EWEN MACINTOSH 19 June 1842 – 1910
ISABELLA MACINTOSH, nee HARDIE, c1843 – 1926
Ewen MacIntosh came from Glenroy in Scotland. He and Isabella had married on 4 May 1864, prior to immigration. They sailed on the William Miles arriving 22 October 1864. In the shipping news, Lyttelton Times, 25 October 1864, as a Provincial Government immigrant, shepherd, is listed A McIntosh, wife and 1 child, Invernesshire.
Rakaia Terrace Station journal:
1865 Wednesday 22 March: Two carts arrived this evening with married couple for the Out Station. [see also Ledger pp285, 407.]
Thursday 23 March: Fountaine making a double bed for McIntosh. Jones taken McIntosh to the Out Station in the cart.
Of course Isabella would have been there too and she would have been one of the first women to live permanently on Rakaia Terrace Station. It would have been a lonely and remote life for her. The ‘outstation’ was approximately 8 kms west from the ‘home station’ on part of the station known as ‘The Downs Run West’.(1) Isabella would have been required to cook for single shepherds.
Ewen retired from his position with Sir John in 1903 and purchased 300 [maybe 400] acres from him and then ran his own property which he called ‘Glenroy Farm’. Hence the name Glenroy given to the district. (2)
The spelling of Macintosh in the station records is sometimes McIntosh, sometimes MacIntosh. His birth certificate has the spelling Mackintosh. On the marriage certificate it is Macintosh.The Women’s Suffrage Petitions of 1892 and 1893 record both Isabella Macintosh and Isabella Macintosh Jnr. On the 1892 petition both mother and daughter use the spelling McIntosh but on the 1893 petition Macintosh.
Ewen and Isabella had seven daughters, Isabella, Catherine, Mary Ann, Jessie, Ellen, Margaret, Annie, and one son, Angus who died from diphtheria aged 5 years.
There is a property in the Windwhistle area known as Mack’s Downs, where the outstation was located, named after Ewen and Isabella.
1 Jean Garner’s biography of sir John Hall, By His Own Merits.
2 ibid
ISABELLA MACINTOSH, nee HARDIE, c1843 – 1926
Ewen MacIntosh came from Glenroy in Scotland. He and Isabella had married on 4 May 1864, prior to immigration. They sailed on the William Miles arriving 22 October 1864. In the shipping news, Lyttelton Times, 25 October 1864, as a Provincial Government immigrant, shepherd, is listed A McIntosh, wife and 1 child, Invernesshire.
Rakaia Terrace Station journal:
1865 Wednesday 22 March: Two carts arrived this evening with married couple for the Out Station. [see also Ledger pp285, 407.]
Thursday 23 March: Fountaine making a double bed for McIntosh. Jones taken McIntosh to the Out Station in the cart.
Of course Isabella would have been there too and she would have been one of the first women to live permanently on Rakaia Terrace Station. It would have been a lonely and remote life for her. The ‘outstation’ was approximately 8 kms west from the ‘home station’ on part of the station known as ‘The Downs Run West’.(1) Isabella would have been required to cook for single shepherds.
Ewen retired from his position with Sir John in 1903 and purchased 300 [maybe 400] acres from him and then ran his own property which he called ‘Glenroy Farm’. Hence the name Glenroy given to the district. (2)
The spelling of Macintosh in the station records is sometimes McIntosh, sometimes MacIntosh. His birth certificate has the spelling Mackintosh. On the marriage certificate it is Macintosh.The Women’s Suffrage Petitions of 1892 and 1893 record both Isabella Macintosh and Isabella Macintosh Jnr. On the 1892 petition both mother and daughter use the spelling McIntosh but on the 1893 petition Macintosh.
Ewen and Isabella had seven daughters, Isabella, Catherine, Mary Ann, Jessie, Ellen, Margaret, Annie, and one son, Angus who died from diphtheria aged 5 years.
There is a property in the Windwhistle area known as Mack’s Downs, where the outstation was located, named after Ewen and Isabella.
1 Jean Garner’s biography of sir John Hall, By His Own Merits.
2 ibid
