Mr. Daniel Weir , some time of Ocean Bank, Anderson's Bay, arrived in Otago in 1848 by the ship “Blundell,” accompanied by his first wife and a family of three sons. He bought property surrounding the family's present residence, which occupies one of the pleasantest sites in a pleasant neighbourhood. Mr. Weir's first wife died leaving a family of six sons, all of whom are now successful farmers in Otago. Mr. Weir married, secondly, Mrs Rowers, a widow, who still survives him. When Mr. Weir died in 1894 at the age of seventy he left a family of six sons by his second marriage, and one step-daughter. Mrs Weir arrived by the ship “Strathmore” in page 398 1856, accompanied by one daughter, who still resides with her mother. Of the six sons by the second marriage, five are either carrying on prosperous trades or farming, and the youngest son, Mr. Edward Owen Weir, is at present (1904) a Government surveyor and engineer in Taranaki.