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HOLDSWORTH--COLTHAMMER
The marriage of Mary Pauline Colthammer, granddaughter of Mr and Mrs H W Davey, Sutherland st., St James, to Thomas Clifford Holdsworth, was solemnized at the home of the bride's grandparents on the evening of June 27th, Rev H B Duckworth officiating.⁶

LARGE CAIRNGORM -- Mr Kelman, Lettoch, Mortlach, on a visit to the Cairngorms the other day, picked up, from the bottom of a dry watercourse, one of the largest and finest stones that have been found there for a number of years past. It is quite solid and beautifully transparent, and has been valued at £30 or £40. Its length was about 4 1/2 in by a diameter of 2 1/2 in.⁶

DEATHS. KELMAN.-- At Burnside, Enzie, on 1st September, William Kelman. Funeral from Burnside on Monday, 4th inst., at Two o'clock, to Bellie Churchyard. Friends please accept this (the only) intimation and invitation.¹⁶

Yesterday the grave closed over Mr William Kelman, farmer, Burnside, Banffshire, who died very unexpectedly. Mr Kelman, who was widely known and highly respected in agricultural circles, was engaged in the harvest field, and in bending down to pick up some corn he injured himself internally about the heart. He turned ill, and was taken home. From the first but little hope was entertained of his recovery, and he succumbed on Friday within twenty-four hours of the occurrence.
Deceased, who was 72 years of age, was a noted and enthusiastic volunteer shot for many years, and did well at the National Rifle meetings. He competed this year among the veterans.
A few years ago he removed from the farm of Wester Lovat, Ross-shire, to the Duke of Richmond and Gordon's farm of Burnside, one of the best farms in the north. Deceased was a native of Mortlach, Banffshire, and was twice married, one of his daughters being the wife of Mr James Macdonald, secretary of the Highland and Agricultural Society, Edinburgh. The funeral, which took place to Bellie Churchyard, Fochabers, was largely attended.¹⁷

KELMAN, William, Farmer, Burnside, Enzie, died 1 September 1905, at Burnside aforesaid, testate. Confirmation granted at Banff, 12 December, to Isabella Mitchell Cantlie or Kelman, Burnside aforesaid, Executrix nominated in Will or Deed, dated 22 August 1893, and recorded in Court Books of Commissariot of Banff, 12 December 1905. Value of Estate, £1372, 3s 10d.¹⁵

Spencer Henry. The Will of Henry Spencer formerly of 15 Bolsover-street St. Marylebone but late of 3 Malvern-villas Whitton-road Hounslow bothin the Countyof Middlesex Gentleman who died 9 June 1889 at 3 Malvern-villas was proved at the Principal Registry by Elizabeth Spencer of 3 Malvern-villas Widow the Relict the sole Executrix. Personal Estate £295 11s.⁸

SPENCER Elizabeth of 54 Wickham-avenue Bexhill-on-Sea Sussex, widow, died 24 November 1914. Probate London 9 January to Arthur Frederick Spencer, wine and spirit merchant. Effects £970 2s.¹³

Here lies the body of WILLIAM KELMAN, farmer in Lessmurdie, who died Aprile 26, 1793, aged 80;
and HELEN McBARNAT, his spouse, who died 1st Dec 1785, aged 75.²

DINNER IN HONOUR OF THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AT PITGLASSIE
The Auchindown tenantry of the Duke of Richmond, anxious to show their appreciation of the excellent qualities of their landlord as a proprietor, dined together at Pitglassie on Wednesday, which was his Grace's birthday. The dinner took place in the Grain Loft at Mr Tod's neat and beautiful farm-steading of Pitglassie. There were upwards of 60 gentlemen present.
[One of them was Mr Kelman, Nether Clunymore]⁹

Kelman William Hay of 97 Maldon-road Colchester died 16 November 1918 Administration London 31 December to Christina Kelman widow. Effects £404 13s. 3d.¹²

Appointed as trustees well beloved spouse Elizabeth Michell or Hay, William Cantlie, Keithmore, and the Reverend James Alexander Cruickshank, minister of Mortlach
Divided his inventory between spouse Elizabeth Hay or Mitchell, daughter Margaret Hay and son William Hay
Signed 15 June 1852

Codicil
In consideration of money already paid to spouse and daughter Margaret, executor to set apart £300 for son William in addition to the provision already made for him.
The property which shall fall to daughter and son shall remain under the management of spouse, or executors, until they shall reach the age of 21.
Altho' I am aware that by a Settlement of this kind I cannot make any arrangment in regard to my Feu property in the village of Dufftown, I think it proper to state in case I do not live long enough to convey it to spouse, it is my wish for spouse to enjoy said feu property during her lifetime and dispose of it as she may please
22 June 1852.⁸

Balances due:
Bill dated 22 May 1844 accepted by Revd A J Gregory of Buchromb £103.18.10
Bill dated 28 June 1851 accepted by William McDonald, farmer, Newley £101.18.10
Bill dated 13 Feb 1852 accepted by Mr John McPherson, Schoolmaster, Mortlach £25.18.11
Bill dated 5 Nov 1846 accepted by George McDonald, Croftglass, William McDonald, Polderie & James Black, Lochterlandoch £9.17.7
Letter of obligation by James & Alexander McWitham, Maisley £92.2.9
Obligation by the late Lachlan Stewart, Dykeheads £2.1.10
Letter of obligation by James McDonald, Polderie £7.2.3
Account at Scotland Bank’s Branch at Dufftown £40.17.7
Eight shares of North of Scotland Bank capital stock £25.16.0
Ten shares of Morayshire Fire and Life Assurance Company £5.5.0
Sundry debts: John Gordon, Distiller, Mortlach; Alexander Stewart; Thomas Stewart, Dufftown; Peter Grant, Bailliemore; William Cantlie, Keithmore £33.1.7

Household furniture, Farming Stock, Implements of Husbandry, Crop:

A Sway Crook and Tongs
2 boilers, 7 pots, Kettle, dressing table
3 Coques???, 6 chairs, 6 pails, Stone & tin dishes
2 box Italian and f—ing irons
2 Lantern Lamps, 2 trays & 3 Stools
3 Axes & , 2 Casks, Servants bed & bedding
Salt Chest, Gridirons & frying pan
4 brushes, 3 Tubs, 3 Chessels
old press & dishes, Brander
2 mealsieves, Knifeboard & shovel
2 Riding Saddles and bridle
Basket, Butter churn, 19 milk dishes
3 Casks, 3 Jars, 9 Doz bottles, -ight Stool
Wheel and ---

Small Room
Basin stand, mirror, chaffbolster & blankets
4 Chairs, Table, 3 Candlesticks & Lamp
Grate & fender, 4 Chairs, Table
Chest of Drawers, Mirror, Cannisters
8 day Clock, 2 bibles, 55 vols old books
3 Chrystal bottles

Dining Room
Lot of blue Dinner dishes
16 Tumblers & 14 Glasses
1 ½ dozen spoons, 2 Dividers
A Salt, pepper & mustard
1 ½ doz Stone tins & plates, 1 1/2 do china
1 ½ do toddy ladles, 1 do Egg spoons
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Copper Kettle, 6 Trays & Caddy
2 mugs & 2 jugs, 15 oz Silverplate
2 tables, 12 chairs, old sofa
Grate fender & fire irons
1 ½ dozen knives & forks, 1 do small knives
Mirror, Barometer & small pictures
Chest, Carpet
2 feather beds, 8 blankets, bolsters, pillows & sheets
Front Curtains on bed, chair, Screen
Desk, Chest, watering pan, Baskets
Bed & 5 pillows, 18 sheets, 2 do
3 Canvasses, 4 pieces harn, 12 blankets
4 small Do

BedRoom No 2
Tent Bed & Curtains, feather bed & matress
3 blankets sheet & cover, basin stand & Stoneware
2 mirrors, 2 small tables, 10 Chairs
old carpet & fin---, chest, 10 sheets
5 Table cloths, Bed cover, 7 Towels
6 pillowslips, 2 bolster do, 2 pieces linen
2 pieces Towelling, Table cover
Cask & 5 Gall^s whisky
Silver watch, wearing apparel

In office Houses & outside
Boiler, Bellows & anvil, 2 picks
4 hammers & vice, Sundry articles of Blacksmith tools
Iron, Grindstone, lot of coals, turnip sower
Threshing floor, lot of old bricks
6 old scythes, 2 Girnals & meal
Cheesepress, Cheesepresser
6 old hoes, 3 pinches, 3 Servants beds & bedding
Peatspade, Lot of wood in Cart shed
4 ladders, work bench, old water Cart
2 Carriage Carts, 5 old box Carts
7 Harrows, 2 Rollers, old drill harrow
2 ploughs & yokes, 2 box burrows
Beam & weights, Bushel & roller
2 Scrapers & shovel, Sack Barrow
5 riddles & 3 sieves
10 forks, 4 do, 2 spades & shovel
2 Rakes, Burn/barn f-n, 50 Bags
Hash, old threshing machine
15 –outs, Corn & fodder in barn
26 Stacks do in Cornyard
Urine Tank and Pump
Spring Cart and Harness
Girnal, pair Cartwheels
Peat Stack, 2 Dunghills
old wooden Cornyard
Lot of old paling
2 Stacks of Hay
Field of Turnips
2 pits potatoes
4 Work Horses
An old Poney
Old Harness for 5 mares
Brush & 2 Combs
9 Cows, Bull, 8 2-year old Stots
1 2-year old quey [young cow], 11 one-year olds
12 Calves

Sum £707 13 shillings 6 pence
Signed Wm Cantlie, Licensed Auctioneer and Appraiser
1 December 1852.⁸

This is the last Will of me George Hay South Molyneux District province of Otago, Colony of New Zealand, Farmer.

After payment of all my just debts funeral and testamentary expences, I Give devise and bequeath unto Jane Hay my Wife all my real and personall property whatsoever and whersover subject however to any Codicil that I may add to this my last Will.
And I hereby appoint William Hay my eldest son, Jas McEwan of South Molyneux and James Paterson of Port Molyneux executors of this my last Will as Witness my name this twenty ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and seventy six.
Signed and acknoledged by the said George Hay the testator as and for his last Will and testament in the presence of us being present at the same time, who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses.
Geo Hay
John Hay, Witness
George Hay, Witness.⁸

Deaths. HAY -- At Hilly Park, South Clutha, on the 14th instant, George Hay, Esq.⁹

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS from our own correspondent
BALCLUTHA, August 17th.
The remains of the late Mr George Hay, Hilly Park, Port Molyneux, were interred this afternoon in the Puerua Cemetery. The cortege was composed of about eighty horsemen and a number of wheeled vehicles. There were some Dunedin people present. It was an unusually large funeral for the locality.¹⁰

It is with much regret that we announce the death of George Hay, Esq., Hilly Park, South Molyneux. Mr Hay had been seriously ill for many weeks, and it was well understood, that in all human probability, there could only be a fatal termination to the attack from which he suffered, but it was not anticipated that the end was so near. The eldest son, Mr William Hay, is at present in Australia on account of his own health, but the remaining sons, three in number, were called to their father's bedside some weeks ago. As day after day elapsed, however, some improvement, if only a temporary one, seemed to be taking place. So much was this the case that Mr John and Mr James Hay considered themselves perfectly justified in setting off for Riverton on the 11th inst. to see after some pressing business matters. They could scarcely have been well at their destination when their father's death occurred at 4 a.m. on Monday, the 14th inst.
Mr Hay, as is well known, was one of the earliest settlers in the district. His energy of character, straightforward honorable conduct in all his dealings, and the prominent position, both with time and purse he was always ready to assume in any enterprise that seemed likely to conduce to the benefit of the district, caused him to be held in very high esteem when alive, and will cause the news of his death to be received with deep regret. He had long been an active member of the South Molyneux Road Board, and the Port Molyneux School Committee, and took his full share of the work in connection with these and other kindred institutions. He was a most obliging neighbor, ever ready to render assistance where the same was required. In Mr Hay, we, and many more lost a genial, true, and kind-hearted friend, whose place will not be easily filled.
The funeral, which took place yesterday, was very largely attended, there being about 150 gentlemen present. This fully testifies to the respect in which the deceased was held by all and sundry throughout the district.¹¹

Mrs Jane Hay, who passed away at Tomahapa on the 31st December in her ninety-sixth year, was born at Keith, in Banffshire, Scotland, in August 1812. Her maiden name was Jane Grant, her father being a prosperous stonemason in Keith. She was married to the late George Hay at Keith in 1838, and for some time remained there with her husband. Thence the family removed to London. Her eldest son William and her daughters Jessie and Jane, were born at Keith, while her sons George and John were born in England. In 1848 Mr and Mrs Hay decided to emigrate to New Zealand, and in October of that year the family sailed from London in the ship Ajax for Otago. Taiaroa heads were reached on the 8th January, and the emigrants landed at Port Chalmers on the 9th. At that time Port Chalmers consisted merely of a few huts or clay whares. The settlement was completely surrounded with bush, which also covered the whole of Otago Peninsula. The family remained at Port Chalmers in a tent for some six weeks, and sailed in a boat called "The Jumping Jackass" for Molyneux Bay. The Jumping Jackass was an almost open boat, somewhat larger than an ordinary fishing cutter. It had been built at Port Chalmers by a man named Roebuck, and nails being scarce at the time, the timber had been pieced together with pieces of hoop-iron cut in the form of spikes. The boat was not considered over safe. However, it was the best available. The crew consisted of three Maoris, and a Mr Nathaniel Chalmers (at one time well known about the Clutha) accompanied Mr and Mrs Hay, Mr Alex Chalmers (a brother of Mr Nat Chalmers) and two brothers named Fuller at the same time came overland on foot from Otago Harbour to the Molyneux. They attempted to bring a cow with them. This would have been of great service to Mrs Hay and her young family but, unfortunately it died (probably from tutu poisoning) during the journey on the hills above Coal Point. After leaving Port Chalmers the Jumping Jackass met with adverse winds and had to remain inside the Heads for some days. The first night was spent by the passengers without shelter amongst the rocks. Shelter, however was found for the succeeding nights at the accommodation house kept by a Mrs Scott near the Heads.The family landed at Willsher Bay early in March 1849, and were welcomed by Makariri, the Maori wife of Mr Willsher. Maoris at that time were numerous at the Bay, but they were still somewhat uncivilised. Besides Mr Willsher an Englishman named Thos Russell lived at the Bay. Shortly before the arrival of the Jumping jackass the Maoris under the old Chief Tongata had forcibly seized Mr Russell and robbed him of all his movable property. Lakitapu, the well-known chief who died a few years ago, was present at, but not a party to the robbery, and through his instrumentality the whole of Mr Russell's property was subsequently returned. On another ocasion Makariri was compelled to conceal herself in the bush for a day or two in order to avoid being killed by a Maori named Rawere, who had been pursuing her with murderous intent with a tomahawk. It was also related that Makariri herself, when in a "pet" with her husband, Willsher, was in the habit of retiring up the wide chimney of Willsher's hut and that Willsher on such an occasion would induce her to abandon her exalted retreat by lighting a smoky fire beneath her. The late Mrs Hay, however, would not vouch for the truth of this story, as she was ever most distinctly of the opinion that Makariri was the senior and more potent partner in the Willsher matrimonial firm.

