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

Donaldson, Adam

Donaldson, Adam , Shipwright, Barrow Street, Bluff. Mr Donaldson was born in 1844, in Haddingtonshire, Scotland, where he was apprenticed to a house carpenter. He afterwards worked as a shipwright and joiner at Cockenzie for about twenty years, and came to Dunedin, in 1888, by the s.s. “Ionie.” Mr Donaldson resitied for four years at South Dunedin, working chiefly at his trade, and at the Dunedin exhibition of 1889, gained the first prize and special mention for a model fishing cutter of his own construction. He afterwards removed to the Bluff, where he established his present business. When Lord Brassey visited the Bluff in his yacht, “Sunbeam,” Mr Donaldson was engaged to carry out repairs to the vessel. Mr Donaldson has served on the Bluff school committee since 1901, and is a member of the Presbyterian church and superintendent of the Sunday school. He has been married three times. His first wife, who was a daughter of the late Mr Richard Alexander, of Cockenzie, died in 1882, leaving two sons and two daughters; and the following year he married a daughter of the late Mr Kenneth McKenzie of Ross-shire, and she bore him one son and three daughters. In 1903 Mr Donaldson was married to the widow of the late Mr Thomas Gilson, who had four sons and two daughters by her former marriage.