Isabella (Carter) Chaplin (1838 - 1895)

Born 20 Sep 1838 in Primrose Hill, Bunkle, Berwickshire, Scotland

Wife of John Gunn — married about 1857 (to 1862) in Scotland

Wife of James Innes — married 29 Mar 1867 (to 1870) in Christchurch, New Zealand

Wife of Francis Chaplin — married 1873 in Templeton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Descendants

Died 1 Jul 1895 at age 56 in Templeton, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Biography

Isabella Gunn (nee Carter) (aged 20), together with her husband John Gunn (aged 26) and their one year old son David, sailed from the UK on 16 June 1859 as assisted immigrants aboard the Cashmere bound for New Zealand. After a four-month voyage they reached the port of Lyttleton on 11 October, 1959. They settled initially in Christchurch and subsequently Templeton, a small village a short distance south of Christchurch. During that time they had two more children John Carter Gunn (who died aged 15 in 1875) and Agnes.

Isabella's husband John Gunn died of heart disease on 23 July 1862, aged 30. Five years later, on 29 March 1867, Isabella married James Innes, another Scot from Thurso, Caithness.

Sources

• NZ Births, Deaths & Marriages Online:
  • Marriage Registration 1867/7450 (to James Innes);
  • Marriage Registration 1873 /6889 (to Frank Chaplin) ;
  • Death Registration 1895/5056

• Broadhead/Stewart Family History Notes prepared by Margaret Alington, 1988; Margaret Calder Stewart: a memoir by her granddaughter, Margaret Hilda Alington, June 2006.