Samuel was the 4th of 13 known children of Joseph Cheney Bolton (1819-1901) & Emma Higginbotham (1927-1871) who married in Gorbals, Lanarkshire on 25 April 1850
* His father was a merchant .. KER, BOLTON & CO., East India Merchants, 7 East India Avenue, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C., and 27 West George Street, Glasgow. Present Principals: Robert Johnston. Paterson, James Whiteford Murray, Charles Spence Weir, James Graham and James Murray Beattie. Branches: Singapore and Bangkok; Batavia, Sourabaya, and Samarang; Manila, Iloilo and Cebu. Business: Foreign Merchants, Export and Import. Telephones: No. 1422 (P.O.) Central, London; No. 759 (Royal), Glasgow. Telegraphic Address: Macmicking, London; Bolton, Glasgow. He was also a Liberal Party Politician

Samuel appears at this time, to be the only one to come to New Zealand. He was married to Mary Susan Hindmarsh in St John's Cathedral, Napier on 27 April 1881, by Dr the Right Rev Edward Craig Stuart, D.D. Lord Bishop of Waiapu (1827-1917), perhaps why their first son has Stuart as a middle name. It was a double wedding with her sister Florence Eliza Hindmarsh (1856-1934) who married Edward Gilbertson.
their children
* 1882 - 1945 Agnes Mary Hindmarsh Bolton
. married Albert Edwin Joseph Beetham (Westmoreland), died Masterton
* 1883 - 1962 Felix Stuart Hindmarsh Bolton
. married Eileen Margaret Shute, died Palmerston North
* 1885 - 1960 Frances Emma Hindmarsh Bolton
. married Wilfred Turner, died Hastings
* 1887 - 1964 Muriel Edith Hindmarsh Bolton
. married Harold Richmond Wardell Beetham, died Palmerston North
* 1889 - 1971 Ethel Sophia Hindmarsh Bolton
. married Trevor Beaumont Wardell Beetham, died Masterton
* 1890 - 1942 Joseph Cheney Hindmarsh Bolton (+Abercrombie +Snodgrass)
. farmer of 'Waipuna' near Woodville, died Woodville
* 1892 - 1962 Marie Louise Hindmarsh 'Lulu' Bolton (+Robertshaw +Coghill)
. attended the school of Miss Swainson in Thorndon, Wellington, 1901
* 1894 - 1969 Kathleen Maud Hindmarsh Bolton (+Grant)
. married Noel Gordon Grant, died Auckland
* 1896 - 1937 Beatrix Helena Hindmarsh Bolton (+Druce)
. married Oscar Herbert Druce in 1916
* 1898 - 1981 Margaret Gwendoline Hindmarsh Bolton (+McPhail)
. moved to West Australia, died in Albany
* 1900 - 1975 Eileen Sylvia Hindmarsh Bolton
. married Harry Chrystie Wells, buried Tirau

