EARLY SETTLERS

Evening Star, Issue 16990, 12 March 1919, Page 7

EARLY SETTLERS

The committee of the Otago Early Settlers' Association held their monthly meeting yesterday, Mr J. Duthie presiding. The usual invitation was received from the session of First Church for early settlers to attend anniversary services in First Church on Sunday, March 23. The following gifts were received for the museum :—'From John M'Robert, Dunedin, copy of 'Fifty Years Syne'; J. A. Anderson, Mornington, framed portrait of his late father and mother (Mr and Mrs John Anderson, Waiwera South; Aunt Sarah, 1844, from Nelson), settled Anderson Bay, 1845; M. G. Thomson, Dunedin, photograph of number of Maori curios found on his farm at Murdering Beach; Miss Stewart, Castle street, very old snuffbox, which belonged to her grand-uncle, William Stewart, a soldier in the army of King George in. about 1780; Mrs 0. W. Adams, Wellington, portrait of herself (Maori, 1852); Miss Reld, York place, framed portrait of her late father, James Reid (Wonga Wonga, 1861); D. A f Do Maus, Port Chalmers, photographs Port Chalmers old identities' picnic, February 22; R.. E. Bell, Ngaruawahia, framed portrait of his father and mother, Mr and Mrs P. Bell (Jura, 1858); Miss Harwood, Portbbello, framed family group of the Harwood family (father arrived Otago Heads, 1837; mother bv Philip Laing, 1848); J. 11. Atkinson, Bradahaw street, framed portrait of his father, Major J. J. Atkinson, and his mother (Ladybird, 1866). The following deaths were recorded :—J. H. Menzie, Banks Peninsula, late Southland, 79, earlv sixties; John M'Gillivray, Thornbury, 80, arrived 1859; Mrs Margaret Wilson, Invercargill, 91, arrived Bluff, 1856; Lauchlan Maclean, Dunedin, 72, arrived 1866 from Melbourne; Thos. Webb, St. Bathans, 74, arrived 1864; David Tweedie, Milton, 76, Alpine, 1859; William Kirkland, East Taieri, 71, Mooltan, 1849; Alfred Watts, Mornington, 78, arrived 1858; Mrs Walter Gray. Invercargill, Henrietta, _ 1860; Robert M'Kinlay, Stirling, 83, arrived 1861. The following early settlers were recommended for enrolment:—William R. F. Eraser (Mosgiel), Strathfieldsaye, 1858; John Meiklejohn (North Taieri), Gabriel's Gullv, 1861; John S. Wilson (Balmaceweii), Strathallan, 1858; Charles Blackwood (Brockville), Aldinga. 1863; William Hamilton (Caversham), William Davie. 1866; Mrs J. A. D. Adams, nee Dickie (Maori Hill), Warrior Queen, 1868; Mrs John Bain (Maori Hill), Aldinga, 1863; Jas. M'Callum (Gorge road, Southland), Silistria, 1862; William Aitkin (Dunedin), Strathallan, 1858; James Don (Belleknowes), Andrew Jackson, 1864; John Elder (Dumbarton), Silistria, 1859; John Walsh (Cardrona), Helen M'Gaw, 1861; R. W. Rutherford (Caversham), Victus, 1864; Mrs Margaret Taylor (Dunedin), Robert Henderson, 1858. The following descendants were recommended for enrolment: —James Sandilands Douglas, Dunedin (father. Mariner, 1849) ; J. ¥. Roach, Hastings (father, Red Jacket, 1863); Miss L. Beadle, Dunedin (father, Nourmahal. 1858); Mrs J. J. M'Cartney, nee Farquharson, Portobello (father, Jura, 1858); John James M'Cartnev, Portobello (father, Jura, 1858); Mrs R. W. Rutherford, nee Baskett, Caversham (grandfather, John Wickliffe, 1848); Miss Muir, Mosgiel (fprlher, Gabriel's Gully, 1861); Mrs John Logan, nee Prain, Mosgiel (father, SilLstria, 1860) ; Henry Haggerty, St. Clair (father arrived 1852); John Patrick, Mornington (father, Philip Laing, 1848): Mrs John Patrick, nee Brown, Mornington (father, Stately, 1852); Alfred Meiklejohn, North Taieri (father, Gabriel's Gully, 1861); John Kedzlie, Halfway Bush (father, Thomas and Henry, 1857); W. H. Kedzlie, Halfway Bush (father, Thomas and Henry. 1857); Charles T. Kedzlie, Halfway B'ush (father, Thomas and Henry, 1857); George W. Gibson, Anderson Bay (grandfather, Mooltan, 1849); James Harraway, Mornington (father, Lightning, 1861); Chas. C. Leith, Woodlands (father, Mary, 1849); William Gibson, Ravensbourne (father, Blunder!, 1848); Mrs Wm. Gibson, nee Orbell, Ravensbourne (grandfather, Agra, 1852) ; James Bremner Pattillo, Dunedin (father, Scvilla, 1859) ; Alex. Pattillo, Beach street (father, Sevilla, 1859); Percy Herbert Martin, Carroll street (father arrived 1859); J. H. Aitkinson, Bradshaw streot (father, Ladybird, 1866).