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Crock, Butter, Stoneware

Crock, Butter, Stoneware

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A large stoneware butter crock that belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frew. It was donated to the museum by their granddaughter Margaret Gillies McVicar (nee Frentz). Robert Frew was born in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland in 1825. He married Margaret Gillies, also a native of Kilsyth, in 1850. With two young daughters in tow, Robert and Margaret emigrated to Victoria, Australia in 1853, before arriving in Riverton in 1859. Robert was a carpenter and builder by trade, but in Southland took up land and became a farmer. Robert and Margaret would have eight children together. Robert died in 1901, and Margaret on May 29th, 1898. Margaret Gillies McVicar nee Frentz was born at Orepuki on 26 May 1881, the only daughter of Danish born Carl ‘Charles’ Frentz and Mary Frew, the daughter of Robert and Margaret Frew. She died at Tuatapere in 1964.

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