Main Blackett Tree

James William Blackett, 18551905 (aged 49 years)

Name
James William /Blackett/
Surname
Blackett
Given names
James William
Birth
Death of a paternal grandfather
Birth of a sister
Birth of a sister
Death of a paternal grandmother
Death of a brother
Burial of a brother
Death of a father
Death of a mother
Death
Burial
Family with parents
father
18181893
Birth: 8 October 1818 24 25 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nthmd.
Death: 8 January 1893Wellington, New Zealand
mother
18251905
Birth: before 17 February 1825 32 Alnwick, Nthmd.
Death: 4 February 1905Wellington, New Zealand
Marriage Marriage19 February 1851Kirk Leavington, Yorks.
13 months
elder brother
18521885
Birth: 6 March 1852 33 27 New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand
Death: 13 September 1885Nelson, New Zealand
4 years
himself
18551905
Birth: 29 October 1855 37 30 New Plymouth, New Zealand
Death: 4 August 1905Springs, Transvaal, South Africa
7 years
younger sister
18621959
Birth: 22 September 1862 43 37 Nelson, New Zealand
Death: 14 April 1959Wellington, New Zealand
2 years
younger sister
18641953
Birth: 29 August 1864 45 39 Nelson, New Zealand
Death: 30 March 1953New Zealand
Note

Surveyor for New Zealand Government. In 1889 went to South America, working in engineering, railway construction and mining developments in the Argentine. Divisional Railway Engineer between Mombassa and Victoria Nyanza, East Africa 1895-1903, (where Mount Blackett, Rift Valley, Kenya is named after him). Then Divisional Surveyor for Central South African Railways.
Letters of Administration (Limited) granted 20 Jun 1906 to Lewis Gardner Thomson solicitor, attorney of Oliver Hiram Ellis.