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From: "Del Purdie" <>
Subject: Taieri Early Settlers
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 08:56:09 +1200

Hi All
I thought this may be of some interest to searchers of the Taieri area.

Early Settlers in Taieri, New Zealand
Collated by, C.L.(Dell)Purdie
5/11 McKee Ave
ROTORUA

ADAM, Thomas, arr 1856. 1

ALLAN, John & Agnes, arr Nelson in 1842 from Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. John
aged 51, Agnes aged 48. 1

ALLAN, James, arr Otago 1848. 1

BELL, John arr 1848 on the Philip Laing. 1

BIRNIE, Mr Built the WHARE FLAT SCHOOL in 1857. WHARE FLAT was a
settlement of mainly Scots nearly all of whom spoke Gaelic.

Earliest roll :- ANDERSON, CAMERON, DODDS, GILCHRIST, HAY, JOLLY, KAY,
LAMB, LEISHMAN, LENNIE, McDONALD, McINNES, McINTYRE, McKENZIE, McLACHLAN,
McMILLAN, McQUILKAN, McRAE, PAGE, ROLLINSON, THOMPSON. 1

BLACKIE, William, Capt. and his wife, nee MAITLAND, arr 1849, Mooltan. 3

BORRIE, Donald, arr 1852 from Dunkeld. 1

BUCHANAN, Gilbert arr 1848 in the Philip Laing with parents and 5 siblings,
from Dumbartonshire. 1

BUCHANAN, Thomas & Margaret, and 6 children, arr 1848 in the Philip Laing
from Glasgow. 1

CALLANDER, John & James and Parents, arr Philip Laing.1

CAMPBELL, Alexander & half brother, Robert, from Perthshire.1

CARMICHAEL. Malcom, from Ayreshire.1

CARRUTHERS, John, arr 1848, Philip Laing. (a stone mason). 1

CARRUTHERS, David, arr 1848, Philip Laing. 1

CUDDIE, Thomas & Mary, arr 1848, Philip Laing. 1

CULLEN, James of Glasgow. Sailed from Greenock 1839 in the Bengal Merchant
to Wellington. To Otago 5 years later. Married Jane STEVENSON who arrived
on the Philip Laing. 1

DOW, James, his wife and children, arr 1852, Agra.1

DUFF. William, and his wife, arr Philip Laing, from Dumfreshire. 1

GOW, John, arr 1852 in the Agra, from Dunkeld, Perthshire, with his wife,
brother, JAMES, and sister, ISABELLE.1

FINDLAY, John, from Fenwick, Scotland.1

FULTON, Robert, MD, and his wife, Catherine Valpy FULTON, ( Built a Chapel
at Woodside on the Taieri).3

GIBSON, William and wife and 4 children, arr 1848 on the Blundell.1

GRANT, John arr 1856.1

GRANT, Peter, arr 1853, from Perthshire. Born 1826.1

GRANT, William and Ellen, arr 1856.1

JAFFRAY, William and Margaret HUNTER, arr 1848 (married on the Philip
Laing). 1

KIRKLAND, John, (his wife and children did of Cholera on voyage) arr 1849,
Mooltan.1, 2

McDIARMID, Francis, arr 1848.1

McDONALD, John, a stone mason of Scotland.1

MEIKLEJOHN, John, from Brockville, Scotland.1

NICHOL, George and Parents from Caithnesshire.1

OUGHTON, David, arr 1851 on the Simila from Banff.1

PURDIE, Henry Wight, arr 1849, Mooltan, Managing Cottesbrook Station for Dr
William PURDIE, his father, & Hon. Thos DICK, Partners in the Run. 2

REID, Donald, arr 1849 from Fifshire.1

SHAND, George, James and William and their sister, Mrs MILNE, arr 1850 from
Inverurie.1

SINCLAIR, James, arr 1857.1

SMELLIE, Robert, arr 1861 from Lanarkshire in the Storm Cloud. 1

SOMERVILLE, John, arr 1848, Blundell.1

STEVENSON, Robert, arr 1848, Philip Laing.1

THOMPSON, John, Bank Clerk of Scotland.1

TODD, Alexander, a banker from Glasgow. 1

TODD, Andrew, (Junior), arr Phoebe Dunbar Oct, 1850 from Fifshire.1

TODD, Andrew, (Senior, aqrr 1852.1

WILLIAMSON, James, arr 1848 in the Philip Laing.1

Sources:
1 Carolyn M Rhodes. (These names extracted from books on buildings in the
Taieri Plains area).
2 Dell (C. L.) Purdie, (From letters of Henry Wight Purdie, Run Manager
and other material from books etc)
3 Mrs L. Webster, of Auckland.


Rotorua. NZ

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