It would be useful to locate Jane BLAIR's arrival in Australia, and her whereabouts in the early years -
I think this article, recorded during a period of extensive flooding in the area, accounts for James KIPPEN's death.
The Empire 1 Jun 1855 p5
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60178479?We are also Informed that three men of Mr. T. de Lacy MOFFAT's were drowned in Fraser's Creek, and that his brother had but a narrow escape with his life.
In 1884 William KIPPEN names his first son, second child, Harold Delacey KIPPEN.
William KIPPEN does well in life, being part owner of an established newspaper in 1877, aged 24 years. His sense of connection to the MOFFATT family must have been significant. Possibly he had the patronage of the influential MOFFATTs.
(reference to obit Jane BLAIR, 1882, removed by me )
At the death of Jane BLAIR, 1882, her grandson William KIPPEN is informant and names three living children (the word "living" is written above the names), including a daughter Elizabeth.
I think that this living daughter did not come to Australia, either as unmarried, or married.
Gordon BLAIR and his sons are obviously held in high regard by his family, and you can see reference to James William BLAIR in BDM, social occasions etc in the newspapers, numerous instances of his connection to BLAIRS, STANLEYs and DROUGHTONs.
I am not seeing any such instances, in Australia or NZ, that would lead to the family of Elizabeth BLAIR (alive at 1882)...........or Isabella KIPPEN (alive at 1855).
I do not have any ideas about the life of Isabella KIPPEN, but I suspect that Elizabeth BLAIR (alive 1882) migrated to another country...U.S, Canada, South Africa, but not NZ.......by the time that mother Jane BLAIR left Scotland to join her son and daughter in QLD.
Jane BLAIR left Scotland when all of her three children had also left Scotland.
Is there anything to find in a newspaper in Scotland about James William BLAIR, of the local family that prospered in the colonies?
