Sunday, December 2, 2012

Bain family

George Bain (1839, Ireland - 9 December 1918, Seddonville) married Grace Dempster (18 March 1846, Scotland - 13 March 1932, Seddonville) on 16 September 1864 in Scotland .  They were the parents of Mary Bain, who married my Great Great Uncle William Smith on 31 December 1886.  As well as Mary, the Bain family was as follows:

1. Joseph Bain (15 November 1864 - 24 December 1864, Scotland).  This child died as a baby, just over a month old.  

2. Catherine "Kate" Bain (12 January 1866, Wairoa) married Horace Edward Stephens on 21 July 1885 in Dunedin.  They had five children - a daughter and four sons:
   2.1 Grace Charity Ida Stephens (1886 - 1887).  This baby died aged only eight months.
   2.2 Benjamin George Claude Stephens (1888 - 1966).  Benjamin married Annie May Mitchell (1891 - 1965) in Dunedin 1909.  
   2.3 Ernest Edward Stephens (1891 - 6 April 1918, France) married Grace Hamilton Stirling (1897 - 1959) in 1917.  The marriage did not last long, as Ernest went to fight in WWI and eventually died from wounds, in France.    In 1920, Grace Stephens then married Ernest Harry Ball (25 September 1898 - 1979).  
   2.4 Horace Stephens (1894 - 1942) married Hazel Kathleen Hughan (1901 - 1921) in 1921, but sadly this marriage did not last long either, as Hazel died at the age of just twenty.  Horace then married Doris Alma Whitley (2 May 1904 - 1980) in 1926.   
   2.5 Stuart Allen Stephens (25 February 1901 - 1980) married Ida May Gould (1901 - 1971) in 1920.

3. Margaret "Maggie" Bain (7 April 1868 - 25 March 1947) married Frederick "Fred" Smallholme (31 January 1862 - 22 August 1937) in 1887
   3.1 Albert Frederick Smallholme (1887 - 30 November 1957) married Olive Gills (28 January 1895 - 30 December 1987) in 1918.
   3.2 George Henry Smallholme (1889 - 2 October 1918, France).  Like his cousin, Ernest Stephens, George went away to fight during WWI but died of his wounds in France.  
   3.3 Sarah Ethel Smallholme (27 August 1893 - 13 February 1977) married Percy Joseph George Bird (1881 - 1953) in 1917.   
   3.4 Stanley James Smallholme (1897 - 1898).  Little Stanley died aged just one year.
   3.5 (Walter) Damer William Smallholme (1897 - 1967)
   3.6 Grace Smallholme Smallholme (1903) married John Hennessy in 1923
   3.7 Haydee Elena Margaret Smallholme (30 January 1912 - 2006).  Haydee married Adam Richard Fleming (8 August 1906, Scotland - 12 August 1987).

4. Mary Bain (27 March 1870, Thames - 10 January 1958, Buller) married William Smith (1864, Newcastle, NSW - 13 September 1940, Seddonville) - see here for details of her descendants.

5. George Bain (7 April 1872 - 6 August 1945) married three times.  First, he married Isabella Foster in 1895, and had two children with her.  However it appears that after five years, the marriage was over.  
Isabella Foster and George had the following children:
   5.1 Jean Scott "Jane"  Bain (1895 - 1962)
   5.2 James Allen Bain (1898 - 1965) married Sarah Isabel Woolhouse (4 November 1904 - 1994) in 1923

By 23 September 1905, George had been granted a divorce as reported in the West Coast Times on that date:



DIVORCE.
BAIN V. BAlN.
This was a husband's petition, on the ground of desertion. Mr Harper appeared for the petitioner. George Bain deposed that his wife — Isabella — left him five years ago. She was too fond of flying round and of dress, which ran him into debt. They lived on bad terms. He had since employed a detective in Wellington to find her out, but he could not find out anything.
The case was adjourned till to-day, to allow corroborative evidence being produced.



