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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. James Charles Mcrae Calvert

Mr. James Charles Mcrae Calvert who was a well-known settler in the Roslyn Bush district, was born in 1828, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, where he was brought up as a wheelwright and joiner. He came out to Victoria in 1854, and engaged in mining on the Ballarat, Beach worth and the Ovens diggings. Mr Calvert came page 1059 to Otago in 1864, and after working as a miner at Tuapeka he took up land in that district, in which he was one of the earliest settlers. In the early days, Mr Calvert also did a good deal of contracting work, including bridge building. He was for several years a member of the Lyndhurst Road Board, was chairman of the Roslyn Bush school committee from its inception, and acted as postmaster at Roslyn Bush for sixteen years. Mr Calvert was married, in 1854, to a daughter of the late Mr Hugh Gardiner, of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and at his death, in 1892, left two sons and three daughters. Mrs Calvert died in 1894.