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McIltraith Grave
ROW E No. 862
McILRAITH
Conservation Plan for Addington Cemetery
The gravestone records George
McIlraith, 20, who died at Homebush on 26 November
1858; Elizabeth McIlraith, 41, who died at Riccarton on 17 March 1890;
James McIlraith, 69, who died on 24 February 1903;
and Jane Deans McIlraith,
daughter of Hugh and Grace McIlraith, 4 1/2 who died on 27
September 1876.
George, Elizabeth and James, children of James McIlraith Esquire, J. P., had been born at
Auchenflower, Ballantrae, Scotland. They were the half‐brothers and half‐sister of Jane
Deans and had come to Canterbury after the death of John Dean in 1854 to help their
sibling in the management of the property of John Dean II who was an infant when his
father died.
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