MATHESON, Duncan

Abt 1822 - 1882  (60 years)

• Name	MATHESON, Duncan
  Birth	Abt 1822	Balmacara   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Birth	20 Mar 1825	Scotland   [4]
  Death	22 Mar 1882  [5]
  Reference Number	64
  Death	27 Mar 1882	Akd Hospital.   [1]
  	'Captain Duncan Matheson was accidentally killed in 1882 while rigging the Three Cheers, a schooner built by him in that year' Note to the Matheson ballad, sent to me by the lady at 943 Beach Rd Torbay 10, on 24 August 1990. NZ Herald gives the date of death as 29 March. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH18820330.2.14 (Raewyn) Articles from Papers Past: Shocking accident: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH18820328.2.21 Died at hospital: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH18820330.2.18 The late Captain Matheson: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH18820330.2.21
  Burial	Abt 29 Mar 1882	Symonds St Cemetery   [6]
  	Burial date of 30 March given in NZ Herald: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH18820330.2.14 (Raewyn)
  Person ID	I64	Main Tree
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2015

  
  

  Father	MATHESON, Ewen,   b. Abt 1793, Scotland d. Bef 01 Jan 1857 (Age < 63 years)
  Mother	CAMERON, Isabella,   b. Abt 1798, Balmacara, Scotland d. 13 Jan 1891, Waipu (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1823	Rosshire, Scotland   [6]
  	Married at age 25 according to death certificate. Assuming date of birth of 1798, this gives marriage year of around 1823. This agrees with the date Alvin entered, sourced from the House of Memories.
  Family ID	F50	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	FINLAYSON, Catherine,   b. 19 May 1826   d. 29 Jul 1914 (Age 88 years)
  Married	1858	Waipu   [7]
  Marriage	17 Aug 1858	house of Duncan Matheson, Gaol Street,, Auckland   [3, 6, 8]
  	The officiating minister was Norman McLeod. -
  Children	+ 1. MATHESON, Isabella,   b. 25 May 1859, Waipu d. 14 Oct 1890 (Age 31 years) + 2. MATHESON, Roderick,   b. 09 Jan 1861, Leigh d. 22 May 1915 (Age 54 years)   3. MATHESON, Christina Ann,   b. 23 Feb 1863   d. 23 Jan 1946 (Age 82 years) + 4. MATHESON, Donald John,   b. Abt 01 Jan 1866   d. 08 Jan 1941 (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F53	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Histories

  Spray arrival Sketch of the brig Spray and a report of her arrival in the Daily Southern Cross

  
  

• Notes

  Killed in Auckland while rigging the Three Cheers. died 29 March 1882. Owned in Rodney lots 19, 20, 25 [9]

  
  

• Sources

  [S20] House of Memories record book. [S331] Jones, Mrs Errol, Note on Bell Matheson, p 2. [S395] Sclater, Pam, note in Clan Matheson Society Newsletter, August 2001, p 3. [S338] Tombstone, Symonds St Presbyterian plot, by Symonds St. [S338] Tombstone, Symonds St Cemetery, Presbyterian plot, close to Symonds St. [S275] House of Memories, xerox, (26 Sep 95). [S393] Robinson, Neil, To the Ends of the Earth, p. 182. [S299] McKenzie, Gael Fares Forth, 2e, (1942), p. 293. [S398] Rodney Electoral Roll 1880, s.v.