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Descendants of W. H. and M. R. Sloane: Family Chart #1.
Last Updated March 2009.
Above: One of the Sloane children prepares to bath.
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Walter Henderson Sloane |
John Robertson Sloane Born, 28 December 1868 |
| Mary McDonald Sloane Died at birth 4 December 1870 |
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| May Sloane Born, 18 July 1872 Died 1939 |
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| Mary McDonald Sloane Born, 4 December 1874 |
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| Christina Robertson Sloane Born 13 January 1876 |
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| Andrew Dunbar Sloane Born 28 December 1878 Died 1957 |
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| Walter Rutherford Sloane Born 14 December 1880 |
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| Margaret Robertson Sloane Born, 26 October 1882 Married, William R H Free Died, 28 October 1974 |
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| George Levett Sloane Born, 26 September 1884 |
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| Thomas Seddon Evans Sloane Born, 2 October 1885 (twin) |
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| James McMullen Sloane Born, 2 October 1885 (twin) Died, 16 March 1886 |
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| Ruth Aroha Lassie Sloane Born, 2 December 1896 (adopted) Died, 1984 |
John Robertson Sloane
Born 28 December 1868, Vulcan Lane, Auckland.
May Sloane
Born 18 July 1872,Vulcan Lane, Auckland.
Married, George Leveth.
Died 1939.
The photographt to the right is of May Sloane taken about 1905.
Mary McDonald Sloane "Molly"
Born 4 December 1874, Vulcan Lane, Auckland.
Died 1964.
Christina Robertson Sloane
Born 13 January 1876, Vulcan Lane, Auckland.
Married, Edward Parkes Compton Swainson, 19 October 1909, at All Saints
Ponsonby Auckland.
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Andrew Dunbar Sloane
Born, 28 December 1878, Vulcan Lane, Auckland.
Married, Olive Moore, 30 March 1910, Johnsonville Presbyterian Church
(Wellington)
Died, 1957 in Devonshire, England
Andrew Dunbar Sloane moved from Auckland to Johnsonville, Wellington. Andrew had bad asthma and he thought the climate would be more beneficial. He initially worked as a chemist.
Andrew married Olive Theresa Moore 30 Mar 1910 in Johnsonville,Wellington. Andrew was 32 and Olive 21.
Olive was the eighth child of James Moore and Jane Philomina Mary Halliday, whose mother was a high ranking Maori Princess that was involved in the signing away of certain lands around Blenheim and Picton.
Mary’s father was James Moore. James Moore was born in County Dublin, Ireland, in 1841, and at the age of 16, after his father’s death, he came to New Zealand accompanied by his mother, Mrs Thomas Moore, nee McGovern, and sister, and brother-in –law. They arrived on 15 May 1857 by the Black Ball Line Alma. He was at Gabriel’s Gully in 1862 and was overseer and Inspector of Public roads in 1864. Marrying Mary Jane, daughter of Capt. Halliday of Blenheim by his Maori wife, a member of the Tuiti-Macdonald tribe, at St. Mary’s cathedral, Wellington. In 1866, James Moore settled on the Porirua Road where his family where all born…later moved to Johnsonville. Mrs Moore died on 4 May 1925, aged 81…(They had eight children, the youngest was Olive). Olive married Andrew Dunbar Sloane.
During the First World War, five years after he married, Andrew Dunbar Sloane, at the age of 37 was appointed army captain on the New Zealand hospital ship Maheno, which embarked for Turkey in July 1915, returning January 1916. During August and September 1915 the Maheno made five visits to Anzac cove at Gallipoli, ferrying the sick and wounded to hospitals in Egypt. Wounded men were transferred from Anzac beach to Maheno. In extreme heat, while bullets raked the decks, the nurses worked with the poor torn mangled men amid the horrible sickly odour of dysentery, disease and decay. When they first arrived at Anzac, they found ‘a destroyer and cruiser bombarding the coast immediately opposite. Several bullets came on board, which added excitement to the proceedings.’ When wounded and sick men were evacuated to Mudros (a town on the Greek island of Lemnos approximately 100 kilometres from ANZAC Cove), conditions there were only better in that the men were out of range of Turkish guns. Even the nurses and doctors on Mudros were savaged by the prevalent illnesses of dysentery, diarrhoea and gastroenteritis. The flies were with them too.
