Stewart, Isabella

Abt 1853 - 1945  (~ 92 years)

• Name	Stewart, Isabella
  Born	Abt 1853	Perthshire
  Gender	Female
  Died	4 Aug 1945	Palmerston North NZ
  Person ID	I289	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2004

  
  

  Father	Stewart, Charles
  Mother	McLaren, Christina
  Family ID	F106	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alexander, William,   b. 25 May 1850, Meikle Wartle ,   d. 13 Jul 1913, Palmerston North NZ  (Age 63 years)
  Married	27 May 1881	Knox Church Dunedin
  Children	1. Alexander, William,   b. 23 Apr 1882, Invercargill NZ ,   d. 30 Jul 1948, Palmerston North Nz  (Age 66 years)   2. Alexander, Isabella,   b. 22 Oct 1885, Woodlands Invercargill NZ ,   d. 23 Jan 1984, Palmerston North  (Age 98 years)
  Photos		Rin 226 289 GOLDEN_WEDDING
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2014
  Family ID	F77	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Rin 289 Isabella Stewart GOLDEN_WEDDING
  		Golden Wedding William Alexander//Isabella Brown June 1899 Back Row L to R Robert Alexander Jean Alexander Sandy Burr William Alexander James Alexander Front Row L to R Isabel Jaffrey William Alexander Snr. Isabella Brown Isabella Stewart Jeanne L Stephen Jean Alexander and husband are side by side in the back row the other three couples are husband in back wife immediately in front
  		Isabella Alexander, Isabella Middleton, Rita Daun

  
  

  Headstones

  William & Isabelle Alexander Palmerston North Early Settlers Graveyard The round ball on top of the stone was knocked down by vandals and not replaced.

  
  

• Notes

  Family legend is that Isabella was an orphan with no family of her own I have no information as to this and a search for her birth in Scotland covering 1850 to 1854 inclusive produced 37 candidates but none with the right parentage When she married William Alexander in Knox Church Dunedin she gave her age as 28 born Scotland occupation housemaid resident Dunedin her father Charles Stewart labourer and her mother Christina McLaren The couple went to live in Woodlands near Invercargill where William was farming but later I believe they became shopkeepers in Winton, eventually moving to Palmerston North She became the much loved "Grannie Alexander" of New Zealand family lore Could be relied upon to provide help to new emigrants from the old country until they found their feet in the new