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Inverness / Re: MacQuarrie-Gordon Clans
« on: Friday 19 June 09 10:09 BST (UK)  »
Jean in Scotland is the same as Jane here. Jane and John had John, Donald and Isabella in Scotland, and then George, Donald and Duncan in New Zealand.  Jane died in 1874.  Duncan Married Leah Hemmingsen.  They had Mary, Donald, Lilian and Rod.  George and Duncan were both police constables, as was Rod.  One or two of your uncles were also in the police force.  After Duncan died, Leah married Paul Rogers, but he died shortly afterwards when some children threw gelignite onto a stump he was burning.  Leah later married Fred Hinde.  She died in 1948.  Louise (Margaret's great grandaughter) Walter (Donald's grandson and I (Duncan's grandson) have all built up a great deal of information we could share.  John, his two wives, George and his wife, Donald and his wife share a family plot with other family members.  I can just remember meeting aunty Mary and two of your uncles.  One was lucky to miss the Tangiwhai disaster.  Wallace

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Inverness / Re: MacQuarrie-Gordon Clans
« on: Saturday 09 May 09 07:57 BST (UK)  »
Donald McQuarrie was my great uncle and Mary Jane my great aunt.  My grandfather was Duncan McQuarrie who married Leah Jacobine Hemmingsen.  Duncan died in 1899.  He was a police constable.  He got wet following a murderer at Tuatapere and never recovered, dying shortly after.  Duncan and Leah had two girls and two boys.  Duncan was only 30 when he died.  Leah then married Paul Rogers  who died shortlyafter when blasting tree stumps. They had one son Paul.  Leah then remarried and had another boy.  I have fond memories of her even though I was only three years old when she died.

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