James Blackie

The Blackie family, originally from Dundee, began its connection with Otago in 1848, when James Blackie arrived in Dunedin on the ‘Philip Laing’ as first school master of the Otago Free Church colony. He started a school in Dunedin, but became ill with tuberculosis; he went to Sydney late in 1850 and died there early in 1851. He had bought land for a farm near Kaitangata and, after various legal complications, his brother Davidson Blackie, plus wife Margaret Pandrich and four children, migrated to take up the land, arriving at Kaitangata in 1860. Source: Ali Clarke, Out of the box: the Blackie family collection.

Sources

1. Clarke, Ali (2018). Out of the box: the Blackie family collection. Te Uare Taoka o Hākena – the Hocken Collections https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/thehockenblog/out-of-the-box-the-blackie-...