Husband William Milligan
Born: 1 Sep 1846 - Belfast, Ireland
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Died: 6 Oct 1927 - Invercargill
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Marriage: 10 Jun 1873 - residence bride's parents, Thorndale, Kaiapoi by Rev William McGregor
Wife Elizabeth Brundell
AKA: Eliza
Born: 5 Mar 1853 - St Albans, Christchurch
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Died: 24 Sep 1928 - Invercargill
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1 F Florence Daisy Milligan
AKA: Daisy
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Spouse: George Onslow Browne (1888-1965)
Marr: 19 Aug 1914
General Notes for Child Florence Daisy Milligan
25 years member of the Victoria Memorial Home Trust Board, sec 1952-60; vice pres 1960-61, pres 1964-67, since 1967 on the exec
Gene Bryce
Husband Gene Bryce
Born: Jul 1969
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Father: Peter Bryce (1949- )
Mother: Jennifer Aicken (1950- )
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James Bryson and Mary Ann Hastings
Husband James Bryson
Born: 1853 ?
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Marriage: 28 Mar 1882 - home of Rev J Ferguson, Invercargill
Wife Mary Ann Hastings
Born: 1865
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Father: John Hastings (1825-1909)
Mother: Ann Bradnock (1829-1906)
General Notes (Husband)
engine driver
Anthony Bulman and Ethel Alice Matthews
Husband Anthony Bulman
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Marriage: 10 Jul 1907 - Invercargill
Wife Ethel Alice Matthews
Born: 15 Jul 1881 - Queenstown
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Died: 8 Jul 1931 - Thames
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Father: Richard John Matthews (1839-1901)
Mother: Caroline Elizabeth McCrystal (1862-1942)
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1 F Edith Bulman
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2 M Eric Bulman
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3 M Robert Bulman
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at Seacliff hospital 14 July to 14 Oct 1911
Oram and Edith Bulman
Husband Oram
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Wife Edith Bulman
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Father: Anthony Bulman ( - )
Mother: Ethel Alice Matthews (1881-1931)
Eric Bulman
Husband Eric Bulman
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Father: Anthony Bulman ( - )
Mother: Ethel Alice Matthews (1881-1931)
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Robert Bulman
Husband Robert Bulman
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Father: Anthony Bulman ( - )
Mother: Ethel Alice Matthews (1881-1931)
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Ray Caird and Janice Helen Hall
Husband Ray Caird
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Marriage: Dec 1968 - Christchurch
Wife Janice Helen Hall
Born: 15 Nov 1944 - Invercargill
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Father: Thomas Richard Hall (1901- )
Mother: Helen Tocker ( - )
Bob Campbell and Dorothy Margaret McCrystall
Husband Bob Campbell
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Marriage: 26 Jan 1950 - Registrar, Palmerston North
Wife Dorothy Margaret McCrystall
AKA: Dot
Born: 17 Nov 1921 - Riverton
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Died: Dec 1999? - Woodville
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Father: Arthur McCrystall (1872-1954)
Mother: Annie Stuart (1882-1944)
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1 M George Campbell
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Grant William Tuffery and Christine Mary Campbell
Husband Grant William Tuffery
Born: 4 May 1967
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Father: Douglas George Tuffery (1942- )
Mother: Kyra Marlene Cox (1944- )
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Wife Christine Mary Campbell
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1 F Tuffery
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George Campbell
Husband George Campbell
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Father: Bob Campbell ( - )
Mother: Dorothy Margaret McCrystall (1921-1999)
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Darrell Carnie
Husband Darrell Carnie
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Father: Gordon Carnie ( - )
Mother: Morna Hunt ( -Bef 1980)
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Gordon Carnie and Morna Hunt
Husband Gordon Carnie
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Wife Morna Hunt
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Father: George Lott Hunt (1887-Bef 1980)
Mother: Hannah Dawson (1893-1980)
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1 M Darrell Carnie
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Richard Matthews and Alice Catchpole
Husband Richard Matthews
Born: 18 Jun 1813 - Norwich, England
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Died: 21 Apr 1863 - Auckland
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Marriage: 2 Feb 1843 - Paihia
Wife Alice Catchpole
Born: 3 Oct 1819 - Norwich, England
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Died: 24 Jun 1878 - Invercargill
Buried: 26 Jun 1878 - St Johns Cemetery, Waikiwi, with son (Block 7, Lot 7)
Children
1 M Richard John Matthews
Born: 11 Sep 1839 - Norwich, England
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Died: 1 Sep 1901 - Invercargill
Buried: 3 Sep 1901 - St Johns Cemetery, Waikiwi (Block 7, Lot 7)
Spouse: Caroline Elizabeth McCrystal (1862-1942)
Marr: 27 Sep 1880 - Oamaru, St Lukes Church of England
General Notes (Husband)
surgeon
General Notes for Child Richard John Matthews
came to NZ about 1842 with his mother and lived at the Hokianga until moving to Auckland in the 'Victoria' arriving 13 Jan 1846
solicitor Auckland, Thames, Invercargill
The Murder Trial
Sources: NZ Herald and Truth newspapers (see images)
Day 1, Tues 8 Feb 1921
Trial opened Supreme Court, Christchurch, Tues 8 Feb 1921 re death of Clarence Edward Wagstaffe (shot), 19 years old of Timaru, Oct 27, 1920.
Reginald Matthews " a short, thick-set youth" [he was 28 years old] was charged with his murder, pleaded not guilty, defended by Mr C S Thomas. Prosecution Mr A T Donnelly, Acting Crown Prosecutor. Jury trial before Mr Justice Herdman.
Wagstaffe lived with his parents in Seaview Terrace, Timaru. A friend (Clifford Knapp, a boarder at the house) and he, saw a prowler that evening, they pursued him, and the prowler "fired three shots at close range"
Mr Donnelly for the Crown opened the case, testimony from Mary Long and Madeline Reed, Bessie Parr, Constable J Smith, Clifford Knapp, Dr Gibson who did the post-mortem. [Much of the evidence appears to have been circumstantial] Matthews had recently been a seaman on the steamer the Waipori under the name Reginald Irving. Had been arrested at Lyttelton on the interislander the Maori, had with him an automatic pistol with which he resisted police. "The man identified by Knapp was about 5 8 and a heavier man. The only resemblance lay in the fact that both had smashed noses" A detective said he had known the step father, who he described as a "determined character, slightly addicted to drink"
Matthews had posted a parcel to his mother at the "White House", Taihape.
During the first day, Mr Thomas "in the course of cross-examination, announced that the defence would be a plea of insanity"
Day 2, Wed 9 Feb
Case for the Crown concluded, and Mr Thomas began for the defence. He said "he hoped to be able to prove conclusively that Matthews was insane"
"He proposed to lead evidence regarding the accused's hereditary history and his personal history. Both were most extraordinary"
The father was a "drunken waster" and "of intemperate sexual habits" and had veneral disease when he married Caroline. "His habits toward his wife and children were almost incredibly inhuman" A brother of the father, a solicitor, was struck off the rol because he stole and embezzled.. "Another was a paralytic, and another was committed as an epileptic to the Avondale asylum at age 25, died there at 42. Another brother called Frederick died in the lunatic asylum [probably the same person].
Thomas said "on the mother's side there was a frightful history" The grandfather was a doctor, a clever man, but "an habitual drunkard, and while in the East formed the habit of taking morphia". He died of a morphia overdose. The grandmother was also "unfortunate", "for a year or two she would be normal, and then she would suddenly take to drink...so bad at times she suffered from delirium tremens." A first cousin Mrs Manson was committed to Seacliff, and another committed suicide, another eccentic, and a "half-sister of the mother was an inmate of a farm institution at Invercargill"
Counsel said "the result of the union between these two unfortunate families was just what one would expect". The mother's eldest daughter had been at Seacliff, and was "a hopeless case" "A brother Clarence, began to show signs of abnormality at 16 or 17" and later got out a gun, shot at a man, and was committed to Seacliff. "He was there for a very short time and then disappeared". An infant of the family aged 5 months was "an idiot child". "He [the accused] was born probably predisposed to insanity"
Dr Crosbie from Sunnyside and Dr McKillop from Seacliff would say "they had not the slightest doubt that Matthews was suffering from paranoic insanity, with sexual and persecutory delusions, as well as being a well-defined epileptic".
The mother, from Taihape, gave evidence, and said her first husband frequently threatened to kill her. He died from drink. "Witness referred to accused's views on sexual matters and ascribed his alleged indecent actions to an internal weakness"
From Truth newspaper:
Headline "Family Record of Feeble-Minded Degenerates"
Reginald Matthews had a record of exhibitionism: Aug 1919, public gardens Ch'Ch by a tree with his clothes down - 9 months jail, but broke goal and got out of the country. In Wellington he exposed himself, and later seen with his braces down, "there was epilepsy in the family, the records of which showed vice, crime and insanity"
Caroline stated her first husband was "very bad", "almost constantly drunk", "he used to get up during his bouts on moonlight nights and go about quoting the Bible", "it was quite common for him to go and live in a hotel, leaving her with nothing in the house. She had had thirteen children in all. At times he would be maudlin and childish; at other times he would be violent. He had no sense of responsibility. He frequently struck her. Shortly before accused was born she had a separation order against her husband. He was in the habit of coming round to the house and frightening her. He was of abnormal sexual habits. He died in the hospital from the effects of drink. She was seventeen when she got married. It was not a love match. At the time of the marriage he had not properly recovered from a veneral disease, which she caught necessiating medical attention. . . Her father was Dr McChrystall who took morphia. He died at 50, found dead in his bed...an overdose of morphia. Her mother was addicted to drink. A cousin, Mrs Manson was committed to an asylum after the birth of a child. Another cousin, Donald Barclay became abnormal after getting a kick from a horse, and committed suicide. Another female cousin was eccentric and simple. In her own family witness had a daughter by Matthews who was in Seacliff Mental Hospital. A son Clarence Percival became abnormal after having scarlet fever at 16. He was sent to the asylum. Both the latter had been clever at school. Harold, the eldest boy, and and Eric and Clarence were subject to fits. She had a child who died when five months old which was malformed in the face. The doctor said it was an idiot and it was a good thing it died"
"...She remembered Reginald having a dog [which died]...soon after that he left home and she did not see him for two years...he was somewhat peculiar after coming out of goal..excitable and talked on subjects men don't usually discuss with their mothers...sex matters and girls...Her second husband was very strict with her boys - too much so, she thought. He was too ready to hit them on the head...there was nothing the matter with the children born of the second marriage. Matthews never treated her as a sane man would treat his wife...Reginald had been the kindest of boys...he complained of pains in his head...his head had been hurt in a railway accident having fallen from a train in America...Matthew Robertson, second officer of the Waipori...said Reginald was a good worker...Charles William Harvey, a Christchurch accountant said that as a youth of 12 he had often visited the Matthews home and found them without food. The father was reading the Bible while the family starved. Mrs Matthews had to seek the protection of the police many a time"
"Dr Arthur Crosbie, superintendant of Sunnyside Mental Hospital, examined by Mr Thomas said he considered Matthews to be insane, because he suffered from delusions...Matthews believed he was capable of reforming sexual and social conventions. ...He was thoroughly dissatisfied with the usual restraints in regard to intercourse between the two sexes, or as he called it, false prudery and mother grundyism...he advocated sterpiculture - race improvement on scientific lines...Matthews said that under the surface, the police had a set on him on account of his radical views and because he was opposed to the Government...[he advocated] licensed houses for intercourse...
Dr McKillop from Seacliff spoke about Ethel Bullman, who had been admitted there Jul 14 1911 and discharged in October. Readmitted June 1920 with "acute mania" He had just recently examined her again, there was no prospect of her recovery. Clarence had neen admitted Mar 1909 with "semi-stupor", he tried to shoot someone and to hang himself. He was dull, taciturn, confused.
Drs Gribben and Gray disputed that he was insane.
Matthews was noted as having a hesitancy in speech. He apperars to have have been in goal in America, and suspected of being a "IWW man" [Intl Workers of the World], and connected with "dope fiends"[cocaine]
On Friday 11 Feb, Thomas gave his closing address to the jury, firstly indicating that the evidence was circumstantial only - Matthews bullets had a small scratch, absent from the deceased's bullet. "This was a case which had aroused a great amount of prejudice against prisoner". It was show night in Timaru and consequently "that sort of crowd"; it had been a moonlight night, yet Knapp did not pick the accused. Matthews was a "runt of a man". If they did find him guilty, they must find him insane, "born of diseased parents"
"...a person burdened by hereditary strain was liable to bend under stress." The medical testimony was contradictory, it was up to the jury to decide, "the accused was a mental leper and as long as he was allowed at liberty would be a menace to the community" [note, this is the defence speaking!!!]
