Cannot find Marriage of Rev William McRae and his second wife

[park_town]

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,

[TwiggyTree]

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

[TwiggyTree]

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

[park_town]

@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.

[TwiggyTree]

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.

[TwiggyTree]

More misc - Finlayson cemetery records in NSW
http://www.family.joint.net.au/index.php?mid=14&cid=795

(some McRae there too)

[park_town]

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.

[TwiggyTree]

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.]

[Pels.]

Just so there's no confusion regarding information :

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,627544.0.html

Kind regards,

Pels.