Thomas Fergus

[1] In the 1851 census for Scotland the household included his paternal grandmother Elizabeth Fergus.

The family is registered as living in Gordon Place, St Quivox, Ayr at the time of the 1861 Census for Scotland and included seven surviving children (Elizabeth, Thomas, Martha Grange, Robert, John, Ann, Margaret).

He was educated in both Melbourne and at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand from 1872 to 1876 and worked as a civil engineer.

[3][4] On 8 July 1874 he married Letticia Mckay at Hampden, North Otago, at the house of her father.

The marriage was conducted at Reid's residence Salisbury[7] in North Taieri.