TRAIL, Stephen Galt
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Birth
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6 November 1872 |
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Fraserburgh, Aberdeen, Scotland |
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Doctor |
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New Zealand Armed Forces (?) |
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Death
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7 February 1940 |
Age |
67 years |
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466 Hagley Avenue, Christchurch (residence) |
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Press, 8 & 9 February 1940 |
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Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch |
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Biographical Notes
Stephen Galt Trail was born on 6 November 1872 at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the second yougest in the family of John Trail and his wife Euphemia née Innes. In 1881 Stephen was a scholar at home in Fraserburgh. By 1891 he was an apprentice chemist. He married Emily Waldegrave Newman in 1897 in New Zealand, having arrived here late 1895 per the "Ruahine". His father had died in 1882 and hismother died in 1898, after Stephen and his younger brother had come to New Zealand. In 1901 at Feilding, where he was residing, Lieutenant S. G. Trail was elected an officer of the newly-formed Feilding Mounted Rifles. And in 1903 he was appointed lieutenant of the Feilding Mounted Rifle Corps.
Sources
Scotland Birth Registration (FamilySearch, ancestry.com.au) [07 November 2016]; 1881 & 1891 Scotland census transcriptions (ancestry.com.au) [07 November 2016]; Feilding Star, 10 June 1901, 30 January 1915, Evening Post, 9 January 1903, 3 December 1910, 5 September 1922, Timaru Herald, 5 October 1911, 5 & 8 November 1912, 14 August 1914, 30 June 1916, 25 January 1917, 27 October 1919, Temuka Leader, 22 February 1912, Star, 22 June 1915, 14 September 1915, 18 January 1916, Press, 7 September 1915, 1 January 1919, 8 September 1923, 24 January 1924, 25 August 1927, 18 July 1928, 8 February 1940, 9 February 1940 [x 2], 16 February 1940, Otago Daily Times, 10 July 1916, 6 September 1919, Dominion, 17 March 1919, 13 September 1919, Samoanische Zeitung, 10 January 1920, 28 February 1920, 28 August 1920, Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 12 December 1924, 18 October 1929, 30 May 1930, 21 February 1936, 29 May 1936, 2 June 1936, New Zealand Herald, 9 July 1929 (Papers Past) {06 & 07 November 2016]
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