John Waddell married Janet Cleland in 1829 in Scotland and they had eight of a family. John died between 1851 and 1854, and the widowed Janet was in Cadder with four of her children in 1861.
The eldest daughter Jane married in Scotland in 1850 and remained there. Two daughters died in infancy.
I know that William b 1840 and Janet b 1843 emigrated to New Zealand, married and had families there, and William was buried in the cemetery at Gore 1926. I don't know where Janet died, but it was in 1919, and her husband William Lockhart Gray died at Pukeuri in 1917. Also I found the following on Papers Past: At her brother's residence, Sylvan Bank, on the 23rd November, Catherine Waddell, youngest daughter of the late John Waddell, of Chryston, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Aged 27 years. [Southland Times, 24 November 1875]
That leaves John b 1832 and Grace b 1836 unaccounted for.
I see that a John Waddell died in New Zealand in 1895, aged 63. A Grace Waddell married William Frew in New Zealand in 1870, and a Grace Frew died in New Zealand in 1914 aged 78. A Janet Waddell, aged 68, died in New Zealand in 1871; could this be Janet Cleland, even though she would only have turned 64 in 1871?
So can anyone tell me where Sylvan Bank was? Also point me at a suitable place to find out when they emigrated?
