Jaffrey, William Charles McIntosh

1884 - 1973  (88 years)

• Name	Jaffrey, William Charles McIntosh
  Born	7 Jul 1884	Hatton of Ardoyne
  Gender	Male
  Died	31 May 1973	Hawera NZ
  Person ID	I198	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 Jul 2003

  
  

  Father	Alexander, Robert,   b. 17 Oct 1855, North Sunside Meikle Wartle ,   d. 17 Jan 1931, Baldyquash Meikle Wartle  (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Jaffray, Isabel,   b. 9 Dec 1861, Hatton of Ardoyne Oyne ,   d. 2 Jan 1951, Baldyquash Meikle Wartle  (Age 89 years)
  Married	3 Sep 1891	Hatton Ch of Garioch
  Photos		Rin 219 - 101 Grandparents
  Documents		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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  Family ID	F33	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Holmes, Ivy,   b. 10 Apr 1896, Porewa ,   d. 20 Feb 1979, Wanganui  (Age 82 years)
  Married	8 Jul 1919	Wanganui
  Children	1. McIntosh, Clarice Isabel,   b. 13 Feb 1920,   d. 17 Apr 2009  (Age 89 years)   2. McIntosh, Charles William,   b. 14 Apr 1923,   d. 10 Sep 2005, Taranaki  (Age 82 years)   3. McIntosh, Mary Elsie,   b. 13 Jan 1925, Manaia NZ ,   d. Aug 2002  (Age 77 years)   4. Private   5. McIntosh, Ester,   b. 1933,   d. 1933  (Age 0 years)
  Histories		William Charles McIntosh Jaffray A brief History
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2014
  Family ID	F66	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Rin 198 WILLI_TOSH_IN_UNIFORM
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  		Hatton of Ardoyne House This is the house at Hatton of Ardoyne near Oyne as described in the auction sale catalogue I somehow expected a property older in appearance and suspect that this must have been a replacement at some point As you head out of Oyne crossing the railway line towards Old Rayne you come to a junction with the main highway and at this point a small road immediately on the left winds it way back in the direction you came passing the Hatton properties to exit on the Oyne to Insch road close to the toll bridge

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Rin 198 LIFETIME_EVENTS_WILLY_TOSH
  		Rin 198 LIFETIME_EVENTS_WILLY_TOSH Page 2
  		Barren Jack Dam
  		Rin 198-199 1901_CENSUS
  		Birth Certificate William Charles Mcintosh Jaffray

  
  

  Headstones

  William and Ivy McIntosh headstone

  
  

  Histories		McIntosh Family
  		The life and Times of William Charles McIntosh Jaffrey

  
  

• Notes

  Williams birth certificate gives his full name and shows that he was born at 7pm on the 4th of July 1884 His mother was Isabella Jaffrey and his father unknown The address given is Hatton Oyne the farm of his grandparents His mother left him there in their care and that of her sister Elspet whilst she went back to work as a domestic servant. The 1891Census return shows him living at Hatton of Ardoyne age 6 his grandmother having died the year before When William was rising twelve his luck ran out. His aunt Elspet died and then the old man He afterwards told his daughter Clarice that life was miserable he was on the parish and looked after by relatives I now believe that he was taken in by Mrs Robertson of Goose Knowes as she cared for orphans and was paid by the parish for so doing Be that as it may his mother had subsequently married and it seems she was unable or unwilling to take him in He also recollected that the Presbyterian minister a Rev. Brown found a work place for him with a farmer called Wildgoose However this period of his life working on the farm or farms is rather lost to us The 1901 census shows him working for a farmer Alexander Benzie of Mosstown Kennethmont aged 16 and his half brother Charles Jaffray age 13 is also there working alongside as farm servants Alexander Benzie at Mosstown where William and his brother Charlie worked in 1901came from Parkbrae (Oyne cemetery MI) "In memory of Mary Mathieson wife of Alexander Benzie farmer Parkbrae Oyne died Sept 12 1887 aged 54 also the above Alexander Benzie died April 30 1907 aged 78 years" Sometime after the turn of the century William decided to try his luck in Australia He worked at first with horses and as a powder monkey on a mammoth project, the construction of the Burrinjuck irrigation dam known locally as the "Barren Jack" He found the conditions too hot for him and suffering from sunburn he becided to move to New Zealand (Incidentally because of the outbreak of World War 1 the dam project was severely checked and not finally completed until 1927) En-route he became friendly with a man going to Riverlea Kaponga who was on a visit to Bill Gardner and he accepted a farm job there He stayed on and eventually leased or purchased his own farm in Eltham Road However events were now overtaken by the War and William decided to enlist and ship out to France leaving his property to be looked after by neighbours Mr and Mrs Donald On his enlistment papers he gave Mrs Donald as his next of kin, relationship "friend" In Nov 1917 he joined the Army and began active service as a rifleman and in July 1918 he arrived in Liverpool marching into camp at Etaples in Sept A shrapnel wound in his left leg saw him in hospital in Hornchurch England Having survived the war he made one last visit to Oyne staying a few days with a relative by the name of Ross before embarkation In March 1919 he sailed from Portsmouth bound for Wellington (Army records) It Is not quite clear what happened to his farm during his absence but the upshot saw him losing the property and having to start again He leased a farm for a time before occupying another at Upper Mangawhero Road on the southern slopes of Mount Egmont He married a girl called Ivy Holmes whose grandparents were of German /Hungarian descent Their first task was to clear the land of native bush and turn it to pasture for dairy farming William and Ivy raised a family of four children the fifth and youngest having died in infancy They celebrated their golden wedding in July 1969 At age 84 he had a fall from his favourite horse and broke his pelvis It is thought that he never fully recovered and died on 31st May 1973 survived by his four children and eight grandchildren His death certificate states he emigrated to NZ in 1907 Family history has it as 1903 /1904 Estranged from his mother he raised his family to believe he had no known relatives He also discarded the surname Jaffrey and was known as McIntosh although I now have to revise my opinion here as he seems to have been known as William McIntosh from an early age as witness the two census returns already quoted He is buried in Hawera Cemetery and his death certificate gives his father as John McIntosh and his mother as Elsie Jaffray Footnote In 1962 I turned up on his doorstep with my mother (his half-sister) and both his half brothers in tow Whatever I had in mind came to nothing. He did not appear and the woman who did showed us the door It was a sad outcome and I regret that no further attempt at a reconciliation ever presented itself