{"id":3072,"date":"2025-03-26T11:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=3072"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:40:57","slug":"james-allan-robertson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/robertson\/james-allan-robertson\/","title":{"rendered":"James Allan Robertson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Allan-Robertson-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Allan-Robertson-1-1024x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Allan-Robertson-1-1024x720.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Allan-Robertson-1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Allan-Robertson-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Allan-Robertson-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Indian Scout ca 1920<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>James was born on the 24 Nov 1867 at Waianakarua. He was the 3rd child of James and Grace, born at Chalgrove in the Waianakarua area. He was a motor mechanic by trade and practiced, for the main, in Oamaru. He also listed as being a miner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> On the 30 Dec 1898, he married Esther Hyslop at Waitati Parish, North Otago and they had at least 3 children together. James passed on 1st Nov 1944, at Waianakarua and Esther in 1968. (there was another James and Esther Robertson who had a large family at the same time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Child<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Born<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Married<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Children<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Died<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>James<\/td><td>4 Sep 1900<\/td><td>23 Sep 1925<\/td><td>4<\/td><td>9 Jul 1959<\/td><td>Manson<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Robert Hyslop<\/td><td>\u00a012 Feb 1904<\/td><td>04 Jun 1930<\/td><td>4<\/td><td>10 Sep 1984<\/td><td>Stenning<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Isabel Grace<\/td><td>26 Mar 1908<\/td><td>20 Feb 1929<\/td><td>2<\/td><td>21 Apr 1998<\/td><td>Rogers<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2015-06-08-13.33.34.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"719\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2015-06-08-13.33.34.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2015-06-08-13.33.34.jpg 719w, https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2015-06-08-13.33.34-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>James Robertson and wife Esther, need HYSLOP, Waitati Cemetery<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James was born on the 24 Nov 1867 at Waianakarua. He was the 3rd child of James and Grace, born at Chalgrove in the Waianakarua area. He was a motor mechanic by trade and practiced, for the main, in Oamaru. He also listed as being a miner. On the 30 Dec 1898, he married Esther &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/robertson\/james-allan-robertson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;James Allan Robertson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3072","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=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3072\/revisions\/3081"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stark.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}