MACGREGOR, Alexander Evan Caithness Murray (Alick)

MACGREGOR, Alexander Evan Caithness Murray (Alick)

Male 1869 - 1899  (30 years)

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  • Name MACGREGOR, Alexander Evan Caithness Murray  [1] 
    Suffix (Alick) 
    Born 1869  West Bengal, India Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 2 Nov 1899  Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1960  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 

    Father MACGREGOR, Alexander Caithness Ronald Munro (Bengal Uncovenanted Civil Service),   b. 28 Jan 1838, Hussingabad, Bengal, India Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jul 1873, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 35 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother BAIRNSFATHER, Jessie Miller,   b. 18 Apr 1847, Rescobie, Angus, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Oct 1905, Glenross, Havelock North, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 19 Nov 1867 
    • Abbeyvilla, St Andrews and St Leonards, Fife, Scotland
    Family ID F2766  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family PONGO (PAORA), Ritihia (Letitia or Titiha),   b. 1872,   d. 28 May 1900, Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years) 
    Married 11 Apr 1896  Wellington, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. MACGREGOR, John Caithness Murray,   b. 2 Mar 1897, Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jan 1966, Wairoa, Gisborne, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)  [natural]
     2. MACGREGOR, Hugh Evan Murray,   b. 1 Jan 1899, Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Feb 1955, Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, NZ Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)  [natural]
     3. MACGREGOR, Walter Robert Peter Murray,   b. 28 May 1900, Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Mar 1974, Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 
    Family ID F549  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Alick Evan Caithness Murray-Macgregor - Death Notice
    Alick Evan Caithness Murray-Macgregor Headstone
    Alick Evan Caithness Murray-Macgregor Headstone

    Histories
    Alick Evan Murray-Macgregor and Letitia Pongo
    Alick Evan Murray-Macgregor and Letitia Pongo

  • Notes 


    • NAPIER JAIL HISTORY
      About 125 years ago a young man was sent to Napier's jail for a month for theft.
      The year was 1887, and Alick Evan McGregor, born in India in 1869, was described on his police record as a "notorious young thief with a freckled face".
      The 18-year-old is one of 165 criminals - petty thieves and public swearers to horse stealers and murderers - profiled in the New Zealand Police Museum on-line exhibition Suspicious Looking.
      McGregor was one of about a dozen of them jailed in Napier.
      His police sheet showed he arrived in New Zealand aged 10, had blue eyes, light eyebrows, at five feet eight inches weighed 10 stone, and had "medium" nose, mouth and chin.
      A surveyor before his sentencing, he spent his month in jail working as a labourer. His friends lived in Hastings.

