Biography contributed by Helen Edwards
Jean Chalmers Crombie was the daughter of Isobel / Isabel Thompson and John Crombie. She was born on 13 November 1830 in Kinnesswood, a village in Kinross in the parish of Portmoak, and became a weaver like her father. About 1852 she married Andrew Beath, a local man, born in 1824. His parents were William Beath and Janet Buchan. Jean gave birth to ten children in Scotland between 1853 and 1873. Eight of them were aboard the Oamaru in 1874 with their parents, on the voyage to Otago. By 1880 Andrew and Jane Beath were living in their own home at Tay Street, Linden (now Tyne Street, Roslyn), where they stayed until about 1901. Electoral rolls describe Andrew as a watchman, and later as a labourer. Jane Chalmers Beath died in Dunedin on 14 June 1902, aged 71. She is buried in Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery with Andrew, who died in 1904, aged 80.
Main sources
ancestry.com
Cemeteries search. Dunedin City Council
Electoral rolls on microfiche and ancestry.com
OASES. Toitu Otago Settlers’ Museum
Otago and Southland assisted passengers (OSAP) 1872-1882. Toitu Otago Settlers Museum/Dunedin Family History Group.
Stone’s Otago and Southland commercial, municipal and general directory … Dunedin: Stone & Co., 1884-
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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