Sat Feb 12: Crown address to jury, in summing up, Mr Donnelly for the Crown said, "the whole case of insanity had been broken and discredited..", it was "a plain ordinary case of murder..." Judge summed up, clearly inferring a guilty but sane verdict, the judge noted that Matthews had had three seaman's discharges, all showing he was a good and capable seaman, on the Waipori he had been promoted from able seaman to leading seaman. The jury retired for an hour, guilty and sane, sentence imposed of death by hanging.
The Truth of 26 Feb 1921 reported that Mr Thomas had asked the Minister for Justice to have a further examination made into Matthews mental state, and a petition had been got up in Invercargill seeking a reprieve. Truth called for an abolition of the death penalty.
The Truth of 5 March reported a 1,000 plus public meeting in Christchurch which urged a further re-examination of his mental state; the reprieve petition was being circulated widely. Said Mr D G Sullivan MP "no sane man fighting for his life would laugh while his counsel was addressing the jury", Sullivan drew a harrowing picture of the mother.."Her life had been a tragedy..."
Truth of 12 March reported that the Governor General (Lord Jellicoe) had commuted the death sentence to imprisonment for life, after Cabinet had commissioned another examination, by Drs Hay and Hassall. Both saw him over 5 days at Paparua prison and judged him insane. The Minister of Justice, Mr E P Lee commented that in his opinion, "Matthews will go completely insane and die in comparatively a few years"
Medical Notes for Child Richard John Matthews
buried with his mother, son William Ernest (aged 1), and Ethel May Russell aged 15 (buried 18 May 1883). She is probably a dgter of his sister Alice who married William Russell. Plot purchased by William Russell, Bay Rd, Invercargill
Brown Hunt and Sarah Chamberlain
Husband Brown Hunt
Born: 1828? - South Rauceb, nr Stafford, Lincolnshire, England
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Father: Thomas Hunt ( -1887) 1
Mother: Elizabeth Brown ( - )
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Wife Sarah Chamberlain
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Alan Richard Clarke and Raewyn Peterson
Husband Alan Richard Clarke
Born: 30 Jul 1952
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Father: Gilbert Francis Clarke ( - )
Mother: Frances Jean Browne (1920-1973)
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Wife Raewyn Peterson
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Jeffrey Peter Clarke
Husband Jeffrey Peter Clarke
Born: 13 May 1971 - Invercargill
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Father: Peter Francis Clarke (1948- )
Mother: Kathleen Kelly ( - )
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Matthew James Clarke
Husband Matthew James Clarke
Born: 9 Mar 1973 - Invercargill
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Father: Peter Francis Clarke (1948- )
Mother: Kathleen Kelly ( - )
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Peter Francis Clarke and Kathleen Kelly
Husband Peter Francis Clarke
Born: 25 Feb 1948
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Father: Gilbert Francis Clarke ( - )
Mother: Frances Jean Browne (1920-1973)
Marriage: 19 Apr 1969 - St Thereses, Invercargill, Rev Pearce
Wife Kathleen Kelly
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1 M Jeffrey Peter Clarke
Born: 13 May 1971 - Invercargill
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2 M Matthew James Clarke
Born: 9 Mar 1973 - Invercargill
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Corney and Mary Newlands
Husband Corney
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Father: Newlands ( - )
Mother: Amy Heasman ( - )
John Cortis and Mary Ellis Peters
Husband John Cortis
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Marriage: 27 Dec 1827
Wife Mary Ellis Peters
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Father: William Peters ( -1848)
Mother: Fanny ( - )
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1 M William Peters Cortis
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General Notes for Child William Peters Cortis
of Ferring near Worthing, Sussex, farmer - probate of Henry Peters will was granted to him as nephew
William Peters Cortis
Husband William Peters Cortis
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Mother: Mary Ellis Peters (1800- )
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of Ferring near Worthing, Sussex, farmer - probate of Henry Peters will was granted to him as nephew
Maurice Cory
Husband Maurice Cory
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Father: Maurice Cory ( - )
Mother: Margaret Robson ( -1955)
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Maurice Cory and Margaret Robson
Husband Maurice Cory
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Wife Margaret Robson
Born: 1891? - Waikaia
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Died: 27 Nov 1955 - Picton
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Father: George Robson (1848- )
Mother: Maryann Emma Dapp ( - )
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1 F Verena Cory
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2 F Mavis Cory
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3 M Maurice Cory
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Gilbert Guard and Mavis Cory
Husband Gilbert Guard
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Father: Maurice Cory ( - )
Mother: Margaret Robson ( -1955)
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1 M Boyd Guard
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2 F Dawn Guard
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Verena Cory
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Father: Maurice Cory ( - )
Mother: Margaret Robson ( -1955)
Coutts
Husband Coutts
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Father: Henry Donald Coutts (1866-1944)
Mother: Unknown ( - )
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Medical Notes (Husband)
supposed to have died from injuries on a rugby field in Australia, possibly 1900-1910 (Source: Tui Lundi Robertson)
Coutts
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1 M Donald Coutts
Born: 1827
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Died: - Taranaki?
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Spouse: Ann McKay (1825- )
Marr: 18 Sep or Oct 1856 - Kaiapoi (John Anderson's house) by Rev Frazer
2 M William Coutts
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3 F Isabella Coutts
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Marr: Sep 1865
4 M John? Coutts
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General Notes for Child Donald Coutts
a flourmiller
Cited in Christchurch Militia List 1860, Donald Coutts of Island, Kaiapoi, Farmer
Below, from MacDonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies, Canterbury Museum:
"in making a speech at a farewell function to him he said that he had landed in Canterbury 30 Mar 1851. This was the date of the arrival of the Travancore [Canterbury Assn] and his name appears in the passenger list.
He brought out with him equipment for starting a flour mill and he settled on the Heathcote next to Clarksons Bros R.S. 106 When they were burning off rough growth on their land the fire got away from them and spread into Coutts land and destroyed his house and damaged his mill machinery And a pair of French Burr [imported from outside Paris and considered best by all millers for milling fine flour] mill stones. Isaac….? And …? Wilson assessors found the damage to be £93-18-10 CT 18.3.54
Joseph Clark at the above function said that he and Donald Coutts were pioneeers of Kaiapoi island. Married 18 Sept 1856 at John Anderson's house, Kaiapoi. Anne, dau of Roderick McKay who had worked for C D Torlesse at Fernside and later took up B...? Hill station and in '56 sold it to Torlesse.
Coutts cut a mill race from the Waimak which later carried the main stream of the river. He called his farm Bankhead farm and advertised July 61 that he was giving up farming and was offering his stock for sale. He was one of the principal organisers of the Farmers Club at Kaiapoi. One of their early activities was a ploughing match which he and W H Main took an active part in starting.