      LARCENY AS A BAILEE.
      Evan Murray Macgregor, a young man, was charged with the larceny as a bailee, on the 28th of December last, of a gelding, the property of Thomas Hewetson. Prisoner, who was defended by Sir William Wasteneys, pleaded not guilty. Thomas Hewetson, examined by Mr Cotterill, deposed that he left the horse in question in the keeping of a man named Brady. Witness had some talk with a boy named McDonald about selling the horse to a third party for £4, but as that party would only give £3 the negotiations fell through, and witness said he would keep the horse. Neither prisoner nor anybody else was subsequently authorised to deal with the horse, Andrew Brady, a laborer residing at Clive, remembered the previous witness - leaving a cream-colored gelding in witness's charge. A boy named McDonald took the horse away in October to ride it to prosecutor's, and brought the horse back again and re delivered it to witness. Subsequently prisoner came to see witness, to ask him if he thought the pony was worth £4. Witness replied that it was, and prisoner said that he would buy the animal from McDonald. He went away, and on the following morning he came back and said he had seen McDonald, and had arranged to take the horse, "Witness accordingly let the pony go. Soon after that McDonald came to the place, and as a result of a conversation went after prisoner and brought him back with the horse. Prisoner asked witness what all the trouble was about, saying that McDonaid would not let him have the pony. Witness said that altered the case. Prisoner then said he wished to go to Mr Chamber's place, and witness, after telling prisoner that the horse was no longer for sale, lent the animal to him to ride to Mr Chamber's on the expressed understanding that he was responsible for its return. In December witness went to where prisoner stayed at Clive and asked where the horse was, and he replied that he sold it to a Mr Hipe. At witnesses request prisoner went with him to Hipe, to ask for the pony, And Hipe offered to sell it back for £5. Witness told Hipe that the pony had only been lent to prisoner to ride to Mr Chambers's place. Hlpe said, that prisoner when be sold the pony represented it as his own. The witness was cross-examined at considerable length by counsel for prisoner, but did not vary his statements. Archibald McDonald gave corroborative evidence. He saw prisoner at Clive on the 23rd of November with the horse, and asked him how he got it, He said that Brady had given it to him. Witness went to Brady, who stated how the prisoner had got the horse, and then subsequently compelled prisoner to take the pony back to Brady, under threat of trouble if he did not do so. Subsequently prisoner borrowed the horse to ride to Mr Chambers's place. The cross - examination elicited no further facts bearing on the case. A Henry Hipe, living at Whakatu, deposed to meeting prisoner at Clive at the end of December last, having in his possession the pony referred to. He asked witness to buy the pony for £3. Witness offered £2, which was accepted. A receipt for £3 was given to witness by prisoner. Witness did not notice the receipt till his attention was drawn to it by a third party who said that the receipt was no - good " because it had no brand on it." Later prisoner came to witness's house and asked for the pony back, saying that there was something wrong." Witness thought prisoner only wanted to get the pony because he had found a purchaser at a higher price. Next day the pony was given to the police. John Pearce Smiths-licensee of the Farndoh Hotel, gave evidence as to the Bale by prisoner to Hipe. Constable Kennedy deposed to the arrest of prisoner, who admitted that he had sold the horse, and asked for time to be allowed to settle the matter.
      The prisoner, sworn, deposed that his name was Alick Evan Caithness Murray Macgregor, and that he had no settled occupation. He received remittances from England. He had a conversation with the witness McDonald about the purchase of a pony which he said he had authority to sell. He asked £4 for it McDonald also in witness's presence offered the horse to another man for £4, but he would only give £3. Subsequently witness asked McDonald to sell the pony, and he told witness that he could get it at Brady's place. After witness got the horse McDonald objected to him having to, and he took it back to Brady, who asked witness if he would take the whole responsibility of the pony. Witness said he would, and there was an understanding that he could take the pony, and if he did not return it after the shearing he was to pay £4. The reason he sold the pony afterwards was because he had no use for it. He was entitled to the reversion of an estate in Cheshire, in the Earldom of Caithness, and had received remittances on account of it. Counsel for prisoner having addressed the jury, his Honour rammed up the evidence, and' the jury after an absence of an hour and a half returned with a verdict of guilty. They recommended him to mercy on account of his youth. Two previous convictions, both for larceny, were put in against prisoner. One took place in 1885 and the other in 1887.
      Counsel for prisoner urged that both his previous convictions were for paltry offences, and he had been two months in prison since his arrest on the present charge. His Honour said that the convictions were for trifling offences. In 1885 he stole eighteen-pence, and in 1880, being then 17 years of age, he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for stealing a meerschaum pipe. His Honour questioned Constable Kennedy as to prisoner's character in Cllve, and the constable stated that prisoner bore the reputation of not being able to keep his hands off the property of others. Quite recently his mother had to make good the value of a horse which prisoner borrowed and took to Napier and sold. Prisoner was for a few months in the New Zealand Permanent Force. In response to the usual question, prisoner thanked his Honour and the jury for the trouble they had taken with his case. The verdict was against him, but he supposed he must knuckle down to it. His Honour sentenced prisoner to four months' hard labor. The court then rose till 10 o'clock this (Friday) morning).

