Notes provided by Helen Edwards, who has carried out extensive research on the women who signed Sheet 156, including mapping where they lived. Download pdf of this research here.
Bathia Moir, nee Rennie [B. Moir, Roslyn] (No. 15)
Land description: Allotment 9, Block 2, Township of Roslyn. Address: (18) Michie Street. Age in 1893: 75
Bathia Rennie was born in Aberdeen in 1818, the daughter of Jane Hill and George Rennie. She married George Isaac Moir, an Aberdeen toy dealer, in 1846. They left Aberdeen in 1874 to sail on the Invercargill to Port Chalmers, with their sons, ranging in age from 24 to 7. They moved to Michie Street in 1876 and George, now a warehouse keeper, died two years later, at the age of 73. Bathia died on April 3, 1907. The Northern Cemetery record gives her age as 83 years, but she was 89 when she died. 18 Michie Street remained in the family until their son Henry’s death in 1949.