Elizabeth Leslie Findlater1

F, #4264, b. 5 February 1839, d. 21 November 1909
FatherAlexander Findlater b. 1811, d. 18 Nov 1876
MotherElizabeth Turnbull b. 1814, d. 6 Oct 1866
     Elizabeth Leslie Findlater was born, 5 February 1839, in Main Street, Glasgow, Anderston, Lanark, Scotland. Place of birth is in question; one source has, Edinburgh; the other, Anderston, Glasgow.2,3

Alexander Findlater, Elizabeth Findlater, James Turnbull Findlater, Mary Findlater and Susan Forrester Findlater immigrated with their father Alexander Findlater 26 March 1850 to Port Chalmers, New Zealand. He sailed from London, 7 December 1849 aboard the Lady Nugent..4

Elizabeth Leslie Findlater married James Auchinleck Cheyne 27 April 1855, in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.1,5,6

Photo of James Auchinleck Cheyne and his wife Elizabeth Leslie Findlater, taken circa 1870, courtesy of the Early Settlers Museum, Dunedin, and Margaret Dunseath.7

Elizabeth Leslie Cheyne died 21 November 1909 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.2,8,9

Eliza. L. Cheyne was buried 23 November 1909, at Northern Cemetery, in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. She was buried in Block 122, Plot 31 with her husband, son James and daughter Bessie Thomson..10,11

Family

James Auchinleck Cheyne b. 31 Jan 1829, d. 8 Jan 1882
Children

Citations

  1. [S201] Records of Gerard Auchinleck Cheyne.
  2. [S219] Records of Peter Wood, New Zealand.
  3. [S412] Records of Margaret Dunseath, Hamilton, New Zealand, Birth date and place provided via email, 26 April 2007. Her source; Findlater Family History, held at the Early Settlers Museum, Dunedin.
  4. [S412] Records of Margaret Dunseath, Hamilton, New Zealand, Immigration date provided via email, 26 April 2007. Her source; Early Settlers Museum, Dunedin.
  5. [S412] Records of Margaret Dunseath, Hamilton, New Zealand, Marriage date and place received via e-mail, 15 April 2007.
  6. [S556] Webpage BMD Indexes, Government of New Zealand (https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/home/) "Marriage records 127 and 296 for the year of 1856."
  7. [S412] Records of Margaret Dunseath, Hamilton, New Zealand, Photo provided via email, 25 April 2007. Her source; Early Settlers Museum, Dunedin.
  8. [S412] Records of Margaret Dunseath, Hamilton, New Zealand, Death date provided via email, 26 April 2007. Her source; unknown.
  9. [S428] Miscellaneous Websites, Date of death found at WebSite for City of Dunedin http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/.
  10. [S460] Information provided by a Web Page Contributor, Place of burial provided by Eleanor Watt, in New Zealand, 6 June 2009.
  11. [S428] Miscellaneous Websites, Date of bural found at WebSite for City of Dunedin http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/.