Christian emigrated to Van Diemen's Land with her parents and three siblings arriving January 1823 on the Princess Charlotte.[1]
Christian Taylor was married in Launceston, Tasmania, on 16 June 1825 to Arthur Buist.[2]
Christian Buist nee Taylor died on 5 December 1895 in Campbell Town, Tasmania, when she was 97 years old. She is buried at Kirklands Presbyterian Cemetery, Campbell Town.[3]
DEATH OF AN OLD COLONIST.-On Thursday last there passed away to her rest another of the early pioneers of the colony, Mrs Christian Buist, of Pituncarty, at the ripe age of 97. The end was not altogether unexpected by her relatives and friends, as she had been very feeble for some time and during the preceding week was confined to her bed. She passed quietly away without any apparent suffering. Notwithstanding her great age she retained in a surprising degree nearly to the last her mental vigour and her warm interest in the concerns of her friends and the movements of her surroundings and time. Mrs Buist was a colonist of fully 72 years' standing, having left Scotland with her father, the late George Taylor, in 1822, arriving in Tasmania in January, 1823. when she settled at Pituncarty, on the Macquarie river, where she spent the remainder of her long and useful life. So at last has passed away, after a long pilgrimage, one whose character-strong, tender, and true-was a felt influence in the district, and made a very definite Christian impression on all with whom she came into contact. Mrs Buist was a member and a warm friend of the Presbyterian Church at Kirklands, and deeply interested in the large movements of the Christian world beyond. Her Christian character and marked individuality are well and truly summed up in the words of a friend, who knew her long and intimately, and who writes :-' Kirklands will be a changed place to me now that she is gone. She was to me a very interesting and picturesque personality-a fine specimen of a Scotch woman of the old school - the last representative known to me of a type that is all but extinct. What force of character she had, and how much genuine warmth and tenderness there was beneath her reserved exterior. I particularly admired her sterling rugged truthfulness, honesty, and sincerity, and her stern resolute disapprobation of what she believed to be wrong. She was simply incapable of speaking or acting otherwise than she thought and felt, nor would she wink at anything that her conscience condemned. She had a deep reverence for divine things, and her piety was humble, unpretending, and sincere." The funeral took place on Saturday, when a large number of relatives and friends accompanied the remains to the Kirklands Cemetery. The Rev. R. M. Fergus conducted special services at Kirklands and Epping on Sunday, preaching from the text, "O death, where is thy sting O grave, where is thy victory ?" Mrs Buist is survived by her only remaining daughter, Mrs William Bayles, of Toorak, Victoria.-Communicated.[4]
Christian was mentioned on a memorial in Kirklands Presbyterian Cemetery, Campbell Town, Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania, Australia with a death date of 5 December 1895.[5]
Sources
↑ Hudson, Helen Lesley Cherry stones : adventures in genealogy of Taylor, Hutcheson, Hawkins of Scotland, Plaisted, Green, Hughes of England and Wales ... who immigrated to Australia between 1822 and 1850. H.L. Hudson, [Berwick] Vic, 1985.
↑ Name: Christiana Taylor
Spouse Name: Arthur Buist
Marriage Date: 16 Jun 1825
Marriage Place: Tasmania
Registration Place: Launceston, Tasmania
Registration Year: 1825
Registration Number: 856
↑Memorial:
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Find A Grave: Memorial #87292556 (accessed 11 January 2023)
Memorial page for Christian Taylor Buist (24 May 1798-5 Dec 1895), citing Kirklands Presbyterian Cemetery, Campbell Town, Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania, Australia; Maintained by Rebecca Ewing Peterson (contributor 46987065).
Bacon, Carol Letters to Pituncarty Tasmania : colonial correspondence of Christian (Taylor) Buist including letters from Ellinthorpe Hall / Carol Bacon Astellar Pty, Limited [Fern Tre, Tasmania] 2022.
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