Hello,
My Name is Natalie and I live in New Zealand. I've been doing an internet search on James & Margaret(nee Murray) Stenhouse and I came across your posting.
Margaret and James came to New Zealand on the "Strathfieldsaye" which sailed 25 Jan 1858 from Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. They arrived on 29 Apr 1858 "Strathfieldsaye", Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. I will try to attached some documents for you. They were one of my sets of my great great grandparents on my mothers side. They had 4 children, three boys Robert, William and James Junior and a girl (Jessie who died aged 3 months. In the 1882 Return of NZ Freeholders of Land he is listed as have land worth 160 pounds in St Kilda, which is a suburb of Dunedin. He was listed with an occupation of Inspector. This is a very nice suburb of Dunedin and very close to the sea. He also stood for the St Kilda Borough Council and was elected in 1888. He was the mayor of St Kilda for some time. For some reason in late 1800's the family packed up and went to Australia. James junior stayed behind and he was a well known hotel proprietor on the West Coast and Otago. I have some other information and photo's of james and Margaret which I can hunt down if you are interested. Regards,