Person:James Brinsdon (5)

<tpphoto><id>642775</id><id>639758</id><id>1691804</id></tpphoto>Letter from Nellie Crombie to Linda
`Mum`s brother Jim (James Rutty Brinsdon) was the coachman or the Doctor in charge of Ashburn Hall and drove him everywhere in a gig. Jim himself married my Aunt Ruth (Muldrew), an Irish nurse who was employed there.They had 9 or 10 children, the second one Mary Freeman was the same age as me.4 girl cousins, including myself were all born in 1902`.
In 1925 Chalmers electoral roll -Henley - Farmer
Notes for James Rutty Brinsdon (from Ann Norman)
In a letter from Lucy Mattingly (James Granddaughter) she says her Grandfather James told her when he was a lad , he and his brothers got into mischief.Theyliked to tie string to the church bell at the Mornington Anglican church, at night, They would hide and when the locals complained when the bell kept ringing,the Mornington Policeman came. He was Irish and superstitious. He just said it’s Haunted``Haunted`.
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Surname BRINSDON
Given Name James Rutty
Category Second Reserves
Last NZ Address 4 Longwood Avenue Mornington Dunedin
Occupation Expressman
Classification F
Occupations; Gardener 1902 Halfway Bush, Groom 1905 Halfway Bush, Labourer of Manse Street 1906,
Express Proprieter of 5 Hawthorne Terrace 1910/11. Carrier of 4 Longwood Avenue 1913-21.Farmer of Henley 1924-30. Labourer of 121 Elgin Road, Mornington
More About James Rutty Brinsdon:
Burial: June 1951, Andersons Bay Cemetery (ashes scattered) Ref No. 23083 (Source: Andersons Bay Cemetery Transcripts.)
Died aged: 75 (should be 78)
Fact 1: Lived Maclaggan St. in 1910 (Source: school admission on N.Z.S..G c.d.)
Fact 2: Lived in Longwood Avenue in 1907 (Source: schooladmission on N.Z.S..G c.d.)
Informant: 1951, Hope and Kinaston ( undertakers) (Source: Andersons Bay Cemetery Transcripts.)
Occupation: 1900, Coachmanto the Doctors at Ashburn Hall (Source: Letter from Lucy Mattingly (James Granddaughter).)
Probate: July 10, 1951, 6473/51 Dunedin (Source: N.Z.S, G CD, Probate..)
Property: Their home was on the site of the Mornington Countdown store. (Source: Letter from Lucy Mattingly (James Granddaughter).)

1.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).