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Alexander Bathgate (4 August 1845 – 9 September 1930 / Peebles, Scotland)
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Alexander Bathgate was born on 4 August 1845 in Peebles, Peeblesshire, Scotland, the son of Anne Cairns Anderson and her husband, John Bathgate. His father, the local procurator fiscal, had had experience in banking, and had founded a newspaper, the Peeblesshire Monthly Advertiser. Alexander's mother died when he was five or six, and his father remarried.
After schooling in Peebles and Edinburgh and a period at the University of Edinburgh, Alexander, with his parents, brother, two sisters and six half-sisters, migrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1863. John Bathgate was to shape his son's life to a remarkable degree. He became colonial manager of the Bank of Otago, and Alexander ... more »
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He lived in a bank house in Scottland! ! ! !
WOW HE'S MY GREAT, GREAT UNCLE! ! ! ! His father John Bathgate who is my great, great Grandad! ! ! John Bathgate was a Judge and we have one of the only paintings of him in the whole world! ! ! The frame is gold plated. His first wife died when she was fairly young so he married another person. I have John Bathgate's youngest daughters hair in a little ribbon! ! !