William Hain (1844 - 1943)

Born 22 Mar 1844 in Auchtermuchty, Fifeshire, Scotland

Husband of Jessie (Hardie) Hain — married 13 Jan 1865 in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 28 May 1943 at age 99 in Kennington, Southland, New Zealand

Biography

William Hain migrated from Scotland to New Zealand.

William Hain was born in Auchtermuchty, Fifeshire, Scotland, on 22 March 1844. He married Jessie Hardie on 13 Jan 1865, and they had six children, one of whom died in infancy.

In 1880 the family emigrated to Otago on the 'Marlborough' and they settled in Invercargill before moving to Orepuki where William worked as a 'home missionary'.

In 1898 they left Orepuki and lived for a time in Dunback before moving to Mayfield in Canterbury where William was ordained as a Presbyterian minister.

Jessie died in Ashburton in July 1908 and is buried in the Ashburton Cemetery.

William died in 1943 in Kennington near Invercargill, he is buried with Jessie in Ashburton.

Biography expanded from one found in the "Register of New Zealand Presbyterian Church" ^[1]

HAIN, Rev William

born: 22 March 1844, Auchtermuchty, Fifeshire, Scotland.

wife: (1) Jessie Jane Hardie, born Abernathy Perthshire, Scotland, m. ??, died 8 July 1908.

wife: (2) June Gibson McKinney m. ??, died 21 November 1918, aged 47 years old, at the manse from influenza during epidemic, interred in a group of plots used for the influenza epidemic at Gore Cemetery.

Baptised within days before the Disruption.

Converted at an evangelical meeting by Brownlow North at Myers Castle Dunshalt.

Apprentice for White & Son, Auchtermuchty.

Foreman and Inspector at Barrow-in-Furness Railway Company, circa 1870.

Elder at Trinity Church, Barrow-in-Furness.

Came to New Zealand in 1880; engineer at Arrowtown, elder at First Church, Southland Presbytery, entered Home Mission service late in life.

Home Missionary, Orepuki Southland Presbytery, 1888 - 10 years.

Mayfield, 1898; station erected to fully sanctioned charge 1904 and Hain ordained and inducted, 1904.

Waikaia, Mataura Presbytery, 1908, retired 30 April 1919.

Travelled overseas four times in retirement to the Homeland and Europe, the Holy Land and Egypt, and Canada and United States.

Member of St Davids Christchurch, Christchurch Presbytery, 1930s.

Father of Rev Charles H. Hain and of Mrs Fairlie Evans; Grandfather of Mrs A.W. Smaill.

Died 28 May 1943, aged 99 at Kennington in Southland, interred with first wife at Ashburton, 31 May 1943.

Sources

1. ↑ Register of New Zealand Presbyterian Church: Ministers, Deaconesses & Missionaries from 1840. http://www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz/Page167.htm

• New Zealand History, Women's Suffrage Petition, Jessie Hain. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/suffragist/jessie-hain
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/243856799/william-hain: accessed 22 March 2023), memorial page for William Hain (22 Mar 1844–28 May 1943), Find a Grave Memorial ID 243856799, citing Ashburton Public Cemetery, Ashburton, Ashburton District, Canterbury, New Zealand; Maintained by Teresa Anderson (contributor 49241497).
• "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Passenger Lists, 1839-1973," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSBM-8MH : 9 March 2021), Wm Hain, 7 Jan 1880; citing ship , Archives New Zealand, Wellington; FHL microfilm 004412149.