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

Mr. James Mcquade

Mr. James Mcquade , now of Deborah, near Oamaru, but who resided at Livingstone for about thirty years, was born in 1829, in Cavan, Ireland, and landed in Victoria in 1852. He was one of the diggers who landed in Otago in 1861, and was among the first to rush to the various fields as they were discovered, and had many lively experlences. About 1838 Mr. McQuade settled at Livingstone and commenced farming. He was one of the first to discover gold there, and, with others, agitated for the proclamation of the district as a goldfield. Mr. McQuade was a member and chairman of the Livingstone school committee, and a trustee of the cemetery. He was married, in 1851, to Miss White, of Cavan, who died four years later, in Victoria, leaving one son and one daughter; the son afterwards died. In 1858 Mr. McQuade married a daughter of the late Mr. P. Ellis, of Cornwall, and this lady left five sons and five daughters at her death in 1895. Mr. McQuade contracted a third marriage, in 1898, with the widow of Mr. James Matheson, some time of Aberdeen, Scotland.