{"id":2213,"date":"2024-11-17T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=2213"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:21:12","slug":"violet-mary-mckinnell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/elizabeth-steel-stark\/violet-mary-mckinnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Violet McKinnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.com.au\/api\/media\/retrieval\/v2\/image\/namespaces\/1093\/media\/549c5480-a0a3-44ff-9ff8-61e6d0dbce74?client=trees-mediaservice&amp;imageQuality=hq\" alt=\"iPhone Photo\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7454545454545455;width:280px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thumbnail image<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Violet was born on the \u00a021 March  1898\u00a0at\u00a0Gore, Southland, New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During 1930, Violet married James Alexander Christie and from that union came 2 children with a possible third one (requires investigation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Child<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Born<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Died<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Married<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Children<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Comments<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Warner Stanley Christie<\/td><td>29 Nov 1932<\/td><td>&nbsp;21 May 1989<\/td><td>1956<\/td><td>6<\/td><td>Baird<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lindsay John Alexander Christie<\/td><td>&nbsp;12 Mar 1936<\/td><td>30 Dec 2015<\/td><td>1965<\/td><td>2<\/td><td>Malcolm<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>N\/R Christie<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>James appears to have worked for modern day Corrections and was resident along with Violet at &#8220;Borstal Farm&#8221; near Invercargill. Borstals were institutions where young (male) offenders were sent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James passed away in 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Violet passed away on the 29 March 1998\u00a0at\u00a0Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand, aged 100 years and is buried alongside her husband in Eastern Cemetery, Invercargill, New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Violet-Christie-nee-McKinnel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Violet-Christie-nee-McKinnel.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Violet-Christie-nee-McKinnel-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2379\" style=\"width:330px;height:792px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-7.png 230w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-7-125x300.png 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violet was born on the \u00a021 March 1898\u00a0at\u00a0Gore, Southland, New Zealand During 1930, Violet married James Alexander Christie and from that union came 2 children with a possible third one (requires investigation). Child Born Died Married Children Comments Warner Stanley Christie 29 Nov 1932 &nbsp;21 May 1989 1956 6 Baird Lindsay John Alexander Christie &nbsp;12 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/stark\/elizabeth-steel-stark\/violet-mary-mckinnell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Violet McKinnell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":895,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2213\/revisions\/3439"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}