My family is descended from John Gee and Louisa Reeve. Their son John Gee married Sophia Wild in Melbourne, Australia and emigrated to New Zealand shortly after their marriage. John Gee was a butcher like his father, but was a publican and hotel owner for the majority of his adult life. He owned The Pyramid Hotel en route to the goldfields, and established the township of Riversdale, Northern Southland when he saw that the railway being established from Gore to Lumsden would not pass Pyramid. I have extensively researched the Gee family in Australia and New Zealand for 20 years.