      THE CAITHNESS ESTATES.
      A NEW ZEALANDER IN LUCK,
      In reference to the cablegram published yesterday stating that litigation in connection with the ownership of the English estates of the 12th Earl of Caithness, has resulted in half being allotted to Mr Murray McGregor, a resident in Clive (Hawke's Bay), New Zealand, we clip the following from the "John o' Groat's Journal of March 7th :—"ln the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, before Mr Justice Wright, on Wednesday, an action, instituted by Captain H. W. Bairnsfather of Beechwood, and Mr Finlay of Auld, S.S.C., Edinburgh, on behalf of Mr Alexander Evan Caithness Murray Macgregor, of Clive, Australia, against the trustees of the late Sir George Philip Alexander Sinclair, fifteenth Earl of Caithness, came up for decision. The late Earl of Caithness died possessed of the Stagenhoe Park estates, Hertfordshire, and the gift of these in his trust disposition being invalided by the English Mortmain Act of 1888, the eamo fell to his next-of-kin. One half of the estates were successfully claimed by Mr James Buchanan, of Craigend, a male descendent of Janet, Lady Buchanan, a daughter of James, twelfth Earl of Caithness. After three years of researching, the other "claimed for Mr Murray Macgregor, a great-grandson of the other daughter of the twelfth Earl, Lady Charlotte, who married General Murray Macgregor in 1810. After consideration of the evidence and certificates adduced, Mr Justice Wright granted decree in favour of the claimants, the case being transferred to Mr Justice Chitly to be conjoined with that of Sir James Buchanan in an action of accounting against Lord Caithness trustees. This decision confirms Mr Murray Macgregor as heir-at-law of General Murray Macgregor, in virtue of which along with Sir Malcolm Macgregor of Macgregor, he holds the joint nomination of parties to receive the benefits of Sir John Macgregor's bequeath.”

      From Ancestry records of David M Fox:

      Alick Evan Murray-Macgregor and Letitia Pongo

      - David Fox 2017 with research by Michelle Karauria 2013

      Alick Evan Murray-Macgregor was born in 1869 in West Bengal India, the son of Alexander Caithness Ronald Munro Murray MacGregor of the Bengal Uncovenanted Civil Service (1838–1873) and Jessie Miller Bairnsfather (1847–1905)
      Alick Evan Murray-Macgregor had arrived in New Zealand in 1879, aged 10, with his parents. He was entitled to the reversion of an estate in Cheshire, in the Earldom of Caithness, and had received the remittances from England on account of it. As a result he admitted he had no settled occupation, but had, at one point, been a surveyor and was for a few months in the New Zealand Permanent Force. By 1887 his father had died but his mother was living in Clive.
      He was described as having blue eyes, light eyebrows, at five feet eight inches weighed 10 stone, and had "medium" nose, mouth and chin and with a freckled face.
      According to a police report. he developed a reputation of not being able to keep his hands off the property of others. His mother had to make good the value of a horse which prisoner borrowed, took to Napier and sold.

      However, after serving time for the theft of the horse, in 1893 he eventually came into posession of half the estates stemming from the 12th Earl of Caithness.

