The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. James Mcdowell Irwin
Mr. James Mcdowell Irwin
, Constable in charge of the Stewart Island police sub-district, and Clerk of the Magistrate's Court, was born in 1858, in County Down, Ireland, and
brought up to a country life. Mr Irwin arrived at the Bluff in 1875, by the ship “Pomerania,” and has been a resident of Half Moon Bay since 1900. The section of a quarter-acre in Argyle Street, with its beautiful garden and orchard, on which Mr Irwin's house stands, was originally bush-covered swamp, and was brought
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into cultivation by Mr Irwin. Mr Irwin was married, in 1875, to a daughter of the late Mr John White, of County Antrim, Ireland, and has five sons and five daughters, of whom two sons and one daughter are dead.
Mr. J. M. Irwin.