After the arrival of the party at Willsher Bay Messrs Fuller settled on land which is at present comprised in the Hilly Park property, and the Messrs Chalmers took up the land afterwards purchased by the late Mr David Dunn, of Romahapa. Mr and Mrs Hay for the first six months lived with the Messrs Chalmers, and afterwards returned to Willsher Bay, where they lived about four years. At that time there were no regular means of communication with Dunedin, and the settlers had often to depend for provisions on potatoes and what they could obtain in the way of native game, fish, and wild pigs. Pigeons and Kakas were speared by the natives with long manuka spears, and the settlers also used spears consisting of a steel or iron blade affixed to a wooden shaft for the purpose of killing wild pigs. For many months at one period the Hay family had no flour and no tea. As a poor substitute for tea an infusion of [---]ka leaves or biddi-biddi was used. After remaining at Willsher Bay for four years Mr Hay bought Fullers' property, and he and his family removed to what is now known as Hilly Park which became the headquarters of the family.
After Mrs Hay's arrival in New Zealand a son James, a daughter Helen and a son Charles were born. James was born at Saddle Hill, near Dunedin, and his mother carried him from there on foot to Willsher Bay, crossing the intervening rivers in Maori mokis or any other available boat. The moki was a rough boat made from flax stalks. It was not watertight, and its occupant usually sat half submerged. Miss Helen Hay was the first white girl born in the Molyneux.
Mr Geo Hay died in 1876. Of the sons and daughters Jane, John and Charles are now dead. Jane married the late Henry F Begg, of the Royal Lochnagar Distillery, Balmoral, Scotland. She enjoyed the gracious friendship of the late Queen Victoria, from whom she received many valuable gifts. On her death some fourteen years ago the London papers referred to the esteem which her late Majesty entertained towards her. John Hay died in August last. He was at the time of his death Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands for Southland. His friends in the Civil Service have recently erected in Invercargill a handsome monument to perpetuate his memory
Of the children living, Helen is the wife of Mr Peter Miller, Dunedin, Jessie married Captain A Bell, and is resident at Perth, W.A., and George is a farmer at Glenomaru. James is Chief Draughtsman in the Survey Department at Napier, and the eldest son William has remained with his mother in the Clutha, where he has taken an active part in public affairs. At the time of her death the late Mrs Hay had over fifty grandchildren living and about 30 great-grandchildren.
The funeral took place at Romahapa on Thursday, and was very largely attended by early settlers and other friends of the family. The Rev A M Dalrymple was the officiating clergyman.¹²

Elizabeth Graham of Craighead mar John Kinross at Craighead.⁷

The death took place at the age of 94 of Mr John Kinross, retired farmer, who was well known in Stirling and Braco district.
Deceased, who is survived by a widow and family, three sons being farmers, was long tenant of Gannochan, Braco, and was a famous curler, having played in the first match of the Royal Caledonian Club. He was a lifelong Liberal, and was an elder in the Church of Scotland since 1858.²³

Kinross John of St. Leonards Causeway Head Stirling died 9 August 1916 Confirmation of John Kinross Donald Alexander Kinross farmer and Francis Maxwell Thomson. Sealed London 26 January.²⁶

Creditors of John Kinross, farmer, cattle-dealer, and shipowner, residing at Gannochan, in the county of Perth, will receive a first and final dividend at the writing chambers of Patrick Graham Morison, writer, Port Street, Stirling, 9th January.⁹