      Background

      The following research is by Michelle Karauria who originally shared this in 2013
      In 1887 Alick Evan McGregor was described on his police record as a "notorious young thief with a freckled face". The 18-year-old was one of 165 criminals - petty thieves and public swearers to horse stealers and murderers - profiled in the New Zealand Police Museum on-line exhibition. McGregor was one of about a dozen of them jailed in Napier.
      His police sheet showed he arrived in New Zealand aged 10, had blue eyes, light eyebrows, at five feet eight inches weighed 10 stone, and had "medium" nose, mouth and chin.
      A surveyor before his sentencing, he spent his month in jail working as a labourer. His friends lived in Hastings.
      Larceny as a Bailee
      [Alick] Evan Murray Macgregor, a young man, was charged with the larceny as a bailee, on the 28th of December last, of a gelding, the property of Thomas Hewetson.
      Prisoner, who was defended by Sir William Wasteneys, pleaded not guilty.
      Thomas Hewetson, examined by Mr Cotterill, deposed that he left the horse in question in the keeping of a man named Brady. Witness had some talk with a boy named McDonald about selling the horse to a third party for £4, but as that party would only give £3 the negotiations fell through, and witness said he would keep the horse.
      Neither prisoner nor anybody else was subsequently authorised to deal with the horse, Andrew Brady, a laborer residing at Clive, remembered the previous witness leaving a cream-colored gelding in witness's charge.
      A boy named McDonald took the horse away in October to ride it to prosecutor's, and brought the horse back again and he delivered it to witness. Subsequently prisoner came to see witness, to ask him if he thought the pony was worth £4. Witness replied that it was, and prisoner said that he would buy the animal from McDonald. He went away, and on the following morning he came back and said he had seen McDonald, and had arranged to take the horse. Witness accordingly let the pony go.
      Soon after that McDonald came to the place, and as a result of a conversation went after prisoner [Alick] and brought him back with the horse. Prisoner asked witness what all the trouble was about, saying that McDonald would not let him have the pony. Witness said that altered the case.
      Loan of Horse
      Prisoner then said he wished to go to Mr Chamber's place, and witness, after telling prisoner that the horse was no longer for sale, lent the animal to him to ride to Mr Chamber's on the expressed understanding that he was responsible for its return.
      Sale of Horse
      In December witness went to where prisoner stayed at Clive and asked where the horse was, and he replied that he sold it to a Mr Hipe. At witnesses request prisoner went with him to Hipe, to ask for tbe pony, and Hipe offered to sell it back for £5. Witness told Hipe that the pony had only been lent to prisoner to ride to Mr Chambers's place. Hipe said, that prisoner, when be sold the pony, represented it as his own.
      The witness was cross-examined at considerable length by counsel for prisoner, but did not vary his statements. Archibald McDonald gave corroborative evidence. He saw prisoner at Clive on the 23rd of November with the horse, and asked him how he got it. He said that Brady had given it to him. Witness went to Brady, who stated how the prisoner had got the horse, and then subsequently compelled prisoner to take the pony back to Brady, under threat of trouble if he did not do so. Subsequently prisoner borrowed the horse to ride to Mr Chambers's place. The cross-examination elicited no further facts bearing on the case.
      Henry Hipe, living at Whakatu, deposed to meeting prisoner at Clive at the end of December last, having in his possession the pony referred to. He asked witness to buy the pony for £3. Witness offered £2, which was accepted. A receipt for £3 was given to witness by prisoner. Witness did not notice the receipt till his attention was drawn to it by a third party who said that the receipt was no - good "because it bad no brand on it." Later prisoner came to witness's house and asked for the pony back, saying that there was something wrong. Witness thought prisoner only wanted to get the pony because he had found a purchaser at a higher price. Next day tbe pony was given to the police.
      John Pearce Smiths, licensee of the Farndoh Hotel, gave evidence as to the sale by prisoner to Hipe. Constable Kennedy deposed to the arrest of prisoner, who admitted that he had sold the horse, and asked for time to be allowed to settle the matter.
      Alick's Evidence
      The prisoner, sworn, deposed that his name was Alick Evan Caithness Murray Macgregor, and that he had no settled occupation. He received remittances from England. He had a conversation with the witness [Archibald] McDonald about the purchase of a pony which he said he had authority to sell. He asked £4 for it McDonald also, in witness's presence offered the horse to another man for £4, but he would only give £3. Subsequently witness asked McDonald to sell the pony, and he told witness that he could get it at Brady's place. After witness got the horse McDonald objected to him having to, and he took it back to Brady, who asked witness if he would take the whole responsibility of the pony. Witness said he would, and there was an understanding that he could take the pony, and, if he did not return it after the shearing, he was to pay £4. The reason he sold the pony afterwards was because he had no use for it.
      He was entitled to the reversion of an estate in Cheshire, in the Earldom of Caithness, and had received remittances on account of it.
      Guilty
      Counsel for prisoner having addressed the jury, his Honor summed up the evidence, and the jury, after an absence of an hour and a half, returned with a verdict of guilty. They recommended him to mercy on account of his youth.
      Recommended to Mercy

      Two previous convictions, both for larceny, were put in against prisoner. One took place in 1885 and the other in 1887.