Next, George married Margaret Henning in 1906, and had three children (including their first two prior to their marriage):
   5.3 Dempster Bain (29 June 1903 - 1990) married Gladys Minnie Peat (1906 - 1958) in 1925.
   5.4 Sylvia Georgina Bain (26 June 1904 - 1979) married Adoph Robert John Oettli (1905 - 1930) in 1925 but five years later, in 1930 Adolph died.  A year later Sylvia married Walter Joseph Mellar (17 January 1900 - 1973)
   5.5 Josephine Margaret Bain (1909 - 1969) married Arthur Nisbet West (10 June 1908 - 1979) in 1929.


I think it's possible that Margaret Bain then died after giving birth to Josephine, at the age of 35, in 1909.
George finally married Isabella Ellen Bovey (1897 - 1986) in 1930.  



6. James Bain (28 December 1873 - 19 June 1895).  James died as a young man in the mines - as reported in the Otago Witness on 27 June 1895:


A young man named James Bain, aged 19, was accidentally killed in the Westport-Cardiff Coal Company's mine at Mokihinui on the 17th inst. He was engaged filling a truck, when a large quantity of coal fell from the roof, almost completely burying him. He was got out immediately, but died within a quarter of an hour in Mr J. White's arms. Deceased's parents are well-known and respected residents of Denniston and Mokihinui.
 

7. William Bain (13 December 1875 - 1958) married Georgina Hall (1878 - 1958) in 1903
   7,1 George Allen Bain (22 June 1904 - 1984) married Olive Rosa Morris (1903 - 1968) in 1927
   7.2 Catherine Agnes Bain (9 December 1905 - 1997) married Donald Edward Archer (14 January 1913 - 2011) in 1939
   7.3 William Ernest Bain (1909)
   7.4 Grace Dempster Bain (3 August 1914 - 1986) married Kenneth Halliday Dunlea (18 May 1915 - 1982) in 1943.
   7.5 Joseph McQueston Bain (1917 - 1950) married Jean Elizabeth Richards (1892 - 1966) in 1943.
   
8. Robert Bain (23 September 1878 - 1968) married Kezia Hebbard (1886 - 1953) in 1904.  
   8.1 Hazel Annie Bain (1 December 1904 - 1993) married Frederick Ernest Albert Dreaver (14 May 1901 - 1981) in 1927
   8.2 Marjory Valda Belle "Valda" Bain (7 April 1907 - 1988) married Vance Hannah (23 June 1900 - 1983) in 1926
   
Robert then married his brother George's widow, Isabella Ellen Bain nee Bovey (1897 - 1986) in 1955.  

9. John Allan Bain (24 December 1880 - 1957) married Ada Agnes Edgar (1883 - 1956) in 1903.
   9.1 Edgar Allan Bain (12 April 1904 - 1975)
   9.2 Agnes Grace Bain (25 January 1906 - 1985) married Bertram Briggs in 1931

10. Grace Bain (9 March 1883 - 1977) married John Johnston McKay in 1904.
   10.1 Grace Dempster McKay (3 April 1905 - 1984) married Albert Henry Oldridge (1905 - 1955) in 1926.
   10.2 Annie McKay (1906)
   10.3 Margaret McKay (1910)
   10.4 Alexander McKay (1911)
   10.5 George Ambers McKay (1913)
   10.6 Catherine McKay (1917)

11. Joseph McHuiston Bain (28 March 1886 - 28 January 1982) married Harriet Eva Henley (1896 - 1956) in 1928

12. Sarah Ellen Ida Bain (16 January 1889 - 14 June 1976, Christchurch) married Albert John Edgar (1885 - 1940) in 1908.
   12.1 John Albert Edgar (1910, Granity - 1971, Christchurch)
   12.2 Stella Charlotte Edgar (4 December 1915, Granity - 2005) married Samuel Reddock Todd (14 June 1916 - 1973) in 1940.  

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