James Burnip SHANKLAND
Date of Birth:
c 1877
Date of Death:
10 Mar 1950
We don't know where James was born.
He married Ivy James (born at Aorere in 1880) in 1904.
They had one daughter.
James & Ivy split up or were divorced between 1919 & 1922. She remarried in 1926 to Reuben Dillon.
The daughter, Esme, also married twice.
James was a draper at Rangiora before moving to Levin around 1905 as a draper's assistant. He was then at Takaka, Shannon & Mangahao before finally moving to Collingwood around 1931 as a storeman.
Whilst in Levin he was recorded on the 1905 unofficial census, for the Levin borough petition, as a drapers assistant with 3 people & 2 buildings.
Ivy owned a property at what is now 18 Trafalgar St, Levin
Relatives mentioned in profile:
James Burnip Shankland, Ivy Louisa James, Thomas James, Inniss Fisher, Reuben Joseph Thomas Dillon, Esme Mavis Shankland, John Leonard Wells, Joseph Walter Dando, Clorine Leitch.