Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Jessie/Janet Mercer was born in 1861 in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland – the daughter of Charles Mercer, a farmer, and Eliza Heron. (See 53 Mrs Mercer)
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1863 on the Arima and they settled at The Glen, Mornington, Dunedin where they ran a dairy farm.
Jessie married Thomas Reid Christie, a plumber, on 2 January 1889 in the Mornington parish.
They had three children, one who died in infancy before Janet died on 11 June 1905.
Thomas re-married in 1906, he died in 1933 and he is buried with Jessie in the family grave in the Northern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Presbyterian Research Centre https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/
Scotlands People https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk