Grace Armit

Armit, Grace, Stuart Street, North Dunedin. [Suburb should be Roslyn or Kaikorai]
Grace Wilson McIntyre was born in Anderston, Glasgow, on 19 April 1865. She was the daughter of Henrietta Baxter, born in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, and Robert McIntyre, an expressman, born in Perth. Grace and her family left Scotland for Otago between 1877 and 1880. She married Andrew Armit on 26 December 1892 in the Kaikorai Presbyterian Church, when she was 27 and Andrew 29. Andrew, the eldest son of John Armit and Ann McNaughton, was born in Inverkeithing, Fife, about 1864 and emigrated with other family members about 1874. On his marriage, he moved from the family home in Rose Street, Roslyn (now Coleridge Street) to Broughton. When Grace signed the petition, she gave her address as Stuart Street. Stuart Street (now Gilmore Street) was one of the streets in the Kaikorai subdivision of Broughton. Andrew was a factory operative, working at the Roslyn Woollen Mills, and a keen sportsman. Grace was living at 62 Broughton Street when she died on 26 August 1912, aged 47. Andrew died in 1929, at the age of 66. They are buried in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin, with Grace’s parents. Grace’s father, Robert McIntyre, died at the Armits' house in 1908, and may have lived with them for some years. Robert was in partnership with Sim Edwards when their manufacturing business went bankrupt in 1895. Sim’s wife, Eliza Jane Edwards, née Bennetto, signed Sheet 98.

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