{"id":1672,"date":"2022-08-15T09:51:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T21:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=1672"},"modified":"2022-08-15T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T22:01:48","slug":"john-henry-jack-brown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/brown\/john-brown\/john-henry-jack-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"John Henry “Jack” Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jack was born in East Taieri and attend Mosgiel school before leaving and gaining an education as blacksmith. Following his apprenticeship, Jack established himself as a Blacksmith on the Taieri Plains, but I have been unable to learn under whom he studied. There is a potential candidate in his Uncle, Robert Stark, husband of Kate nee Brown (Jack’s Aunt).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 1 Jan 1903 Jack married Caroline Lane at Oamaru and it is there that the newly minted married couple, would call home until Jack’s passing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack worked around the district as a Blacksmith and then Mechanical Engineer and finally Fitter. The sites he worked included a stint up the Waitaki Valley working on the hydro schemes, which would have been Waitaki in the 1930s – 1940’s, New Zealand’s first Hydro Power Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had 5 children all born in Oamaru, laid out in the following table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1904<\/td>Sybilla Houseal<\/td>Died<\/td>1963<\/td><\/tr>
1906<\/td>John Rutherford<\/td>Died<\/td>2001<\/td><\/tr>
1909<\/td>Nancy Edith<\/td>Died<\/td>1976<\/td><\/tr>
1911<\/td>Isabelle Rosamund<\/td>Died<\/td>2009<\/td><\/tr>
1914<\/td>David Godfrey<\/td>Died<\/td>1986<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The following photos of John Brown and wife Caroline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n