He wrote a letter to the Lyttelton Times 14 Feb 1868 after the great flood of that year. He was a judge of horses at the Champion ploughing match held in Ch'Ch. Sept 1870 he was elected a member of the ....? Rd Board. Jan 1871 and again 1873 Kaiapoi island was gazetted an educational district and he was elected chairman and treasurer of the School Committee. May 1872 he was again a judge of the Champion Ploughing match held this time at Riccarton and was a judge of draught horses at the Ch'Ch Show that year.
A farewell dinner was given him at the Kaikanui Hotel Mar 1874, he having determined to settle at Patea, North Island. The chair was taken by Dr Dudley, supported by E G Kerr, Mayor of Kaiapoi and Joseph Keetley, M Dixon, and Joseph Berwick. He said in his speech that he had started the first ploughing match held in Canterbury, it was held in William Boag's Burnside farm. He had spent 7 years on the Heathcote and come to Kaiapoi island in 1858. When he left he held a successful sale of stock and his horses sold particularly well. Joseph Clark, in his speech, said that he gave him 7 years in the North is. They normally come back, he said. After that, sadder and wiser. However, he did not come back. his wife, who was born in Sutherlandshire died at Hawera.
His mill race had given him much trouble and may have been a cause of his leaving. John Anderson made him one of the early side delivery mowers. He moved to Taranaki and bought a good farm ...? at €2 per acre. He had a brother William who was a shepherd on McLeans Station, Ashfield, on the Waimak. He was drowned in the river. He was a quiet religious man and it was considered could not have committed suicide Sept 1865. His sister Isabella married Sept 1865 James Troup a farmer in the Waimak."
General Notes for Child William Coutts
Cited in Christchurch Militia List 1860, address Heathcote river, Laborer
General Notes for Child John? Coutts
A brother? (cited in Christchurch Militia List 1860, address Heathcote River, Laborer)
Donald Coutts and Ann McKay
Husband Donald Coutts
Born: 1827
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Marriage: 18 Sep or Oct 1856 - Kaiapoi (John Anderson's house) by Rev Frazer
Wife Ann McKay
Born: - Stratbig, Sutherland, Scotland
Christened: May 1825
Died: - Hawera
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Father: Roderick McKay (1803- )
Mother: Barbara Gunn ( - )
Children
1 M Henry Donald Coutts
AKA: Hugh
Born: 14 Nov 1866 - Kaiapoi
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Died: 30 Apr 1944 - Wellington
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2 F Jane Coutts
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General Notes (Husband)
a flourmiller
Cited in Christchurch Militia List 1860, Donald Coutts of Island, Kaiapoi, Farmer
Below, from MacDonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies, Canterbury Museum:
"in making a speech at a farewell function to him he said that he had landed in Canterbury 30 Mar 1851. This was the date of the arrival of the Travancore [Canterbury Assn] and his name appears in the passenger list.
He brought out with him equipment for starting a flour mill and he settled on the Heathcote next to Clarksons Bros R.S. 106 When they were burning off rough growth on their land the fire got away from them and spread into Coutts land and destroyed his house and damaged his mill machinery And a pair of French Burr [imported from outside Paris and considered best by all millers for milling fine flour] mill stones. Isaac….? And …? Wilson assessors found the damage to be £93-18-10 CT 18.3.54
Joseph Clark at the above function said that he and Donald Coutts were pioneeers of Kaiapoi island. Married 18 Sept 1856 at John Anderson's house, Kaiapoi. Anne, dau of Roderick McKay who had worked for C D Torlesse at Fernside and later took up B...? Hill station and in '56 sold it to Torlesse.
Coutts cut a mill race from the Waimak which later carried the main stream of the river. He called his farm Bankhead farm and advertised July 61 that he was giving up farming and was offering his stock for sale. He was one of the principal organisers of the Farmers Club at Kaiapoi. One of their early activities was a ploughing match which he and W H Main took an active part in starting.
He wrote a letter to the Lyttelton Times 14 Feb 1868 after the great flood of that year. He was a judge of horses at the Champion ploughing match held in Ch'Ch. Sept 1870 he was elected a member of the ....? Rd Board. Jan 1871 and again 1873 Kaiapoi island was gazetted an educational district and he was elected chairman and treasurer of the School Committee. May 1872 he was again a judge of the Champion Ploughing match held this time at Riccarton and was a judge of draught horses at the Ch'Ch Show that year.
A farewell dinner was given him at the Kaikanui Hotel Mar 1874, he having determined to settle at Patea, North Island. The chair was taken by Dr Dudley, supported by E G Kerr, Mayor of Kaiapoi and Joseph Keetley, M Dixon, and Joseph Berwick. He said in his speech that he had started the first ploughing match held in Canterbury, it was held in William Boag's Burnside farm. He had spent 7 years on the Heathcote and come to Kaiapoi island in 1858. When he left he held a successful sale of stock and his horses sold particularly well. Joseph Clark, in his speech, said that he gave him 7 years in the North is. They normally come back, he said. After that, sadder and wiser. However, he did not come back. his wife, who was born in Sutherlandshire died at Hawera.
His mill race had given him much trouble and may have been a cause of his leaving. John Anderson made him one of the early side delivery mowers. He moved to Taranaki and bought a good farm ...? at €2 per acre. He had a brother William who was a shepherd on McLeans Station, Ashfield, on the Waimak. He was drowned in the river. He was a quiet religious man and it was considered could not have committed suicide Sept 1865. His sister Isabella married Sept 1865 James Troup a farmer in the Waimak."
General Notes (Wife)
photos taken by Ray Matthews:
one taken at Inverness, Scotland reads "this is my own card(?), Ann McKay, victim of a broken heart" and in different writing "two grandsons live in Waimatu(?)", shows woman 20-30 yrs of age (Photographer Smith, High st, Inverness)
the second, of a woman 30-40 years "Ann McKay, mother of Mrs Thomson", taken by Wriggles Worth, Wellington.
General Notes for Child Henry Donald Coutts
farmer at Ngaere, Taranaki
Capt or Trooper Coutts, distinguished in Boer War, receiving khaki scarf hand crocheted by Queen Victoria
The following article appeared in the Christchurch Star of 9 Sept 1978 - this is a transcript of a faint photocopy, there is also an accompanying photograph which is NOT with the photocopy, caption reads: "The historic scarf crocheted by Queen Victoria and awarded to Trooper Coutts, is now in the Taranaki Museum in New Plymouth. Pictured on the occasion of its presentation are from left, the MP for New Plymouth, Tony Friedlander, the museum director Mr R W Lambert and the chairman of the museum board Mrs A N Gale"
RARE AWARD HAS CONFLICTING ORIGINS by Bruce Scott
Not all army heros are awarded medals. Eight who distinguished themselves in the Boer War received khaki scarves hand crocheted by Queen Victoria.
One of these coveted awards, now preserved in the Taranaki Museum was won by a New Zealander, Trooper Henry Donald Coutts, Taranaki man who served in the NZ Mounted Rifles.
Some difference of opinion exists today as to its rating compared with the Victoria cross. Some authorities rate it as a sort of alternative for the Victoria Cross.
It has also been stated that it was awarded only to those who had been recommended for the VC, but this claim too, is unsubstantiated.
Trooper Coutts was never recommended for the VC. And in some cases it seems that the Queen's scarf was awarded by popular vote among other members of the regiment.
Unfortunately the old Queen who crocheted the scarves when she was 81 died b4 they were awarded.
But dispatch no 27443 from Field Marshal Lord Roberts to officers commanding colonial forces, in June 1902, seems to clear up this point:
"Her late Majesty Queen Victoria was graciously pleased to send me four woollen scarves worked by herself for distribution to the four most distinguished private soldiers in the Colonial forces of Canada, Australia, NZ, and SA serving under my command"
There is no mention of having been recommended for the VC as a prerequisite. There is some confusion, too, as to who qualified for the award of the Queen's scarf. Lord Roberts specifies private soldiers.
This stipulation certainly applied to the colonial recipients - Trooper Coutts, Private R R Thompson (Canada), Trooper A H Dufrayer (Australia), and Trooper L Chadwick (Cape Colony).
On the other hand, the rest of the scarves, all awarded to men of the 2nd Brigade of the First Division (British) went to sergeants in every case.
Two of these men, Colour Sergeant J Ferrett and Colur Sergeant H G Clay later received the Distinguished Conduct Medal. This seems to refute quite definitely that the Queen's Scarf was a substitute for the VC.
Many of the details surrounding the award are conflicting. This is probably because it was never gazetted like the award of a decoration.
We have it in one record that Trooper Coutts received his scarf in Pretoria in Sept 1900, but the dispatch from Lord Roberts announcing the receipts of the scarves and their purpose is dated 1902.
An Australian account speaks of the scarf being "accompanied by a huge clasp with which to keep it in place". It also shows Dufrayer, later promoted to capt, wearing the scarf diagonally across his body from the right shoulder to the left hip in the manner of a bandoleer or sword belt (see photo herein scanned)
There is no indication, however, that they were ever intended for formal wear, or indeed for any purpose other than to keep the soldier warm.
Nor is there any "huge clasp" associated with the scarf in the Taranaki Museum. All it carries is a small tab, like the name tab on modern woollen goods, bearing the cypher of Queen Victoria "VR"
These conflicting details, howeverm in no way detract from the value of the award. after all, only eight were made.
And only one NZer was singled out for the old Queen's personal testimony of valour.
Well, who was this man, Henry Coutts?
He was born in Kaiapoi on Nov 14 1866, and volunteered for service in South Africa in Oct 1899, when he was a farmer at Ngaere, Taranaki
He had served with volunteer militia units previously in the Hawera and patea districts and was married with one son.
He served in SA until January 1901 when he was discharged, but he reenlisted later that year and was eventually commissioned as a capt, serving with that rank until 1902.
His Queen's and King's South African medals carried the Dreifontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Relief of Kimberley, SA 1901, and SA 1902 clasps. There is no official record of a citation which qualified him for the Queen's scarf.
But the action which won Trooper Coutts the award occurred in 1900 at Koornspruit where a combined NZ and British force suffered a reverse.
It is known that Trooper Coutts was mentioned in dispatches for saving a comrade under fire, but this award is the lowest in the British scale of awards for valour.
It does not even rate a medal, but is simply a bronze oak leaf or leaves (it varies according to the period) which is worn on the ribbon of another medal or directly on the tunic "in the medal position"
It is surely odd that if his conduct rated only a MID it shld later qualify him for the coveted Queen's scarf. But this is merely one of many inconsistencies which bedevil this award.
But Capt Coutts had not finished with the army with the Boer War. Not by any means. He continued with the volunteers until he was posted to the retired list in 1911.
Then on Aug 2, 1916, this old warhorse, falsifying his date of birth, enlisted in the ranks and went to England with the 19th Reinforcements, NZEF
But at 51, the rigours of military service, must have caught up with him, for he was never in action. He held the rank of actg-sergeant with the Auckland-Wellington Infantry Training Regiment until discharged on medical grounds in Apr 1918.
He died in wellington on apr 30 1944, predeceased many years earlier by his wife and only son.
He gave the scarf to the NZ Govt in 1913 and for many years it was kept in the library of the General assembly, Wellington.
end.
New Zealand's Heritage, pt 64, p. 1765-70 mentions Coutts but mis spells it as Coulis.
And in Hall's The NZers in South Africa 1899-1902 (1949), on page 24: "one gallant action among many by NZers at Sannas Post was singled out for an unusual award. Trooper H D Coutts brought away a wounded man under fire - awarded one of 4 scarves knitted by Q Victoria for distribution to the 4 most distinguished private soldiers in the colonial contingents. He was Later Capt and Quartermaster in the 7th Contingent."
The Queen's Scarf of Honour
Private Richard Rowland Thompson, RCR (Canada)
http://www.army.dnd.ca/RCR_RHQ/English/History/scarf/index_e.shtm
re the Canadian recipient
The Queen's Scarf of Honour
Extract from the Certificate accompanying the Award dated 24 December 1908:
"In July 1900, official notification was received by Colonel W.D. Otter, C.B., A.D.C, Commanding the 2 Royal Canadian Regiment, that Her Majesty the late Queen proposed awarding to a non-commissioned officer or man in each of the Colonial Contingents, who might be nominated as having performed the bravest act during the War, a scarf worked, or made, by herself. The Regiment was then stationed at Springs and Colonel Otter at once had the Staff and Officers Commanding Companies brought together for the selection of the non-commissioned officer or man to represent the Royal Canadian Regiment. After considerable discussion the decision was made in favour of Private R.R. Thompson, late of B Company, 2 Royal Canadian Regiment, and his name was forwarded accordingly. The scarf was in due time received and given to Private Thompson. The particular acts upon which Private Thompson was selected were as under:
First, having on the night of the eighteenth-nineteenth February 1900, kept Private Bradshaw, who was left dangerously wounded at Paardeberg, alive by care and attendance bestowed upon him, until he could be properly attended to.