      Counsel for prisoner urged that both his previous convictions were for paltry offences, and he had been two months in prison since his arrest on the present charge. His Honor said that the convictions were for trifling offences. In 1885 he stole eighteenpence, and in 1880, being then 17 years of age, he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for stealing a meerschaum pipe.
      Character
      His Honor questioned Constable Kennedy as to prisoner's character in Cllve, and the constable stated that prisoner bore the reputation of not being able to keep his hands off the property of others. Quite recently his mother had to make good the value of a horse which prisoner borrowed and took to Napier and sold. Prisoner was for a few months in the New Zealand Permanent Force.
      Sentence
      In response to the usual question, prisoner thanked his Honor and the jury for the trouble they had taken with his case. The verdict was against him, but he supposed he must knuckle down to it. His Honor sentenced prisoner to four months' hard labor. The court then rose till 10 o'clock this (Friday) morning).
      The Earl of Caithness Estates
      Evening Post 20 Apr 1893:
      "The World asserts that the litigation in connection with the ownership of the English estates of the Twelfth Earl of Caithness has resulted in half being allotted to Mr Murray McGregor, a resident in Clive, New Zealand.
      "Murray McGregor, referred to in the cable message, was educated at the Napier High School, and early developed tendencies to Kleptomania. He has been twice convicted of larceny, and a the February sittings of the Supreme Court was sentenced to four months imprisonment for the larceny as bailee of a horse."
      Press, 21 Apr 1893:
      "Evan Murray Wilfred MacGergor, who is referred to in the London cable message today is well-known here. His father is dead, but his mother, who re-married, is living in Clive. He was educated partly at the Napier Boys High School and early developed kleptomaniac tendencies which, at an early age, landed him in trouble. He was tried here on the last sitting of the Supreme Court for larceny as a bailee of a horse, and is now serving a sentence of four months' imprisonment with hard labour. At his trial two previous convictions for larceny were put in."

      North Otago Times 27 April 1893:
      "The World speaks of the twelfth earl, but the present holder of the title, according to Hazell, is the seventeenth. He succeeded to the title in 1891 and lives on a farm in Dakota, USA.
      "There would seem to be a strain of eccentricity in the Sinclair family. The earl of thirty five years ago was a curious fellow. He fancied himself as an amateur mechanic and had a steamer built and named after himself, to trade between Edinburgh and Wick.
      "The trade did not pay and matters were not mended by his habit of almost constantly travelling by the steamer and bossing the crew, besides letting passengers know that he was owner in an offensive way.
      "At length one dirty day the vessel arrived off Aberdeen bar at low water. Captain Hodge knew he must wait but the earl-owner was contemptuous of time and tide, deposed the skipper, ordered "full speed ahead" and soon found himself on the bar with the bottom out of his ship. The crew were taken off but the earl refused to budge. As the tide rose and great rollers began to sweep over the wreck, the harbourmaster went off in a boat to bring the semi-lunatic ashore by force. He was found in the engine room up to his waist in water tugging at the starting levers although the fires had been out for hours !
      "The ship was not insured, and the earldom was a poor one, so it is likely that the estates have been since encumbered. The title is a very old one, dating from 1455."
      Earls of Caithness
      Thank you Michelle for the great research to here. However I was left a little confused as to why Alick had received half the estate, so I did some further research.
      Wikipedia gives a listing of the Earls of Caithness:

      James Sinclair, the 12th Earl of Caithness, died in 1823, leaving the title to his son
      . Alexander Sinclair, the 13th Earl of Caithness, who died in 1855 passed the title to his son
      .. James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness, who died 28 Mar 1881 passed the title to his son
      ... George Sinclair the 15th Earl of Caithness, who died 28 May 1889 unmarried and without issue

      Debretts says:

      "The Earldom of Caithness, ... became dormant in 1889 on the death of the fifteenth earl without issue. Mr. J. A. Sinclair, son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Sinclair, B.A., and a J.P. for Aberdeenshire, then claimed the earldom and a baronetcy as heir-male."
      Advertiser 22 Jan 1891:

      "Mr. Jas. A. Sinclair ... presented a petition to the Court of Session to establish his claim to the title, which was adjudged to him by the Sheriff of the Chancery of Scotland in January, 1890. His heir is his son John Sutherland Sinclair, Lord Berriedale, who is a large ranch-owner in the United States."
      Evening Journal 20 Jan 1891:
      When "The fifteenth Earl died on May 27, 1889, unmarried ... it was supposed that the title would pass to George, senior representative of the second son of Robert younger brother of the 12th Earl. In January, 1890, however, the Sheriff of the Chancery of Scotland adjudged James A Sinclair, the deceased, to be heir to the Earldom."
      The Argus 20 Apr 1893:
      Re The Caithness Estates London, April 19.
      "The society journal, the World, states that the litigation with regard to the ownership of the estates of the 12th Earl of Caithness, who died in 1823, has resulted in half the estates being adjudged to Mr. William Murray Macgregor, a resident of Clive, in New Zealand."
      This record goes on to show the link to the McGregor family:

      "Charlotte Ann, youngest daughter of the 12th Earl of Caithness, married in 1810 Major-General Alexander Murray Macgregor, who died in 1823. She died in 1854."

