NzBDM Marriages: 1861/1885 Mary Jane Blackie & John Allan

Children:
1862/15252 Allan John
1864/19524 Allan Jane Blackie
1866/30468 Allan William
1868/33718 Allan James
1870/36194 Allan Agnes Oliver
1872/38040 Allan Jessie Johnston
1874/40185 Allan Catherine Wilson
1876/10759 Allan Janet Alexander
1878/3184 Allan Josephine Mary
1879/12800 Allan Isabella Annie
1880/16047 Allan Walter Blackie

Aged 69y

DEATHS.
ALLAN.—On the 28th January, 1901, at Bellfield, East Taieri, John Allan; aged 69 years. [Otago Daily Times, Issue 11953, 29 January 1901, Page 4]
OBITUARY.
MR JOHN ALLAN, OF BELLFIELD. . It is nearly 53 years since the settlement of Otago was founded, and the band of pioneers who helped to build up the infant colony is fast thinning. By the death of Mr John Allan, of Bellfield, East Taieri, which occurred on the 28th inst., one of the well-known and much-loved members of this old band has been taken away. Mr Allan was born in Kilmarnock, in Ayrshire, in 1831, and came out with his parents to Nelson in 1842. Six year later the family came down to Otago, and in 1850 took up land in East Taieri, the parental home being built at Bellfield. Only two of the original band still survive—Mrs Anderson, of Kelvin Grove, Waiwera, and Mrs Oliver, of Mosgiel. Attracted by the rush to Gabriel's Gully, Mr Allan went up there in the end of 1861, and for a time carried on a store at Waitahuna. A few years later he opened a store at Riccarton, and was also engaged extensively in farming operations in Kaihiku, and latterly in Strath-Taieri. After giving up business in East Taieri he became one of the original partners in the firm of Messrs Thomson, Bridger, and Co., of the Invercargill branch of which his son James is managing partner. Though not a public man in any sense of the term, he was very widely known and highly thought of. Pre-eminently happy in his family relations— though called on to bear many and sore bereavements in his own family circle,—a true and sympathetic friend, upright and conscientious in all his business relations, and a loyal supporter of the church of his fathers, in which he was an officer-bearer for over 40 years, Mr Allan will be missed by a very large circle of friends throughout Otago. He leaves a family of three sons (the eldest serving with the fourth contingent in South Africa) and five daughters. [Otago Daily Times, Issue 11954, 30 January 1901, Page 6] - Contributor: misces63 (48378779)