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minutes before the afternoon train left the Bluff, our agents were unable to obtain
further particulars for this issue.
(Reference National Library of New Zealand Papers Past website Southland Times newspaper 15 July 1874 page 2)
Nelson Evening Mail newspaper 16 July 1874
Bluff – July 13 – The ship Carrick Castle is now coming into harbour after a
seventy-seven days passage with 220 immigrants all well. Three deaths of
children occurred on the voyage
(Reference National Library of New Zealand Papers Past website Nelson Evening Mail newspaper 16 July 1874
page 2)
Southland Times newspaper 17 July 1874
Notice – Farther Carden will be unable to visit Riverton on Sunday in deference to
the large number of immigrants who have arrived by the Carrick Castle
(Reference National Library of New Zealand Papers past website Southland Times newspaper 17 July 1874 page 2)
Margaret may have travelled to Riverton Invercargill Southland with some of the Carrick
Castle immigrants in July 1874.
Margaret Isabelle LESTRANGE settled in Mataura Southland arriving there around 1878
this is according to calculations from her 1880 intention to marry application.
Intention to marry application 15 April 1880 Mataura district
Edward Alexander FISHER age 29 bachelor occupation Clerk dwelled Mataura 6 years
and Margaret Isabelle LUESTRANGE aged 28 spinster dwelled Mataura 18 months
intend to marry in the Cameron’s Hotel Mataura by the Presbyterian minister Rev J M
DAVIDSON.
(Reference Archives of NZ Wellington Intention to marry application 1880 agency BDM series 20 item 25 page 1002)
Edward A FISHER aged 29 years bachelor occupation Clerk married Margaret Isabella
LUESTRAINGE aged 28 spinster. They married in the Cameron’s Hotel Mataura on the
17 th day of April 1880 at the hour of three o’clock pm. The witnesses were Hugh
CAMERON Hotel Keeper of Mataura and J S SHANKS Corn Agent Mataura. The
officiating minister was J M DAVIDSON. Both couples signed their names as Ed
FISHER and M I LUESTRAINGE.
(Reference RGO NZ marriage registration 1880 folio 1411 line 47 Mataura district)
SEARCH (Reference Presbyterian parish marriage records to see if it records place of
birth for Margaret Isabella LUESTRANGE
Edward Alexander FISHER and Margaret Isabelle LUESTRANGE married at
Mataura Saturday 17 th April 1880.
(Reference letter originally held by granddaughter Vera HARRIS married surname MCDERMOTT and later by
grandson Richard HARRIS now unknown)
Margaret was a catholic so it was most unusual for her to be married by a Presbyterian
minister. Perhaps it was because there was no Catholic church in the area. The
Presbyterian Church was established in Matuara around 1874.
The witnesses at the wedding were H Cameron and J S Shanks. Perhaps H Cameron
employed Margaret at the Cameron Hotel as cook and J S Shanks employed Edward as
a clerk. This is only a theory and has to be researched further to confirm.
I have a photograph of the two story Cameron’s Hotel, also known as the Mataura Hotel
where Margaret and Edward were married in 1880. The Mataura Hotel was situated
opposite the Railway Station.
Harris chart 14-15 Fisher Luestrange compiled by Lynly Lessels Yates updated Thursday, 14 June 201214
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