James DUFFY

  General Notes:

Headstone in Waimate Cemetery
Read, In loving memory of JAMES DUFFY died Oct26:1935
Also his wife CHISTINA CLEMENTS died Aug6:1949
Retired farmer
Lived 60 yrs in NZ
Died aged 83 from epithelioma of neck and lip
6 male children
4 female children

Another date of death is 2 July 1935.
Arrived in NZ 1880
Arrived in Oamaru about 1867, ploughing around Papakaio.
About 1885 HUNTER family had land in Wharekura, after a flood moved into Kurow, then to Oamaru, then Shag point, coalmine. James Duffy and Christina married St Josephs 3 July 1894. 1918 farm sold to lan Chapman

James married Christina Clement HUNTER, daughter of George HUNTER and Ann Wilson LINDSAY, on 3 Jul 1894 in St. Joseph's,Oamaru,Otago,New Zealand.²⁴⁴ (Christina Clement HUNTER was born on 22 Oct 1870 in Dalserf,Lanarkshire,Scotland,²⁴⁵ died on 6 Aug 1949 in Oamaru,North Otago,New Zealand. ²⁴¹ and was buried on 9 Aug 1949 in Waimate,South Canterbury,New Zealand.)