This might be of help to you - the family in New Zealand. It's correct as far as I know. Regards, Leonie
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Charles Currie * b 6/4/1844 Annan, Dumfriesshire
Emigrated 1887???
Religion: Brethren
Occupation: Sawyer
d 14/9/1911 (NZ) chopping wood, (recorded at Heart Disease) in Prince Street, Feilding
Buried in the Feilding Cemetery
m Jane Irving ** b 29/4/1851 Kirkpatrick-Fleming, Dumfriesshire
Religion Brethren
m 1/1/1875
at Kirkpatrick-Fleming, Annan, Dumfries
Lived Kinning Park, Glasgow - 1881 Census
d 17/8/1902 of Cardiac Disease, Feilding, New Zealand
(did she go blind some years prior to this?)
Buried in the Feilding Cemetery
children:
Rollo Currie (formerly Irving) b 19/3/1868 Kirkpatrick-Fleming
(now a Currie - Jane's daughter)
d 23/5/1904
m 1891
to Charles S Tarrant
children:
Ermgarde (Giddie) b 10/1/1892
d 1970
m Ben Jacobsen:
children:
Betty b 8/1/1915
Audrey b 31/3/1920
Frank I b 20/4/1893
d 12/12/1918
(died from disease - in action)
Nellie b 25/11/1894
d 12/8/1944
Charles J b 28/11/1896
Rollo (Dolly) b 3/6/1899
Ivy May b 20/5/1904
James b c 1876 Kirkpatrick-Fleming
d ??
Frank J b 19/11/1878 Govan, Glasgow
d 17/10/1902 Wanganui Hospital, New Zealand
Albert C b 6/10/1879 Govan, Glasgow
d 18/3/1943
Religion Brethren
Lived Dannevirke
m Beatrice E Williams
children:
Norman C b 2/4/1906
Eveline E b 19/1/? -
Mavis B b 30/10/1910 or 1911
Agnes Irving b 21/5/1882 Kinning Park, Glasgow
d 3/8/1948 Feilding, New Zealand
m 1905
to Henry (Harry) Simpson
children:
George H b 1905
d 1987
m Mari McKay
children:
Elaine M
Grahame K
Beryl E
Russell W
Fanny Elsie b 1907
d 1981
m Harry Sowerby
Mabel b 1912
d 1974
m William Osborne
children:
Pauline
Jenny (twin of John)
John (twin of Jenny)
David
Eric L b 1916
d 1978
m Eliza Swallow
children:
Moreen
Lorraine
Shirley
Trevor
Brett
Kathleen
Lesley
Barbara
Jean I b 1919
d 2009
m Eric Jefferies
Children:
Susan
Zena
Janice
Marcia
Adriane
Terrence
Paul
Sandra
Phyllis R b 1923
d 1983
m P William Ramsay
Children:
Glenn
Wayne
Peter
George Coulthard
b 16/2 /1886 (Glasgow, Scotland)
d 5/6/1916 (killed in action - Armentieres, France)
Occupation Ironmonger, McFarland & Co, Wanganui
Religion Church of England
Ellen (Nellie) (The only one of Charles and Jane's children born in New Zealand)
b 5/1/1889 (Makino Road, Feilding)
d 12/2/1959 (Christchurch)
m 22/2/1909 at Feilding
m Henry William Taylor
Lived 3 Pirie Road, Palmerston North
Church Street, Palmerston North
Hazeldine Road, Christchurch
Roseberry Street, Christchurch
children:
Maisie b 1909
m Duncan Geddis Collie
children:
Glenys b 1937
Vivienne b 1943
Gillian b 1945
Iris Muriel b 1911
d 2004
m John Duncan Litten
children:
Shona b 1940
Lynley b 1942
Jacqueline b 1943
Léonie b 1948
Aubrey Lindo b 1913
d 1977
m Lurline Grace Leslie
children:
George b 1943
Shirley b 1948
Jean b 1915
d 2008
Inez Doreen b 1916
d 2010
m Carson Linton Stevens
children:
Adrienne b 1943
Jennifer b 1945
Rosemary b 1949
Léonie Gladys b 1917
b 8/1/1928 d 2004
m Peter Norman Ewing
George Lockhart b 1920
d Benghazi, 25 April 1942
(killed in action WWII)
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I'm also holding an old birthday book and these names appear:
Beverley Jacobsen b 8/1/1928
August (or Auguste) Currie 26/7/?
Mavis Currie b 30/10/1910
Does anyone know how they fit into our family.
I look forward to reading your replies.
Kind regards
Leonie Litten