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Born:
30 January 1803 - Old Monkland, Lanark, Scotland
(OS map: NS717633)
(parish record)
Mother: Isobel FREW (née TOPEN)
Father: Archibald FREW
Married:
12 July 1824 (banns) - Old Monkland, Lanark, Scotland
(OS map: NS717633)
(parish record)
To: James STRANG (sr)
Scottish Census:
1851 at Springfield Place, Gorbals, Glasgow
(OS map: NS579647)
1861 at Springfield Lane, Govan, Glasgow
(OS map: NS579647)
Children:
James STRANG (jr) (b: ±1829-30)
Robert STRANG (b: ±1832-33)
John STRANG (b: ±1834-35)
William STRANG (b: ±1836-37)
George STRANG (b: ±1838-39)
Daniel STRANG (b: ±1843-44)
Isabella STRANG (b: ±1843-44)
David STRANG (b: ±1847-48)
Emigrated: on the barque, "Harwood"
from London, departed 23 June 1863
arrived Bluff on 1 October 1863
list of emigrants (prior to arrival in NZ)
Payments from assisted immigrants - 1872 list (Otago Early Settlers Museum)
(note that son JAMES is shown on the list of emigrants,
but daughter ISABELLA is subsequently shown on the later payments list.
Seems his name was listed incorrectly originally, as he did not come on that voyage.)
pp140-141 of Invercargill Pioneers (1946) by Fred Hall-Jones
Died:
14 August 1879 - Invercargill, NZ (cert)
Aged: 76
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Mrs James Strang
4 Springfield Place
Paisley Road
March 31st
1863
Bible inscription (inside front cover)
(modern location: approx 1 Shearer Street)
Buried in Invercargill's Eastern Cemetery - block 4, plot 131 (GPS: -46.4065, 168.3941)