      Tadah ! hehe

      The other recipient was the Earl of Murray as noted in the Queensland Times 20 Apr 1893
      "The World states that the litigation in connection with the ownership of the English estates of the 12th Earl of Caithness have resulted in half of the estates being allotted to the Earl of Murray and half to Mr. Macgregor, a resident of Clive, New Zealand."
      The Peerage then indicates:
      Lt.-Col. John Sutherland Sinclair had a son who inherited the title Earl of Caithness, he was
      . James Augustus Sinclair, 16th Earl of Caithness, died on 20 Jan 1891 and passed the title to his son
      .. John Sutherland Sinclair, 17th Earl of Caithness, who succeded to the title in 1891 and died unmarried on 30 May 1914.
      So it is correct that a settlement of half the estate on Alick Murray-Macgregor in 1893 was from the estate of the 16th Earl of Caithness who died 1891, and we now know how Alick Evan Murray-Macgregor came to inherit half the Sinclair estate even though John Sutherland Sinclair, a direct male descendant, was still living.

      Alick had a valid claim to the estates of Caithness from Charlotte Anna Sinclair, the daughter of the 12th Earl of Caithness, as follows:

      Sir James Sinclair, 12th Earl of Caithness (1766–1823) m. Jean Jane Campbell (1769–1853)
      . Charlotte Anna Sinclair (1792–1854) m.1810 Alexander Murray MacGregor (1778–1823)
      .. Alexander Nugent Murray MacGregor (1811–1845) m. Eleanor Elenor Ellinor Hopper (1817–)
      ... Alexander Caithness Ronald Munro Murray MacGregor (1838–1873) m. Jessie Miller Bairnsfather (1847–1905)
      .... Alexander Evan Caithness Murray MacGregor (Alick) (1869–1899) m.1896 Letitia Pongo

      However he did not inherit the title of 17th Earl of Caithness, which went to John Sutherland Sinclair, who in 1905, sold his holdings in North Dakota and returned to Scotland to take control of his hereditary estate, later returning to the USA.
      Marriage
      Alick Evan Murray-Macgregor was married on 8 Apr 1896 at Wellington to Letitia Pongo of Wairoa
      Hawkes Bay Herald 8 Apr 1896:
      Murray-Macgregor - Pongo. At Wellington on 8th inst. by Rev Father Devoy, Catholic Church, A E Caithness Murray-Macgregor, eldest son of the late Alexander Caithness Murray-Macgregor of the Bengal Uncovenanted Civil Service, to Letitia Pongo of Wairoa, Hawkes Bay.
      Letitia was also known as Rithia or Titiha Pongo or Paora

      Children

      Aleck Evan Murray-Macgregor and Letitia Pongo had the following children:

      . John Caithness Murray-Macgregor (1897–1966)
      . Hugh Evan Murray-Macgregor (1899–1968)
      . Walter Robert Peter Murray Macgregor (1900–1974)
      Death
      Alick Evan Murray-Macgregor died on 2 Nov 1899 at Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand aged 30.

      The Star Wairoa Hawkes Bay 7 Nov 1899:
      "Mr Murray McGregor formerly of Clive, who succeeded to the Earldom of Caithness a few years ago, died in the Wairoa Hospital on Friday. Deceased had been laid up with pleurisy for some time, but his death was not expected so suddenly"
      Rithia/Letitia Murray-Macgregor, nee Pongo/Paora, died on 28 May 1900 at Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, in childbirth with her third child Walter, born 5 months after Alick's death. The child Walter survived to adulthood.

      References:

      Hawke's Bay Herald 24 Huitanguru 1893
      The Dominion Post, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

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