Second, having twice left the trenches on the morning of the capture of the Boer Laager at Paardeberg, the twenty-seventh February 1900, at imminent risk of his own life, for the purpose of assisting wounded comrades lying some distance in front of the trenches."
see also Australian War Memorial Museum Encyclopedia entry on
THE QUEENS SCARF AWARDED TO A. Du FRAYER
AWM FILE OF RESEARCH 569
15 AUGUST 1956
http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/scarf_doc.htm
Henry Donald Coutts and Unknown
Husband Henry Donald Coutts
AKA: Hugh
Born: 14 Nov 1866 - Kaiapoi
Christened:
Died: 30 Apr 1944 - Wellington
Buried:
Father: Donald Coutts (1827- )
Mother: Ann McKay (1825- )
Marriage:
Wife Unknown
Born:
Christened:
Died: pre 1944?
Buried:
Children
1 M Coutts
Born:
Christened:
Died: pre 1944?
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
farmer at Ngaere, Taranaki
Capt or Trooper Coutts, distinguished in Boer War, receiving khaki scarf hand crocheted by Queen Victoria
The following article appeared in the Christchurch Star of 9 Sept 1978 - this is a transcript of a faint photocopy, there is also an accompanying photograph which is NOT with the photocopy, caption reads: "The historic scarf crocheted by Queen Victoria and awarded to Trooper Coutts, is now in the Taranaki Museum in New Plymouth. Pictured on the occasion of its presentation are from left, the MP for New Plymouth, Tony Friedlander, the museum director Mr R W Lambert and the chairman of the museum board Mrs A N Gale"
RARE AWARD HAS CONFLICTING ORIGINS by Bruce Scott
Not all army heros are awarded medals. Eight who distinguished themselves in the Boer War received khaki scarves hand crocheted by Queen Victoria.
One of these coveted awards, now preserved in the Taranaki Museum was won by a New Zealander, Trooper Henry Donald Coutts, Taranaki man who served in the NZ Mounted Rifles.
Some difference of opinion exists today as to its rating compared with the Victoria cross. Some authorities rate it as a sort of alternative for the Victoria Cross.
It has also been stated that it was awarded only to those who had been recommended for the VC, but this claim too, is unsubstantiated.
Trooper Coutts was never recommended for the VC. And in some cases it seems that the Queen's scarf was awarded by popular vote among other members of the regiment.
Unfortunately the old Queen who crocheted the scarves when she was 81 died b4 they were awarded.
But dispatch no 27443 from Field Marshal Lord Roberts to officers commanding colonial forces, in June 1902, seems to clear up this point:
"Her late Majesty Queen Victoria was graciously pleased to send me four woollen scarves worked by herself for distribution to the four most distinguished private soldiers in the Colonial forces of Canada, Australia, NZ, and SA serving under my command"
There is no mention of having been recommended for the VC as a prerequisite. There is some confusion, too, as to who qualified for the award of the Queen's scarf. Lord Roberts specifies private soldiers.
This stipulation certainly applied to the colonial recipients - Trooper Coutts, Private R R Thompson (Canada), Trooper A H Dufrayer (Australia), and Trooper L Chadwick (Cape Colony).
On the other hand, the rest of the scarves, all awarded to men of the 2nd Brigade of the First Division (British) went to sergeants in every case.
Two of these men, Colour Sergeant J Ferrett and Colur Sergeant H G Clay later received the Distinguished Conduct Medal. This seems to refute quite definitely that the Queen's Scarf was a substitute for the VC.
Many of the details surrounding the award are conflicting. This is probably because it was never gazetted like the award of a decoration.
We have it in one record that Trooper Coutts received his scarf in Pretoria in Sept 1900, but the dispatch from Lord Roberts announcing the receipts of the scarves and their purpose is dated 1902.
An Australian account speaks of the scarf being "accompanied by a huge clasp with which to keep it in place". It also shows Dufrayer, later promoted to capt, wearing the scarf diagonally across his body from the right shoulder to the left hip in the manner of a bandoleer or sword belt (see photo herein scanned)
There is no indication, however, that they were ever intended for formal wear, or indeed for any purpose other than to keep the soldier warm.
Nor is there any "huge clasp" associated with the scarf in the Taranaki Museum. All it carries is a small tab, like the name tab on modern woollen goods, bearing the cypher of Queen Victoria "VR"
These conflicting details, howeverm in no way detract from the value of the award. after all, only eight were made.
And only one NZer was singled out for the old Queen's personal testimony of valour.
Well, who was this man, Henry Coutts?
He was born in Kaiapoi on Nov 14 1866, and volunteered for service in South Africa in Oct 1899, when he was a farmer at Ngaere, Taranaki
He had served with volunteer militia units previously in the Hawera and patea districts and was married with one son.
He served in SA until January 1901 when he was discharged, but he reenlisted later that year and was eventually commissioned as a capt, serving with that rank until 1902.
His Queen's and King's South African medals carried the Dreifontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Relief of Kimberley, SA 1901, and SA 1902 clasps. There is no official record of a citation which qualified him for the Queen's scarf.
But the action which won Trooper Coutts the award occurred in 1900 at Koornspruit where a combined NZ and British force suffered a reverse.
It is known that Trooper Coutts was mentioned in dispatches for saving a comrade under fire, but this award is the lowest in the British scale of awards for valour.
It does not even rate a medal, but is simply a bronze oak leaf or leaves (it varies according to the period) which is worn on the ribbon of another medal or directly on the tunic "in the medal position"
It is surely odd that if his conduct rated only a MID it shld later qualify him for the coveted Queen's scarf. But this is merely one of many inconsistencies which bedevil this award.
But Capt Coutts had not finished with the army with the Boer War. Not by any means. He continued with the volunteers until he was posted to the retired list in 1911.
Then on Aug 2, 1916, this old warhorse, falsifying his date of birth, enlisted in the ranks and went to England with the 19th Reinforcements, NZEF
But at 51, the rigours of military service, must have caught up with him, for he was never in action. He held the rank of actg-sergeant with the Auckland-Wellington Infantry Training Regiment until discharged on medical grounds in Apr 1918.
He died in wellington on apr 30 1944, predeceased many years earlier by his wife and only son.
He gave the scarf to the NZ Govt in 1913 and for many years it was kept in the library of the General assembly, Wellington.
end.
New Zealand's Heritage, pt 64, p. 1765-70 mentions Coutts but mis spells it as Coulis.
