Janet McFarlane

1890 - 1969  (79 years)

• Name	Janet McFarlane  [1, 2]
  Birth	13 Jan 1890	New Zealand   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	23 May 1969
  Burial	Hamilton Park Cemetery, Newstead, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
  Person ID	I12898	MacFarlane
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

  Father	John Clark McFarlane,   b. 17 Feb 1842, Cambusbarron, Stirlingshire, Scotland d. 14 Jul 1910, Toles Hill, Huntly, Waikato, New Zealand (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Christina Isabella Kerr,   b. 12 Jun 1854, Bannockburn, St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland d. 10 Aug 1894, Willowbank, Huntly, Waikato, New Zealand (Age 40 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	28 Jul 1874	St. Ninians Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland   [1]
  Family ID	F2676	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  1 - Registration# Family Name Given Name Mother's Given Name(s) Father's Given Name(s) 1890/1665 McFarlane Janet Christina Isabella John Clark [Birth entry - NZ BMD index] 2 - Janet lived in Huntly, New Zealand until her oldest sister Mary married, when she and the other young girls moved in with their sister Mary Gould nee McFarlane and brother in law Harry Gould. Mary and Harry were my grandparents. Janet (Auntie Jen) was my mother's aunt and as a child I spent many holidays with her in her little "shack" in Laingholm, Auckland. Janet did not marry. She was a career dental nurse who worked for many years at an Auckland school dental clinic. She once wrote and illustrated a little book of poems for children entitled Jabs at Giant Decay under the pen name of Javelin. Janet McFarlane was one of the first intake of dental nurses to train in NZ in 1921. I think she spent most of her working life at either New Lynn or Grey Lynn School Dental Clinic in Auckland. After her retirement in 1950 she spent her time writi ng letters and poems, playing the piano and painting beautiful pictures. She once had some paintings hung in an exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery. She was rather different!! She had her chooks, all named, walking in and out of her little house out at Laingholm. She also had numerous cats -- but then so did my grandmother Mary!! Janet and her older sister Christabel bought an acre of land at Laingholm. Janet had a little two roomed house built on one quarter, she sold another quarter to Basil Bain, a nephew-in-law, and Christabel built a house on the top section when sh e came back to New Zealand in 1957. Unfortunately she didn't get things moving for quite a while and had bought a house in Titirangi to live in until it was finished and she died before it was. Christabel had a Keith Hay house put onto the fourth quarter for Janet to live in as her own, by that time, was in a rather disgusting state. It was a nice little house, all furnished with a fridge and a proper toilet and bathroom -- things that h er little "shack" didn't have but was she happy? Oh no!! She loved her little shack and simply stayed put in it, but she did use the fridge to keep the cat's meat in!! Our dear old auntie Jen finally had to be moved from her little shack as it was in very poor repair -- all her lovely paintings and her beloved piano were ruined. She died in Tokanui, a home for the insane, on 23-May-1969 aged 79 Years. She is bur ied in the Hamilton Park Cemetery. I have often wondered whether her insanity could have been caused by the indiscriminate use of mercury in those days. [E-mail from Molly Bowditch rec: 5 & 6 Oct 2015] (Research):Molly Bowditch mollybow@xtra.co.nz via kansas.shnw.net Sep 27 2015 Proposed Change: Janet McFarlane [MacFarlane] (I76057) Tree: Clan current Janet McFarlane, daughter of John Clark McFarlane and Christina Isabella Kerr, was born in New Zealand on 13 January 1890. This can be checked by putting her name and birth date in the New Zealand Births Deaths and Marriages online at:- www.bdmhis toricalrecords.dia.govt.nz

  
  

• Sources

  [S2195] Ancestry.com.au, Ancestry Public Member Trees, (Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;), Bishop Family Tree Owner: amydenisemarshall. [S2658] NZ Govt.-Internal Affairs Dept., NZ Births, Deaths and Marriages Index, (Name: Name: Name: https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz;;;).