EDIT: fresh request in post #23 for sightings of Isabel Marguerite Easton nee Adamson in 1944 onwards
My starting point is Lockhart Dobbie Easton, born 1854 in Girvan, Ayrshire. Both Lockhart and Dobbie are well-used family names, which makes tracing descendants fairly straightforward. This is what I know about him:
Sailed Glasgow to Melbourne aged 22 on the Loch Ard arriving May 1877. Was this the Loch Ard which was shipwrecked and gave its name to a bay on the shipwreck coast?
In 1880 he's living in Sydenham, Canterbury, NZ and is a teacher. There's a NZ birth record in 1880 for a son Lockhart Easton, mother Catherine. I can't find any details of this Catherine. Lockhart jun. in 1891 is with the grandparents in Scotland on his own and then disappears.
By 1885 Lockhart sen. has moved to Auckland, and in 1889 he's admitted as a solicitor.
In 1891 he has a daughter Elizabeth Lockhart Easton with Elizabeth Biddy Boult in Woodville, South Australia. She dies in 1945 in New Zealand.
In 1892-3 he's a teacher at Crystal Brook, South Australia, but resigns.
In 1896-1911 they are living in the Tasman district of NZ. From 1905 onwards he is shown as a solicitor.
In 1912 he is nominated to the school board in Nelson and in 1914 he dies.
Daughter Elizabeth marries Alexander Stewart in NZ in 1916.
This is as much as I've been able to find out, using Ancestry, Familysearch, the NZ BMD indexes and a few Google hits. So who was Catherine and what happened to her? What happened to Lockhart jun. afer 1891? And what happened to Elizabeth Biddy between 1914 and 1945? Did he actually marry either of these ladies?
There's a gap in the NZ electoral rolls between the death of Lockhart sen. in 1914 and the 1940's, when the name pops up again, possiibly one or more families of descendants.
I'm hoping that someone more skilled with Australian and NZ sources may be able to give me some leads.
My starting point is Lockhart Dobbie Easton, born 1854 in Girvan, Ayrshire. Both Lockhart and Dobbie are well-used family names, which makes tracing descendants fairly straightforward. This is what I know about him:
Sailed Glasgow to Melbourne aged 22 on the Loch Ard arriving May 1877. Was this the Loch Ard which was shipwrecked and gave its name to a bay on the shipwreck coast?
In 1880 he's living in Sydenham, Canterbury, NZ and is a teacher. There's a NZ birth record in 1880 for a son Lockhart Easton, mother Catherine. I can't find any details of this Catherine. Lockhart jun. in 1891 is with the grandparents in Scotland on his own and then disappears.
By 1885 Lockhart sen. has moved to Auckland, and in 1889 he's admitted as a solicitor.
In 1891 he has a daughter Elizabeth Lockhart Easton with Elizabeth Biddy Boult in Woodville, South Australia. She dies in 1945 in New Zealand.
In 1892-3 he's a teacher at Crystal Brook, South Australia, but resigns.
In 1896-1911 they are living in the Tasman district of NZ. From 1905 onwards he is shown as a solicitor.
In 1912 he is nominated to the school board in Nelson and in 1914 he dies.
Daughter Elizabeth marries Alexander Stewart in NZ in 1916.
This is as much as I've been able to find out, using Ancestry, Familysearch, the NZ BMD indexes and a few Google hits. So who was Catherine and what happened to her? What happened to Lockhart jun. afer 1891? And what happened to Elizabeth Biddy between 1914 and 1945? Did he actually marry either of these ladies?
There's a gap in the NZ electoral rolls between the death of Lockhart sen. in 1914 and the 1940's, when the name pops up again, possiibly one or more families of descendants.
I'm hoping that someone more skilled with Australian and NZ sources may be able to give me some leads.
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