Year of birth corrected by Pamela Booth.

Place of marriage of “Blink Bonnie, No 2 Line, Wanganui”, from CD prepared by Stuart Macfarlane and included with Pamela Booth’s second edition of her book, “Blink Bonnie”, published March 2010. Stuart is the grandson of James Higgie b. 1857. Pamela is the great-great granddaughter of Robert Clark Higgie b.1855.

No record of birth could be found on the New Zealand BDM website as at May 2023. This is most likely because births have only been recorded in New Zealand since 1848 and, it was not compulsory to register a birth before 1858).

Year and country of death, from death search on New Zealand BDM website in April 2023:
1929/2939. Hair, Mary Ann. Died age 80Y [Therefore born circa 1849 which matches]

Full date of death of 11 June 1929 from further searching in April 2023 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.