Name, date and place of marriage (Blink Bonnie No. 2 Line, Wanganui), from Pamela Booth’s book, “Blink Bonnie”, published March 2010. Pamela’s great-great grandparents were Robert Clark Higgie b.1855 and Jane Hearn Rapley.
David and Christina farmed at Parewanui, along the Rangitikei River, east of Scotts Ferry.

Year of birth corrected by Pamela Booth.

Country of birth, date and place of death, 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.

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).