Biography contributed by Helen Edwards.
Wilhelmina Mason was born on 24 May 1845 in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland, to Jane Boon and James Mason. In 1863 she sailed to Port Chalmers on the Victory with her mother and siblings. She married William Robertson, an insurance agent, in Christchurch, on 20 July 1870. William was born on 27 January 1843 at New Monkland, Lanarkshire. He emigrated on the Larkins in 1849 with his parents, Charles and Helen Robertson. Wilhelmina had eight children in Dunedin between 1873 and 1889 – three daughters and five sons. The family moved to ‘Straun’, 28 High Street (now Highgate), Maori Hill, about 1889. William died in 1903 and is buried with his parents in Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery. Wilhelmina died on 24 December 1931, at Lower Hutt. William Robertson’s niece, Ellen Gilbert, signed Sheet 125.
Main sources
ancestry.com
Births death & marriages online. Dept. of Internal Affairs
Stone’s Otago and Southland commercial, municipal and general directory … Dunedin: Stone & Co., 1884-