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Re: ALEXANDER
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 01 March 09 09:38 GMT (UK) »
Hi again

I'm hopeful that I may have found a burial for Jane (Jennie,  Jeannie) ?

Have got a little "homework" assignment for you firstly, though.    :D

Are you able to find an ALEXANDER daughter ?
The name I have,  is  "Jean Rennie ALEXANDER".

Lu

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« Reply #19 on: Sunday 01 March 09 09:50 GMT (UK) »
Hi Lu

That is sad news.
I have rechecked and on Scotlandspeople the birth of James Rennie Alexander was 1st feb 1901. I apologise for the tpying error.

It was William who was born in 1902.

As there was a 5 year gap between William and Robert, I wonder if there were other children. I will have search later today and see what I can find.
Also I will check out Jean Rennie Alexander. That will be the 3rd one in the family so far as James seniors brothers George and William both had daughters named Jean (Jane) rennie Alexander.
That may be a child in the gap.

Will get back as soon as I have the info.

Thanks again
Mandy

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Re: ALEXANDER
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 01 March 09 10:23 GMT (UK) »
Hi Mandy

That there are other "Jean Rennie's" in the family  ... is sounding positive.  ;)   

The one in New Zealand, married in 1922 - so perhaps would be born between 1903-05 (if she wed at a young age) ?

William Christie ALEXANDER died (1978) in Wellington, which is a very long way from Denniston (Burnett's face), where I'd found him on electoral rolls, (with wife Ethel May),  from 1925 until a last sighting, in 1943.

It seems the couple may have had two sons ? Edit:  Perhaps not ?  There is an Albert and a Charles ALEXANDER at Burnett's Face 1935 - but they would be too old to be William's sons.
Will see if I can source a death notice for William.

Lu

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Re: ALEXANDER
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 01 March 09 11:08 GMT (UK) »
 ----  Information from Electoral Rolls :

The first appearance of ALEXANDER's at Burnett's Face, is on the 1919 Buller Electorate Roll, (which means they arrived in NZ a little earlier than first thought.)

BUT  ...  I can't find a listing, for James (snr.) .. on any roll. ?

1919 and 1922

-  Jane ALEXANDER - married, Burnett's Face
(There is "James ALEXANDER" listed - "a carpenter" but at another address (with a Dorothy Margaret, spinster) - not your man, I feel ?).

1925

-  William Christie ALEXANDER - miner - Burnett's Face
-  Ethel May (his wife)
   (Jane ALEXANDER is missing from this roll).

1931

- William and Ethel (as above) - same address
Jean ALEXANDER - widow - Burnett's Face.

[*  Jane ... becomes "Jean" at this point.  I'm pretty sure that earlier listing "Jane" is actually the same person.  William Christie wouldn't have been eligible to vote until he was 21, so his "first appearance" on roll is 1925.]

It looks like I missed getting the 1928 roll info ... drat !   So it's a little bit difficult to say, when Jane became a widow.

1935 / 1941 / 1943

- Jean - William Christie - Ethel May ALEXANDER - all at Burnett's Face.

1946

-  [William Christie & Ethel May - NO longer on this roll.]
-  Jean ALEXANDER - widow, Burnett's Face (still listed).

1949-51 -  only Jean ALEXANDER listed on Buller Roll.

1954  - Jean ALEXANDER no longer on this roll.
                                -------------------------

*   Those last two listings for Jean (1949 thru 1954) may be incorrect - sometimes names weren't removed from rolls - so Jean may have left the area aound the same time as her son ?

Lu




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Re: ALEXANDER
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 01 March 09 19:18 GMT (UK) »
This may have been covered, nut if not here is info from NZSG index CD where family name is ALEXANDER and RENNIE is a first ot middle name

Undertaker's Records Name ALEXANDER Elizabeth Rennie, age 53
Date 7 Sep 1939 Cemetery Kihikihi

Matching NZ Bride and Groom Records
Name ALEXANDER Jean Rennie 1922 to GREER

Pedigree submission
Name ALEXANDER John Rennie
Place Fyvie SCT
Date 22 Jun 1864 (Birth)

Probate:
NZ Probates Name ALEXANDER John Rennie
Place Te Roti Occupation Retired Farmer
Filed Date 9 Feb 1956

Bye
Althea

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« Reply #23 on: Thursday 09 April 09 13:56 BST (UK) »
Hi Lu

Sorry it has taken a while to get back to you.
I am afraifd I cannot find a Jane Rennie Alexander with James as her father.
I even tried to find a child with the middle name McCaldrige as this was the family name whilst in Ireland, not sure why the change of name, but have had some interesting information form others on the Ireland boards. One of the sons James Rennie Alexander 1901, but we have covered him.

We have other Alexanders who had immigrated to Australia, but these were much later after WW2.

The search goes on
Many thanks

Mandy

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« Reply #24 on: Thursday 09 April 09 13:59 BST (UK) »
Althea
many thanks. it becomes quite difficult at times to separate out the related Alexanders and those who are not, especially when middle names crop up the same. It could well be a connection, but I have so many bits of info trying to pull them together is a nightmare at times.
I will look into the info you have found and it may well fit in with a cousin or brother of the Alexanders I have.
As you will see from my previous post the family name was interchanged in Ireland form McCaldrige to Alexander, making it a little harder to keep on top of the info.

Thanks again

Mandy

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« Reply #25 on: Thursday 09 April 09 14:07 BST (UK) »
Lucy
you mentioned  this  "There is an Albert and a Charles ALEXANDER at Burnett's Face 1935 - but they would be too old to be William's sons.
Will see if I can source a death notice for William."

in a previous post.

We have a Charles Alexander who is an uncle of James. We lost site of him after the death of his mother in 1921. I wonder if that is him in New Zealand with his nephew?
Charles was born 1890 in Ballymoney, N. Ireland.

May be a long shot!!!
Mandy

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Re: ALEXANDER
« Reply #26 on: Saturday 18 April 09 00:07 BST (UK) »
Hi Mandy

Will get back to you shortly re: these ALEXANDERs.


Lu