While Andrew was away at war, an influenza epidemic broke out. A relative of his converted his hall in Johnsonville into a receiving hall for patients and his wife, Olive, dispensed medicine for free.
Andrew and Olive had five children, their only son Clifford, was born in 1912 at Johnsonville.
In 1918, Andrew Dunbar Sloane set up the auctioneering firm Dunbar Sloane Ltd. He became a well known land agent and auctioneer. The company has continued to be owned by the Sloane family and run by the eldest son, in each case being called Dunbar.
An extract from the Evening Post in 1924 noted that he founded the auction house after he returned from the First World War, gassed at Gallipoli and unable to mix chemicals. ‘A not inconsiderable figure in Wellington’s commercial life is the erstwhile chemist, Dunbar Sloane, now wielding in place of the pestle an auctioneer’s hammer. Land is what he knocks down after first cracking it up’
Children of Dunbar & Olive:
A daughter: 6 Januray 1911
Walter Rutherford Sloane
Born, 14 December 1880, Khyber Pass, Auckland
Married, Edith Gertrude Hawkins, 1906.
Died Whakatane abt 1961.
Noted as passing the Dental Examinations in Dunedin - source Evening Post, page 6, 15 February 1908.
Moved to Whakatane and practised as a Denist.
The following was published in the New Zealand Free Lance on 22 February 1908.
Passed his dental exam, at Dunedin last week, with full strings of colours flying, Wallie Sloane of the Empire City. Walter is an Auckland boy by birth, but he adopted Wellington when his big brother, Dunbar, opened his pharmacy along Lambton Quay. Then the latest addition to our dental regiment hoed in to learn the gum surgery at the well-known dental -rooms of W. Bradley Struthers. But Wallie was born to it. Came down from Auckland with his mind made up for the business. He brought his hamper ashore from the Takapuna one fine morning, and walked straight up to Struther's dental surgery.
It so happened that Bradley Struthers was up to his neck in some mechanical work when a quarryman or a wharf-labourer came in with his eyes starting out of his head. The cause? A bad molar. The young Aucklander had a look at it, allowed that it was a sad arrangement, and would have to be shifted. But he didn't call Mr. Struthers. Not a bit. He took the handiest forceps, and in two-twos he had that man swearing allegiance for ever and a day to the doctrine of painless dentistry.
Wallie isn't given to talking. You might be in his company a week and he wouldn't even ask you what you thought of the weather. When boss dentist Struthers tackled him about pulling the man's molar, Wallie just reckoned that, as he'd come down from Auckland to pull teeth, the sooner he started the quicker. Now those who know say that a finer extractor than this same Walter Sloane, dental surgeon, has to be born yet. It is a natural gift. He took a sea blow before his exam., and quietly coasted down to Dunedin. The sea air, phosphorus, and one thing and another, just fitted him, and there will be a new swell dentist playing hockey this coming season in Wellington.
George Levett Sloane
Born 26 September 1884, Marine Parade, Auckland
Thomas Seddon Evans Sloane, "Seddie" (TWIN)
Born, 2 October 1885, Marine Parade, Auckland.
Married, Hilda Rose Hope, 29 December 1924, Edendale Presbyterian Church,
Belmoral, Auckland
Died 1948.
Passed his dental exams in Dunedin on 16 October 1909 (18months after his brother Walter). Noting that his usual residence at the time wasWellington.
Ruth Aroha Lassie Sloane
Born 2 December 1896 (adopted)
Died 1984.