Arthur MCCARTNEY (1846 – 1897)

Name

Arthur McCartney

Gender

Male

Military identification

Captain, Hawke's Bay Militia

Birthdate

17 January 1846

Birthplace

Lancashire, England

Marriage(s)

Maraea (Maria) Lewis (Hautui)
18 March 1877
St Marks Church, West Clive, Hastings
Annie Jane McCartney
13 September 1883
Napier
Jane Bradley McCartney

Date of death

16 April 1897

Place of death

Clive, Hastings

Partner(s)

  • Maraea (Maria) Lewis (Hautui) (1856-1926)
  • Annie Jane McCartney, nee Hare (1855-1883)
  • Jane Bradley McCartney, nee Hare (1867-1947)

Children

  • George McCartney (1871-1961)
  • Akenihi (Agnes) Horsfall (1874-1941)
  • Erehi McCartney (1876-1886)
  • Alice Mary McCartney (1882-1882)
  • Henry Eyre McCartney (1886-1893)
  • Arthur Hare McCartney (1888-1900)
  • David Sloan Night McCartney
  • Elizabeth Jane Morn Campbell (1891-1961)
  • Robert Faulkner McCartney (1893-1961)

Biography

Arrived in New Zealand on the “Montmorency”, 1867
Joined the Mounted Armed Constabulary
Fought in New Zealand Wars
Orderly to Sir Donald McLean, Defence Minister
Proprietor of “Greenmeadows Hotel”, “The Caledonian” and “The Albion”, Napier
Died by drowning trying to save settlers at Clive in the Napier floods 1897, leaving his widow and four children
Three children by first partner Maraea then one child by Annie and five children by Jane

 

 

Accession number

592483

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