Born Glasgow, Scotland. Travelled to Sydney from Glasgow on the Ulysses in 1921, and went from there to New Zealand. Trained as a nurse. Married Edward Hugh Alington in 1928.
Alington, Beatrice McCrie, 1896-1982
Hair, Beatrice McCrie Muir, 1896-1982
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Edward and Beatrice Alington and family
Date: 1929-[ca 1938]
From: Alington family :Photographs of Alington and Broadhead families
Reference: PA1-o-1748
Description: William (Bill) Alington and his brother Robert as babies and small boys. Also his parents Edward Hugh and Beatrice McCrie Alington. This album is associated with MS-Papers-11146-11 Quantity: 1 album(s).
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Alington family :[Sketchbook and autograph album belonging to Beatrice McCrie Hair. 191...
Date: 1912 - 1917
From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]
By: Alington, Beatrice McCrie, 1896-1982
Reference: E-933
Description: Comprises various humourous sketches and verses by a number of friends of Beatrice McCrie Alington, nee Hair. Many of the entries are distinctly Scottish in theme. Also included with the album is a detached scrap of paper with a half-tone photograph of an unidentified child, under which is printed the quote 'And he who gives the child a home/Builds palaces in Kingdom Come' by the English poet John Masefield Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - To Beatrice from Jean Christmas 1912 [in green ink]; Album [on sketchbook front cover, impressed in gold] Beatrice McCrie Alington was married to George Hildebrand Alington, and was Bill Alington's mother. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and crayon on paper in sketchbook bound in black, artificially-grained goatskin(?) and impressed with gold, 70 x 90 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated 2011 Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Other material from the collection transferred to Photographic Archive - - From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.
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Neill, Elizabeth Grace, 1846-1926 :[NZRN badge belonging to Beatrice McCree Alington (n...
Date: 1924
From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]
Reference: Curios-042-006
Description: Five-pointed star-shaped New Zealand Registered Nurse's medal, showing a red cross within a white circle, against a blue star with a red border. The initials NZRN are enamelled on a bar attached to the medal. Other: The star encloses a Red Cross as an emblem of the blood and the Cross of Christ. The white background stands for the purity expected in the life of a nurse; blue stands for honour and loyalty, and gold for charity. The Medal was designed as a symbol of service in the alleviation of suffering. Designed by Mrs Grace Neill, the appointed assistant inspector of hospitals in New Zealand in 1895. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Enamelled metal medal, 40 x 35 mm (irregular) Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Other material from the collection transferred to Photographic Archive.
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Papers relating to Beatrice McCree Alington (nee Hair)
Date: [ca 1918-1982]
From: Alington family : Papers of Alington and Broadhead families
Reference: MS-Papers-11146-27
Description: Box comprises papers relating to the life of Beatrice Alington (nee Hair) - mother of W H Alington - and her family. Includes notes on her life made by M H Alington, records (including references) relating to her nursing career, legal and financial papers, and letters of condolence sent to her widower (Edward Hugh Alington) after her death in 1982. Also includes papers relating to her son Robert Alington, who died in 1943, aged 9, and to her daughter Patricia Ann Alington. Box also contains printed material: a magazine from Hillhead High School in Glasgow which has references to Beatrice's brother William Muir Campbell Hair, who was killed in the Battle of Somme in September 1916; a Memorial Register (11) for Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Longueval, which lists Rfn W M C Hair; booklets of pictures of Glasgow; list of passengers (including Miss B McC Hair) who sailed on T S S Ulysses from Glasgow to Sydney in 1921; autograph, birthday, and small song book Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed material
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Series 2 Papers relating to the Alington family in New Zealand
Date: [?1856-2011]
From: Alington family : Papers of Alington and Broadhead families
Reference: Series-5068
Description: Three members of the Alington family arrived in Canterbury from England between 1860 and 1872: William Herbert, Charles Sydney and George Hildebrand (grandfather of the donor, W H Alington). Series comprises mainly papers relating to the three men (who farmed in the Ashburton district), and to their descendants in New Zealand and Canada. Series includes papers relating to the architectural career of W H (Bill) Alington Quantity: 24 issuable items.
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Album compiled for Edward Hugh Alington on his 90th birthday, 25 June 1986
Date: [ca 1890-1985]
From: Alington family :Photographs of Alington and Broadhead families
Reference: PA1-q-744
Description: Includes - All Saint's Church Methven, Canterbury, and views in Methven area of harvesting and a road through the snow, ca 1920. Portrait of George Hildebrand Alington. Winifred Beatrice Alington, her children and relatives. Interior of Holy Trinity Church, Avonside, Christchurch. Beatrice McCrie Hair, her family and relatives. Edward Hugh Alington and Beatrice McCrie Hair's wedding, 29 February 1928, their sons William and Robert Alington, and adopted daughter, Patricia. William (Bill) Alington and Margaret Hilda Broadhead's wedding, 19 December 1955, and their children, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Giles. Photographs of Winifred Beatrice Alington, mother of Edward Hugh Alington, as a young woman in the 1890s, and an older woman in the 1950s. Church and Tipping family graves, Woodend, Canterbury. Alington male relations and their children, 1920s. Edward Hugh Alington and groups of soldiers, World War One. This album is associated with MS-Papers-11146-22. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
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Edward Hugh Alington (1896-1986) and his family
Date: [ca 1900]-1980
From: Alington family :Photographs of Alington and Broadhead families
Reference: PAColl-9945-6
Description: Includes - Edward Hugh Alington's wife Beatrice McCrie Hair (1896-1982) on her wedding day, 29 February 1928. Edward Hugh Alington as a young man with friends. Edward Hugh Alington and Beatrice with their first child, William Hildebrand Alington in 1929. Photographs of William Hildebrand Alington as a baby, ca 1930. Alington family group photographs which include second child Robert, ca 1940. The Alington family with baby daughter, Patricia Ann, adopted in about 1943. Beatrice and Edward Hugh Alington from ca 1950 to 1980. Class photograph, Waiwhetu School, Lower Hutt, 1942. Portrait photographs of the children William, Robert, and Patricia Alington. Hair family photographs. These relate to the family of Beatrice McCrie Alington (nee Hair), wife of Edward Hugh Alington, and date from the 1900s to the 1960s. Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). 18 colour original photographic print(s).