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Sloane Family Chart #1.
Last Updated April 2008.
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Margaret Robertson Sloane |
Walter Henderson
Sloane Born, 11 March 1843 Married, 2 April 1868, Auckland, NZ  |
Andrew Sloane Married, 21 June 1834, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Mary McDonald Married, 21 June 1834, Glasgow, Scotland |
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| Margaret
Johnstone Robertson Born, 10 October 1843, (or 30 Oct 1846) Auckland NZ  Married, 2 April 1868, Auckland, NZ Died, 13 January 1921 |
John Robertson Married, 19 November 1833, Edinburgh, Scotland |
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| May Doughty Married, 19 November 1833, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Margaret Robertson Sloane "Fanny"to family and "Peg"
& "Peggy" to friends (1882-1974)
Born, 26 October 1882, (maybe 28 October 1882), Union Street, Auckland,
NZ
Married, William Robert Hurworth Free,
1908
Died, 28 October 1974.
A newspaper story about her wedding to W R H Free appears here.
In 1973 M R Free, known to the Sloane's as "Granny Free" moved
to 43 Marine Parade to live with her sisters (Molly & Lassie). A few
months later she shift again to a rest home in Richardson Road, Mt Albert
where she died on her 92 birthday. In the picture, left, she is with
her cousin, Marge Tait (left, in black) presumably in the garden in Marine
Parade, Auckland.
Children: (picture, left to right, May, Margaret & Fredie)
May Aroha Free (1911-1981)
Margaret Rutherford Free, Married, 1939, George Anthony Ball
Frederick Henry Free "Fredie" Born, 4 October 1909 at New
Plymouth NZ Died 25 January 1924.
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| This picture is believed to be of Walter Henderson Sloane. In what is thought to be the Royal Arch, Masonic Lodge regalia. In 1873 Walter is listed as Senior Deacon at the openning of the Union Lodge of Mark Masters, No. 154, E.C. |
Walter Henderson Sloane
Born, 11 March 1843, Glasgow, Scotland
Married, Margaret Johnstone
Robertson, 2 April 1868, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Auckland,
NZ.
Walter travels to New Zealand with his brother Andrew, on the 'Robert Small', ex London and arriving Auckland May 1862.
MARRIAGES.
On April 2, by the Rev. D. Bruce, Walter, youngest son of Mr. Andrew Sloane, late of Glasgow, to Maggie, youngest daughter of Mr. John Robertson.
Source, Daily Southern Cross, 10 April 1868, page 4
The Sloane family lived in the "Queen's Ferry Hotel" until around 1884. Thereafter living at 21 (now 43) Marine Parade. He has been noted as a Secretary for a Coal Importer.
According to Census data his occupation in 1868 was a "Mine-Draper", in 1874 and in 1878 as a Hotel Keeper and in 1880 as a Coal Merchant.
He appears in a call to pay for his 200 shares in the Naptune Goldmining Company in Auckland, 4 April 1872 in the Daily Southern Cross, page 1.
In 1873 cottage, which he had rented out, was destroyed by fire. The newspaper report of this, The Daily Southern Cross 17 Jan 1873 page 2, described it has a handsome cottage in Karaka Road and not insured.
From October 1875 to end 1876 he appears in Daily Souther Cross newspaper on a regular bases as an Agent for Wangarei Coal Yard.
Around 1898 he just fades from records. He ceases to be listed in the Wise's Postal directories nor is his passing noted within the family (which is a notable omission!). He is listed as an "Accountant" in the marriage registration of his daughter Margaret Robertson Sloane & W R H Free (1908) but in the description of the place of the wedding; held in his house, which is referred to as the house of the mother of the bride; and he is not among those present at that wedding.
Children of Walter and Margaret Sloane: can be found here.
Andrew Sloane
Married, Mary (maybe May) McDonald, 21 June 1834, Kilbirne, Glasgow,
Scotland
Andrew had at least two childern:
- Andrew Sloane
- Walter Henderson Sloane born1843, Glasgow
Andrew Sloane's son Andrew emigrated to New Zealand with his brother, Walter, on the 'Robert Small', ex London and arriving Auckland May 1862.
In 1863 he is fined 5s for drunkenness. In 1872 he is described as a mariner, belonging to the schooner 'Herald.' In 1873 he achieves his Masters' Certificate. In 1875 he is mentioned as follows; "We understand that Captain Andrew Sloane, late of the Moneynick and Roderick Dhu, has been appointed to the command of the schooner Agnes, This vessel will proceed at once to the Chathan Islands, and load ther with timber for this port; returning again, she will take timber on board for a Southerrn port."
He dies in August 1911 after falling over the cliff at the edge of his Herne Bay house.