Born in Dunscore, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Daughter of Daniel Hunter
and Janet (Brown) Hunter
Sister of
Daniel Hunter, Maggie Hunter, James Hunter, John Davidson Hunter, Marion Hunter, Robert Hunter and William B Hunter
Wife of
Alexander Gibson Reid
— married
1 Oct 1886 in Gas Lane, Coatbridge
Descendants 
Died
at age 90
in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
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| Created 3 Jun 2017
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Biography
Janet (Hunter) Reid migrated from Scotland to New Zealand.
Janet Hunter was born 20 October 1862 at Crawston Cottage, Dunscore[1] and baptised in the Dunscore Free Church on 1 December 1862. She was the daughter of millwright Daniel Hunter and Janet Brown.
Throughout her youth, the family lived in Maxwelltown, Dumfriesshire [2] (now part of Dumfries); Thurso, Caithness [3] and Coatbridge, Lanarkshire[4]. Her father died in Thurso, 1876 and the family moved to Coatbridge. Janet appeared as a grocer on the 1881 census with her mother and siblings, residing at the Albion Buildings, Sunnyside Road in Coatbridge.
Janet married Alexander Gibson Reid, a boiler maker, in Coatbridge, Old Monkland on the 1st day of October 1886. They were both living on Gas Lane at the time but Janet was now recorded as a dressmaker. [5]
Janet emigrated to New Zealand with her husband aboard the Pleiades in 1887[6]. They appear as Mr & Mrs Reid in a newspaper report and in the travelling diary of Robert Y Ferguson who was also aboard [7]
Janet died 14 June 1953 and was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery on 16 June 1953.[8]
Sources
- ↑ "Statutory Register of Births", National Records of Scotland, Ref: 822/45, ScotlandsPeople (accessed 30 November 2023), Janet Hunter birth registered 1862 in Dunscore, mother's maiden name Brown. (record image seen)
- ↑ 1871 census - Maxwelltown, Troqueer (Census 882/ 3/ 9) Page 9 of 40
- ↑ Death of Daniel Hunter b1837 - National Records of Scotland (Statutory registers Deaths 041/ 104)
- ↑ 1881 census - Coatbridge, Lanarkshire (Census 652/2 19/ 5) Page 5 of 25
- ↑ Marriage Certificate of Alexander G Reid & Janet Hunter
- ↑ Evening Star, Evening Star, Issue 7103, 6 January 1887 (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18870106.2.35)
- ↑ Travelling Diary of Robert Y Ferguson; http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/diaries/pleiades1886.html
- ↑ Dunedin City Council Cemeteries Database (accessed 7 May 2022)
- baptismal entry of Janet Hunter b1862 - Dunscore Free Church
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