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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: park_town on Thursday 13 December 12 19:01 GMT (UK)
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Hello, the Rev William McRae's first wife Catherine died in 1880.
I suppose Rev William McRae re-married soon after Catherine's death.
Wife number 2 died giving birth to Rose in 1884...pos in either Bathurst New South Wales or Waipu, Northland, New Zealand.
His second wife - name unknown - gave birth to a dau Rose Theresa McRae; the dau's death record says she was born 1884 Bathurst New South Wales.
Any ideas please.
Thanks,
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Is this a possibility?
Registration Number Groom's Surname Groom's Given Name(s) Bride's Last Name at Time of Marriage Bride's Given Name(s) District *
5713/1881 MACRAE WILLIAM HEDGES AMY PATRICKS PLAIN
From NSW BMD
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There doesn't appear to be a birth there for Rose though.
The only other birth in Patricks Plains in that time frame is for:
32464/1886 MACRAE DONALD A WILLIAM ANNIE PATRICKS PLAIN
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@TwiggyTree, thank you, yes my team leader just spotted that PATRICKS PLAIN marriage and thought it a pos.
However if you say no Rose perhaps not, although Rose always said her birthplace was Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia - or was that her earliest memory.
I wonder if there is a 1884 death record for mother Amy McCrae.
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Misc - looks like Catherine's passage to NZ??? See Highland Lass.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~caithara/Migrant_Women.html
Could be another Catherine Findlayson though as there are records linking her to another husband.
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More misc - Finlayson cemetery records in NSW
http://www.family.joint.net.au/index.php?mid=14&cid=795
(some McRae there too)
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Misc - looks like Catherine's passage to NZ??? See Highland Lass.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~caithara/Migrant_Women.html
Could be another Catherine Findlayson though as there are records linking her to another husband.
Yes That is the Rev's first wife.
Catherine, daughter of Roderick Finlayson, Rev. William Macrae
1875 Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church, Auckland, NZ
Catherine Finlayson eldest dau of Mr R Finlayson, settler, Waipu.
1880 Catherine died.
I suspect the rev remarried 1880-1884.
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Ok, here is a thought.....have you contacted the Presbyterian church to see whether they have a biography on the Reverend? It may note his second wife's name.
[Edited to add - they don't have the appropriate time-framed marriage records for Waipu online if that is where he remarried.]
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Just so there's no confusion regarding information :
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,627544.0.html
Kind regards,
Pels.
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Where is William buried?
Might he be with wife #2?
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About William?
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/nz/waipu21.htm
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Are you aware that there is a book written by Molly Akers titled "MacRaes to New Zealand"? It may have something in it?
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A picture of William's house in Waipu http://www.breambaynews.co.nz/pdf/5-4-12.pdf
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Hello,
The obituary for the Reverend appears in "Papers Past", dated 14.5.1897 & 19.5.1897, under Rev. Wm. McRae.
Minniehaha.
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A little more................ from "TROVE" (Australian newspaper website).
Dated 14.5.1897 in the 'Western Mail' & found under Rev. Wm. McRae.............
report of the drowning and ends with-
"had one daughter* who is a resident of New Zealand".
[*My emphasis]
Minniehaha.
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@TwiggyTree, thank you, yes my team leader just spotted that PATRICKS PLAIN marriage and thought it a pos.
This has had me baffled, when you say 'team leader' - was this part of a project ?
Pels.