Beryl Barclay McKeich

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Beryl married Charles Roy Irvine on 12 Feb 1929 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Charles was born on 30 Dec 1902 in Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand; died on 23 May 1978 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Have at least 5 children in total

1. Bruce Raymond Irvine

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• Alias: Wattie
• Occupation: wool classer

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Died:

Walter married Elizabeth Barclay Waddell on 28 Mar 1906 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Elizabeth was born on 25 Jul 1883 in Outram, Otago, New Zealand; died on 13 Dec 1959 in Hamilton, New Zealand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Father: William WADDELL b: 26 APR 1843 in Stirlingshire, Scotland c: 01 SEP 1843 in Stirlingshire, Scotland
Mother: Elizabeth Wilson BARCLAY b: 02 JUN 1857 in Inverness, Scotland


Elizabeth died on 13 December 1959 at Hamilton. She died of Congestive Heart Failure, rheumatic heart disease, Uraemia and chronic nephritis. Elizabeth was cremated at Purewa Cemetery on 15 December 1959 and her ashes scattered around the Garden of Memories there.
The following notes were given to Colin McKeich by his sister Muriel Ford, shortly before their mother's death. Muriel's daughter Judith Holdsworth is vigorously pursuing the Barclay/Waddell genealogy and Bill McKeich has engaged a researcher in Scotland to research George Barclay's and Jane Spence's parents and occupations.

"My grandmother's (Mum's Mother) people the Barclays had a shoe shop at Inverness, Scotland.

George Barclay (Mum's cousin) had her walking stick in his collection. It was the life of her father, William Waddell, carved by someone on the West Coast. Probably sold to his relations.

Mary Meiklejohn a daughter of Lawrence Barclay (George's brother). They live in Dunedin and have a son John who is a teacher at Kings High. Mary was a teacher too.

Marie Barclay (George's sister) married Alex Williamson a teacher, dead now, but she lives at Balclutha with a neice and nephew and is 94."

We now know that George Barclay was a master shoemaker and learned his trade in Falkirk, moving to Inverness after he and Jane Spence were married



Died:
Died in the Public Hospital

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Married:
Married at the home of W Thomas Barclay and witnessed by Elizabeth Hodge Barclay (probably his wife).

All entries for 1911 electoral roll living at 14 Oxford Street, South Dunedin
14045, Best, Alfred Ernest, Commercial Traveller
14046, Best, Isabella, Married
18788, Mckeich, Elizabeth Barclay, Married
18791, Mckeich, Walter Ernest, Wool Classer


All entries for 1914 - 1919 - 1922 - 1925 electoral roll living at 151 Bay View Road, St Kilda
18788, Mckeich, Elizabeth Barclay, Married
18791, Mckeich, Walter Ernest, Wool Classer

All entries for 1928 - 1931 electoral roll living at 151 Bay View Road, St Kilda
49370, Mckeich, Colin Harrie, Electrician
18788, Mckeich, Elizabeth Barclay, Married
18791, Mckeich, Walter Ernest, Woolclasser

Other Events:

• Occupation: Butcher

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Robert married Emily Harriet Bicknell and had 5 children being James Henry, Ada, Walter Ernest, Ethel Maud, Robert William. Robert married Rebecca McWhinney and had a child called Robert


Died:

Robert married Emily Harriet Bicknell on 8 Mar 1876 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Emily was born on 7 Jan 1857 in Raglan, Fiery Creek, Victoria, Australia; died on 2 Jun 1924 in Glasgow, South Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth: 5 September 1855. Ref # 1297/1855, Schedule A, District of Collingwood, Victoria
Marriage: 8 March 1876. Ref # 7, Copy of Register of Marriage, # 628, District of Dunedin.
Death: 4 June 1902. Ref Telegram from Commanding Officer, 9th NZ Regiment.

Detailed information about Robert can be found in "The McKeich Family History" compiled by his great grandson Bill McKeich and also in the "Boer War Diary " of Lieutenant Robert McKeich, 9th NZ Contingent, transcribed by Bill McKeich.

Copies of the Diary have been lodged in the Lawrence Museum, National Archives and the Waiouru War Museum where the original manuscript is held.

Robert left Melbourne on 18 December 1875 aboard the Ringarooma and landed in Invercargill on Friday 24 December 1875. His age was given as 29. He was in fact only 20.

There is a record of " Mrs Bicknel" travelling on the Ringarooma on the same dates as Robert. Could this have been the 18 year old Emily? Emily was very pregnant and she and Robert married in
March 1876 and their eldest child Jim was born two months later.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Postillion of Stirling, Investor, Carter, Slaughterman in Victoria, farmer of Yanakie

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James was a postillion living in Stirling when he married Mary Bets (Bates).

James left Scotland on 16 September 1850 on board the ship "Madawaska" out of Liverpool. He arrived in Melbourne on 17 December 1850.

James is reputed to have made 10,000 pounds by investing in mines was able to purchase houses and property in Melbourne and Beaufort and paid for his wife and her mother Mary to come to Victoria. He invested some of his money in a firm called Buckley and Nunn. He later sold these shares to the firm which later became the well known Australian Department store "David Jones".

James and his partner Henry Davis purchased the lease on the Yanakie Station in 1862.They traded in horses and sent shiploads to Invercargill. The first of these was supposed to have been lost at sea with the same fate happening to the next shipment. There is some doubt about this however.

After hearing of the loss of the second shipment James died of an "Aneurysm of the Arch of the Aorta" on 14 January 1864.

James is buried in an unmarked grave in the small cemetery at Yanakie.

James married Mary Betts on 2 Nov 1849 in Barony, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. Mary was born on 2 Oct 1831 in Polmont, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK; died on 10 Feb 1868 in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Alias: Bates

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Mary married Henry Davis and had 2 children called Charles Henry and William Ernest

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Married:
Marriage also recorded on 20 OCT 1849in Stirling