And in Hall's The NZers in South Africa 1899-1902 (1949), on page 24: "one gallant action among many by NZers at Sannas Post was singled out for an unusual award. Trooper H D Coutts brought away a wounded man under fire - awarded one of 4 scarves knitted by Q Victoria for distribution to the 4 most distinguished private soldiers in the colonial contingents. He was Later Capt and Quartermaster in the 7th Contingent."
The Queen's Scarf of Honour
Private Richard Rowland Thompson, RCR (Canada)
http://www.army.dnd.ca/RCR_RHQ/English/History/scarf/index_e.shtm
re the Canadian recipient
The Queen's Scarf of Honour
Extract from the Certificate accompanying the Award dated 24 December 1908:
"In July 1900, official notification was received by Colonel W.D. Otter, C.B., A.D.C, Commanding the 2 Royal Canadian Regiment, that Her Majesty the late Queen proposed awarding to a non-commissioned officer or man in each of the Colonial Contingents, who might be nominated as having performed the bravest act during the War, a scarf worked, or made, by herself. The Regiment was then stationed at Springs and Colonel Otter at once had the Staff and Officers Commanding Companies brought together for the selection of the non-commissioned officer or man to represent the Royal Canadian Regiment. After considerable discussion the decision was made in favour of Private R.R. Thompson, late of B Company, 2 Royal Canadian Regiment, and his name was forwarded accordingly. The scarf was in due time received and given to Private Thompson. The particular acts upon which Private Thompson was selected were as under:
First, having on the night of the eighteenth-nineteenth February 1900, kept Private Bradshaw, who was left dangerously wounded at Paardeberg, alive by care and attendance bestowed upon him, until he could be properly attended to.
Second, having twice left the trenches on the morning of the capture of the Boer Laager at Paardeberg, the twenty-seventh February 1900, at imminent risk of his own life, for the purpose of assisting wounded comrades lying some distance in front of the trenches."
see also Australian War Memorial Museum Encyclopedia entry on
THE QUEENS SCARF AWARDED TO A. Du FRAYER
AWM FILE OF RESEARCH 569
15 AUGUST 1956
http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/scarf_doc.htm
Medical Notes for Child Coutts
supposed to have died from injuries on a rugby field in Australia, possibly 1900-1910 (Source: Tui Lundi Robertson)
James Troup and Isabella Coutts
Husband James Troup
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Marriage: Sep 1865
Wife Isabella Coutts
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Father: Coutts ( - )
Mother:
John Thomson and Jane Coutts
Husband John Thomson
Born: 11 Apr 1848 - Belfast, Ireland
Christened:
Died: 11 Jan 1923 - Brooklyn, Wellington
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Jane Coutts
Born:
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Died:
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Father: Donald Coutts (1827- )
Mother: Ann McKay (1825- )
General Notes (Husband)
lived at 17 Dorking Rd, Brooklyn in 1922 (electoral roll)
a civil engineer who worked for the Wgtn Harbour Bd
From F.W. Furkert's Early NZ Engineers, Reed, 1953, p. 279:
born Belfast, Ireland 11 April 1848, went to sea and rose to rank of mate. Attended Queens University College, Belfast, grad. with B.E. In 1871 he was appted asst engineer to the Belfast Harbour Commission. Sailed for NZ 1877 and joined the Govt Service. He surveyed the Patea river and designed harbour works there. Later he was a resident engineer to the Waitara Harbour Bd up to the completion of its main work in 1883. Then acted as consulting engineer for the New Plymouth Harbour Bd until 1885. Then engineer Gisborne Harbour Bd for six years. leaving to become lecturer in applied mechanics at Otago University, 1891. He departed from Sir John Coode's location and design for Gisborne Harbour.
26 May 1893, appted Resident Engineer Public Works Dept Greymouth, and also its Harbour Engineer. Also reported on Okarito Harbour, Pt Elizabeth Harbour proposals, and other proposals on the West Coast as wel las mining and railway schemes. When the Govt seized the NZ Midland Railway 26 May 1895, he was the man who drove the pegs at the Stillwater junction, posted the notices and read the proclamation. Afterwards he organised a force and started construction beyond Jacksons where the Co. had ceased operations, and later beyond Reefton. Elected M.Inst.C.E. 1905, and retired 31 Oct 1909, to Brooklyn, Wellington, where he died 11 Jan 1923.
John? Coutts
Husband John? Coutts
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Father: Coutts ( - )
Mother:
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General Notes (Husband)
A brother? (cited in Christchurch Militia List 1860, address Heathcote River, Laborer)
William Coutts
Husband William Coutts
Born:
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Died: Sep 1865
Buried:
Father: Coutts ( - )
Mother:
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Wife
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General Notes (Husband)
Cited in Christchurch Militia List 1860, address Heathcote river, Laborer
Albert William Rangi Cox and Joan Walker
Husband Albert William Rangi Cox
AKA: Tony
Born: 25 Aug 1913
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: - (Deserted)
Wife Joan Walker
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Kyra Marlene Cox
Born: 17 Apr 1944 - Levin
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Douglas George Tuffery (1942- )
Marr: 1 Jul 1965 - Wellington, Registrar
2 M Michael Cox
Born:
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Died:
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General Notes (Husband)
Have copy of Cox lineage
General Notes for Child Kyra Marlene Cox
Have copy of Cox lineage compiled by Tony Cox
Douglas George Tuffery and Kyra Marlene Cox
Husband Douglas George Tuffery
AKA: Doug
Born: 7 Jul 1942 - Invercargill (Herbert st)
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Norman Tuffery (1916-1992)
Mother: Vera Marion McCrystall (1917- )
Marriage: 1 Jul 1965 - Wellington, Registrar
Wife Kyra Marlene Cox
Born: 17 Apr 1944 - Levin
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Albert William Rangi Cox (1913- )
Mother: Joan Walker ( - )
Children
1 F Leigh Marion Tuffery
Born: 22 Jan 1966
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Grant William Tuffery
Born: 4 May 1967
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Christine Mary Campbell ( - )
General Notes (Wife)
Have copy of Cox lineage compiled by Tony Cox
Michael Cox
Husband Michael Cox
Born:
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Father: Albert William Rangi Cox (1913- )
Mother: Joan Walker ( - )
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
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Died:
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Brian Craven and Judith Stuart
Husband Brian Craven
Born:
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Died:
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Marriage:
Wife Judith Stuart
AKA: Judy
Born:
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Died:
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Father: Stuart Albert Finch Stuart (1915-After 1970)
Mother: Dorothy Lillian (1916-1970)
General Notes (Wife)
Tauranga, 1970
James Hamilton Reid and Margaret Crawford
Husband James Hamilton Reid
Born:
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Died:
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Marriage:
Wife Margaret Crawford
Born:
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Died:
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Children
1 F Jane Ferguson Reid
Born: 1850 - Ferguson Estate, Maybole, Aryshire, Scotland
Christened:
Died: 19 Aug 1931 - Gore
Buried:
Spouse: Andrew Neilson ( - )
Spouse: John Hugh Hunt (1858-1950)
Marr: 7 Jul 1926 - her residence, Mersey st, Gore
General Notes (Husband)
surveyor
Croker and Jane Gratwicke
Husband Croker
Born:
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Marriage:
Wife Jane Gratwicke
Born:
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Died: 13 Dec 1821
Buried:
Father: Thomas Gratwicke (1685-1744)
Mother: Jane Knight ( - )
Crookshank and Lillian R Hunt
Husband Crookshank
Born:
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Wife Lillian R Hunt
AKA: Lil
Born:
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Father: George Henry Hunt (1858-1946)
Mother: Frances Elizabeth Dawson (1859- )
Crowe and Ada Light Crowe
Husband Crowe
Born:
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Died:
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Marriage:
Wife Ada Light Crowe
AKA: Jo
Born:
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Died:
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Other Spouse: George Frederick McCrystall (1909-1976) - 5 Feb 1945 - Registrar, Wellington
Children
1 F Joan Crowe
Born:
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Died:
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Spouse: Jeff Blick ( - )
George Frederick McCrystall and Ada Light Crowe
Husband George Frederick McCrystall
Born: 22 Jan 1909 - Waikaia
Christened:
Died: 15 Jun 1976 - 444 Jackson st, Petone (home of Dulcie Kerr)
Buried: - Karori Cemetery (Cremated), ashes buried at sea
Father: Arthur McCrystall (1872-1954)
Mother: Annie Stuart (1882-1944)
Marriage: 5 Feb 1945 - Registrar, Wellington
Wife Ada Light Crowe
AKA: Jo
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Other Spouse: Crowe ( - )
General Notes (Husband)
step dgter Joan Blick, Stratford (Ada's first marriage)
Able seaman, capt in merchant navy (qualified 1950), and served merchant navy in WWII
Had Cert. of Proficiency; Restricted Radio-Telephone Operator's Cert.
Dulcie Kerr and George intended to marry
Annette Cuthbertson
Husband
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Died:
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Marriage:
Wife Annette Cuthbertson
Born:
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Died:
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Father: Ivan Cuthbertson ( - )
Mother: Valerie Aicken (1942- )
Dareen Cuthbertson
Husband Dareen Cuthbertson
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Father: Ivan Cuthbertson ( - )
Mother: Valerie Aicken (1942- )
Marriage:
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Born:
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Kim Cuthbertson
Husband
Born:
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Died:
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Wife Kim Cuthbertson
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Father: Ivan Cuthbertson ( - )
Mother: Valerie Aicken (1942- )
Shane Cuthbertson
Husband Shane Cuthbertson
Born:
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Father: Ivan Cuthbertson ( - )
Mother: Valerie Aicken (1942- )
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Catherine A Dapp
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Wife Catherine A Dapp
Born: 1861 - Brighton, Sussex
Christened:
Died:
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Father: Herbert Dapp (1832- )
Mother: Mary H (1838- )
Charlotte Dapp
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Wife Charlotte Dapp
Born: 1864 - Brighton, Sussex
Christened:
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Father: Herbert Dapp (1832- )
Mother: Mary H (1838- )
Edgar Dapp and Ann Emma Fisher
Husband Edgar Dapp
Born: 1822 - Framfield, Sussex
Christened:
Died: 9 Aug 1894 - Waikaia
Buried: 12 Aug 1894 - Waikaia
Father: John Dapp ( - )
Mother: Rachel Gurr ( - )
Marriage: 10 Nov 1850 - Church of St John, Adelaide
Wife Ann Emma Fisher
AKA: Annie
Born: 1820 - Mile End Road, London
Christened:
Died: 17 Dec 1882 - Waikaia
Buried: 19 Dec 1882 - Waikaia
Father: William Fisher ( - )
Mother:
Other Spouse: Barrett ( - ) - (Widowed)
Children
1 F Maryann Emma Dapp
AKA: Marion
Born: Sat 2 Aug 1856 - Dowling Forest, Ballarat, Victoria
Christened:
Died: Tues 15 July 1913 - Gore hospital
Buried: Fri 18 July 1913 - Waikaia cemetery
Spouse: Donald Bethune Stuart (1845- ) 2 3
Marr: Tues 3 Feb 1874 - Switzers
Spouse: George Robson (1848- )
Marr: Thurs 15 July 1886 - Registrar's Office, Waikaia
General Notes (Husband)
Framfield in 1972 was a parish and village in east Sussex, near the Ouse river, 1½ miles south east of Uckfield (pop. 1,641)
Weatherall (unpublished, 1959) and Miller (1966) relate how Edwin and his wife along with Edgar and Mrs Lulham arrived in Dunedin from Melbourne in 1861, with Richard Thompson, widower, and his three year old son John Thomas, and another son Emanuel.
In 1862 they hired 3 horses and a wagon and took a month to travel to Switzers, arriving Nov 1862 - they thought it the height of luxury when they moved into a wattle and daub hut.
Edgar, with a Mr C May, they mined coal at Landslip, described as down the river, near the junction of the Dome, being amongst the first to mine coal.
Described as miner on death cert.
Unknown source tells of Edgar running a boarding house in Welshman's Gully 4 5 6 7
General Notes (Wife)
at her marriage to Edgar on the cert. it says widow of North Terrace. She was a Mrs Barrett.
Said to have had a brother who was a well known physican
Notes (Marriage)
No. 420/1850 (source marriage cert.)
Edgar's age recorded as 28 on marriage certificate. Occupation gardener. At the time of his daughter's birth, he describes himself as a butcher.
Witnesses: Charles and Caroline Wilkinson
Maryann's birth cert says married Nov 1849
General Notes for Child Maryann Emma Dapp
General oral sources:
Vera Tuffery
Elta & Eileen Mackay
have birth cert. no 2013/1856
Large framed portrait of Marion, in a riding habit, exists with Elta MacKay.
Eileen Mackay: "I thought grandmother (Dapp) Robson came from St Johns Wood, London...Mum often spoke of Fishers relations..." (31 Jan 1979 letter)
Marion was a nurse / midwife
Medical Notes for Child Maryann Emma Dapp
death cert.
funeral notice in Mataura Ensign of 17 July 1913