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Subject: [NZ] "Otago Witness" 1851 BMDs
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:10:19 -0500

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"Otago Witness" 1851 BMDs

Otago Witness Saturday February 8, 1851
Birth. At Rattray Street, Dunedin, on the 19th ult, the wife of Mr James
CULLEN, of a son.

February 22 1851
Birth. At Princes Street, Dunedin, on the 14th inst. the wife of Mr John
HEALEY, of a son.

March 8 1851
Married. At Singapore, on the 10th Sept., 1850. F.A. CARGILL, Esq., son of
Capt. W. Cargill, Otago, to Miss Jessie Spottiswood.

Died. On the 28th, ult, at his residence near Port Chalmers, Mr H.B. GRAHAM,
late Editor and Proprietor, of the "Otago News" deeply lamented, by his
relatives and friends.

March 22 1851
Births, At Princes Street, Dunedin, on the 27th Feb., the wife of Mr Thomas
Bain, clothier, of a daughter.

At Saddle Hill, on the 5th March, the wife of Mr William Jeffrey, shepherd,
of a son.

Married. On the 14th inst., at the Half-Way Bush near Dunedin, by the Rev.
Charles Creed, Alfred Chetham Strode, Esq., resident Magistrate at Otago,
son of Admiral Sir E. Chetham Strode, K.C.B., of South-hill House, near
Shepton-Mallet, Somerset, to Emily, second daughter of the late William
Borton, Esq., of Cottenham House, near Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Died. On Friday, the 10th January, at Melbourne, of scarlet fever, Henry
George Stephen, third son of Sidney Stephen, Esq., Judge at Otago, in his
22nd year. 
The following beautiful episode on the death of Mr Stephen is taken from the
'Melbourne Morning Herald' of the 14th January;_
'Yet even joy and beauty bloom,
And hope that dazzles in the eye,
Are blossoms gatherer for the tomb-
Soon, soon, to die.
____
'Just in the morning of his day
As young as we he died."
_____

April 5th 1851
At Portobello Bay, on the 2nd instant, the wife of A.W. Shand, Esq., of the
H.M. Customs, of a daughter.

At North-East Valley on the 24th March ultino, the wife of Mr Robert
CHAPMAN, of a daughter.
Saturday May 17 1851

Birth. At Airlie Bank, on the 24th inst., the wife of Mr Louis Edwards,
sawyer, of a son.

Married. At the Half-Way Bush, near Dunedin, on the 1st inst., by the Rev.
T. Burns, Mr Edward Palmer, stockholder, Taieri, to Beatrice Fowler,
youngest daughter of the late William Fowler, Haddington, Scotland.

At the Manse of Sandsting, Zetland, on the 3rd October, the Rev. Alexander
Shand, minister of Nesting, to Helen Bruce Bryden, daughter of the Rev. John
Bryden, minister .

June 7th 1851
Married. At Woodside Cottage, near Dunedin, on the 3rd instant, by the Rev.
Thomas Burns, Daniel Macandrew, Esq., Architect, to Margaret Dundas Oswald,
youngest daughter of the late George Hall, Esq., of Glasgow.

June 21 1851
Coroner's Inquest - An inquest was held at the Royal Hotel, Dunedin, on
Monday, the 16th inst., by Mr Coroner Williams and a highly respectable
Jury, on the body of Robert Scott, who died suddenly on Sunday the 15th. It
appeared from the evidence of Mr William McDonald, with whom the deceased
lodged, that while engaged in brushing a boot, he fell down suddenly; that
he never spoke afterwards, but groaned once or twice, and died in about ten
minutes. Medical aid was sent for, but was of no avail. The Jury returned a
verdict of 'Died by the visitation of God.' The deceased was about 40 years
of age, and came to this settlement in the 'Larkins,' and had since been
working a boat in the harbour, in which business we believe he had acquired
property. He had no relations in this colony.

June 21 1851
Birth. At Maungatua, on the 30th ult, the wife of Mr Francis M'Diarmid, of a
son.
July 5th 1851

Birth. At Mavis Bank, near Dunedin, on the 19th ult., the wife of Mr Francis
Marshall, of a daughter.

July 19 1851
Public Burying Ground of Otago. Rules.
John Falconer appointed grave digger.

19 July 1851
Birth. At Bellevue, near Dunedin, on the 11th inst., the wife of Mr A.
Anderson, of a daughter.

2 August 1851
At Princes Street, Dunedin, on the 27th ult. the wife of Mr William White,
shoemaker, of a daughter.

Death. At Maclagan Street, Dunedin, on the 21st ult., the wife of Mr James
Wright, aged 37 years.