Pahiatua Herald, 19 Aug 1933
A Life Of Service Remarkable Public Career
Suddenly, unexpectedly and quite peacefully last night at his residence 'Oete', there passed away the district's foremost identity, a man whose public spirit, generosity and keen intellect never dimmed with the failing years but remained until the last, a driving force, an unexcelled example and a by-word with all who knew - the late Mr Samuel Bolton. With a deep sense of very real loss it was learned, late last night, that Mr Bolton, at the age of 77 years, after a life fully filled with public activity, had died (just as he would have wished) in harness, so to speak.
The late Mr Bolton last evening, in Woodville, attended the annual meeting of the Woodville District Jockey Club, of which body he has been president for the past 33 years. At last night;s meeting he was again returned to office and, the business over, the deceased set out for home in his car, complaining at the time that he did not feel very well. His health for several years had not been of the best but latterly he seemed in his usual spirits. His condition when he reached home last night, however, necessitated the summoning of Dr H. T. Dawson, from Pahiatua, but Mr Bolton passed peacefully away about 10.30 p.m.
The deceased gentleman was born on October 21st 1856, at Castlemilk, Lanarkshire, Scotland, He was the third son of the late Mr Joseph Cheney Bolton of Carbrook, Larbert, Sterlingshire, Scotland. He was educated at Rugby and on leaving school joined the firm of Ker, Bolton and Co., which had offices in London, Glasgow and Manila (in the Philippine Islands). For several years he was in the London and Manila offices. As a young man he came to New Zealand on the sailing ship 'High Flier' landing at Dunedin where he remained for a time. He went then to the Wairarapa as representative of the firm of Murray Roberts, but after a while took up land in Hawke's Bay at Mangututu. At the end of six or seven years farming in the Bay he removed, in 1889, to Woodville and took over the 'Oete' homestead at Kohinui where he had remained ever since.
The deceased held a wonderful record of public service, a record that may never again be even approached here. Primarily, perhaps, he was known for his long and honourable association with the Pahiatua County Council, first of all as a member for the Kohinui Riding over the remarkable period of forty-odd years. In May of this year at its last annual meeting, hte late Mr Bolton declined re-nomination as chairman of the Pahiatua County and accepted instead office as deputy to Cr. A. W. Bisset. Just prior to his demise he was the only surviving original member of the New Zealand Counties Association which was instituted in about the year 1903. He was, in addition, honorary auditor for the Association. Through his connection with the Pahiatua County Council the deceased was a member of the No 10 District Highways Council (covering the North and South Wairarapa areas), representing the local County on that body since its inception. He was a member too for very many years of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on which he did great service for the district. He was in fact, one of the Hospital Board's original members. When the Tararua Electric Power Board was formed several years ago the late Mr Bolton was elected as a member and had held office ever since, being a member of the Board's very important Finance Committee. Since its inauguration the deceased gentleman had been a member of that flourishing Club, the Woodville District Jockey Club and the popular President for the past 33 years.
His last public meeting was the annual gathering of the Club last night where the members did not hesitate to return their old chairman in whose capable hands the reins of office had rested for so long. In addition, he was a member of the Carnival Park Domain Board from the time it came into being: a member of the Pahiatua A. and P. Association; Pahiatua branch of the Farmers Union; Pahiatua Horticultural and Industrial Society; patron of the Mangatainoka Amateur Athletic Society, an original member and present patron of the Woodville A. and P. Association. For forty years now, ever since there was a school committee at Kohinui, the late Mr Bolton had been its chairman and secretary. At the time of his death he was patron of the Woodville Bowling Club and a vice-president of various sporting and other organisations. For years he was chairman of director of the North Tiraumea Dairy Co., having relinquished that position only a season or two ago. He still remained on the directorate, however. Thirty years ago the Kohinui Domain was gazetted as such and the deceased was its chairman each year, without exception. He was also the President of the Pahiatua Club Incorporated at the time of his passing.

This grand old man was a stalwart of St Mark's Anglican Church at Mangatainoka and was Vicar's Warden and treasurer for years. He held the rank of Major in the Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifle Volunteers and was first Captain of the Pahiatua Mounted Rifle Volunteers. He had been a director of Messrs Abraham and Williams since it ws first formed into a limited liability company thirty years ago and a director of the Co-operative Dairy Producers Freezing Co., Ltd. He was senior proprietor and managing-director of the Pahiatua Herald CO., Ltd., and esteemed as one of the kindliest and most considerate of employers.
The deceased gentleman (who was a Justic of the Peace) took a keen interest in politics and was a staunch and generous supporter of the Reform Party. He unsuccessfully contested the Pahiatua seat himself on more than one occasion, the contests, however, being close.

The late Mr Bolton married Mary Susan, daughter of the late Mr J. Hindmarsh of Napier and is survived by the widow, two sons and nine daughters, forty-four grandchildren and one great-grand-child. The sons are Messrs Felix S. H. Bolton 'Oete' and Joseph Cheney Bolton, Woodville. The daughters, all of whom are married are Mesdames Albert Beetham (Masterton), Wilfred Turner (Puketitiri, Hawke's Bay), Harold Beetham (Masterton), Trevor Beetham (Masterton), G. Coghill (Wanganui), Noel Grant (Palmerston North), E. H. Druce (Kumeroa), D. C. McPhail (Western Australia) and C. H. Wells (Gisborne).
The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon (Sunday) leaving 'Oete' at 2.30 o'clock for the Woodville Cemetery.
The Municipal flag was flown half-mast to-day in memory of the late Mr Bolton.

NOTE Of INTEREST Oete Farm, Patumahoe, is now NZ's biggest Goat Farm, founded by Matthew Ian Hindmarsh 'Matt' Bolton (1976-2023) and probably run with the help of other descendants of this family