Person:Maxwell Black (3)

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Maxwell Spens Black
d.1922
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Name Maxwell Spens Black
Alt Name Maxwell Spens Black
Gender Male
Birth? 1 Oct 1853 Baldernock, Stirling, Scotland
Christening? 23 Nov 1853 Baldernock, Stirling, Scotland
Marriage 29 Apr 1883 Timaru, New Zealandto Mrs. Marie Vivienne Shield
Death[1] 1922

Maxwell SPENS-BLACK was born 1oct1853 (IGI) and christened 23nov1853 (ancestry.com submission) in Baldernock, Stirlingshire, son of James Spens BLACK and Jane Hattersley. Maxwell SPENS-BLACK married 29apr1883 Marie Vivienne SHIELD in Timaru, New Zealand, according to the Timaru Herald. Marie was daughter of the late Ernest Macdonell, formerly Her Majesty’s Consul at Tunis and granddaughter of Count Armand de Sapinaud of Chateau La Barabinaire, Bastia, Corsica. Maxwell and Marie had a son, Maxwell, known as Max (who died after 1970 in New Zealand), and 2 daughters (C. Spens Black). Max senr. died 1922, aged 68 (C. Spens Black). According to Timaru Herald Maxwell and Marie had the following child: (female) BLACK was born 8apr1884 in Timaru, New Zealand. From C: Spens Black: Maxwell Spens Black (b.1853) knew and spoke highly of Harold Spens Black (1858), who visited NZ 1897-98 before emigrating to California. From <http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast> Evening Post: 21dec1896: 20dec1896, Port of Wellington. Herald, ss, arrived from South. Among passengers: Messrs Spens-Black.

References
  1. Information from C. Black.
  2.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
    Batch #: C114714, Sheet #: 00, Source Call #: 1041971, Printout Call #: 6900816, Dates: 181.
  3.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1861 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).