in and see them after school to see if they can find out anything more about the Hydes and their bakery in Otane.

I haven't given up on the Te Aute end of it either. I tried ringing an old friend the other day whose family has lived in Te Aute region like for ever -and she also helped to compile the Opening Gate book. I thought she might be able to shed some light on the bakery - but unfortunately she seemed to be out.

I'm going to be fairly busy this weekend delivering statues for an exhibition up to Hamilton so I might have to follow that up sometime next week.

We'll just have to wait and see what turns up

Jan

From: Lesley
To: Jan & CHB Settlers Museum
Subject: Hydes/Te Aute Bakery

Hi to you both

Thank you for your time and effort.  I realise it will be no mean feat trying to find the Hyde Bakery in Te Aute. 

The only info I have that they resided in Te Aute is a copy of the certificate of title for the Kakewahine No.1A block.  The deed says that the land was transferred from George Hyde to Percy George Hyde in 1934.  However although I know that there was a bakery there, there is no mention of it anywhere. 

I know another Hyde child had a bakery in Ormondville.  They seemed to be a family of bakers.

I also have confirmation that Percy George Hyde had a bakery in Otane in 1911 as the Coronation Day photo I have has the bakery in the background with P G Hyde General store and bakery on it.  It was on the corner of Atkinson Rd? and the main road through Otane.  My Grandmother Myrtle Hyde was born there in 1906. 

I have such a lot of info that I have been passed down from my grandmother, and also collected during my visits to the Hawkes Bay. 

I have the school roll from inaugural 1889 year from Te Aute school and the black page that shows how many straps each child got.  The Hyde chldren are on the roll and black page.  I know George and Emily Hyde lived in Te Aute from the 1880s as my Grandmother said that when they came to Te Aute George Hyde had to fell and pitsaw his own timber to build the original house.  He built it himself and then decades later built another house in front of it.  That is the house that stands there today.  However old stories aren’t proof. 
Thanks again for your time. 

Let me know if you would like copies of the info on Te Aute that I have.

Lesley

From: Jan
To: Lesley
Subject: Hydes/Te Aute Bakery

Hi Lesley,

Just got home and feel a little exhausted after driving all the way to Hamilton and back, plus setting up statues for exhibition all in a day - but thought I would write back and say YES - I would love copies of the info you have. All information adds to the story  and perhaps something amongst your info will spark a memory from someone else who reads it... and they might contribute something.

I struck out on finding the Otnae people I was going to talk to yesterday being at home - but I am sure they can add to the Otane part of your family history, so I’ll try again sometime next week.

Anyway - as I said before - I'm pretty tired. So I think I might go and blob out for a while... Get back to you when I know more

Jan