Biography

DAVID KER BLAIR

Burial register ID: 85
Surname: BLAIR
First name: DAVID
Middle names: KER
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Cause of death: Unknown
Burial type:
Date of death: 01-Jun-1944
Date of burial: 01-Jun-1944

Block: 110
Plot: 14
Inscription:

In Memory of William Newsham Blair, M.Inst. C.E.

Engineer in chief of New Zealand.

who died at Wellington On 4th May 1891 In his 50th year.

Erected by officers past and present of the Public Works Dept as a

mark of the esteem in which he was held by them.

In Loving Memory Of Tom Kennedy, third son of W. N. Blair

born 18 May 1872 died 30 August 1882

also Jessie Sinclair Robinson eldest daughter died 1st Feb. 1947

Claris Vida Stanley Taylor died 5 August 1971 aged 67 years.

Mary, wife of above born Oban, Scotland 26 April, 1841 died

London 29 July, 1917

David Ker Blair, eldest son of above

died at Wellington 29 May 1944 in his 77th year;

Elizabeth Cumming Blair wife of above died at

New Plymouth 17th June, 1954

Jessie Sinclair Robinson eldest daughter, died 1 February, 1947

Neville Blair Mangaweka, died Edinburgh 5 May 1973 aged 56.

[Monument is a very tall red and pink marble Celtic Cross of stone]

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There are 6 Interments in this grave:

Surname First names Age Date of death Date of burial
BLAIR DAVID ISLAY 79 Years 07-Jan-1993 11-Jan-1993
BLAIR DAVID KER Unknown 01-Jun-1944 01-Jun-1944
BLAIR ELIZABETH CUMMING Unknown 17-Jun-1954 20-Jun-1954
BLAIR THOMAS KENNEDY 10 Years 30-Aug-1882 01-Sep-1882
BLAIR WILLIAM N 50 Years 06-May-1891 08-May-1891
TAYLOR CLARICE VIDA STANLEY 67 Years 05-Aug-1971 08-Aug-1971