George Low Beath 
Birth Notes
13/12/1827 BEATH GEORGE LOW JAMES BEATH/CHRISTIAN LOW FR626 M Leslie (Fife) /FIFE 444/ 0040 0100 VIEW (PAID)
Death Notes
Addington Cemetery
Row F
Nos. 422
Beath
Here lie Maria Beath, 1846-1930, her husband, George Low Beath, 1827-1913, and their children, George Malcolm, 9, and Laura Christina, 13.
Although born in England, Maria was the daughter of Scots parents, Jemima Crawford Souter and her husband, Andrew Wilson Malcolm. Maria’s sister was Kate Sheppard.
Maria Malcolm and George Low Beath had married at St. John the Baptist Latimer Square Anglican church on 6 February 1867
George Low Beath of Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland, was apprenticed as a draper. He left his home at 37 to take part in his brother’s Melbourne business, Beath, Schiess and Co. He came to Christchurch in the interests of this company, established his own drapery business, Beath’s, and ran it himself till 1896. Associated with him were relatives such as F. S. Malcolm and a son-in-law, J. E. Wickenden. In 1901 the business became a company.
Beath was a deacon in the Congregational Church on the Worcester Street-Manchester Street corner (which has now been converted to other purposes) and a founder and supporter of the Christchurch branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association.
One of George’s employees said: ‘He was the whitest man I have ever come across. He was generous and upright and the best of employers’. A much later description of how the Riccarton coach picked up George Beath has a comparison between the draper and a companion.
Mr. George Low Beath … is a much gentler person. His shy nervous manner indicates refinement and taste. He wears a silk dust coat over his dark suit and a grey bell-topper hat.
Beath was survived by ‘a widow and three children, Mrs. A. Bevan and Mrs. J. E. Wickenden, both of Christchurch, and an unmarried daughter, also of Christchurch’.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1670 in Pitorna, Fife, Scotland d.06 Apr 1765 in Ceres, Fife, Scotland
- b.1690 in Pitgorne, Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland d.11 Jun 1749 in Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland
- b.1673 in Fife, Scotland d.1779 in Fife, Scotland
- b.26 May 1723 in Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland d.04 Sep 1773 in Kinglassie, Fife, Scotland
- b.1645 in Caskieberran, Leslie, Fife, Scotland
- b.23 Aug 1696 in Kinglassie, Fifeshire, Scotland d.29 Jan 1765 in Kinglassie, Fifeshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1660 in Kinglassie, Fifeshire, Scotland
- b.08 Dec 1753 in Leslie, Fife, Scotland d.03 Jul 1829 in Leslie, Fife, Scotland
- b.1645 in Caskieberran, Leslie, Fife, Scotland
- b.12 Jun 1694 in Kinglassie, Fifeshire, Scotland d.27 Feb 1775 in Leslie, Fife, Scotland
- b.~ 1660 in Kinglassie, Fifeshire, Scotland
- b.28 Jan 1726 in Leslie, Fife, Scotland d.12 Jul 1769 in Leslie, Fife, Scotland
- b.1704 in Leslie, Fife, Scotland d.1779 in Leslie, Fife, Scotland
- b.17 Jul 1790 in Leslie, Fife, Scotland d.24 Mar 1871 in Croft Cottage, Leslie, Fife, Scotland
- b.~ 1675 in Dalgetty, Fife, Scotland
- b.1705 in Fordel, Dalgetty, Fife, Scotland d.1770
- b.~ 1675 in Dalgetty, Fife, Scotland
- b.16 Dec 1732 in Fordel, Dalgetty, Fife, Scotland
- b.1709 in Dalgety, Fife, Scotland
- b.18 Oct 1758 in Dalgety, Fife, Scotland d.28 Mar 1820 in Leslie, Fife, Scotland
- b.1736 in Dalgety, Fife, Scotland
- b.13 Dec 1827 in Leslie, Fife, Scotland d.05 Aug 1914 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
- b.1671 in Markinch, Fife, Scotland
- b.08 Mar 1699 in Markinch, Fife, Scotland
- b.1759 in Wanders, Fife, Scotland d.1834 in Markinch, Fife, Scotland
- b.01 Jan 1797 in Wanders Know, Markinch, Fife, Scotland d.11 Jun 1890 in Manse Bank, Leslie, Fife, Scotland
- b.03 Nov 1761 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland d.22 Dec 1801 in Markinch, Fife, Scotland
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