C J. Anderson

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.

Margaret Wallace (Maggie) Anderson [M. W. Anderson, Roslyn] (No. 25) Age:  27 and

Catherine Jane (Kate) Anderson [C. J. Anderson, Roslyn] (No. 26) Age: 28

Land description: Lots 10 and 11, Block 3, Township of Roslyn. Address:  24 Hart Street.

Kate and Maggie are the eldest daughters of Catherine Auchterlonie and Andrew Anderson, tailor, who married at Andrew’s York Place home in 1861. Catherine was born in Fifeshire about 1831, and emigrated about 1860; Andrew arrived in Otago on board the Jura in 1858 and set up his tailor’s business in Rattray Street. The deed to his half-acre of Hart Street land and house was signed in 1880. He built another house next door about 1898, which was rented and then purchased by the architect Edward W. Walden, whose family remained in Hart Street until the 1950s. Kate and Maggie were 11 born in York Place, Kate in 1865 and Maggie in 1866. Their mother died in 1886, and the family had two step-mothers—one from Paris, and the other from Ireland. Kate died at Hart Street in 1899, aged 34, and is buried in the Southern Cemetery with her parents. Maggie married Alexander Lyon McGregor Dickson, a farmer living at Portobello, in 1900, and had six children between 1901 and 1909. The family moved to Riccarton, Christchurch, about 1915. Maggie died in 1921, aged 54, the only child to outlive her father, who died the previous year. Maggie and Alexander are buried in the Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch.