Name, year and place of birth, year of death, date 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 featured here.

Full date of birth, place of death, place 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.

Result from marriage search on New Zealand BDM website in April 2023:
1883/1123. Bride: Jane Hearn Rapley. Groom: Robert Higgie

Full date of marriage of 9 April 1883 confirmed from further searching in April 2023 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.

Result from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in May 2023:
1855/3947. Higgie, Robert. Mother: Mary. Father: Thomas

Full date of birth of 30 June 1855 confirmed from further searching in May 2023 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.