Year and place of birth from Pamela Booth whose great-great grandparents were Robert Clark Higgie b.1855 and Jane Hearn Rapley. Robert was the son of this Thomas.

Date of christening of 4th April 1819 at Abdie, Fife, Scotland from Pamela Booth.
Sailed from Gravesend, England on 9th December 1840, on the ‘Olympus’ and arrived at Wellington on 20th April 1841. Thomas Higgie Junior was born at sea on 26 January 1841.

Different parents from Jenny Smith (nee Bryce) whose late husband, John Monro Menzies, was the grandson of Telitha Carrel (b. 1885), sister of Maud Oliver (nee Carrel):

David Higgie (b, 29 Oct 1766, Fife, Scotland) and Isabel Marr (b. 1761 Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland)
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William Higgie (b.1796 Fife, Scotland) and Mary Wilson (b.1800 Fife, Scotland)
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Thomas Higgie (b.1818) and Mary Clark
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Janet Higgie (b.1842) and Samuel Oliver (b.1833)

Result from death search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1884/4443. Higgie, Thomas. Died age 66Y

Full date of death of 27 September 1884 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.

Headstone inscription from Wanganui Heads Road Cemetery records found in March 2022:
1189.
THOMAS HIGGIE died 27th September 1884 aged 67 years;
MARY HIGGIE died 16th August 1891 aged 73 years;
JOHN HIGGIE died 20th March 1885 aged 32 years; [Son]
ALEXANDER HIGGIE died 20th January 1908 aged 62 years; [Son]
ANNIE HIGGIE died 31st March 1913 aged 62 years; [Wife of Alexander above]
ACTON ALEXANDER LINDSAY HIGGIE died 19th April 1891 aged 3 years; [Son of Alexander and Annie above]
ADRIAN WILSON CLARK HIGGIE died 30th January 1915 aged 35 years; [Son of Alexander and Annie Higgie]
MARY HALES died 4th February 1914 [Baby of David Hales and Alexa Emmeline Hales (nee Higgie, daughter of Alexander and Annie Higgie)]

Date of and location of burial from Wanganui ‘Old Public Cemetery’ [Heads Road] records found in March 2022:
Higgie, Thomas. Buried 29.9.1884. From path 25 feet. On Map LS 11.
Higgie, Mary. Buried 18.8.1891. From path 34 feet. On Map LS 14.

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New Zealand Electoral Roll for Wanganui and Rangitikei District, within range of 1853-1864, page 173, page 217, found in March 2022:
Higgie, Thomas; Place of Abode: Wanganui; Calling or Business: Carpenter; Qualification: Freehold Victoria Avenue, Wanganui

New Zealand Electoral Roll for Wanganui 1865-1866, 1868-1869, 1870-1871, found in March 2022:
Higgie, Thomas; Place of Abode: Wanganui; Qualification: freehold; Property: Left Bank 600 acres, portions of sections 114 and 115, and unsurveyed land comprised in application 723

New Zealand Electoral Roll - House of Representatives - Electoral Roll of Wanganui 1873-1874, found in March 2022:
Higgie, Thomas; Place of Abode: Wanganui; Qualification: freehold; Property: Bell street and Ingestre street section, Wanganui

New Zealand Electoral Roll - House of Representatives Electoral Roll of Wanganui 1875-1876, found in March 2022:
Higgie, Thomas; Place of Abode: Wanganui; Qualification: Freehold; Property: Left Bank 600 acres, portions of sections 114 and 115, and unsurveyed land comprised in application 723

New Zealand Electoral Roll for Wanganui 1878-1879, found in March 2022:
Higgie, Thomas; Place of Abode: Wanganui; Qualification: freehold; Property: Left Bank part sections 114 and 115

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wanganui Electoral Roll 1880-1881, found in March 2022:
Higgie, Thomas; Qualification: Freehold; Residence: No. 2 Line; Occupation: farmer

New Zealand Electoral Roll - Waitotara Electoral Roll 1881, found in March 2022:
Higgie, Thomas; Qualification: Freehold; Residence: No. 2 Line; Occupation: farmer

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Jury Lists
The New Zealand Gazzette, Wellington Jury Lists 1844:
Heggie, Thomas, Te Aro Flat, Carpenter
[NOTE: Information on the history of Te Aro Flats here:
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/projects/wicb/resources/pdf/Te-Aro-History.pdf
“Thordon and Te Aro Flats were the first areas of Wellington to be settled after the settlement of Britannia (Petone) failed with flooding of the Hutt River”. Brian of nzolivers notes that today, the area would have included Manner Streets and Cambridge Terrace, and running down towards the waterfront].

The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Straits Guardian, Wellington Jurors 1845:
Higgie, Thomas, Te Aro, Labourer

The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Straits Guardian, Wellington Jurors 1847:
Higgie, Thomas, Wellington terrace, Labourer

The New Zealand Gazzette, Wellington Jury Lists 1848-49:
Higgie, Thomas, Wellington terrace, Labourer

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In April 2023, Brian of nzolivers did some checking into the passenger list of the barque ‘Olympus’, where we found earlier Thomas and wife Mary sailed to New Zealand on it. They left London on the 9th December 1840 and arrived in Port Nicholson on the 20th April 1841. Along the way baby Thomas was born at sea on the 26 January 1841, off the coast of Brazil Rio de Janeiro in the South Atlantic ocean.

Steerage Passengers from the Passenger list of the barque Olympus:
https://www.geni.com/projects/New-Zealand-Settler-Ships-Olympus-1841/16662
Heggie, Thomas age 24, occupation Millwright [Therefore born circa 1816]
Heggie, Ann Mary 20 [Therefore born circa 1820]
Heggie, Thomas - Infant Born at sea 26/1/1841 Lat 20.58S Long 31.00W
(Age above as at one month before departure)

Now, it’s interesting looking at the names of other passengers. For example, Christina Wilkinson. She was only a toddler when she came to New Zealand, and twenty-five years after arriving in New Zealand was to marry Thomas Higgie, the boy born at sea-!!
Wilkinson, David age 28
Wilkinson, Elizabeth age 23
Wilkinson, Christina age 14 months
(Age above as at one month before departure)

Another name was a Janet Pollock, Housemaid, who was listed as 30 years of age. Therefore born circa 1810, so is this whom this Thomas and wife Mary (nee Clark) named their daughter after? The daughter was to be the great-grandmother of Brian of nzolivers. Interesting.

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Date of birth of "15th March 1819", date of baptism of "4th April 1819", entry of "Heggie, Thomas, Son to Thomas Heggie, Denmuir [where lived] and Christian Burns, his spouse.". This as per an image from the old Parish Register of Births, Abdie, held by the National Records of Scotland and received from Katia and Tim Oliver by email on 1st November 2024.
(Tim Oliver is a x3 great grandson of James and Ruth Oliver, his grandfather being Ivor James Clark Oliver 1907-1989).

Date of marriage contract of "30 October 1840", date of marriage of "18 November 1840", entry of, "Thomas Higgie, Wright [carpenter or joiner], and Mary Clark, daughter of Sam Clark". This as per an image from the old Parish Register of Marriages, Dundee, held by the National Records of Scotland and received from Katia and Tim Oliver by email on 1st November 2024.