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This black and white head and shoulders portrait is of John Muir of Whanganui. He is an elderly man with blue eyes, white hair and moustache, wearing a dark suit and a polka dot bow tie.
John Muir and his wife Catherine (nee Boyd) came to New Zealand from Glasgow and settled in Waverley where John worked as a draper. He served as a Church Office Bearer in 1885, and also on the School Committee in 1882
Catherine and John had the following children in New Zealand:
Marian/Maring Christie born 1868, died aged 6 months
Agnes Patterson born 1871
Walter born 1874
William John Wilson born 1875, married Eva Laura Russell 1904
Effie Catherine born 1880
And children born in Great Britain were:
Richard John, married Elizabeth Walker in 1895
Janet Miller, married John Henderson Mathieson in 1898
Catherine died on 10 September 1929 aged 82 years.
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