The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. James Jardine
Mr. James Jardine , sometime of “Annandala,” Awamoko, was born at the Hake, near Lochberie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and came to Port Chalmers in 1862 by the ship “Jura.” He spent several years gold mining in Otago and on the West Coast, and finally settled at Awamoko, where, in conjunction with his brother, Mr. Thomas Jardine he purchased “Annandale,” consisting of about 600 acres of freehold, which the brothers farmed till the death of Mr. T. Jardine. Mr. James Jardine died in 1888, at the age of forty-nine. He was married, in 1876, to a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Hall, of Boughtrig Farm, Awamoko.