Gender | Female | |
Alternate Name | Ellen [3] | |
Emigration Note | Listing from Shipping News in Otago Witness of the voyage of the Robert Henderson to Port Chalmer. Deaths “.....June 7 Ellen Houliston, aged 9 months of convulsions...” [3] | |
From Here A Name | They sailed on June 2nd from Glasgow in the 'Robert Henderson' (552 tons) which, under the command of Captain Logan, reached Port Chalmers on Monday, September 3rd, 1860. Their voyage had an unfortunate beginning as on June 7th the nine-months-old infant, Helen, died of consumption and was buried at sea. [1] | |
Birth | 23 August 1859 | Dovecote Hall, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland [1, 4] |
Baptism | 23 August 1859 | Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland [5] |
Death | 7 June 1860 | Onboard Ship Robert Henderson [1, 3] |
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Burial | after 7 June 1860 | At Sea [1] |
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Person ID | I2602 | Roger |
Last Modified | 19 May 2006 |
Father | Mister [--?--] | |
Mother | Agnes Houliston b. 29 July 1839, Kennetsideheads, Hume, Berwickshire, Scotland d. 26 July 1921, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand (Age 81 years) | |
Family ID | F4273 | Family Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Photos | Dovecothall - the house at Cockburnspath Dovecothall is the house that Robert Houliston his wife Alice Wright, and their children lived in before leaving for New Zealand in 1860. Their eldest daughter Ellen Shiels Houliston married William Moffat in this house. Helen Houliston was born here in August 1859. | |
Painting of the ships “Robert Henderson” and “Pladda” in Port Chalmers, 1861 Image from Toitū Otago Settlers Museum’s collection. Watercolour by Robert Park MacGoun. Draughtsman Robert Park MacGoun arrived in New Zealand from Glasgow in 1862. In 1877 he took up a position as the first county clerk for the Southland County Council. MacGoun remained Southland county clerk until 1906. As a painter he was known mainly for watercolour paintings of Invercargill and Bluff in the 1880s. https://collections.toituosm.com/objects/21448 |
Documents | Birth Entry for Helen Houliston born 1859 Copy of entry in Birth Register for Cockburnspath, Berwickshire of birth of Helen Houliston to Agnes Houliston. Informant is Robert Houliston - Helen's grandfather. Helen died on the voyage to New Zealand. | |
Shipping News from Otago Daily Witness of 8 September 1860. Bottom corner of page 4 lists passengers arriving on Robert Henderson at Port Chalmers. Shows the following families: "Donald Campbell, wife, son and 2 daughters"; "Robert Houliston, wife, 4 sons, 4 daughters"; "Alexander King, wife, son and daughter"; "Adam King, 3 sons and 5 daughters"; and records the death of Ellen Houliston on 7 June and Jane King (wife of Adam) on 14 June. From http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/bin/papers?name=OW&year=1860&month=09&day=08&action=view |
Histories | Article about Robert Houliston and Christina Cameron from Stan Dunn's "Please meet.... Robert Houliston and Christina Cameron" The first 7 pages from the booklet made available by Stan Dunn that lists the descendants of Robert Houliston and Christina Cameron. Photocopy obtained by Roger Moffat in August 2004 | |
Travels of the Moffats - by Peter Moffat This article written by Peter Moffat describes his travels in the footsteps of his ancestors in Berwickshire as he visited the farms and places where several generations of Moffat and Houliston ancestors lived and worked | ||
Document about Houliston and Lawson Families' Early History Document supplied by Michelle Fitzsimons Scott, who prefaced it saying it was told to her by her grandmother - Catherine Jane Higgins - in 1977. |
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