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According to a privately printed book about Rev Alexander Reid and his family in NZ, Nga Putake - a Reid Family in New Zealand 1849-1993 by Alice Fieldhouse, the reason for naming Smollett Henderson is not known and may have been inspired by the novelist ofthat name. But interestingly, the Smollett name continued in the Reid family which came to NZ. Smollett Henderson was the brother of Margaret Henderson, who was the second child of Alexander Henderson and Margaret Sked, born 19 November 1798. She married David Reid, a carter of Dean Street, Stockbridge, and Alexander Reid was their first child, born 30 November 1821 and baptised in Cramond Kirk. Alexander Reid was ordained and came to NZ where he was a prominent early Wesleyan missionary. He had a brother, Smollett Reid, who was born in 1829 and went to the Australian goldfields before moving to NZ where he set up as a successful farmer and became a local figure of eminence just south of Auckland. He died in 1901. NT