2 August 1851
Inquest. About three weeks since an inquest was held at Waikouaiti, before
Mr Coroner Williams, on the body of a man who destroyed himself by tying the
trigger of a gun to the stump of a tree, and discharging the contents into
his heart. The deceased was a Greek, and came out from England in the
emigrant ship 'Larkins,' in which vessel he was a sailor. Some time since he
expressed a desire to return to his native country, and Captain Cargill
procured him passage in the 'Phoebe Dunbar;' it appears, however he left
that ship. The Jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity.

August 16 1851
Birth. At Pelichet's bay, on the 9th inst., the wife of David Bowers,
gardener, of a Daughter.

Death. At Maclagan Street, Dunedin, on the 21st, ult. Mary Griffiths, aged
37 years, wife of Mr James Wright.

August 16th 1851
Coroner's Inquest. 
An inquest was held at the Royal Hotel before Mr Coroner Williams, on the
body of William Underhill, late of Rattray St, Dunedin, Carpenter, who
destroyed himself. ... He was about 26 years of age, and, arrived in this
colony by the "Victory" upwards of three years ago. He has a brother
somewhere in the neighbourhood of Christchurch.

August 30 1851
At the Forbury, near Dunedin, on the 17th inst., the wife of Mr David Howden
of a Son.

At Rattray Street, Dunedin, on the 20th inst., the wife of Mr Wm. Willocks
of a Son. 

At the Silverstream Sheep Station, on the 25th inst., the wife of Mr William
Gibson of a Son.

Death. At the Green Island Bush, near Dunedin, on the 8th inst., James
SHAND, aged 46 years, late of Inveruary, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

August 30 1851
Canterbury. 
The "Duke pf Bronte," Captain Barclay, had arrived on June 6th from England.
the "Steadfast," Captain Spencer, arrived on 9th June, with 130 passengers.
The cutter, "Hawk," has gone to pieces, having met with very rough weather
in crossing the Sumner bar, the men barely escaping with their lives. The
greater part of her cargo was plundered from the wreck.
Daniel Morrison, late master of the "William and John" cutter, met his death
at Pigeon Bay on May the 19th, by falling from a height of 10 feet on to a
bolder stones on the beach.
A melancholy accident occurred on the 23rd of June, by which the Settlement
has lost two of the first and most esteemed colonists, Mr Ward, and his
brother Mr Henry Ward, who were drowned in the harbour of Quail island,
having proceeded thither in a boat to obtain firewood. 

September 6th 1851
Married. On Wednesday last, the 3rd., at Clifton Cottage, Dunedin, by the
Rev. Thomas Burns, John Hyde HARRIS, Esq., late of Deddington in the County
of Oxford, but now of Dunedin aforesaid,, to Annie CUNNINGHAM, second
daughter of Captain William Cargill, late of Her Majesty's 74th Regt., and
Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District of Otago.

September 13 1851
Births. At Claremont Lodge, Upper Kaikairi District, on the 7th inst., the
wife of J.R. Johnston; Esq., of a daughter.

At Stafford Street, Dunedin, on the 31st ult., the wife of Mr Joseph Beale,
of a son.

At the Half-Way Bush, near Dunedin on the 1st instant, the wife of Mr John
Salmon, farmer, Carron Creek, Tokomairiro Plain.

October 4 1851
At Birnam Cottage, half-Way Bush on the 3rd inst., the wife of John Cargill,
esq., of a daughter.

At Riversdale Cottage, North-East Valley, on the 18th ultimo, the wife of
James Gebbie, Gardener, of a son and a daughter.

October 25 1851
Births. At Home Farm. Taieri, on the 19th ult., the wife of Mr Neill J.B.
M'Gregor of a daughter.

At Princes Street, Dunedin, on the 15 inst., the wife of Mr Alexander Garvie
of a son.

Married. At Brighton, Melbourne, on Thursday the 17th of July last, by the
Rev. Wm. Brickwood, Thomas Ferrier HAMILTON, Esq., third son of Col. Ferrier
Hamilton and the Hon. Mrs Hamilton, of West Port and Cairn Hill, N.B., to
Elizabeth Mary MILNER, second daughter of Mr Justice Stephen of Otago.

November 1 1851
Birth. At Karero, Molineux, on the 15th September, the wife of Mr Wm.
Buswell, of a daughter.

November 15 1851
Birth. At Ambresbeg, Caversham Valley, on the 14th inst., Mrs John McGibbon,
of a son.

December 6 1851
Married. At Halfway Bush, on the 28th inst., by the Rev. Thomas Burns, Lewis
A. BERNAYS, Esq., son of Dr. Bernays, of Kings College, London, to Mary,
eldest daughter of the late William Borton, Esq., of Cottenham, near
Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Original Poetry.
June 1851
Reflections of a Settler by R.A.R.
The Emigrant's Song by L.A.M.

July 5th
To the Editor of the Otago Witness by XYZ

August 2 1851
Ladies Club

November 15 1851
The Gardener-in-Chief and his Otago Plants by MacPunchie

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