Name, preferred name, date and place of birth, year of death, year of marriage 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.

Full date and place of death, month of marriage, 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.

Country of marriage from search on New Zealand BDM website in April 2023:
1886/1245. Bride: Eleanor Tozer. Groom: David Higgie

Full date of marriage of 5 May 1886 from further searching in April 2023 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

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).